report in The Island, Dec 31, 2023President Ranil Wickremesinghe has appointed Justice Neil Iddawala, retired Judge of the Appeal Court, as the Chairman of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption and two other members of the Commission, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said. The other members are Chethiya Goonesekera PC, previously in the Attorney-General’s Department and K. Bernard Rajapakse, a former DGM of the People’s Bank. The appointments are with effect from…
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Report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 29, 2023The central working committee meeting of Nepali Congress kicked off on Thursday, starting with a performance review of the party’s nine ministers in the Pushpa Kamal Dahal Cabinet. According to a statement issued by the party, a total of 13 central working committee members spoke at Thursday’s meeting. Congress leaders who spoke on the occasion told the Post that most members criticised the party’s ministers, citing their inability…
Report in The News, December 27, 2023LAHORE: The terrorists, who were killed in an encounter in Chiniot district couple of day ago, has been identified as members of terror outfit Tehreek-e-Talban Pakistan (TTP), the police said on Tuesday. According to the spokesman, CTD carried out an operation in Chiniot area, as a result of which Ghazanfar Nadeem, involved in the killing of fifty people, including the attack on the Faisalabad office of ISI, was killed…
report in The Daily Star, Dec 8, 2023The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, and the Anti-terrorism Unit claimed to have arrested four members of militant outfits in separate drives. CTTC unit arrested Touhidur Rahman alias Touhid, 29, allegedly the top leader of banned militant outfit Hizb Ut-Tahrir, on Wednesday from Cox’s Bazar. The outfit has been targeting the elite and meritorious university students for recruitment, with the idea that it…
AFP report, Dec 04, 2023HERAT, Afghanistan: Dozens of Shiite women demonstrated in western Afghanistan on Sunday against attacks on the Muslim minority at the funeral of several members of their community killed days before. The women shouted, “Death to the murderers” and “We need security” during the funeral in Herat city´s Jebrael area, Hussain Azimi, a member of the ulama, or council of religious scholars, told AFP. They were among several hundred people gathered to…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, November 20, 2023Despite the sanctions imposed on the Taliban’s authorities, which restrict their foreign travels, some members of the group have recently undertaken foreign trips, resulting in reactions. Abdulbari Omar, the head of the Food and Drug Administration of the Taliban, recently embarked on a European journey that controversies have accompanied. Reports suggest that this official from the Taliban administration is currently travelling in European countries, with…
report in The Daily Star, Sept 17, 2023Police have arrested three members, including the chief, of a new militant outfit Tawhidul Uluhiah (Al-Jihadi) from Dhaka and other parts of the country. The arrestees — chief Jewel Molla, 29, members Rahul Hossain, 21, and Gaziul Islam, 40 — had a plan to carry out terror attacks in the country in 2024, according to the Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) of police. They were arrested from Bagerhat, Joypurhat and…
report in Prothom Alo, 16 Sep 2023The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested four alleged active operatives of banned militant outfit ‘Ansar Al Islam’ in separate drives conducted in different places of Thakurgaon and Dinajpur districts Thursday night, BSS reports. Flight Lieutenant Mahmud Bashir Ahmed, senior assistant director (Media) of RAB-13 confirmed their arrest in a press release issued on Friday night. It said, “Acting on intelligence, a team of RAB-13 conducted a drive and arrested…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, July 25th, 2023QUETTA: Two members of Levies force were gunned down by unknown armed men in two different incidents at Chaman, a town near the border with Afghanistan, on Monday. The banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for one of the shootings. In the first incident, assailants riding motorcycles shot at Rehmatullah while he was on his way home after work. He died instantly. Police rushed to the scene and shifted…
report in Daily Times, June 25, 2023The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Punjab has arrested nine members of banned outfits during operations in different areas of the province. According to a spokesman here on Saturday, the CTD Punjab conducted 33 intelligence-based operations in different districts of the province, in which 35 suspected persons were detained and interrogated. Nine of alleged terrorists were arrested with weapons,explosives and other prohibited materials. The arrested terrorists include five members of…
by S Bashu Das in Dhaka Tribune, Mar 21, 2023Normalcy in the popular tourist destination, Bandarban, has been disrupted for the last few months due to the armed activities of the separatist group Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF) and operations by different security agencies to arrest its members. The tourism industry is the most affected sector due to the reckless activities of the KNF and its armed wing Kuki-Chin National Army (KNA) in the border areas…