The writer is a Cambridge graduate and is working as a management consultant. ISLAMABAD: Imagine a deep-sea port where, while so-called development experts enjoy a breath-taking view from their regal five star hotel rooms located on the grand Koh-e-Batil hill, indigenous fishermen are left with little choice except migrating permanently to far-flung harbours. Imagine a place where one of the most expensive commodities is a bottle of fresh water and though every now and then…
Posts published in “Day: January 2, 2017”
China’s seizure of an American underwater drone in the South China Sea this month was a reflection of Beijing’s concerns about the growing use of such vehicles in the contested waters and would spur efforts to build up its own military capabilities beneath the waves, military experts say. Beijing played down the seizure of the unmanned underwater vehicle, which the United States said was operating lawfully in international waters about 50 nautical miles northwest of…
The daughter of Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew appears to have weighed in on the debate over President Xi Jinping’s much touted anti-corruption campaign in China, describing it as “a game” designed to tighten his grip on power. “Xi is playing a game where he appears to weed out ‘corrupts’” while replacing them with “his own people”, said Dr Lee Wei Ling, a neurosurgeon and the younger sister of Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien…
A cartoon to highlight the promotion of senior cadres, a rap song about the five-year plan – China’s government is no longer confined by the same old propaganda tactics when it tries to influence the young. In the latest example, it has used video of a sensitive military operation near disputed islands to recruit young talent to the world’s largest standing armed forces. The recruitment video for the PLA’s naval air force shows aircraft on…
KARACHI: The rulers of Muslim countries remained silent over important and serious issues being faced by the Muslim Ummah. Amir Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan, Siraj-ul-Haq said on Sunday while addressing a large gathering of Umaat-e-Rasool (SAW) march, organised by his party to express solidarity with the oppressed Muslims of Myanmar and Aleppo. He hailed the active role of Turkey on issues of Muslims across the world. The current global scenario demands active role of Pakistan in…
QUETTA: The local administration launched a special campaign against encroachments and profiteering in Taftan, a town at the Pakistan-Iran border, and the nearby town of Dalbandin on Sunday. Encroachments erected near the border were demolished. The government has built a market near the border in Taftan and allotted shops to traders. But the shopkeepers have raised encroachments in front of their shops, creating hurdle for visitors. Taking notice of the situation, Balochistan Chief Secretary Saifullah…
WASHINGTON: The US government has announced sanctions against seven Pakistani entities allegedly associated with the country’s missile programme, says an official notification. The notification by the US Department of Commerce said that the entities added to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) list “have been determined by the US government to be acting contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States”. All seven have been placed on the entity list under…
the writer is editorial adviser to the paper If there’s one buzzword that encapsulates Chinese politics in 2016 and the year ahead, it has to be He Xin, or “the core”. Last January, the Communist Party’s leadership for the first time publicly urged its 88 million members to embrace the “consciousness of the core”. Then in November, the party’s central committee bestowed the designation “core of the party centre” on President Xi Jinping No other…
Shenzhen mayor Xu Qin, who has a strong technology background and no political baggage, has been elevated to lead the Communist Party in the hi-tech hub. Xu replaced Ma Xingrui as city party chief on Saturday, a day after Ma was named acting governor of Guangdong to replace Zhu Xiaodan, a brief report by the China News Service said. The decision was made in a meeting by the city’s leadership and cadres, the report said.…
KARACHI: The city’s two jails are reported to be the most overcrowded among the 25 prisons of Sindh as both house close to three times the inmates than their actual capacity, it emerged here on Saturday. A report prepared by the prisons department for the home ministry shows the Central Prison Karachi (CPK), the second-oldest jail after Hyderabad, built in 1899, houses 6,174 prisoners against the authorised capacity for 2,400 inmates. The CPK inmates include…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) senior leader Saeed Ghani has alleged that party leader Samina Khalid Ghurki is being politically victimized by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) led Punjab government. In a statement issued here on Saturday, Saeed Ghani said that the Punjab government was using police force to terrorize PPP leader Samina Ghurki which was worst example of political victimization and against the democratic norms. He alleged that hands of Punjab government were stained…