A covert meeting in a Sydney car park turned out to be a police sting for 18-year-old Tamim Khaja, who was reportedly charged with two terrorism offences related to a planned attack. Police allege talking soon gave way to something more and the teenager had visited government offices and police stations in Sydney in the past two weeks and had tried to buy a gun.

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On 12th May 2016, the influential US newspaper, The New York Times, published an editorial placing the blame of Afghanistan quagmire on Pakistan. It wrote that, “Nearly 15 years after 9/11, the war in Afghanistan is raging and Pakistan deserves much of the blame. It remains a duplicitous and dangerous partner for the United States and Afghanistan, despite $33 billion in American aid and repeated attempts to reset relations on…

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