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Punish those who still love Pakistan: Bangladesh PM
The prime minister of Bangladesh has said that the people of the country need to punish those who still love Pakistan despite living in an independent nation, BD News 24 reports.
“The people of Bangladesh must respond to those who have been lost in their love for Pakistan. They must be punished. We must make them forget their love for Pakistan,” Sheikh Hasinas told an event on Sunday.
“If we cannot do it, we will cease to exist,” she was reported as saying at the gathering, which was organised by the ruling Awami League at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka.
The president of the ruling party in Bangladesh was of the opinion that the assassination of founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975 had affected the people in the country greatly.
Hasina termed rival Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) founder Ziaur Rehman and wife Khaleda Zia ‘lovers of Pakistan’, saying the duo had grabbed power in the country after the killing of Sheikh Mujeeb.
Hasina scoffed at Zia, noting that the entire history of the country changed after 1975 as BNP made an effort to make people forget the events of 1971, which was evidence of their love for Pakistan. Hasina stated that party which came into power after the assassination of Mujeeb did not work for the people.
“They did not want the country to progress. They were implementing the agenda of the Pakistani forces,” she alleged. “Pakistan would be happy if Bangladesh became a failed state and they (Bangladeshi rulers after 1975) wanted to make Pakistan happy,” she added.
https://nation.com.pk/27-Mar-2018/punish-those-who-still-love-pakistan-bangladesh-pm
The prime minister of Bangladesh has said that the people of the country need to punish those who still love Pakistan despite living in an independent nation, BD News 24 reports.
“The people of Bangladesh must respond to those who have been lost in their love for Pakistan. They must be punished. We must make them forget their love for Pakistan,” Sheikh Hasinas told an event on Sunday.
“If we cannot do it, we will cease to exist,” she was reported as saying at the gathering, which was organised by the ruling Awami League at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka.
The president of the ruling party in Bangladesh was of the opinion that the assassination of founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975 had affected the people in the country greatly.
Hasina termed rival Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) founder Ziaur Rehman and wife Khaleda Zia ‘lovers of Pakistan’, saying the duo had grabbed power in the country after the killing of Sheikh Mujeeb.
Hasina scoffed at Zia, noting that the entire history of the country changed after 1975 as BNP made an effort to make people forget the events of 1971, which was evidence of their love for Pakistan. Hasina stated that party which came into power after the assassination of Mujeeb did not work for the people.
“They did not want the country to progress. They were implementing the agenda of the Pakistani forces,” she alleged. “Pakistan would be happy if Bangladesh became a failed state and they (Bangladeshi rulers after 1975) wanted to make Pakistan happy,” she added.
https://nation.com.pk/27-Mar-2018/punish-those-who-still-love-pakistan-bangladesh-pm
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But this is Haraam no ?
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Defence & Debt servicing swallow more than half of Pakistan budget, only 15.2% for development
It is often said that while most countries have an army, in Pakistan, it is the Army which has a country. And this is perhaps why such an idea persists - Pakistan's cabinet approved a budget for 2018-19 that gave the military Rs 1.2 trillion Pakistani Rupees (PKR), which was 23 percent of the total budget. Combined with the debt and interest repayments, more than half of the total budget of Pakistan went straight out of control of the government elected by the people.
Pakistan's total budget for 2018-19 was PKR 5.237 trillion. A whopping 30.7 percent, or PKR 1.607 trillion was just repayment of existing debt and interests, up 17.8 percent from last year. Debt servicing a defence alone accounted for 53.7 percent of the total budget of Pakistan, newspaper Express Tribune reported.
So, compared to a defence budget of PKR 1.2 trillion, how much did the government allot for development? Just PKR 800 billion. That's just 15.2 percent of the budget. And, that's a massive 20 percent lower than it was last year.
A senior official has characterised the 10 percent rise in military expenditure as a 'normal rise' and said no 'extraordinary increases' are expected in coming years.
