by Kristin Huang in South China Morning Post, Apr 13, 2017, 10:34pm A remote area in China’s Xinjiang is offering huge rewards to thwart terrorism, the latest authority in the region to give large cash incentives to help catch militants. Altay, which is close to Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia, is offering up to 5 million yuan (US$725,000) for tip-offs, the prefecture’s police authority said in a statement on its social media account. The rewards dwarf…
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by Nectar Gan in South China Morning Post, apr 14, 2017 China’s popular instant messaging app WeChat is filtering not only keywords, but also images deemed sensitive, without users’ knowledge, according to researchers in Canada. The findings from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab came after its researchers studied how the app removed discussions and posts concerning a nationwide crackdown on rights lawyers and activists in China. There has been anecdotal evidence of picture filtering…
WASHINGTON (CNN): The US military dropped America’s most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan Thursday, the first time this type of weapon has been used in battle, according to US officials. A GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), nicknamed the “mother of all bombs,” was dropped at 7:32 p.m. local time, according to four US military officials with direct knowledge of the mission. A MOAB is a 30-foot-long, 21,600-pound, GPS-guided munition. President…
by Ahmad Ahmadani in Pakistan Today, Apr 14, 2017 Collection of sensitive information pertaining to banned organisations has allegedly taken place in various parts of the country through the Pakistan Peace Collective (PPC), a UK-funded project. The activities of the project have now been suspended by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MoIB). Under the aegis of the project, information of sensitive nature has been gathered from 45 districts including Lahore, Gujranwala, Gujrat, Faisalabad, Bahawalpur,…
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif may face strong resistance from various segments of society within Pakistan and from parts of Jammu and Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan itself if the federal administration goes ahead with the implementation of the recommendations of the (Gilgit-Baltistan) reforms committee. Former Kashmiri prime minister Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan said that any such decision would be tantamount to the division of Jammu Kashmir which would never be acceptable to Kashmiri people. “Kashmiris living on…
by Staff Correspondent in bdnews24.com, Apr 13, 2017 at 16:25 Two Dhaka courts have rejected BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s no-confidence pleas for judges hearing graft charges against her. Her lawyer Jamiruddin Sircar submitted the pleas before the two courts hearing the cases linked to Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust on Thursday. Khaleda was scheduled to present her defence statement for these two graft cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission. Sircar presented arguments before…
Report in Prothom Alo, Apr 13, 2017 at 19:44 hrs Progressive political and cultural quarters, including the political and cultural allies of the government, have said that certain events that have taken place in the political arena over the past few days are ominous signs, threatening the very basis of democracy and the non-communal spirit. It began with the controversial amendments of school textbooks at the behest of Hefazat-e-Islam. The signs grew more ominous with…
Meherpur: Two people were killed reportedly in a ‘gunfight’ with police at Gangni upazila in Meherpur at midnight on Thursday. Identities of the deceased, both aged about 25, could not be known immediately. Police said miscreants opened fire on a patrol police team in Hariadaho village under Raipur union of the village, triggering a gunfight with the police that left two people dead on the spot.http://en.prothom-alo.com/bangladesh/news/145245/Two-killed-in-police-shootout
by Praveen Swami in The Indian Express, April 14, 2017 New Delhi : A classified dossier on a Karachi-based criminal network alleged to have been connected to former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, jointly authored by investigators of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and civilian services, contains no evidence that it was financing or providing weapons to Baloch nationalist insurgents, a copy of the document obtained by The Indian Express reveals. Leaders of the Karachi-based ganglord…