By Wadood Mushtaq in The News, July 26, 2017 LONDON: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has submitted 688 pages reply to the apex court in the alleged foreign funding case but it has not shown the bank statements related to the donations sent from the UK over fears that questions will be asked about the unexplained amounts landing into PTI’s account. In the UK’s Companies House, PTI is registered as a limited company (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf UK, PTI…
Posts published in July 2017
Xinhua in Global Times, July 26, 2017 Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for all-out efforts to push forward military reform with the support of the entire nation and the Communist Party of China (CPC). Xi, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), made the remarks Monday afternoon at a group study attended by members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. The group…
by Tasneem Khalil in Dhaka Tribune, July 26, 2017 Sajit Debnath aka Muhammad Saifullah Ozaki, the Japanese-Bangladeshi jihadi and former associate professor of Ritsumeikan University, is most likely the elusive ameer of ISIS in Bangladesh, responsible for a series of jihadi attacks in the country including the July 2016 massacre at the Holey Artisan Bakery. Information gathered during months of investigation suggest that Ozaki is the individual whose interview was featured in the 14th issue…
Report in bdnews24.com, July 25, 2017 at 21:19:08.0 BdST The BNP has threatened to launch a movement if the government does not start a dialogue to make sure the next election is “participatory”. “We prefer to sit for talks over any movement,” said BNP vice-chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu addressing a human chain demonstration in Dhaka on Tuesday. “We will be forced to start a movement if the government, instead of starting talks, continues to suppress leaders…
by Nuruzzaman Labu in Dhaka Tribune, July 26, 2017 Empty bullet shells lying around after the raid in Kallyanpur “Operation Storm 26” was conducted on July 27 last year. The was the first known operation to hunt down Islamic militants across the country after the Holey Artisan attack which claimed 23 lives Courtesy of DMP Bangladeshi law enforcement has been insistent that there is no link at all. Their view is that home-grown terrorists are…
By Qadeer Tanoli in The Express Tribune, July 26, 2017 ISLAMABAD: In light of the report of Joint Investigation Team (JIT) – formed to probe abduction of two Chinese nationals in Quetta – Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has approved cancelling visas issued to foreign nationals associated with ARK Infotech Company. In May, a group of Chinese citizens, including the two abducted ones, obtained business visas from Pakistan Embassy in Beijing and entered…
By Mark Landler & James Risen in The NY Times online July 25, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump, searching for a reason to keep the United States in Afghanistan after 16 years of war, has latched on to a prospect that tantalized previous administrations: Afghanistan’s vast mineral wealth, which his advisers and Afghan officials have told him could be profitably extracted by Western companies. Mr. Trump has discussed the country’s mineral deposits with President Ashraf…
by Viola Zhou in South China Morning Post, July 25, 2017 China’s popular and lucrative video-streaming websites are censoring their content and offering Communist Party propaganda as they brace for even tighter controls on the internet. Video and live-streaming sites have been a major target of Beijing’s sweeping efforts to “clean up” the internet, with more than 70 shut down and more than 50 million users comments pulled since January, according to official figures. Other…
by Jane Cai in South China Morning Post, July 25, 2017 Chinese police will strike hard against shady financial schemes because of the risk of social unrest from such fundraising ploys, according to the Public Security Ministry. The warning came a day before a rare gathering of thousands of protesters in Beijing on Monday. They were members of Shanxinhui (Kindness Exchange), a fundraising scheme declared illegal by the Chinese authorities over the weekend. “There are…
By Li Yincai in Global Times, July 24, 2017 at 20:58:39 The author is an assistant research fellow from the Institute of International Relations at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. There have been remarkable changes in China’s neighborhood diplomacy in recent years. Taking active steps, China has endeavored to guide and shape the environment around it. But it faces increasing risks and challenges. Over the past two years, China has seen significant fluctuations in its…
by Minnie Chan in South China Morning Post, July 25, 2017 China’s biggest annual war games, at Asia’s largest military training base, will have a special guest on August 1 to mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Sources close to the PLA, the world’s largest army, have told the South China Morning Post that President Xi Jinping will make his first known visit to the Zhurihe Combined Tactics…