The biggest threat to China's grip on its ethnically divided far western frontier comes from homegrown anger exploding in violence, not from Pakistan-based terrorists officials have blamed for the latest bloodshed.
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Aug 06, 2011
Reportedly, Mubashir?s wife, Musarrat, who witnessed the murders, had called the police.
Palash Ghosh
Aug 05, 2011
According to Amrullah Saleh, Afghanistan's former spy chief, Afghan spies had information four years ago that located Osama bin Laden close to where he was found hiding. However, then Pakistan president, Pervez Musharraf, refused to act on the detailed intelligence reports.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 04, 2011
As the focus of modern warfare shifts from conventional military campaigns to clandestine, targeted strikes, the U.S. military has increasingly come to rely on covert operatives employed by U.S. Special Operations Command, according to a new report.
Jeremy White
Aug 04, 2011
It is not known where she has gone for surgery
Palash Ghosh
Aug 04, 2011
All told, 240 people were shot to death in July, making it the deadliest month in the city?s recorded history.
Palash Ghosh
Aug 03, 2011
Epidemics of HIV are emerging among gay and bisexual men in the Middle East and North Africa and high levels of risky sexual behavior threaten to spread the AIDS virus further in the region, researchers said Tuesday.
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Aug 03, 2011
Pakistan's quick response to charges by China that militants involved in attacks in Xinjiang had trained on its soil shows the importance of its ties with Beijing, but it could be a mistake for Islamabad if it relies too much on China.
Wenwen Meng
Aug 02, 2011
An radical Islamic group is responsible for a riot in China's East Turkestan region.
Daniel Tovrov
Aug 02, 2011
Pakistan cannot afford to antagonize China.
Palash Ghosh
Aug 01, 2011
The Islamic religious month-long holiday incorporates Qur'an recitation, fasting, charity and prayer to celebrate this festival of giving and sharing.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 01, 2011
China said on Monday that Islamic militants had mounted an attack that left 11 people dead in the restive western region of Xinjiang, which announced a crackdown on "illegal" religious activities at the start of the Muslim fasting month.
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Aug 01, 2011
The petit right wing terror and Islamic terror with extended networks have gained grounds in Western world for few years.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jul 31, 2011
Muslims in Norway number about 200,000, only about 4 percent of the country?s population. They come from across the Arab world, as well as Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Kenya and Somalia.
Palash Ghosh
Jul 30, 2011
Predictions about al-Qaeda's imminent collapse threaten to lull the U.S. into a false sense of complacency about the continued threat the terror network represents, a recently retired top counter-terrorism aide said.
Jeremy White
Jul 29, 2011
Pakistani security forces are routinely detaining, torturing and murdering hundreds of political activists in Balochistan in what some observers describe as a ?dirty war.?
Palash Ghosh
Jul 28, 2011
Only a very small portion of these people are receiving anti-viral drugs to treat their condition.
Palash Ghosh
Jul 28, 2011
Public health officials say roughly 130 million injection drug users worldwide suffer from hepatitis C, according to a study published online by World Health Organization said on Tuesday in The Lancet, which coincides with 'World Hepatitis Day.'
IBT Staff Reporter
Jul 28, 2011
For the second year in a row, Oliver and Olivia were the most popular names for English and Welsh newborn boys and girls, respectivel
Palash Ghosh
Jul 28, 2011
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who escaped an attempt on his life by opponents, will only cede power through the ballot box and the country will descend into civil war if he is forced from office, his foreign minister said.
Jack Kim
Jul 27, 2011
A suicide bomber killed the mayor of Afghanistan's Kandahar Wednesday, a further blow to stability in the southern city still reeling from the assassination two weeks ago of President Hamid Karzai's powerbroker half-brother.
Jack Kim
Jul 27, 2011
Osama bin Laden's death and a relentless campaign of drone attacks have weakened al-Qaeda to the point that the terror organization may no longer be capable of planning and carrying out large-scale attacks.
Jeremy White
Jul 27, 2011