Terrorism Watch

When the Chinese start‑up DeepSeek released its R‑1 chatbot in January 2025, the launch felt like a Silicon Valley fairytale told in Mandarin. Two months and 57 million downloads later, the numbers were jaw‑dropping. On Apple’s US app store, it eclipsed ChatGPT; in India, it jostled for the top spot in every major language category. Reporters praised its fluency and its price tag: free. What mattered less in that honeymoon week was how the software moved across the internet. On April 16, researchers working with the US House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) released their report, ‘DeepSeek Unmasked: Exposing the CCP’s Latest Tool for Spying, Stealing, and Subverting U.S. Export Control Restrictions’, revealing that every user prompt, device fingerprint and behavioural tic is routed across the Pacific to servers run by China Mobile — a carrier the US Department of Defense lists under Section 1260H as a Chinese military company The first rupture appeared on January 2...

Gilgit:  Two young girls tragically lost their lives when a wall collapsed in the Pedan area of Jaglot town of Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan due to heavy rain and an earthquake that jolted the region recently. The incident has sparked widespread anger and frustration among locals over the lack of basic emergency medical facilities and government negligence in the area, as cited by Markhor Times. According to Markhor Times, the wall–referred to locally as the Garniwali wall–collapsed suddenly, burying the girls beneath the debris. The victims were rushed to the local hospital, but residents allege that no medical staff were present during the emergency. “There was no oxygen setup. No doctors or nurses. The hospital was empty,” said one resident. “Our children were dying, and there was no one to help.” In a disturbing claim, locals reported that the District Health Officer (DHO) refused to provide an ambulance. “We pleaded with them, but they said they won’t send any vehicle,” s...

  The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has chargesheeted three more accused in the Neemrana hotel firing case, linked with Canada-based Khalistani terrorist Arsh Dala, the agency said on Sunday. The NIA filed its second supplementary charge sheet on Saturday before the NIA Special Court, Jaipur, naming Dharmendra Singh, Gaurav and Deepak for conspiring with other accused to carry out the attack on Hotel Highway King in Neemrana in December 2024, the agency said in a statement. Source:  NIA Connects New Dots In Khalistani Terror Plot, Adds 3 To Chargesheet In Neemrana Hotel Hit Job Case - News18

The word "Khalistan Zindabaad" was written on the wall near the parking lot of the gurdwara, along with anti-India graffiti. The gurdwara management accused "extremist forces". In yet another instance of Khalistani extremism, a gurdwara was vandalised overnight with pro-Khalistan and anti-India graffiti in Canada’s Vancouver, according to several reports. The incident took place at the Rose Street Gurdwara belonging to the Khalsa Diwan Society (KDS). The management accused “extremist forces" of the vandalism. Images on social media showed the word “Khalistan Zindabaad" on the wall that surrounds the parking lot of the gurdwara, along with other phrases targeting India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In a statement, the Khalsa Diwan Society shared a picture of the vandalism and condemned the act. “During Sikh Heritage Month & Khalsa Sanja Diwas – a time for celebration & unity – it is sad to see that elements of extremism continue to rear their ug...

  The Israeli military on Sunday said a review into last month’s killing of emergency responders in Gaza found there had been “several professional failures" and that a commander would be dismissed over the incident. The 15 paramedics and other rescue workers were shot dead on March 23 in three separate shootings at the same location near the southern Gaza city of Rafah. They were buried in a shallow grave where their bodies were found a week later by officials from the United Nations and the Palestinian Red Crescent. In a statement released on Sunday, the military said a commanding officer is to be reprimanded. A deputy commander, a reservist who was the field commander, will be dismissed from his position for providing an incomplete and inaccurate report, it said. “The examination identified several professional failures, breaches of orders, and a failure to fully report the incident," the military said. “The fire in the first two incidents resulted from an operational misu...

  The incident happened in the northern city of Oldenburg. The knife-wielding man died of his wounds in the hospital. A German police officer on Sunday shot dead a man who threatened people with a knife outside a night club and advanced toward a patrol spraying a suspicious gas, police said. Law enforcement opened an investigation into the 27-year-old officer who fired several shots at the 21-year-old man in the northern city of Oldenburg, a statement said. The man died from his wounds in hospital. The incident took place in the early hours Sunday after the assailant “injured and threatened several people", police said. After being turned away from a night club, the suspect “sprayed an irritant gas in the direction of two security employees" and several people suffered “light injuries", police said. “Some started chasing him but stopped when he threatened them with a knife," a statement added. The man got away from a first group of police officers dispatched to the ...

At least two people were killed in overnight US strikes in and around Yemen’s capital Sanaa, media controlled by the Huthi rebels reported Sunday, in the latest such air raid. The Iran-backed group’s Al-Masirah channel, citing the rebels’ health ministry, reported two deaths and 11 injured in the “US aggression on Sanaa, the capital, and the governorate". The channel earlier said one person was killed in an air strike on the governorate’s Bani Matar area, where a deadly US raid was reported a week ago. Beyond Sanaa, the Huthis said Sunday that air strikes also hit Yemen’s Marib and Amran provinces. Earlier this week, the rebel group said that US strikes on the fuel port of Ras Issa killed at least 80 people and wounded 150 in the deadliest attack of Washington’s 15-month campaign against the Huthis. The US military has hammered the Yemeni rebels with near-daily air strikes for the past month in a bid to stamp out their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Claiming ...

London:  A member of the Scottish Parliament has tabled a motion in the House commending the work of a Glasgow-based Gandhian society that has drafted a report that highlights the “rising levels of prejudice, discrimination and marginalisation” of Hindus in Scotland. Ash Regan, an Alba Party Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) representing Edinburgh Eastern, tabled the motion based on the report by the charity Gandhian Peace Society last week. Such motions are intended to draw attention to issues of importance and concern The report 'Hinduphobia in Scotland' was presented to the Scottish Parliament’s Cross-Party Group on Challenging Racial and Religious Prejudice in February by the society promoting Gandhian principles of peace, non-violence and harmony. “That the Parliament commends the work of the Gandhian Peace Society in addressing prejudice against the Hindu community in Scotland,” reads Regan’s motion entitled ‘Gandhian Peace Society's Report to Address Prejudice ...

  Balochistan: Renowned journalist Niaz Baloch has come forward with alarming claims that he has recently received serious threats from individuals linked to Pakistani intelligence agencies, as reported by The Balochistan Post. According to Baloch, these threats include warnings of enforced disappearance, a tactic reportedly used to silence dissent in Balochistan. According to The Balochistan Post, in a powerful public statement, Baloch condemned the escalating dangers faced by professionals in the region. He asserted that journalists, educators, healthcare workers, legal professionals, writers, artists, students, and activists are being targeted simply for speaking out against systemic injustice. Baloch pointed to so-called "death squads," which he alleges operate with impunity, instilling fear and carrying out violence against those who raise their voices. Calling on the international community, including the United Nations and global human rights organisations, Baloch appe...