By Rajshekhar Jha in The Times of India, June 16, 2017 New Delhi: Intelligence agencies have received inputs that a group of women fidayeen have infiltrated into the country to execute a “spectacular strike“. The attack could be in the form of a suicide bombing or a lone-wolf strike, they have warned. These fidayeen belong to Jamat-ud-Dawah (JuD) and erstwhile Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and have been handpicked and trained by Pakistan’s ISI in camps of Khyber…
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Report in bdnews24.com, June 16, 2017 by Abdur Rahim Harmachi, Faysal Atik and Tabarul Haque The prices of price are spiralling out of control as the blame game between wholesalers and millers continues and experts predict a ‘food crisis’ in the making. Government data often lower than market prices shows a 47 percent rise in the price of coarse rice while a fine variety saw around 20 percent rise in a year. Millions of low-income…
Executive of investment company sentenced to prison for fraud Xinhua report in Global Times, June 16, 2017 Lü Tao, a senior executive of Beijing Pangu Investment Co. Ltd, has been sentenced to two years and three months in prison for obtaining loans and foreign exchange by fraud, according to a court ruling issued Friday. The company has been fined 245 million yuan for obtaining loans by fraud, according to the People’s Court of Xigang District,…
By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ in The NY Times online, June 15, 2017 XUZHOU, China — An explosion outside a kindergarten in eastern China killed at least eight people and injured nearly 70 on Thursday, leaving a chaotic scene as dozens, some clutching children, were thrown to the ground. Images of dazed and injured people outside the Chuangxin kindergarten on the outskirts of Xuzhou, a large city in the province of Jiangsu, circulated on Chinese social…
by Tamim Mobayed in MVSLIM.COM, June 10, 2017 (The author is a 28 year old Dublin born Syrian who grew up in Belfast. He is working in the Media and studying for a Ph.D. in Psychology, part-time). China, home to approximately 1.3 billion people, is also home to more than 21 million Muslims. Going by this figure, Muslims would account for around 1.6% of China’s total population, though some claim the number of Muslims to…
Edit in The Wall St Journal, June 16, 2017 It’s Ramadan, and Beijing is again restricting the peaceful practice of Islam in its western territory of Xinjiang. This year government employees are required to ensure that friends and family aren’t fasting or otherwise observing the Muslim holy month. Under the “Together in Five Things” campaign, cadres are even living in the homes of the Uighur minority, according to the World Uyghur Congress. This escalation may…