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Posts published in “Day: March 9, 2017

New JMB regrouping outside Dhaka: report

By Tarek Mahmud Mohiuddin Molla &FM Mizanur Rahaman in Dhaka Tribune, Mar 9, 2017 Comilla/Chittagong: This week’s militant attacks in Gazipur and Comilla and on Wednesday’s in Chittagong reveal that the new outfit of the banned Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) is reforming outside Dhaka, counter-terrorism sources have said. Law enforcement agencies say since the Gulshan attack they have broken the outfit’s high command by arresting most of the leaders and active organisers. Many militants including…

Dhaka café suspect held in Kolkata

By Monalisa Chaudhuri in The Telegraph, Mar 9, 2017 Kolkata: A Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh leader wanted in connection with the Holey Artisan Bakery attack in Dhaka’s Gulshan was arrested from a central Calcutta hideout earlier this week. Mohammad Idris, one of the “most wanted” suspects in the July 1 café attack in which 20 people were killed, was hiding in the Burrabazar area, according to information passed on by a special cell of Delhi police to…

‘Neo JMB’ den busted in Ctg: Report in The Daily Star, Mar 9, 2017

Police yesterday seized a huge cache of grenades and explosive materials from the Chittagong house of two militant suspects, arrested over Tuesday’s attack on a police checkpoint in Comilla. On information gleaned from the two — Mahmud Hasan, 24, and Jasim, 19 — law enforcers raided the house on the ground floor of a two-storey building at Mirsharai municipality around 11:00pm on Tuesday. The drive continued overnight and ended around 4:30pm yesterday, our Chittagong office…

East Pakistan had many pro-Pakistani army officers

By Probir Kumar Sarker in Dhaka Tribune, Mar 9, 2017 The CIA recently made available online several thousand documents on Bangladesh’s pre- and post-independence events. Today Dhaka Tribune publishes the CIA’s observations on the security forces of an independent Bangladesh, the third of a series of exclusive stories. The strength of the army posted in East Pakistan in early 1971 was dismal – largely disorganised and badly equipped, but the mindset of most of the…

CPEC enclaves: by Khurram Husain in Dawn, March 9th, 2017

The writer is a member of the daily’s staff A SMALL line in a news story a few days ago caught my eye. The setting was a hearing in the Senate Standing Committee on Planning and Development at which high officials from the Planning Commission were answering questions about the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). The line that caused me to do a double take was this one: “The committee was informed that only Chinese industrialists…

Fiscal year 2016-17: AJK misses revenue target by a mile

By MA Mir in The Express Tribune, March 9th, 2017. MUZAFFARABAD: Despite the tall claims of austerity and self-reliance, the cash-strapped Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government have failed to achieve its revenue collection target. During a high-level review meeting presided by AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider on Wednesday, secretaries of all government departments shared their respective progress reports. The meeting was told that the government had collected a paltry Rs8.172 billion till January…

Rampant corruption: G-B PPP leaders slam chief minister

By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, March 9th, 2017. GILGIT: The regional leadership of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has accused Gilgit-Baltistan’s Chief Minister Hafeezur Rehman of flouting merit while making appointments. The party further alleged that the chief secretary and inspector general of police were acting as the chief minister’s facilitators. “There is rampant corruption in every department and ironically the chief secretary and IGP are facilitating him instead of ensuring the rule…

Pakistani accused of spying for Iran faces German court

AFP report in Daily Times Mar 09, 2017 BERLIN: A Pakistani man accused of spying for Iran went on trial in Germany on Wednesday for allegedly searching out potential attack targets for the Revolutionary Guards. The accused, named only as 31-year-old Haidar Syed M, remained silent – “out of fear”, according to his defence lawyer. He is accused of espionage “against Germany and another NATO member”, France, for the Quds Force, the foreign operations wing…