Pakistan lashed out on Friday after the US designated The Resistance Front (TRF), a shadow group of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba, as a terrorist organisation, resorting to its usual script of deflecting blame and raking up the Kashmir issue. Washington’s terror tag for TRF comes weeks after it claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam massacre, in which…
S Jaishankar (File photo) NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Friday welcomed the United States’ decision to designate The Resistance Front (TRF) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), calling it a “strong affirmation” of counter-terrorism cooperation.TRF, a proxy of the banned Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, was behind the April…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday spoke with US President Donald Trump over the phone according to a statement by Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri. During the call, PM Modi told the US president that, ‘India now regards terrorism not as proxy war but actual war’. Trump also extended his condolences to PM Modi over the…
PM Modi on India-Pakistan relations on podcast with Lex Fridman In a podcast with Lex Fridman, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke in detail about India’s troubled relationship with Pakistan while calling out the neighbouring country for state-sponsored terrorism and failed peace efforts. The discussion, which was part of a three-hour-long podcast episode released on Sunday,…
In a big revelation that comes after US President Donald Trump’s crackdown on USAID, it was found that one of the beneficiaries of USAID, which funds non-government organisations across the globe, was the Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation, a front of a UN-designated banned terrorist organisation called the Lashkar-e-Taiba. Lashkar-e-Taiba was behind the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Over $180,000…