Posts published in “Day: April 7, 2016”

Pakistan recently launched an international offensive against India over the capture of an Indian spy who was responsible for incidences of violence in Balochistan. Not too much time has passed for the dust to settle that an agent working for the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghanistan’s premier spy agency – has been arrested from Chaman district in Balochistan Wednesday morning by FC personnel. If this is indeed the case, foreign involvement in…

The police chief of southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan General Abdul Raziq has said Pakistan is attempting to create the third group of Afghan Taliban, in a move that he believes is being taken after the Taliban group infuriated Pakistan with certain steps, including rejection of group’s role certain attacks in the country. He said the third would be created under the leadership of Mullah Qayum Zakir as the rejection of certain attacks in Afghanistan…

QUETTA: Security forces arrested an alleged agent of Afghanistan’s top spying agency in Chaman on Wednesday and seized a huge quantity of arms and ammunition found at two places in town. According to official sources, personnel of the Frontier Corps and intelligence agencies raided a house in Boghara area of the border town and arrested the man said to be an agent of Afghanistan’s espionage agency, National Directorate of Security. “The Afghan agent was living…

Average Chinese who usually avoid confrontation with the government are taking advantage of a public comment period of a draft Internet regulation to express their frustration with intensified blocking of foreign websites. A government website posted the draft regulation, which would tighten oversight of Internet domain names, on March 25. While few expect officials to meaningfully change the regulation in response to what they hear, online users like Lily Wang have flocked to the site…

HONG KONG — At least three of the seven people on the Chinese Communist Party’s most powerful committee, including President Xi Jinping, have relatives who have controlled secretive offshore companies, the organization that has publicized a trove of leaked documents about hidden wealth reported on Wednesday. The disclosures by the organization, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, risked new embarrassment for the Chinese authorities, already unnerved and infuriated by the organization’s leaks of the documents,…

The writer works at the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visited Pakistan on March 25, 2016, his first ever visit in four years. Earlier, the then president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, visited Islamabad in February 2012 for a trilateral summit with Afghani and Pakistani leaders. President Rouhani’s visit is part of the Iranian government’s international outreach for renewing ties with its traditional trading allies and partners after the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action…

After disbanding Scholarism, the leader of the student group, Joshua Wong is set to launch his new political party – Demosisto – on Sunday. Wong is to unveil Demosisto – derived from Greek (“demo” for “people”) and Latin (“sisto” for “to stand”), meaning “stand for democracy” – alongside Occupy movement comrades Nathan Law Kwun-chung, Oscar Lai Man-lok and Agnes Chow Ting. Details of their agenda are unclear, but Wong, the young face of Hongkongers’ pursuit…

LAHORE: In a manifestation of people’s growing distrust in conventional judicial system and mounting influence of religious organisations in society, Jamatud Dawa (JuD) has set up ‘Darul Qaza Sharia’ in the provincial metropolis to dispense ‘justice’ among people in light of Sharia laws, Dawn has learnt. A legal expert Dawn talked to said this is in sheer violation of the Constitution of Pakistan. However, the organisation claims it offers arbitration only and resolves disputes in…