COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has detained 14 foreigners after seizing 110 kilograms of heroin worth $7.5 million from an Iranian fishing trawler in the country’s biggest drug bust for nearly three years, police said on Sunday. Ten Iranians, two Pakistanis, one Indian and one Singaporean were remanded in custody after appearing in a magistrate’s court in Colombo on Saturday, national police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said. “They have had Sri Lankans involved in this smuggling,” Gunasekera said.…
Posts published in “Day: April 11, 2016”
The writer works for Jinnah Institute. As large tracts of Iraq and Syria hover between Westphalian meltdown and militant takeover, policy pathways for Pakistan in the Middle East are piloted by Islamabad’s foreign policy equation with Saudi Arabia, even as the current leadership earns accolades for attempting to mediate a difficult Riyadh-Tehran standoff. The mixed messages sent out by Pakistan’s official high-level participation in Operation North Thunder in the deserts of the Saudi-Iraq border this…
Perhaps it is a signal of changing dynamics of regional politics that within a short space of time the Iranian president visited Pakistan and the Indian Prime Minister travelled to Saudi Arabia – a fact unimaginable in the atmosphere of a few decades ago. What is also surprising is that not only has this outreach happened it has resulted in concrete viable progress for all four parties. It is undeniable that it is time to…
PESHAWAR: Presence of terrorists from the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the militant Islamic State group on the Afghan side of the border near Kurram Agency has caused security concerns, prompting authorities to mobilise tribes against the impending threat. According to locals, the security forces had been firing heavy artillery from their base in Parachinar on the other side of the border, adding that the administration had asked people living in the area to be…