Dhaka: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia today said the next national election must be held under a supportive-government with the deployment of army to install a pro-people administration to end “public sufferings” and ensure good governance. She also observed that people are celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr this time without any festivity and zeal due to the government’s misrule, repression and failure to arrest the soaring prices of essentials and deliver. “Usually, Eid is celebrated amid huge festivity, but…
Posts published in June 2017
By John Haider in Daily Times, June 26, 2017. LAHORE: Panic gripped Passu Valley in Upper Hunza as Gilgit-Baltistan Governor Mir Ghazanfar Ali Khan’s son Salman Khan fired in the air for “almost 20 minutes”. People protested against the incident in strongest terms and pressed the GB government to take action against the ‘culprit’. Hunza is considered one of the most peaceful areas in Pakistan. The valley, home to most educated people in the country,…
by Catherine Wong in South China Morning Post, June 25, 2017 at 11.44pm The recent killing of two Chinese nationals in Pakistan and the rise of the Islamist jihadist movement in Asia has highlighted an increasingly urgent need for Beijing to join international efforts against terrorism, security analysts say. Beijing already faces threats at home, mostly in Xinjiang, where authorities blame attacks on religious extremism, but the risk to China has grown as it expands…
Report in South China Morning Post, June 25, 2017 at 11:15pm Pakistan has deployed a 15,000-strong military force to protect Chinese nationals working on energy and infrastructure projects in the country, the president said on Sunday, after the abduction of a Chinese couple raised safety concerns. President Mamnoon Hussain told visiting Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Islamabad that the protection of Chinese citizens working in Pakistan was the “top priority” of the government, according to…
by Aamir Shafaat Khan in Dawn, June 25th, 2017 KARACHI: Cheap, mass-produced Chinese products including fabric, toys and watches have taken up a major market share in Pakistan. While the country aims to generate more business activities and make new inroads for Chinese goods especially automobiles under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), manufacturers are feeling the pinch of the onslaught. Lower prices of Chinese products give them an edge, traders interviewed by Dawn said. Chinese…
Report in South China Morning Post, June 25, 2017 at 11:15pm Pakistan has deployed a 15,000-strong military force to protect Chinese nationals working on energy and infrastructure projects in the country, the president said on Sunday, after the abduction of a Chinese couple raised safety concerns. President Mamnoon Hussain told visiting Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Islamabad that the protection of Chinese citizens working in Pakistan was the “top priority” of the government, according to…
Report in The Express Tribune, June 24th, 2017. KARACHI: The Chinese government has been requested to review its business visa policy by the Pakistan Soap Manufacturers Association (PSMA) and Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry President Abdullah Zaki. The request stems from a complex process for obtaining visas to China which are rarely issued for more than three months. Zaki suggested granting multiple visas to the business community for a period of at least one…
by Stephen Chen in South China Morning Post, June 24, 2017 Chinese scientists claim to have made a major breakthrough in magnetic detection technology that could bring unprecedented accuracy to the process of finding hidden metallic objects – from minerals to submarines. The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the country’s largest research institute, said in an article on its website on Wednesday that a “superconductive magnetic anomaly detection array” has been developed in Shanghai and passed…
by Mohiuddin Ahmad in Prothom Alo, June 23, 2017 at 22:10 hrs The author is a writer and researcher 23 June is a significant date for Awami League. This is the day it was founded 68 long years ago in 1949. Political parties crop up like mushrooms in this country and then suddenly burst like bubbles into nothingness. And parties have been split into factions time and again. Even Awami League has had its share…
report in Prothom Alo, June 23, 2017 at 23.43hrs As part of its move to strengthen the party’s organisational capacity, Bangladesh Nationalist Party will start a two-month-long membership collection and renewal programme on 1 July. BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi came up with the announcement at a press conference at the party’s Nayapaltan central office. He said though their party used to take programmes every year to collect new members and renew…
Report in Dawn, June 23rd, 2017 KARACHI: The National Tariff Commission (NTC) on Thursday imposed a definitive anti-dumping duty of 24.04 per cent on continuous casting (CC) steel billets imported from China for a period of five years effective from June 22. However, the CC billets imported from other countries shall not be subject to the definitive anti-dumping duty, said Amreli Steels Limited in a notice sent to Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) along with a…