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UN assistant secretary general visits Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps

report in Dhaka Tribune, Sept 27, 2023Unaisi Lutu Vuniwaqa, United Nations assistant secretary general for Safety and Security, has visited the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar. She visited the Kutupalong-2 and Balukhali-8 refugee camps, as well as the extended part of the 20-year-old refugee camp in Ukhiya upazila on Tuesday. Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner Mizanur Rahman said during the visit, Vuniwaqa spoke to officials of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the UN World…

Transfer of top cops probing refugee scam rings alarm bells

by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 20, 2023Despite seemingly strong reservations of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Narayan Kaji Shrestha, a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday transferred five assistant inspector generals (AIGs) of Nepal Police including the one who was leading the investigation on the fake Bhutanese refugee scam. Nepal Police headquarters also sent another proposal to the home ministry on the transfer of six senior superintendents of police (SSPs) who…

US State Dept Official: ‘I Don’t Think That Afghanistan is a Threat’

By Fatema Adeeb in ToloNews, July 14, 2023 at 8:39 PMThe Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Pakistan Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs of the US Department of State, Elizabeth Horst, said she believes that al-Qaeda cannot pose a threat to the United States from Afghanistan. She appeared for a congressional hearing, during which she was also asked about recent remarks of the US President Joe Biden about al-Qaeda in…