by Munir Ahmed in Daily Times, 09-May-17 The writer is an Islamabad-based policy advocacy, strategic communication and outreach expert. Federal government is still reluctant to withdraw its order imposing ban on the foreign tourists visiting Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) without obtaining an (additional) no-objection certificate (NOC) from the ministry of interior in Islamabad despite of a formal request from the GB chief minister. A letter recently sent by the ministry to the Gilgit-Baltistan government says that it…
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BEIJING: Up to 5,000 ethnic Uighurs from China’s violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang are fighting in various militant groups in Syria, the Syrian ambassador to China said on Monday, adding that Beijing should be extremely concerned about it. China is worried that Uighurs, a mostly Muslim people who speak a Turkic language, have gone to Syria and Iraq to fight for militants there, having travelled illegally via Southeast Asia and Turkey. Islamic State claimed…
By Senior Correspondent in bdnews24.com, May 8, 2017 at 23:55:44.0 BdST Prime Minister’s International Affairs Adviser Gowher Rizvi has said Bangladesh’s friendship with India and China is not a “zero-sum” game, just the “opposite”. “It’s the relationship in which both of us gain,” he said, rejecting a media analysis that Bangladesh’s relations with China can be at the cost of India as “absolutely false”. Both countries are “absolutely centrally vital for us” and that the…
Bangabandhu killer’s relative tried to supply arms to militants By Arifur Rahman Rabbi in Dhaka Tribune, May 8, 2017 at 11:45 PM Two suspected militants who were arrested in Ashulia on Sunday night were actually IED material suppliers for militant groups, said RAB sources. Addressing a press conference yesterday, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Legal and Media Wing Director Mufti Mahmud Khan confirmed this. He added that RAB had learned that the two – Md Imran…
By Arifur Rahman Rabbi in Dhaka Tribune, May 8, 2017 at 11:45 PM Two suspected militants who were arrested in Ashulia on Sunday night were actually IED material suppliers for militant groups, said RAB sources. Addressing a press conference yesterday, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Legal and Media Wing Director Mufti Mahmud Khan confirmed this. He added that RAB had learned that the two – Md Imran Hossain alias Emran and Rafiqul Islam alias Junayed –…
By Ashraf Uddin Sijel in Dhaka Tribune, May 9, 2017 Mymensingh: The imam of an Ahmadiyya mosque in Mymensingh was critically injured after being hacked inside the mosque by a group of three men in a suspected militant attack Monday night. Imam Mostafizur Rahman, 35, of Khanpur mosque in Ishwarganj area was hacked by the assailants indiscriminately with sharp weapons inside the mosque around 9pm, after the end of Esha prayers. The attackers tried to…