The budget also featured a record level of deficit of PKR 2.029 trillion, all of which would be bridge by further borrowing. This means Pakistan will just for this year borrow 25 percent more than it will pay back. This is perhaps better understood from the context of the coming elections in Pakistan - an unprecedented third in a row.
Ratings agencies like S&P and Fitch, and global financial institutions like IMF have all expressed alarm over the fact that Pakistan is increasingly becoming financially unsustainable. Pakistani politicians have however been busy selling the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as a magic wand solution, creating the illusion that it will start paying out within a year.
All this, without taking much of the cost of CPEC into account. Even the State Bank of Pakistan has said it does not have a clear picture of how much of CPEC's cost is based on loans from China, how much is Chinese investment and how much the Pakistan government is footing.
Whoever wins the election later this year, or even if the military returns to power, the new government is now faced with handling a country that's in even more of a financial shambles than ever before.
http://zeenews.india.com/world/mili...nly-15-2-percent-for-development-2101277.html
Nice to see the pak army itself turning pakistan into a hollow
It is often said that while most countries have an army, in Pakistan, it is the Army which has a country. And this is perhaps why such an idea persists - Pakistan's cabinet approved a budget for 2018-19 that gave the military Rs 1.2 trillion Pakistani Rupees (PKR), which was 23 percent of the total budget. Combined with the debt and interest repayments, more than half of the total budget of Pakistan went straight out of control of the government elected by the people.
Pakistan's total budget for 2018-19 was PKR 5.237 trillion. A whopping 30.7 percent, or PKR 1.607 trillion was just repayment of existing debt and interests, up 17.8 percent from last year. Debt servicing a defence alone accounted for 53.7 percent of the total budget of Pakistan, newspaper Express Tribune reported.
So, compared to a defence budget of PKR 1.2 trillion, how much did the government allot for development? Just PKR 800 billion. That's just 15.2 percent of the budget. And, that's a massive 20 percent lower than it was last year.
A senior official has characterised the 10 percent rise in military expenditure as a 'normal rise' and said no 'extraordinary increases' are expected in coming years.
The budget also featured a record level of deficit of PKR 2.029 trillion, all of which would be bridge by further borrowing. This means Pakistan will just for this year borrow 25 percent more than it will pay back. This is perhaps better understood from the context of the coming elections in Pakistan - an unprecedented third in a row.
Ratings agencies like S&P and Fitch, and global financial institutions like IMF have all expressed alarm over the fact that Pakistan is increasingly becoming financially unsustainable. Pakistani politicians have however been busy selling the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as a magic wand solution, creating the illusion that it will start paying out within a year.
All this, without taking much of the cost of CPEC into account. Even the State Bank of Pakistan has said it does not have a clear picture of how much of CPEC's cost is based on loans from China, how much is Chinese investment and how much the Pakistan government is footing.
Whoever wins the election later this year, or even if the military returns to power, the new government is now faced with handling a country that's in even more of a financial shambles than ever before.
http://zeenews.india.com/world/mili...nly-15-2-percent-for-development-2101277.html
Nice to see the pak army itself turning pakistan into a hollow
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Pashtun rights group accuses Pakistan army of abuses
PESHAWAR: A Pakistani human rights group that has accused the military of widespread abuses as it battles Islamist terrorists in Pakistan's rugged border region with neighboring Afghanistan has emerged as a force among the country's Pashtun minority, drawing tens of thousands to rallies to protest what it contends is a campaign of intimidation that includes extrajudicial killings and thousands of disappearances and detentions.
The group's charismatic leader, 25-year-old Manzoor Pashteen, has become the face of the country's oppressed Pashtun, charging that in the name if its "war on terror" the military has used indiscriminant force as it hunts for Taliban hideouts in the tribal regions where the Pashtun dominate, imposing collective punishments like bulldozing the homes of family members of suspected terrorists and punishing entire villages for extremist attacks.
