Report of the Southen Group (TSG), May 2, 2017 .Bottom Line Up Front: ‘ • It has been six years since U.S. Navy SEALs raided a compound in Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda. • In those six years, the group he founded and its ideology have expanded in scale and threat. • In Afghanistan, which the U.S. invaded because the Taliban sheltered bin Laden, the U.S. is once again being…
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By Arwin Rahi in The Express Tribune, May 2, 2017 The writer is a former adviser to the Parwan governor in Afghanistan. The Taliban, in a show of force, attacked the Afghan Army’s 209 Shaheen Corps on April 21. With estimates of up to 300 soldiers killed and as many wounded, the attack was the largest single-day military loss for Afghanistan since the Taliban’s resurgence. And the actual casualty count could be even higher. A…
Xinhua report in Global Times,Published: 2017/5/2 17:38:15 Chen Shulong, former vice governor of east China’s Anhui Province, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and dismissed from public office for actions including “superstitious activities” and trading power for sex, an official statement said Tuesday. Chen was found to “completely lack political beliefs,” to have severely violated the Party’s code of conduct and rules and to have long abused his power to seek…
By Eva Li in South China Morning Post, May 2, 2017 at 11.22pm China’s internet regulator has updated its rules on internet and social media news, requiring all online news broadcasters to obtain government licences. It is the first comprehensive revision of the regulations in 12 years. It incorporates a collection of piecemeal documents and groups them together to provide a clearer scope of the restrictions. It also provides clearer definitions of which media would…
by Tarek Mahmud in Dhaka Tribune, May 3, 2017 The banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team is regrouping outside Dhaka with a plan to again target bloggers in the country. The ABT Information Technology wing is trying to hack into the social media accounts of the bloggers and forward their details to the ABT military wing. The Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit under the Dhaka Metropolitan Police learned this information after arresting the ABT IT…
Dhaka: Police yesterday claimed to have arrested a close aide of Maj (sacked) Syed Ziaul Haq, the alleged military wing chief of the banned militant outfit Ansar al-Islam, in the capital’s Bhatara area. Ashfaq-Ur-Rahman alias Ayon, an IT expert, used to gather information on the targeted bloggers and track their whereabouts by hacking into their social media accounts, Monirul Islam, chief of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police,…