Terrorism

Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has filed a petition with the Court of Appeal seeking an order preventing his arrest under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) in connection with investigations into the Easter Sunday terror attacks.…

Today (18) marks 17 years since the defeat of the brutal LTTE terrorism that plagued Sri Lanka for more than three decades. The war officially came to an end on May 18, 2009, following the death of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran at…

Former Head of the State Intelligence Service, Major General (Retired) Suresh Sallay, has filed a writ petition before the Court of Appeal, through his attorneys, challenging his arrest and detention by the Criminal Investigation Department…

Pakistan’s removal from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list in 2022 was hailed domestically as a diplomatic victory and a sign of improved financial governance. Yet three years later, the optimism surrounding that milestone has…

The text argues that Pakistan has developed a systematic model of managing, rather than dismantling, extremist networks by providing tolerance, political cover, and indirect state support that allow violence-linked organizations to remain…

When the Sri Lanka national cricket team embarked on a return tour of Pakistan this November—playing a three-match ODI series followed by a triangular T20 event with Zimbabwe national cricket team—the cloud of security risk loomed larger…

The recent 40-year prison sentence handed down by a U.S. court to Pakistani national Muhammad Pahlawan for smuggling Iranian weapons to Yemen’s Houthi insurgents has cast a glaring spotlight on the persistent involvement of Pakistani actors…

Jubilee Campaign, an International NGO working worldwide to protect the freedom of religion, in partnership with the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ), convened a high-level side event during the 60th Session of the United Nations…

In his fourth address to the Joint Session of the Congress on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Iran over funding and supporting groups against Israel and asserted that defeating the brutal enemies requires both…

The two luxury houses in Dehiwala and Beruwala, seized under the Terrorism Prevention Act (PTA) after the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, had been used for terrorism-related activities of Al-Qaeda and National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ), the…