MOSCOW (Sputnik) – At least five people, including a tax officer and several security officials, were killed in a roadside bombing in Pakistan’s northwestern agency of Bajaur within the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), local media reported Sunday.
According to the Geo TV broadcaster, the bomb, which was equipped with a remotely controlled detonator, went off in the region of Loi Mamond of Bajaur.
Press TV – September 15, 2017 A US drone strike has killed three people in the tribal area of Pakistan near the Afghanistan border. “Two missiles were dropped on the home of Maulvi Mohib and three people have been killed,” said Baseer Khan Wazir on Friday. Wazir is the political agent and the most senior […]
Even before the Indian establishment and the media stopped their celebrations over the BRICS declaration in Xiamen in China earlier this month condemning terrorist groups, including those based in Pakistan, hoping that this could be the game-changer moment in Islamabad-Beijing relations, the Chinese made a U-turn by openly defending their all-weather ally. In fact, China’s stand that Pakistan has made “great sacrifices” in its fight against terror is a repetition of what it had said at the BRICS summit in Goa in India in October last year.
The power bloc
A power bloc may just be formed from the friendship between Ankara, Islamabad, Russia and China. As celebrations are ongoing for the 70 years of diplomatic ties between Turkey and Pakistan, the long economic relations between Ankara and Islamabad bring China and Russia together to form a formidable four-nation bloc.
Dr Can Erimtan
21st Century Wire
Donald Trump has been in charge of the U.S. for many months now and by now the novelty is beginning to somewhat wear off… one tweet at the time. Though in reality, Trump is still as unaccustomed to the job now as he was at the very beginning of his tenure.
Days after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the BRICS Summit, India has made a shocking new threat against China and its ally Pakistan.
The meeting between Modi and Xi did not result in any concrete promises apart from a general agreement to increase dialogue so as to avoid future border disputes from transpiring into tense standoffs like the one which took place in Doklam/Donglang over the summer.
JP Sottile of http://newsvandal.com/ joins me in the first hour to discuss the next phase of the political soap opera that is Trump’s presidency. We focus on a recent article JP wrote examining the alt-right and the fantasy world they continue to live in. JP gives us his analysis of Steve Bannon’s exit from the White House and back to Breitbart. We talk about how Bannon is still very much in control of Trump’s talking points and the trajectory of his policies and ideology.
Donald Trump’s Tweets have been dominated by North Korea ever since Pyongyang sucessfully tested what the goernment claims was a domestically produced hydrogen bomb.
Below are today’s Trump Tweets on the subject:
North Korea has conducted a major Nuclear Test. Their words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2017
The forthcoming BRICS summit in Xiamen is due to be the most ambitious BRICS summit to-date. Among the wide reaching goals of the summit is an intention to work towards a customs union and the eventual establishment of fully-fledged free trading zone between the BRICS and their partners.
READ MORE: Here’s what to expect from next week’s BRICS summit
