US Preacher's Warning to Islamic Militants: 'The Women of Montana Are Armed'

BBC: Donald Trump's travel ban against immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries have caused controversy around the world - but one poll shows a majority of Americans support the move.

They certainly agree with Trump's stance in the state of Montana, where officials and residents have fought against efforts to resettle refugees.

Aleem Maqbool reports. (+ BBC video) » | Thursday, February 9, 2017

22 Killed in Dhaka as Islamic Militants Clash with Police
At least 22 people were killed and at least 60 injured as police fought running battles with thousands of Islamic fundamentalists in the capital Dhaka today.

Read the article here | David Bergman in Dhaka and Dean Nelson in New Delhi | Monday, May 06, 2013

The Decoder: The Anatomy of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami
Reuters takes an in-depth look at Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), the outlawed Islamic militant group.

Talibanisation of Pakistan a Reality, Warns Pakistani Media
SINDH TODAY: Islamabad – (IANS) The Talibanisation of Pakistan is not just a threat but a reality in the wake of Sharia laws being imposed in Swat and other parts of the country’s northwest, an editorial in a leading English daily said Wednesday.

Another editorial termed the Nizam-e Adil Regulation parliament passed to impose the Sharia an anathema on the constitution.

“Talibanisation is not just a threat, it is the reality today. Face it,” Dawn said in an editorial.

“There is considerable harm in it because such a regulation is anathema to the Constitution and shouldn’t have been acceded to and drawn up in the first place by the government,” The News maintained.

Dawn said it was “now clear” that the Taliban will not stop until they have their way.

“And this is their prescription for Pakistan: a nation, armed with nuclear weapons, jerked back to a mediaeval age. A country where men without beards are flogged, and women killed if they choose to express themselves.

“That is where we are headed. And one is wrong if one thinks this can’t happen in Pakistan. It can and it will unless we strike a decisive blow for the silent majority,” the editorial maintained.

“We must resist this onslaught,” it added. >>> By Sindh Today | Wednesday, April 22, 2009

DAWN: Pakistan Giving Up to Militants: Hillary

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday she believed the Pakistani government was abdicating to the Taliban and other militants.

In a testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Mrs Clinton warned that nuclear-armed Pakistan was becoming a ‘mortal threat’ to the world.

‘I think that the Pakistani government is basically abdicating to the Taliban and to the extremists,’ Mrs Clinton said.

She was referring to a deal Pakistan concluded with the Taliban militants in Swat, which gives them complete control over the valley. On Tuesday, the militants also took over Buner, just 60 miles from Islamabad.

Mrs Clinton also urged Pakistanis, living both in and outside the country, to realise how terrorism threatened the very existence of their state.

‘Pakistan poses a mortal threat to the security and safety of our country and the world,’ Mrs Clinton said.

‘And I want to take this occasion ... to state unequivocally that not only do the Pakistani government officials, but the Pakistani people and the Pakistani diaspora ... need to speak out forcefully against a policy that is ceding more and more territory to the insurgents.’

Mrs Clinton said the Pakistani government had to deliver basic services to its people or it would find itself losing ground to the Taliban, whose influence had spread in northern Pakistan and had raised concerns about the stability of the country.

‘The government of Pakistan ... must begin to deliver government services, otherwise they are going to lose out to those who show up and claim that they can solve people’s problems and then they will impose this harsh form of oppression on women and others,’ she said. >>> By Dawn’s Correspondent | Thursday, April 23, 2009

Most Wanted Islamic Militant Captured by Indonesia
GLOBE AND MAIL (Reuters): JAKARTA — Indonesian police have captured the country's most-wanted militant, Abu Dujana, who heads a military wing of the Southeast Asian militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI), a police spokesman said on Wednesday.

Mr. Dujana had been sought in connection with several deadly bomb attacks, including the 2004 Australian embassy blast and a car bombing at the JW Marriot hotel in Jakarta a year earlier.

Police said he also had a role in the 2002 Bali bombings. Indonesia captures most-wanted Islamic militant (more) By Telly Nathalia

Mark Alexander