By Amir Hossain The anti-liberation political party in Bangladesh, Jamaat-e-Islami is passing through the worst time of its history as its top leaders are being punished one after another for committing crimes against humanity during the War of Liberation in 1971 and the rank and file are extremely enervated. The party is seriously confounded and unable to carry on its usual destructive activities. But yet it is making motivated propaganda and is raising baseless…
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Pakistan’s encirclement by the Indo-Afghan alliance is nearly complete. The Afghan Army Chief General Qadam Shah Shaheem said on April 30 that if other options don’t yield any positive results in bringing Pakistani incursions to a halt, the Afghan Army would step in as a last resort in responding to military aggression along the Durand Line. The Indian foreign secretary told Pakistan that it “cannot be in denial of the impact of terrorism on the…
The fifth anniversary of the American raid in Abbottabad that killed Osama bin Laden was marked in the US with the usual Yankee mixture of ultra-nationalism and paeans to their own greatness. The likely Republican nominee for the presidential election, Donald Trump, brought a different, almost forgotten, aspect of the OBL saga. He promised that Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the CIA carry out a fake hepatitis vaccination camp to collect the DNA of…
At least seven Taliban insurgents were killed including a commander of the group during a gun battle with the Afghan police forces in southern Zabul province. The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said at lest four Taliban militants were also wounded during the clash which took place in Meezan district. “During an armed conflict between Afghan National Police and armed Taliban, seven armed Taliban were killed including a commander of armed Taliban named Ahmad Agha,” the…
The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan (MoD) said at least 33 militants including a Pakistani insurgent were killed in the latest air and ground raids of the Afghan National Security Forces. “In the last 24 hours, as a result of the joint clearance operations of the Afghan security and defense forces aimed to topple down the insurgents and protect the lives and property of people , 23 armed insurgents were killed, 12 wounded and nine…
ISLAMABAD— Pakistan is rejecting Afghan demands for military action against Taliban commanders within Pakistan and emphasizes the need to continue talks for a settlement to the conflict in Afghanistan. In Islamabad Tuesday, Pakistani foreign policy adviser Sartaj Aziz dismissed demands by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that Pakistan evict Taliban insurgents through military action or arrest and hand them over to Kabul for trial and punishment for killing innocent Afghans. Ghani recently announced that Afghanistan will…
ISLAMABAD: The boat that rocked the relationship between India and Pakistan is still awaiting a decision on whether it will be taken to an anti-terrorism court or if a commission would examine the witness who saw it being seized at the Karachi shipyard, where it is currently berthed. The boat was allegedly used by the Mumbai attackers to get to Indian waters. Over 166 people were killed and over 300 wounded in the 2008 attack.…
BEIJING—Chinese authorities are training their sights on a new set of targets: economists, analysts and business reporters with gloomy views on the country’s economy. Securities regulators, media censors and other government officials have issued verbal warnings to commentators whose public remarks on the economy are out of step with the government’s upbeat statements, according to government officials and commentators with knowledge of the matter. The stepped-up censorship, many inside and outside the ruling Communist Party…
According to Survey : The Wall st Journal By ANDREW BROWNE And LAURIE BURKITT BEIJING—Growing numbers of U.S. businesses say they feel unwelcome in China amid a crackdown on monopoly pricing and corruption that they say unfairly targets foreign companies. A survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in China released on Tuesday shows that 60% of companies feel less welcome in China than before, a sharp increase from 41% in the previous poll a…
Pakistan’s multiple woes : by Talat Masood in The Express Tribune, May 4th, 2016
The writer is a retired lieutenant general of the Pakistan Army and a former federal secretary. The impediments that Pakistan is facing in the procurement of a meagre eight F-16 fighter aircraft are a sad reflection of the current state of Pakistan-US relations. For Pakistan, in the 1980s, the F-16 symbolised its strong alliance with the US and the West. It fed the Pakistan military’s pride to aspire for the best in technology and performance,…