The catalyst for the group's creation was the police killing in January of Naqueebullah Mehsud, a 27-year-old ethnic Pashtun and aspiring model who was shot dead in the southern port city of Karachi, where many displaced Pashtuns have relocated after being displaced by the military operations in the tribal regions. The authorities originally said Mehsud fired first during a raid by security forces on a militant hideout, but later acknowledged he was unarmed and had been targeted simply because he was Pashtun.
His death ignited protests by Pashtuns, who accused Pakistan's security forces of racial profiling, seeing all Pashtuns as Taliban simply because many insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan are recruited from among Pashtun tribesmen.
Within weeks what began as a small group of about two dozen had morphed into a popular movement. Known as the Pashtun Protection Movement, it has drawn huge crowds to rallies where Pashteen leads the charge, accusing the military of detaining thousands of Pashtuns in internment camps for months or even years without charges and intimidating residents at the dozens of check points scattered throughout the tribal regions.
Residents, he said, were scared silent, too afraid to criticize the army tactics.
"Punishment is all about sending a message to keep silent," Pashteen told The Associated Press in an interview in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province and home to the majority of the country's ethnic Pashtuns. "When we began we were fed up with life, treated like we were not human. One thousand per cent we were sure we would be killed."
Even his father pleaded with him to end his campaign against the military. "He told me that it would be trouble not just for me, but for my family," Pashteen said.
Yet, as his small group of followers took their grievances from the tribal regions to Peshawar and eventually to the capital, Islamabad, "people joined us," he said. "For many years our people have wanted to do something. They were looking for a leader."
Wearing his signature red embroidered cap and a dark, well-kept beard, Pashteen seems an unlikely leader.
Trained as a doctor, he is a pacifist, who refuses — despite prodding from family and friends — to carry a weapon in his car for protection in an area where guns proliferate and are considered a birthright. His protests are peaceful, he said, adding he has just two demands: The establishment of a peace and reconciliation commission to address the grievances of Pashtuns, including extrajudicial killings, and that the thousands of people in detention centers be brought to trial if they are accused of a crime or be released.
"The military has become a state within a state," Pashteen said.
Considered the most powerful institution in Pakistan, public criticism of the army is risky and rarely tolerated. At the same time, the ascendency of the Pashtun Protection Movement poses a public relations nightmare for the army at a time when it is ramping up its effort to project success in the tribal areas, claiming to have defeated extremism and boasting that terrorist hideouts have been wiped out.
"The protesters aren't just politely critiquing the military. They're relentlessly assailing it and linking it to terror in ways rarely done before," said Michael Kugleman, deputy director of the Asia Center at the Washington-based Wilson Center. "The protesters, with their focus on indignities and injustices in the tribal areas, are undercutting a narrative the military is trying to project about peace and normalcy returning to the tribal belt after many years of war."
Infuriated by Pashteen's outspoken criticism, the army has accused him of being backed by "foreign powers," a term usually used to refer to neighboring Afghanistan or rival India. The army has also turned its intimidation tactics against his movement, pressuring news organizations throughout the country to ignore it and setting intelligence agents on university professors to try to force them to identify students attending protests. One political analyst was told his weekly column, in which he urged dialogue with Pashteen's movement, could not be published because the newspaper was "under pressure" to remove it.
"The military believes that (if) these protests get any air, they can turn from small fires into massive political conflagrations, so the best tactic is to deprive them of oxygen from the start," said Daniel Markey, director of the Global Policy Program at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. "And, to be sure, they are operating in a challenging and contentious political climate."
Political chaos has marred much of the last year in Pakistan. Its prime minister was unseated on corruption charges, and handed a lifetime ban from participating in politics. Pashteen's attacks on the military come as Pakistanis prepare to go to the polls later this year and could undermine the army's traditional ability to influence the elections.
"The army tends — also something we've seen before — to want to control or manage political outcomes as much as possible," Markey said.
The journalists' advocacy group, Reporters without Borders, issued a statement last week complaining about the military's efforts to muzzle Pakistan's media and nearly 100 Pakistani journalists signed a petition condemning censorship.
