by Javaid-ur-Rahman in The Nation, June 04, 2017 ISLAMABAD – There’s something seriously wrong with the Parliament as the disinterest of public representatives in the house proceedings is growing. As many as 69 lawmakers did not make any contribution in the work of the National Assembly in the fourth parliamentary year, bringing the average attendance per sitting of active participants down to 60 percent from last year’s 65 percent. The breakup compiled by an independent…
Posts published in June 2017
by Tarek Mahmud in Dhaka Tribune, June 4, 2017 Ayub Bacchu, the incumbent ameer of New JMB, escaped arrest by a hair when a police team raided his safe house. On May 27, the Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crimes (CTTC) unit of police raided two houses in Genda, Savar. CTTC chief Monirul Islam said: “Ayub was living with his family at the Genda safehouse in Savar. He fled with them just before the raid.” The CTTC…
Report in The daily star, June 04, 2017 Jhenidah: Police arrested eight suspected Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) members from a house in Arpara village under Shalikha upazila of Magura on Friday. They seized jihadi books, electronics devices, some small pieces of brass and twelve bundles of counterfeit money. The arrestees are house owner and ex-ameer of upazila Jamaat-e-Islami advocate Farid Ahmed, Bachchu Mia, Obaidul Hossain, Abul Bashar, Anwar Hossain, Jahangir Alam, Ohidul Islam and Rabiul…
Report in The daily star, June 04, 2017 The government is trying to establish Hefajat-e-Islam as a political force, alleged eminent theatre personality Ramendu Mazumder yesterday. “If they [Hefajat] are given patronisation … if these people who are using religious cards are not resisted, we will dig our own graves,” he said, adding that cultural activists would not accept any political compromise with the fanatics. He said this at a sit-in programme at Central Shaheed…
by Minnie Chan in the South China Morning Post, June 03, 2017, 11:09pm Beijing’s annual high-level forum to discuss Asia-Pacific security and defence issues has been cancelled this year due to pressure at home and abroad, a military official familiar with the event told the South China Morning Post. The Xiangshan Forum, held each September or early October and dubbed Asia’s “new security architecture” by Beijing to voice China’s view on regional disputes, will not…
Reuters report in The Nation, June 03, 2017 QUETTA – The resource-rich Balochistan wants Chinese companies to kick-start a boom in its mining industry by including the sector into Beijing’s “Belt and Road” initiative, a senior provincial mining official said. Beijing has pledged $57 billion for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a flagship “Belt and Road” project that first focused on Chinese firms building roads and power stations but is now expanding to include setting…
The writer is a staff writer If you pass him by in his electronic parts and components shop in the Electronics Market in Karachi’s Saddar, Mohammad Ali Arabi would look like any other normal young Pakistani businessman. There is nothing out of the ordinary about him until you hear him conversing on the phone with someone in Mandarin. “Seeing Ali Bhai speaking while making strange facial gestures by twisting his features to pronounce the words,…
Report in The daily star, June 03, 2017 Qawmi madrasa-based Islamist organisation Hefajat-e-Islam is trying to malign the secular image of the country by demanding demolition of sculptures, war crimes trial campaigner Shahriar Kabir said yesterday. He also criticised the government, saying the government acted tough after the Hefajat-led May 5 mayhem at Shapla Chattar in Dhaka in 2013, but it has moved away from the position. “The government should explain why it has become…
Report in The daily star, June 03, 2017 Qawmi madrasa based Islamist organisation Hefajat-e-Islam yesterday threatened mass demonstrations after Ramadan unless the government removed the statue of Lady Justice from the Annex Building premises of the Supreme Court. Its leaders made the demands from a rally held in front of Baitul Mukarram Mosque in the capital following Jumma prayers. Amid growing demands by several Islamist outfits for removal of the statue, the SC authorities took…
Report in Pakistan Today, June 2, 2017 News Desk : Pakistan’s indebtedness towards the Chinese sees no diminishing as the country again borrowed $1b to pay back for a Eurobond debt of $750m on Thursday. This Eurobond was issued during the Musharraf era at 6.875pc interest rate for 10 years. The total amount of borrowing from Chinese banks in the last nine months has reached $2b, including the $1b to payback this Eurobond debt which…
APP report in The Express Tribune, June 2, 2017 GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) government has constituted a special committee to determine the reason behind the rising number of suicide cases in Ghizer district. As many as 10 cases of suicide have been reported from the district in May, police officials said. This week alone, police reports suggested, a young woman jumped into a river in Gahkuch while another young woman threw herself into the river…