LAHORE: The finger prints, pictures and other relevant details of over 260,000 criminals in Punjab have been entered into the Criminal Record Management System while the process is still underway. The information was shared in a meeting of senior police officers held at the Central Police Office (CPO) here on Friday. Headed by Inspector General of Police Punjab Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera, the meeting was also attended by Additional IGP (Operations/Investigation) retired Capt Arif Nawaz, Additional…
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The writer is associate research fellow at Rajaratnam School of International Studies. Since the Isaf drawdown from Afghanistan in December 2014, America’s ad hoc and confusing policies, the incompetence of the Afghan government and the Taliban’s inflexibility towards peace talks has complicated the stalemate in the Afghan conflict. As 2016 ended, the lingering deadlock has increased the insecurity, giving the Taliban a tactical upper hand and keeping Kabul on a perpetual defensive mode. The perpetuation…
The top leaders of the Taliban group and the notorious Haqqani terrorist network are still freely operating from their safe havens in Pakistan, Pentagon said in its latest report. “Afghan-oriented militant groups, including Taliban and Haqqani Network senior leadership, retain freedom of action from safe havens inside Pakistani territory,” Pentagon said in a report provided to congress. Thee report “Enhancing Security and Stability in Afghanistan”, further added that “the United States continues to be clear…
WASHINGTON – Pakistan said it would be “willing” to discuss with President-elect Donald Trump’s administration freedom for a jailed Pakistani doctor who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden. A top Pakistani diplomat said Islamabad is open to a “sustained dialogue” with India and would be open to offers of assistance regarding talks with New Delhi, including from the incoming Trump administration. Tariq Fatemi, Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs, told VOA…
WASHINGTON: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatemi has concluded his visit to the United States without meeting any senior official of the new Trump administration but he still termed his visit successful in enhancing the understanding between the two countries. Addressing media persons at the Pakistan Embassy here on Thursday, Fatemi said he held productive meetings with influential Republicans and Democrats but meeting senior Trump administration officials was not appropriate…
ISLAMABAD: Russia has said it strongly supports the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as it is crucial for the Pakistan economy and regional connectivity. This was stated by Russian Ambassador to Pakistan Alexey Y Dedov in an interview with the Radio Pakistan. He pointed out that the CPEC was a component of China’s Silk Road project and his country was also working on a similar Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and China and Russia were holding…
BEIJING — A well-known Chinese human rights activist who had not been seen or heard from for more than three weeks is in police custody, accused of possessing secret government documents and spiriting them abroad, state-run news outlets said on Friday. The activist, Jiang Tianyong, is a disbarred lawyer who has energetically supported the families of human rights lawyers caught in a crackdown that began in July 2015. Mr. Jiang’s family and friends lost contact…
A court in on Friday jailed for 12-and-a-half years the brother of a disgraced one-time aide to former president Hu Jintao after finding him guilty of receiving bribes, state news agency Xinhua said. Ling Zhengce, the former deputy head of the parliamentary advisory body in the coal-rich northern province of Shanxi, is the elder brother of Ling Jihua. The former aide to Hu was jailed for life in July, after a case which the ruling…