by Usman Manzoor in The News, May 12, 2017 ISLAMABAD: Keeping the reports of inquiry commissions secret is a fashion in Pakistan as the governments failed to make public any of the reports; yet many were ‘leaked’ to the media but hardly saw any action upon them. A few reports of the inquiry commissions were released by the Supreme Court but not the government. Right from Hamoodur Rehman Commission, it has remained a habit of…
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by Imdad Soomro in The News, May 12, 2017 KARACHI: The Sindh Rangers have started an inquiry into alleged life threats to a businessman and attempts to deprive him of assets by a businessman at the behest of the ruling party head in the Sindh province. Shahzad Riaz, a businessman, in a complaint filed with the DG Rangers on May 4, 2017, application copy available with The News, sought protection for him, family and business.…
KHAAMA PRESS – Thu May 11 2017, 8:28 pm The Afghan government has approved in principle the Chabahar port agreement implementation plan, the Office of the President, ARG Palace said. According to a statement by ARG Palace, the decision was taken during a meeting of the Afghan cabinet of ministers today. The statement further added that implementation plan of Chabahar agreement was approved in principle after it was presented to the meeting by deputy finance…
By Michael Kugelman in The Express Tribune blogs, May 11, 2017 The author is the South Asia associate at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Today, the trend lines for Jammu and Kashmir are quite troubling, to say the least. Nearly a year after Indian security forces killed Burhan Wani, a young Kashmiri militant with a large following, anger hasn’t abated. Tension has risen in recent days after a video surfaced…
by Jane Cai in Global Times, May 12, 2017 China is urgently seeking support from international lenders to close a yawning financing gap for projects under its “Belt and Road Initiative”, a top official said. The remarks from Yi Gang, vice-governor of the People’s Bank of China, come just days ahead of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation on Sunday and Monday. Leaders from 29 countries and regions will gather in Beijing to…
Xinhua in Global Times, May 11,2017 at 22:44 A Chinese couple suspected of illegally collecting public deposits has been extradited from Nepal, the Ministry of Public Security announced Thursday. Chinese police brought the couple back to China Tuesday as part of Operation Fox Hunt, a campaign to catch economic fugitives hiding overseas. The female suspect. surnamed Ding, and her husband, surnamed Dong, had allegedly illegally collected deposits from the public by promising high interest rates…
By Senior Correspondent in bdnews24.com, May 11, 2017 at 23:31 BdST Law Minister Annisul Huq has assured European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos of taking back illegal Bangladeshis living in parts of the world. Bangladesh will “do everything” for that, Huq said. They were meeting in Brussels where the law minister and State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam are currently visiting, the foreign ministry said in a statement on…
report in bdnews24.com, May 11, 2017 a6 1742 hrs Rajshahi: Sazzad Hossain, the owner of a house used as a militant hideout in Rajshahi’s Godagari, was known as a Jamaat-e-Islami activist who later joined JMB at the banned outfit’s urging, according to local residents. Sazzad had built the house from tin and bamboo in Machmara Benipur village two months ago. JMB militants had sought refuge there in different times, the locals said. Local resident Abdul…
by Shahzad Chaudhry in The News, May 12, 2017 It is true that Iran has mostly been an outlier ever since the Ayatollahs took control of it. Internationally, it was easy to understand because an important American partner, the Shah, had been de-seated, instantly turning Iran from an ally to a sworn foe. America thus lost its most strategic location to control the Persian Gulf and to run its largest CIA station. In 1979, with…
PTI report in The Times of India online,| May 12, 2017, 09.23 AM IST WASHINGTON: Pakistan-based terrorist groups are planning to attack both India and Afghanistan, a top US spymaster has said. “Islamabad has failed to curb militants and terrorists in Pakistan,” Daniel Coats, Director of National Intelligence told members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence during a Congressional hearing on Worldwide threats. “These groups will present a sustained threat to the United States’s…