US lawmakers should take action to ban China ‘s state-owned firms from acquiring US companies, a congressional panel charged with monitoring security and trade links between Washington and Beijing said on Wednesday. In its annual report to Congress, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said the Chinese Communist Party has used state-backed enterprises as the primary economic tool to advance and achieve its national security objectives. The report recommended Congress prohibit US acquisitions by…
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Nepal Is Said to Detain 41 Tibetans Traveling to India By EDWARD WONG in The NY Times, NOV. 17, 2016
The Nepali police have detained 41 Tibetans who were trying to cross the border into India, according to a police officer who spoke to the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The police officer, Rajendra Bista, works in Dhangadi, an area 270 miles southwest of Kathmandu where the detentions took place. The Tibetans had been on a bus to India, the officer told a journalist for the foundation. The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetans, lives…
Jhalokati: A Kali temple was attacked and vandalised during a clash between the temple management committee and local traders over a long-running land dispute on Wednesday night. At least 15 people, including four policemen, were injured in the incident at the town’s Barachal neighbourhood. Jhalakathi police’s Additional ASP Muhammad Abdur Rakib said a group of men started hurling brickbats at the end of Kartik Puja on Wednesday night. They hurled stones at police when the…
A Dhaka court has issued arrest warrant against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a case launched on charge of celebrating a false birthday on August 15, the National Mourning Day. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mazharul Islam gave the order on Thursday. On August 31, journalist Gazi Zahirul Islam, former joint secretary of Dhaka Union of Journalists, filed the case with Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court under sections 198 and 469 of the Penal Code. After…
TURKEY’S President Erdogan is a welcome and honoured guest to Pakistan this week and we hope his visit will deepen investment and development ties between the two countries. However, his visit has coincided with a controversial decision taken by the government here: the Pak-Turk Education Foundation’s Turkish staff and their families have been given three days to leave the country, causing the foundation’s management to move court against the orders. The Pak-Turk schools are administered…
In a move that is perhaps unsurprising given that the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is currently visiting Pakistan, the Interior Ministry has asked the Turkish nationals that work at the chain of Pak-Turk schools to leave the country by November 20th. Their visas have been cancelled and they were informed by letter on Sunday 13th November. The action was taken on the advice of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It will be recalled that…
ISLAMABAD: Officials of the Pak-Turk Educational Foundation have challenged the order issued by the government, ahead of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s arrival here, to the Turkish staff of its schools to leave the country. The foundation’s chairman Alamgir Khan and employees Ramazan Arslan and Murat Ervan challenged in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday the interior ministry’s order to the expatriate teachers and other staff, and their families, including children enrolled in Pakistan, to…
Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz could not have chosen a more appropriate time to announce his plans to attend a security conference scheduled to be held in December in India. His decision to visit India as the first senior Pakistani official ever since the September attack on an Indian army base in Uri frayed the Pakistan-India ties displays fine diplomacy and an interest in continuing the peace process. In the…
‘Wiggle-room’ is diplo-speak for the tiny spaces that can be created or found within which intractable problems may be discussed. The upcoming Heart of Asia conference in early December is a venue where such creations may exist. The Adviser to the PM on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz has announced that he plans to attend the Heart of Asia conference that is being held in India to discuss Afghanistan. He has hinted at wiggle-prospects by saying…
The Heart of Asia conference focusing on Afghanistan is due to be held in the first week of December in the northwestern Indian city of Amritsar and Sartaj Aziz, Advisor to the PM on Foreign Affairs, has said that he would probably be attending the conference, and hopes to diffuse the tension. However, there is no official meeting scheduled for talks over recent tensions between India and Pakistan.Travelling to India will show Pakistan as being…
Ever since India established formal diplomatic ties with Israel in 1992, the two countries have had a close relationship, particularly in defence. India is the world’s largest buyer of Israeli military equipment and gives more in defence to Israel than even the US does. That relationship is going to become even friendlier with the extremist BJP and Likud governments in power. The visit of Israeli president Reuven Rivlin to India – the first by an…