The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. Tense bordersLo and behold! In the present circumstances, the last thing we would have wanted to happen has happened. As if the continuous exchange of fire at the LoC with India was not enough, there was a flare up at the Pak-Iran border. Fortunately, for the time being, the two countries have agreed to resolve issues amicably, to strengthen border controls, to show restraint…
Posts published in “Day: October 29, 2014”
The writer is a retired lieutenant general of the Pakistan Army and served as chairman of the Pakistan Ordnance Factories Board Once again, India-Pakistan relations are passing through testing times. The Line of Control (LoC), but more significantly, the Working Boundary, has become extremely volatile with highly belligerent statements being directed against Pakistan by the top leadership of the BJP and the Indian army chief. Pakistan’s response has been relatively far more temperate both, at…
The Express Tribune, October 29th, 2014. MUZAFFARABAD: The affected persons of the Neelum-Jhelum Hydroelectric Project (NJHEP) in Chattar Klass area on Tuesday blocked the Muzaffarabad-Rawalpindi Road for four hours near the main site of the power house to press for their demands. Placing tractors in the middle of the road and setting fire to tyres, protesters chanted slogans against the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda). “For the last four years, we have been demanding…
In May, I visited Vietnam and met with university students. After a week of being love-bombed by Vietnamese, who told me how much they admire America, want to work or study there and have friends and family living there, I couldn’t help but ask myself: “How did we get this country so wrong? How did we end up in a war with Vietnam that cost so many lives and drove them into the arms of…
The writer served as Executive Editor of The Express Tribune from 2009 to 2014 Under the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), China could move some of its manufacturing industry to places like Brunei, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Vietnam, and help these countries prosper by providing them with financial assistance to build highways, harbours and utility facilities. This is what Oliver Rui, professor of finance and accounting at the China Europe International Business…
BEIJING: China will tighten the law to impose harsher punishments on people participating in illegal cults, a state-run newspaper said on Tuesday, after a brutal murder earlier in the year. An amendment to the law will mandate prison terms of up to seven years for those who organize or make use of a religious institution or cult to spread “superstitions to undermine national laws or regulations”, the official China Daily said. The death penalty will…
By CHRIS BUCKLEY in the NY Times, Oct 29, 2014 HONG KONG — China’s highest-reaching military corruption scandal of recent times moved toward trial on Tuesday, when investigators announced that a retired People’s Liberation Army commander, the former Gen. Xu Caihou, had confessed to taking enormous bribes in return for giving promotions and favors. The announcement issued through Xinhua, the state news agency, also said that military prosecutors, called the military procuratorate in China,…