by Muhammad Saleh Zaafir in The News, May 2, 2019 ISLAMABAD: Chinese decision to lift its technical hold on listing Maulana Masood Azhar as a global terrorist flabbergasted diplomatic observers here Wednesday as the decision has come in less than a week of an important meeting between visiting Pakistan’s top leadership and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing where the former had gone to participate in second Belt and Road International Forum (BRF). The observers…
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By Kamran Yousaf in the Express Tribune, May 1, 2019 Islamabad: Declaring terrorists attacking Pakistan as its enemies, the United States on Wednesday said it does not have the ‘evidence’ suggesting that India is using the Afghan soil to perpetrate terrorism in Pakistan. “I don’t have the evidence what you’re referring to, but our policy is clear that no country should support non-state actors,” a senior visiting State Department official said in response to a…
By Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, April 29th, 2019. ISLAMABAD: In what is seen as a diplomatic setback, Pakistan could not convince Russia for a bilateral meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Imran Khan on the sidelines of the just-concluded Belt and Road Forum in Beijing. Not only that other than his meetings with the Chinese president and prime minister, PM Imran could only manage meeting the prime minister of Ethiopia and…
by Wajid Ali Syed in The News, Apr 28, 2019 WASHINGTON: The United States has placed Pakistan in the list of countries facing sanctions within the framework of a law under which countries refusing to take back deportees and visa over-stayers will be denied American visas. The US has imposed sanctions on Pakistan for refusing to take back its citizen deportees and visa over-stayers. “Consular operations in Pakistan remain unchanged. This is a bilateral issue…
report in The News, April 3, 2019 WASHINGTON: The United States on Tuesday stated it will “utilise all available resources” to ensure Jaish-e-Mohammad founder Masood Azhar, was held accountable countering Chinese charges that it has circumvented UN security council’s sanctions committee to blacklist the Pakistan-based Azhar. “While we strongly prefer that UNSC designations take place through the committee process, the United States and its allies and partners, including those on the UN Security Council, will…
by Khaleeq Kiani in Dawn, March 28th, 2019 ISLAMABAD: A delegation of the Asia-Pacific Group (APG) on money laundering, a regional affiliate of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), has expressed serious reservations over insufficient physical actions on ground against proscribed organisations (POs) to block flow of funds and activities and is likely to issue a formal warning before its departure on Thursday (today). “The crux of first two days of interactions is that they…
ISLAMABAD: Government has decided not to arrest or detain Maulana Masood Azhar, Amir of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) without any valid evidence for his alleged involvement in the Pulwama attack, highly placed sources directly linked with the issue revealed this to The News. “Why should we arrest or detain Maulana Masood Azhar without any crime or evidence of his involvement in any crime?” a key official questioned in return when asked about decision to arrest defunct JeM…
PTI rport in The Times of India on line, | Mar 13, 2019, 07.46 AM IST WASHINGTON: Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar meets the criteria to be designated as a global terrorist and not doing so is against regional stability and peace, the US said on Tuesday on the eve of the UN Security Council making a crucial decision in this regard. The JeM, headed by the 50-year-old Azhar, carried out many terror strikes in India…
by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, March 13th, 2019 WASHINGTON: The United States is urging Pakistan to see the “urgency” of taking action against “terrorists” as the UN Security Council takes up a resolution declaring Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar a global terrorist. US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo emphasised the need for an immediate action against terrorists at a meeting with Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale in Washington on Monday, the State Department said.…
by Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, March 8th, 2019 ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has warned that the country will face international sanctions if no action is taken against proscribed organisations. He was speaking at a press conference held here on Thursday to inform the media about the decisions made by the federal cabinet earlier in the day. According to the minister, the cabinet, in its meeting chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan, decided to…
by Shakeel Qarar in Dawn, March 6th, 2019 Forty-four under-observation members of proscribed organisations, including Mufti Abdul Raoof and Hamad Azhar (no relation to the Minister of State for Revenue) — the brother and son of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) leader Masood Azhar, respectively — have been taken in “preventive detention” for investigation, said officials of the Ministry of Interior on Tuesday. “In order to implement National Action Plan (NAP), a high-level meeting was held in the…