HONG KONG — A Chinese company is setting up a rare and potentially tone-setting showdown with the American government over its deal to buy a high-tech firm that the United States says could impact national security. The showdown involves Aixtron, a German semiconductor firm being acquired by a Chinese company, Fujian Grand Chip. In a statement on Friday, Aixtron said an American security panel that advises the White House on foreign deals had recommended the…
Posts published in “Day: November 22, 2016”
The Nepal Chapter of the Belt and Road International Trade and Investment Platform, a mutual exchange platform of global purchasers and suppliers, was launched here on Saturday. It is the one of the private sector-led initiatives to promote the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road in Nepal with the Himalayan country already signing agreement with China to become a part of the Chinese initiative for global connectivity. The Belt and Road…
The fighting killed two civilians in Myanmar and is another blow to civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s hopes to forge a nationwide peace agreement after years of war, AFP reported. Gunfire broke out in several villages in the area, including Mong Ko and Kyu Kok, at around 2.40am and lasted later into the morning, CCTV reported. Gunshots could be heard by residents of the Chinese border town of Wanding, Yunnan province. Authorities in Wanding…
CPEC trial run success razes India’s hopes By Mansoor Ahmad in The News on Sunday, November 20, 2016
LAHORE: Trial run of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) route successfully from Kashghar to Gwadar has shattered India’s long term plan to squeeze its neighbour economically as the route has provided Islamabad the opportunity to reach lucrative markets at low cost. CPEC is rewriting the economic geography, and regional integrity of the subcontinent will effectively end the hegemony of India in the region. Historically and across the world, trade routes have tended to flow from…
The writer is a journalist, author, and communications and security specialist. The latest deaths of seven Pakistani soldiers on the Line of Control (LoC) in the Bhimber sector in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) is a grim indication of the slowly but definitely widening theatre of war. Gauging the gravity of the situation, the government of Pakistan has directed the provincial AJK government to prepare a contingency plan for the evacuation of civilians near the…
Recently, the Kashmir Valley has entered the 5th month of shutdown and curfew with the periodic relaxation. Since July 8, 2016, when a militant leader Burhan Muzaffar Wani was killed, the people of Kashmir have shown unmatchable determination to face the state repression. Constant strikes and protests led by youth have unambiguously demonstrated the public verdict. Rajmohan Gandhi, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and a historian, aptly summarised the Kashmir situation in his recent article:…
The writer heads Pakistan Today’s Islamabad Bureau. With Kashmiri protests – in response to the assassination of Burhan Wani – passing 130 days, it seems the militant youth is taking over the freedom movement, of sorts, as Hurriyet leadership appears without a roadmap regarding the future of the struggle. Over 120 Kashmiris have been martyred in the clampdown by brutal Indian regime while around 10,000 have been injured, mostly due to palette gun wounds. Over…
India’s aggressive actions against Pakistan become ever more transparent with every passing day. First, there was the absurdity of India trying to pass off its unprovoked firing across the Line of Control as a ‘targeted operation’. Then it killed seven Pakistan soldiers a few days ago in more LoC firing. Now the Indian navy is getting in on the act too. On Friday, an Indian submarine tried to enter Pakistani waters undetected but was pushed…
After having been engaged in acts of aggression on the border for the last couple of months, India has now presumably tried to test the nerves of Pakistan navy through a sneak submarine, which was detected and expelled by the navy while it was entering Pakistani territorial waters in the Arabian Sea. While the Indian authorities have denied the report, Pakistani Navy officials have alleged that the Indian submarine was on an intelligence gathering mission…
Land forces tend to make the headlines nationally, but the Pakistan Navy is no less engaged with the protection of our borders and territories. The surfacing of the report that an Indian Navy submarine had been detected close to our national territorial waters and escorted away has given a rare insight into naval operations. Details are few but some tenable assumptions may be made based on open-source information about the naval assets of Pakistan and…
Karachi/Islamabad: The Maritime Security Agency (MSA) arrested on Saturday 45 Indian fishermen and seized their boats for allegedly violating Pakistan’s territorial waters in the Arabian Sea. The fishermen at first made attempts to avoid getting caught, Express News reported. They are going to be handed over to the concerned authorities in Karachi. On March 31, MSA officials had detained 59 Indian fishermen and seized 10 of their boats for violating the country’s maritime borders. According…