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Posts published in “Day: May 20, 2017

Under NFC: AJK, G-B claim share in federal tax pool

Report in The Express Tribune, May 20, 2017 ISLAMABAD: Heads of two autonomous regions in the country on Friday lodged a protest over ‘injustice’ being meted out to them by the four federating units, saying “for the sake of Pakistan they submerged their villages to build dams while the federating units are not ready to construct the Kalabagh dam”. In a meeting of the National Economic Council, AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider spoke about…

Three Silk Road workers gunned down in Balochistan

QUETTA: Suspected militants on Friday gunned down three workers building the “Silk Road” highway in the Balochistan province, just days after a similar attack killed 10, officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but previous attacks in Balochistan have been unleashed by separatists. Last week’s attacks were claimed by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA). The men killed on Friday were part of a team working near Turbat on a major highway linking the…

SE Asian militant groups cash in on persecuted Rohingyas through B’deshi radicals

by M Abul Kalam Azad in The daily star, May 20, 2017 Islamic State-inspired terror groups may catch the Asian region off-guard by using Rohingyas, the persecuted minorities of Myanmar. A recent report of Indonesia-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) has raised the alarm as it found a new Rohingya insurgency along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border to be the latest surprise element in regional terrorism. It says the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), previously…