Detectives today claimed that journalist Shafik Rehman admitted that he had held several meetings with those suspected to be involved in a plot to abduct and kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy. Monirul Islam, additional commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police said this, after seizing some documents from Rehman’s house at Estakon in Dhaka. Asked about Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman’s involvement in the incident, the police officer said detectives were looking…
Posts published in “Day: April 20, 2016”
President Barack Obama, on his visit this week to Riyadh, will seek to advance a foreign-policy agenda that has positioned Washington as a broker between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which are locked in an increasingly dangerous series of standoffs across the Middle East. But within the region, the U.S. is widely seen as a contributor to the accelerating friction between Riyadh and Tehran, which is fueling a new period of regional instability. The completion of…
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—Before his father ascended to the throne last year, Mohammed bin Salman was an obscure prince and few outside the kingdom knew his name. Today, the 30-year-old has risen to a position of almost unrivaled power, emerging as the face of change in Saudi Arabia as it seeks to assert its regional leadership, overhaul its oil-dependent economy and recalibrate ties with the U.S. Prince Mohammed’s prominent role makes him one of the region’s…
ISLAMABAD: Except Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), almost all religious parties here on Tuesday expressed concerns over a recent resolution passed by the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) and decided to meet diplomats of Muslim states in this regard. In the resolution passed during a meeting in Turkey last week, the OIC criticised Iran for allegedly supporting terrorism in several countries, including Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Bahrain. The meeting of the religious parties held under…
TEHRAN – Iran and Pakistan are going to hold joint naval drills in the Persian Gulf waters later on Tuesday. The drills will be held in cooperation with a Pakistani flotilla of warships that has been staying in Iran’s southern port city of Bandar Abbas for the past four days, Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari. Sayyari did not explain on the dimensions of the military exercise but said that it will be staged…