Plot to coerce girl into carrying out terrorist attack in Islamabad thwarted, CM Bugti says – Pakistan
Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti said on Monday that a plot to coerce a girl into carrying out a terrorist attack in Islamabad had been thwarted by intelligence agencies. The girl, who was reportedly arrested before she could carry out a suicide bombing, will be released to her father under supervision instead of facing trial, […]
SMOKERS’ CORNER: LOSING THE PLOT
Illustration by Abro The West’s ’legacy media’ and cultural products might be suffering from what is often called ‘institutional inertia.’ Recently, they have been using old conceptual understandings of a world that is fast being changed by new realities. According to the American sociologist William F. Ogburn, this condition occurs when “mental models” fail to […]
UK police arrest seven over high-end shoplifting plot
. LONDON: British police said they had arrested seven people on Sunday over what they said was a national coordinated plan by activists who want to tax the super rich to damage and steal from high-end stores. The seven individuals, one man and six women, were detained in Salford in northwest England on suspicion of […]
Czech court rules Indian man linked to Sikh murder plot can be extradited to US – World
A Czech appeals court has ruled that Prague can extradite to the United States an Indian man accused by the US of involvement in an unsuccessful plot to kill a Sikh separatist on American soil, the Justice Ministry said on Friday. A final decision on the extradition of Nikhil Gupta, 52, will be in the […]