By Shahbaz Rana in The Express Tribune, Nov 21, 2017 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has turned down China’s demand to allow its currency to be used in the Gwadar Free Zone under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor framework, arguing any such move would compromise its ‘economic sovereignty’. Pakistan conveyed its final position on the use of the foreign currency in its territory to the Chinese authorities during the Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) that was held on Monday in…
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Xinhua report Published: 2017/11/21 11:23:35 Jiang Tianyong, a former lawyer, was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison for inciting subversion of state power in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province. Jiang, 46, was also deprived of his political rights for three years, according to the ruling of Changsha City Intermediate People’s Court. He was found to have made a large number of statements to attack or defame China’s government departments, judicial organs and…
Report in Prothom ALo, update: 23:33, Nov 20, 2017 Aniruddha Roy“I just stepped out of the Union Bank office [Gulshan 1] after a meeting there, a man approached, said salam and asked, ‘Are you Aniruddha? Are you the honorary consul of Belarus?’ “And I was walking along and talking to him when suddenly another person whisked me off in a microbus. They threatened me to keep looking down on the floor, and not to look…
Report in The Daily Star, Nov 21, 2017 The book importer, who was picked up by plainclothes men on November 8, is now claimed to have been arrested on Sunday night in a terror case. His family, however, says he is innocent. Police claimed Tanvir Yasin Karim, owner of Karim International and Darus Salam Publications, was held in Azad Masque area in the capital’s Gulshan. Until the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of…
By Arifur Rahman Rabbi & Md Sanaul Islam Tipu Police’s Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crimes (CTTC) unit has arrested a man in connection with the suicide bomb attack that took place in a hotel opposite the Dhaka Tribune office in August. Tanvir Yasin Karim, alias “Hitman” alias Jinn, 32, was detained in Azad Mosque area of Gulshan at around 9:30pm on Sunday, confirmed Deputy Commissioner Masudur Rahman of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). He was picked up…
Report in The Daily Star, Nov 21, 2017 A Dhaka court yesterday framed sedition charges against BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman and three others in a case filed over broadcasting a “provocative speech” of Tarique. Former chairman of Ekushey TV Abdus Salam and former journalists of the TV channel Mahathir Farooki Khan and Kanak Sarwar are the other accused. Salam, now on bail, pleaded innocence and demanded justice after Judge Kamrul Hossain Mollah of the…