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China passes its first Counter-Terrorism law

China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee, the top organ of China’s parliament has adopted the country’s first counter-terrorism law. The legislation was approved with large majority at the...

December 28, 2015

Linkages of Organized Crime with Terrorism

Organized crime mainly exploits legitimate activities for criminal purposes. The UNODC tried to give a definition to “organised crime” in the organised crime convention. So an organised crime...

December 21, 2015

Types and Means of Terrorism

There is no universally accepted definition of terrorism mainly because a ‘terrorist’ in one country may not be viewed as ‘terrorist’ by other countries. Further, terrorists are generally...

December 21, 2015

UNSC unanimously adopt resolution to cut-off supply of funds to IS group

United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has unanimously adopted resolution cut off supply of revenue flows to Islamic State (IS) militant group. Decision in this regard was taken at...

December 18, 2015

Saudi Arabia announces 34 nations Islamic coalition to fight terrorism

Saudi Arabia has launched Islamic Military Coalition, a new military alliance of 34 nations mainly Muslim nations to fight terrorism. It has been established in pursuance of the...

December 16, 2015

India and Pakistan announces 10-point Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue

India and Pakistan have agreed to resume structured dialogue between them through new 10-point Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue (CBD). The 10-point CBD replaces earlier 8-point Composite Dialogue Process (CDP)...

December 10, 2015

Australia passes Anti-Terrorism law to strip citizenship

Australia’s Federal Parliament has passed Australian Citizenship Amendment (Allegiance to Australia) Bill, 2015 to strip citizenship of convicted persons on terrorism charges. The new legislation allows government to...

December 5, 2015

German cabinet approves military mandate to fight Islamic State in Syria

The German Cabinet has approved a mandate offering military assistance to fight against the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Syria. The mandate aims at supporting France and...

December 2, 2015

10 day state of emergency declared in Mali after terrorist attack

10 day state of emergency was delcared in the Mali by President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita following terrorist attack in country’s capital city Bamako. Apart from declaring state of...

November 23, 2015

India, China vow to fight terror, transnational crime

India and China vowed to deepen their bilateral cooperation in combating terrorism and fighting transnational crime. The breakthrough was achieved after Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh held talks...

November 21, 2015

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