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Posts published in “Day: August 23, 2016

Pakistan active to defeat Indian plot on Afghan front: by SHAFQAT ALI in The Nation, August 23, 2016

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has launched a diplomatic campaign to defeat India’s growing conspiracies to pit Kabul against Islamabad, The Nation learnt. Yesterday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the renovated Stor Palace in Kabul with Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani via video conference. Modi in his video conference with Ghani said: “Today we have once again come together to celebrate yet another achievement of our friendship. Afghanistan is India’s immediate neighbour and we take pride in…

An alternate route for CPEC: by AFZAL A. SHIGRI in Dawn, August 23rd, 2016

The writer, a former IGP Sindh, belongs to Gilgit-Baltistan. CHINA’S remarkable economic development has transformed the lives of billions of people at home and around the world. Its outreach includes the markets of Africa and Asia, and the country enjoys great commercial success as a result of its robust economic relationship with Europe and North America. On the home front, after developing the densely populated areas of the country, China turned its attention to its…

Government decides to conduct aerial surveillance of CPEC through drone Reort in The Nation, August 22, 2016, 3:18 pm

Islamabad: Federal government has decided to strictly monitor China- Pak Economic Corridor ( CPEC) project. According to media reports, Minister for planning commission Ahsan Iqbal has completed consultation process with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in connection with security arrangements of CPEC project. It was decided during the consultations that security of the project will be ensured through drone aerial surveillance . Surveillance of roads, railway tracks and gas pipelines will be carried out persistently and…

Finance ministry releases Rs100m for CPEC security: Reort in The Nation, August 22, 2016, 5:25 pm

Islamabad: Ministry of Finance has released Rs100 million for security of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, sources in the ministry said Monday. The sources, declining to be named, said that CPEC security would cost a total of Rs526.6 million. Out of the total amount, they said, Rs100 million have been released by the government. A Special Security Division (SSD) comprising 9,000 Pakistan Army soldiers and 6,000 paramilitary forces personnel has also been entrusted with the…

Djibouti base not for power: By Bai Tiantian in Global Times, Aug 23, 2016

China has no intention of following the US pattern of establishing military bases around the world to project its power over other countries, and China’s facilities in Djibouti are meant to support Chinese peace-keeping and anti-piracy missions near Somalia and the Gulf of Aden, analysts said. Western media have been closely following China’s latest moves in this small East African nation since it announced the building of military logistics facilities in February, saying that China…

A New Measure for China’s Economy: The ‘Repression Index’ : By ANDREW BROWNE in The Wall St Journal, Aug. 23, 2016

SHANGHAI—As the Chinese economy slows, the regime is ramping up an assault on dissidents and others it brands as troublemakers. Call it the repression index. One of the best indicators of the country’s economic direction is now a political one. The crackdown is telling us that the leadership, despite outward displays of confidence, is growing increasingly insecure as it grapples with faltering growth, the mainstay of the Communist Party’s legitimacy. That translates into crippling indecision;…

India’s stake in Myanmar remains strong: By Liu Zongyi in Global Times, Aug 23, 2016

(The author is a senior fellow of Shanghai Institutes for International Studies and a visiting fellow of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China) Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi concluded her visit to China on Sunday. After her China tour last year, The Nikkei published an article arguing that if Suu Kyi is in power, India’s position in Myanmar’s diplomacy will outweigh China, and Myanmar may shift its diplomatic focus…

Forced repatriation of Afghan refugees: by Shaikh Abdul Rasheed in Daily Times, Aug 22, 2016

The writer is an academic, The Afghan refugees — once treated as endangered species and considered as strategic and economic assets of Islamabad — are now being driven out after Pakistan having hosted them for 40 years in an immoral and unsympathetic way, treating them as endangering species. The forced repatriation will besmirch all sacrifices we have made for the refugees in the name of faith. Pakistan following the spirit of Ansar-e-Madinah had welcomed the…

If Afghanistan collapses…: by Shahid Javed Burki in The Express Tribune, August 22nd, 2016

The writer is a former caretaker finance minister and served as vice-president at the World Bank If Afghanistan collapses – which it might – its consequences will be felt far from its borders. Three of its immediate neighbours will be seriously affected. Pakistan and Iran sill have to deal with the arrival of a political entity on their borders that will not be able to control and perhaps would seek to create trouble in their…

War Intensified Unprecedentedly in Afghanistan: Security Departments Report in Outlook Afghanistan, Aug 22, 2016

War Intensified Unprecedentedly in Afghanistan: Security Departments KABUL – Officials in Afghanistan Security departments have stated that Taliban have intensified war in the country to have the control of some of the areas, amid Afghan special and commando forces have launched 18 military operations to remove insurgents in different areas. War erupted in different provinces of Afghanistan unprecedentedly in the past months where Taliban have reached into Hesarak district of Nangarhar and captured Khanabad district…

Taliban captures Khwajah Ghar district in Takhar province By KHAAMA PRESS – Mon Aug 22 2016,

The Taliban militants captured the control of Khwajah Ghar district in northeastern Takhar province of Afghanistan. Provincial governor’s spokesman Sanatullah Temori confirmed the fall of the district which was captured around 5 am local time this morning. Earlier, local sources said the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) recaptured the control of the district. The sources in Takhar said the control of the district fell to Taliban late on Sunday night but the Afghan…