Posts published in June 2017

by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, June 2nd, 2017 ISLAMABAD: Conceding that the recent US-Arab-Islamic summit in Riyadh widened the sectarian divide in the world, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz observed on Thursday that Pakistan would have to tread carefully in pursuing efforts for greater unity. While addressing the Senate on a calling attention notice concerning the mandate of the 41-nation military alliance, Mr Aziz ruled out the possibility of…

Report in bdnews24.com, June 2, 2017 Narayanganj: Police have arrested three people with more than 50 assault rifles, three rocket launchers and a huge cache of bullets in Narayanganj in an overnight raid. Additional Superintendent of Police Faruk Hossain said the law enforcers raided an area in Rupganj Upazila in the district. The arrest of a man, named Sharif, on Thursday led to the discovery of arms and ammunitions. Police did not disclose details on…

MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Cabinet on Wednesday approved a raise in the salaries, allowances and privileges of the president, speaker and deputy speaker. Although the official handout on the proceedings of the cabinet mentioned the decision to enhance the salaries, allowances and privileges of these public officeholders in one sentence towards the end, documents obtained by Dawn showed that the increase ranged from 150 to 250pc. In the case of the president,…

Report in South China Morning Post, June 1, 2017 It has meant the woman’s family from Shenzhen has had move home six times because neighbours have complained about the animal’s snoring, the Southern Metropolis News reported. The woman who is now in her 20s bought the piglet seven years ago when it weighed only 4kg, the article said. Its appetite began to increase after a month and it was soon eating everything its owner offered,…

Report in Pakistan Today, June 1, 2017 WEB DESK: Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri says measures are being taken for early recovery of the abducted Chinese couple. Addressing a press conference in Quetta, he said law and order situation is better in the province due to operation taken by the law enforcement agencies. Sardar Shair Jan Muhammad Hassani and Mir Haider Muhammad Hassani on the occasion announced to join Pakistan Muslim League-N by…

By SUI-LEE WEE in The NY Times, MAY 31, 2017 BEIJING — As China moves to start enforcing a new cybersecurity law, foreign companies face a major problem: They know very little about it. The law — which was rubber-stamped by the country’s Parliament last year — is part of wide-ranging efforts by Beijing to manage the internet within China’s borders. Those efforts have been stepped up in the years since Edward J. Snowden, the…

report in The Daily Star, June 1, 2017 Laxmipur: A government medical officer, Muhammed Iqbal Mahmud, who was reportedly abducted from Dhanmondi area in Dhaka on October 15 last year, was found alive in Laxmipur after seven and half months of his alleged abduction. Mahmud, a medical officer of the Directorate General of Health Services, was reportedly picked up by seven or eight persons and whisked away in a microbus at Science Laboratory intersection in…

By Arifur Rahman Rabbi in Dhaka Tribune,June 01, 2017 The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three JMB members during a drive in Dhaka’s Tejgaon area. The militants – Md Mofizul Islam alias Tushar alias Tawhid (29), Md Rokibul Islam alias Rokibul Mollah (23) and Md Iliyas Ahmed (19) – planned to attack a shrine in Dhaka, said RAB. “We seized a huge cache of explosives and jihadi books from their possession,” said RAB 2 Commanding…