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Posts published in “Day: May 19, 2017

Bizenjo fears militants leaving Syria may pose threat to CPEC

By MOHAMMAD HUSSAIN KHAN in Dawn, May 19th, 2017 HYDERABAD: Federal Minister for Ports and Ship­ping Senator Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo, who heads the Nat­ional Party (NP), has said that political forces should sit together and come up with a strategy on how to extricate Pakistan from terrorism, sectarianism and religious extremism. He was speaking at the ‘Meet the Press’ programme in the local press club on Thurs­day. His party colleague Ramzan Memon, Pakistan Muslim…

In China, Wives Fight Back After Their Activist Husbands Are Jailed

By CHRIS BUCKLEY and DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW in The NY Times, May 18, 2017 BEIJING — Before her husband disappeared into detention, Chen Guiqiu did not ask him much about his risky work as a Chinese human rights lawyer. Before word crept out that he had been tortured, Ms. Chen trusted the police. Before she was told she could not leave China, she never expected she would make a perilous escape abroad. Ms. Chen and…