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B’desh: Islami Oikya Jote demands ministers supporting SC statue step down

Report in Dhaka Tribune, June 12, 2017 at 10.04pm Islami Oikya Jote General Secretary Mufti Foyzullah has demanded the resignation of government ministers who have supported the sculpture on the Supreme Court grounds. In addition, he demanded human rights activist Sultana Kamal withdraw her statement about religious symbols and institutions removed from the Supreme Court grounds. Mufti Foyzullah said: “No ‘statues’ can be erected in the country. We must get rid of all the ‘statues’…

B’desh: Plot to kill Islamic scholar foiled

Report in The Daily Star, June 13, 2017 Counterterrorism officials have arrested six suspected “Neo JMB” men who allegedly planned to carry out attacks in Ramadan to mark the anniversary of deadly Gulshan café siege. “As part of the plan, they had attempted to kill a top Islamic scholar who is vocal against militancy,” Monirul Islam, chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of DMP, said at a briefing yesterday. “The militants were preparing…

Slain Chinese entered Pakistan on business visa, engaged in preaching, minister told

by Shakeel Anjum in The News, June 13, 2017 ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior Ch Nisar Ali Khan was informed on Monday during a high-level meeting that a group of Chinese citizens, which included the two abducted persons, obtained business visa from Pakistani Embassy in Beijing and entered Pakistan. However, instead of engaging in any business activity they went to Quetta and under the garb of learning Urdu language from a Korean national Juan Won Seo,…

Arrest warrants for Chinese firm’s directors

Report in Dawn, June 13th, 2017 PESHAWAR: An accountability court here on Monday issued arrest warrants of three women Chinese directors of a mining company after their failure to appear in a case of alleged smuggling of antimony from mines in Chitral to China. The judge Naveed Ahmad Khan fixed July 11 for next hearing of the case with the direction to local police to produce the three suspects who are charged along with some…