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Pakistan Officially Restores All Ties With Iran After Short-Lived Spat

January 20, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
Pakistan officially moved to restore all diplomatic ties with Iran on 19 January after a brief diplomatic row as both sides fired missiles into each other's lands. “The apex security committee has decided to restore full diplomatic ties with Tehran, including sending back the ambassador, as both sides agreed to de-escalate the situation after retaliatory strikes,” local media reported. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian also spoke over the phone with his Pakistani counterpart, Jalil Abbas Jilani, telling him that “Pakistan is of high importance in Iran’s foreign policy." For his part, Jilani expressed Islamabad's “readiness to work with Iran on all issues based on the spirit of mutual trust and cooperation” and urged for ”closer cooperation on security issues."

Pakistan Retaliates With Strikes Inside Iran Killing Nine

January 18, 2024 People's Dispatch. , , ,
Pakistan carried out drone and missile strikes inside Iran early on Thursday, January 18, in what is seen as retaliation for Iranian strikes on its territory on Tuesday. Dawn quoted Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry as saying that a “highly coordinated and specifically targeted precision” strike killed a number of terrorists during the operation code named Marg Bar Sarmachar. However, according to Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency, the attacks on a village near Saravan, the capital of Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan, killed refugees. At least nine people — three women, four children, and two men — were killed in the attacks.

Prevent: Health Workers Resist UK’s ‘Counter Terrorism’ Strategy

March 12, 2023 Tanupriya Singh, People's Dispatch. , , ,
In the two decades since the UK government unveiled its ‘counter terrorism’ strategy ‘Prevent’, campaigners and human rights organizations have consistently documented its impact on racialized and otherwise marginalized communities, and the ways in which public services—including healthcare—have been weaponized in this process. A part of the government’s broader counter-terrorism strategy called CONTEST, Prevent’s stated objective is to “prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.” First implemented in the aftermath of the 2005 London bombings, Prevent was amended in 2011 to deal with “all forms of terrorism and with non-violent extremism.”

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