by Minnie Chan in South China Morning Post, May 3, 2017 at 11:20pm China is carefully forging closer links with other navies, but also sending a subtle message of its capability to protect its overseas interests, analysts said, as a flotilla of PLA ships visits more than 20 countries linked to the “Belt and Road” international trade initiative. The ships, composed of the guided missile destroyer Changchun, the missile frigate Jingzhou and supply ship Chaohu,…
Posts published in May 2017
by Manik Miazee in Dhaka tribune, May 3, 2017 at 9:20 PM Following an announcement by the party chief that he might form a new political alliance for the upcoming parliamentary elections, Jatiya Party (JaPa) has discussed the possibility of its ministers resigning from the cabinet. The issue was discussed in the party’s parliamentary committee meeting on Tuesday evening, a source present in the meeting told the Dhaka Tribune. JaPa Chairman former autocrat HM Ershad…
bdnews24.com, May 3, 2017 a 22:09:31.0 BdST Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said details of the defence deals and memoranda of understanding signed with different countries will be presented in Parliament once notices are received. The prime minister, in reply to an MP’s query in Parliament on Wednesday, mentioned names of several countries with which Bangladesh signed defence cooperation MoUs. “I can give all the details of deals signed with other nations if I wish…
Report of the Southen Group (TSG), May 2, 2017 .Bottom Line Up Front: ‘ • It has been six years since U.S. Navy SEALs raided a compound in Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda. • In those six years, the group he founded and its ideology have expanded in scale and threat. • In Afghanistan, which the U.S. invaded because the Taliban sheltered bin Laden, the U.S. is once again being…
By Arwin Rahi in The Express Tribune, May 2, 2017 The writer is a former adviser to the Parwan governor in Afghanistan. The Taliban, in a show of force, attacked the Afghan Army’s 209 Shaheen Corps on April 21. With estimates of up to 300 soldiers killed and as many wounded, the attack was the largest single-day military loss for Afghanistan since the Taliban’s resurgence. And the actual casualty count could be even higher. A…
Xinhua report in Global Times,Published: 2017/5/2 17:38:15 Chen Shulong, former vice governor of east China’s Anhui Province, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and dismissed from public office for actions including “superstitious activities” and trading power for sex, an official statement said Tuesday. Chen was found to “completely lack political beliefs,” to have severely violated the Party’s code of conduct and rules and to have long abused his power to seek…
By Eva Li in South China Morning Post, May 2, 2017 at 11.22pm China’s internet regulator has updated its rules on internet and social media news, requiring all online news broadcasters to obtain government licences. It is the first comprehensive revision of the regulations in 12 years. It incorporates a collection of piecemeal documents and groups them together to provide a clearer scope of the restrictions. It also provides clearer definitions of which media would…
by Tarek Mahmud in Dhaka Tribune, May 3, 2017 The banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team is regrouping outside Dhaka with a plan to again target bloggers in the country. The ABT Information Technology wing is trying to hack into the social media accounts of the bloggers and forward their details to the ABT military wing. The Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit under the Dhaka Metropolitan Police learned this information after arresting the ABT IT…
Dhaka: Police yesterday claimed to have arrested a close aide of Maj (sacked) Syed Ziaul Haq, the alleged military wing chief of the banned militant outfit Ansar al-Islam, in the capital’s Bhatara area. Ashfaq-Ur-Rahman alias Ayon, an IT expert, used to gather information on the targeted bloggers and track their whereabouts by hacking into their social media accounts, Monirul Islam, chief of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police,…
Report in Dhaka Tribune, Apr 30, 2017 at 11.09pm The number of converted Muslim youths being radicalised is increasing day by day. Some of them have joined banned militant outfits JMB and Ansarullah, who are responsible for the recent targeted killings across the country, detectives say. During the recent raids, law enforcers busted several militant dens set up by such converted youths to teach how to operate arms and make explosives. Regarding the link between…
Report in The daily Star, May 2, 2017 Police today claimed to have arrested a top IT expert of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) in Bhatara of Dhaka. Md Ashfaq-Ur-Rahman Ayon alias Arif alias Anik, the chief of information technology section of ABT, was arrested by members of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime ( CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) last night, according to an SMS floated to the media this morning.…