Report in Daily Times, SEPTEMBER 6, 2019 A day after India’s Ministry of Home Affairs issued a notification declaring Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) leader Masood Azhar, Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and Dawood Ibrahim as terrorists under a new law, the United States on Thursday backed New Delhi’s move. “We stand [with] India [and] commend it for utilising new legal authorities to designate 4 notorious terrorists: Maulana Masood Azhar, Hafiz Saeed, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi…
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by Shariful Islam in The Daily Star, Aug 17, 2019 Many of the JMB men convicted in the August 17 series bomb blast cases walked out of prison after serving their jail term and it remains a big challenge for law enforcers to keep them under surveillance, say counterterrorism officials. Police could not give the exact number of the JMB extremists who went out of jail in the cases filed over the attack in 2005,…
by Khaleeq Kiani in Dawn, August 7th, 2019 ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister’s Adviser on Finance and Revenue Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh and his team holding talks with a US delegation led by Alice Wells.—APP ISLAMABAD: The United States has asked Pakistan to show tangible and satisfactory actions against banned organisations and their leaderships to pacify more countries towards supporting its case to move out of the grey list of Financial Action Task Force (FATF). A senior…
J&K, a constitutionally privileged state in India, does exactly what the most anti-women countries do under its prevailing permanent residency laws. From 1927, when the autocratic Dogra ruler Hari Singh introduced the law, women of J&K were disqualified as ‘permanent residents’ if they married non-permanent residents that is outsiders. The archaic law was overruled in 2002 by the J&K High Court. But, even after seventeen years, the women of the state still can’t pass on…
Report in The Indian Express online, July 24, 2019 Express Web Desk Revealing there were 40 different militant groups operating in the country in the last two decades, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said successive governments did not disclose this to to allies and kept the United States in the dark. Khan also denied Pakistan’s connection with the 9/11 terror attack on US soil as he wrapped up his three-day tour of the country. “We…
AFP report in Times of India, July 23, 2019 ISLAMABAD: Leaders of Pakistan’s Opposition party leaders on Monday denounced Imran Khan for his controversial comments against them in the US, saying the “selected” Prime Minister was an “embarrassment” for the country. Khan, on his first official visit to the US after coming to power in August last year attacked Opposition party leaders, including jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and ex-president Asif Ali Zardari while…
report in daily times, July 4, 2019 The authorities on Wednesday announced a crackdown against Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed and his aides over terror financing and facilitation. The counter-terrorism department (CTD) said it has launched 23 cases against Hafiz Saeed and 12 aides for using five trusts to collect funds and donations for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Two banned LeT-linked charities, Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), were also targeted, the department said in a statement. “All…
by Yashwant Raj in Hindustan Times, June 14, 2019 Washington: The United States said on Thursday that while recent counter-terrorism measures taken by Pakistan are “important”, they are “still reversible” and it needs to both “sustain” and “expand” them by “prosecuting terrorist leaders”. “The reality is that terrorist organizations such as Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (another spelling for Lashkar-e-Toiba, LeT) and Jaish-e- Muhammad (Jaish-e-Mohammad, JeM) will continue to pose a grave risk to international peace as long as…
By Muhammad Shehzad in The Express Tribune, May 8, 2019 LAHORE: At least eight people, including five Elite Force personnel, were martyred when a police vehicle was targetted by a suicide bomber in Lahore on Wednesday. Three civilians were among those martyred and 21 people were injured in the attack. Police sources confirmed that the Elite Force vehicle was the target of the attack. The attack occurred near the entrance gate for female visitors to…
Report in The Daily Star, May 3, 2019 Dhaka: Bangladesh and the US yesterday agreed to strengthen cooperation on counterterrorism and civilian security issues, noting that security cooperation was a key component in bilateral relations between the two countries. The issues came up for discussion at the 7th Bangladesh-US Security Dialogue held in the city. Ferdousi Shahriar, director general of the foreign ministry’s Americas wing, and Michael F Miller, deputy assistant secretary of the Bureau…
by Baqir Sajjad Syed in Dawn, May 2nd, 2019 • China gets listing proposal revised • FO says previous bids to list Azhar were aimed at maligning Pakistan and legitimate struggle of Kashmiris ISLAMABAD: The Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday designated Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) leader Masood Azhar as a global terrorist after China did not any further object to a fresh move by France, the United Kingdom and the United…