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Posts published in “Day: November 10, 2017

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping’s grand gestures can’t paper over diplomatic divide

By Shi Jiangtao in South China Morning Post, Nov 10, 2017 China and the United States announced a record-breaking “gift pack” of a quarter of a trillion US dollars worth of business deals as the presidents of the two nations wrapped up their talks on Thursday. But the deals were not able to paper over their glaring differences on key issues, from access to China’s markets, and cybersecurity to North Korea and the South China…

Growing Pakistan-Bangladesh schism: op-ed

by Moonis Ahmar in Daily Times, November 10th 2017. The writer, author of book Pakistan and Bangladesh: From Conflict to Cooperation is Meritorious Professor of International Relations at the University of Karachi and was Asia Fellow in Dhaka University during 2002. Apart from Afghanistan and India, Bangladesh is another country in South Asia whose relations with Pakistan are not friendly and normal. Recent schism in Pakistan-Bangladesh relations occurred when on October 31 Pakistan High Commissioner…

Police yet to shed light on NSU teacher’s mysterious disappearance

By Arifur Rahman Rabbi in Dhaka Tribune, Nov 9, 2017 at 11.51pm It has been two days since, Dr Mubashar Hasan Cesar, assistant professor at North South University (NSU), went missing after a meeting on Tuesday afternoon. His father Motahar Hossain filed a General Diary (GD) with Khilgaon police station in the early hours of Wednesday. “We filed the GD around 2:30am and reported my son missing to RAB 3 at 9am [on Wednesday]. The…