By Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, November 16th, 2015. ISLAMABAD: Army chief General Raheel Sharif departed for Washington, DC, on Sunday to kick off a five-day visit that has generated a lot of interest in both Pakistan and the United States. This is the second time Gen Raheel has visited the US this year and comes just a month after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited Washington where he met US President Barack Obama. He…
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by SALEEM SHAHID in Dawn, November 16, 2015 QUETTA: Nawab Brahamdagh Bugti, President of the Baloch Republican Party (BRP), has invited various parties, including the outlawed Baloch pro-independence groups, and their leaders for negotiations to sort out their differences. In a statement received here from Geneva on Sunday, he said unity was the only way to guarantee resolution of issues. Mr Bugti suggested that the meeting of the parties and leaders should be held in Switzerland,…
REPORT in Dawn, November 16th, 2015 ISLAMABAD: A lack of progress on the National Action Plan (NAP) to counter terrorism in the wake of the Army Public School massacre was just one of many reasons behind the civil-military tensions that boiled over last week. In background conversations with Dawn, military officials and civilian leaders offered their own interpretations for the reasons behind a public spat between the government and the army. Sources say that there…
With the security cost of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor set to go up by at least 20 percent, China has pledged to support Pakistan in providing security to the corridor. The pledge came as China’s third-ranking military official, General Fen Changlong, led a delegation to visit Pakistan last week. Having met both Army Chief General Raheel Sharif and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, General Fen expressed the hope of close cooperation to ensure the security and…
ISLAMABAD: Amidst renewed criticism by various parties of the government’s reported plan to alter the route of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the members of a parliamentary committee have decided to inspect the work on the project. “We have decided to visit Balochistan and Sindh by the end of this month to physically inspect the work on the project,” Mushahid Hussain, Chairman of the Special Parliamentary Committee on the CPEC, told Dawn on Sunday. He…
By Owen Guo in The Wall St Journal, NOV 13, 2015 AT 6:32 AM On top of all the countless misdeeds that could hurt the prospects of a Communist Party official in China under President Xi Jinping, a new one has emerged: failure to subscribe to the right newspapers. In a stern warning, Harbin Daily, the party newspaper of a city in northeast China, called on cadres to prop up subscriptions. Such appeals are part of the…