"After a week with several cases of overt press censorship in Pakistan, Reporters Without Borders ... reiterates its solidarity with the country's journalists and deplores the way the military continues to impose its diktat on the media," the statement said. "The latest subject to be placed off limits is the Pashtun (Protection) Movement, which has been organizing protests in defense of Pakistan's Pashtun minority and denouncing human rights violations by the military targeting Pashtuns."
Mosharraf Zaidi, whose column was pulled by a local English language newspaper, said the supporters of Pashteen's movement are mostly young and educated. They have known only war and chaos, he said, and most know or are related to someone who has been killed or taken either by militants or the military.
Zaidi said he had hoped Pashteen's movement "would prompt an honest discussion about our (decades-old) relationship with violent extremism
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...istan-army-of-abuses/articleshow/63950921.cms
PESHAWAR: A Pakistani human rights group that has accused the military of widespread abuses as it battles Islamist terrorists in Pakistan's rugged border region with neighboring Afghanistan has emerged as a force among the country's Pashtun minority, drawing tens of thousands to rallies to protest what it contends is a campaign of intimidation that includes extrajudicial killings and thousands of disappearances and detentions.
The group's charismatic leader, 25-year-old Manzoor Pashteen, has become the face of the country's oppressed Pashtun, charging that in the name if its "war on terror" the military has used indiscriminant force as it hunts for Taliban hideouts in the tribal regions where the Pashtun dominate, imposing collective punishments like bulldozing the homes of family members of suspected terrorists and punishing entire villages for extremist attacks.
The catalyst for the group's creation was the police killing in January of Naqueebullah Mehsud, a 27-year-old ethnic Pashtun and aspiring model who was shot dead in the southern port city of Karachi, where many displaced Pashtuns have relocated after being displaced by the military operations in the tribal regions. The authorities originally said Mehsud fired first during a raid by security forces on a militant hideout, but later acknowledged he was unarmed and had been targeted simply because he was Pashtun.
His death ignited protests by Pashtuns, who accused Pakistan's security forces of racial profiling, seeing all Pashtuns as Taliban simply because many insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan are recruited from among Pashtun tribesmen.
Within weeks what began as a small group of about two dozen had morphed into a popular movement. Known as the Pashtun Protection Movement, it has drawn huge crowds to rallies where Pashteen leads the charge, accusing the military of detaining thousands of Pashtuns in internment camps for months or even years without charges and intimidating residents at the dozens of check points scattered throughout the tribal regions.
Residents, he said, were scared silent, too afraid to criticize the army tactics.
"Punishment is all about sending a message to keep silent," Pashteen told The Associated Press in an interview in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province and home to the majority of the country's ethnic Pashtuns. "When we began we were fed up with life, treated like we were not human. One thousand per cent we were sure we would be killed."
Even his father pleaded with him to end his campaign against the military. "He told me that it would be trouble not just for me, but for my family," Pashteen said.
Yet, as his small group of followers took their grievances from the tribal regions to Peshawar and eventually to the capital, Islamabad, "people joined us," he said. "For many years our people have wanted to do something. They were looking for a leader."
Wearing his signature red embroidered cap and a dark, well-kept beard, Pashteen seems an unlikely leader.
Trained as a doctor, he is a pacifist, who refuses — despite prodding from family and friends — to carry a weapon in his car for protection in an area where guns proliferate and are considered a birthright. His protests are peaceful, he said, adding he has just two demands: The establishment of a peace and reconciliation commission to address the grievances of Pashtuns, including extrajudicial killings, and that the thousands of people in detention centers be brought to trial if they are accused of a crime or be released.
"The military has become a state within a state," Pashteen said.
Considered the most powerful institution in Pakistan, public criticism of the army is risky and rarely tolerated. At the same time, the ascendency of the Pashtun Protection Movement poses a public relations nightmare for the army at a time when it is ramping up its effort to project success in the tribal areas, claiming to have defeated extremism and boasting that terrorist hideouts have been wiped out.
"The protesters aren't just politely critiquing the military. They're relentlessly assailing it and linking it to terror in ways rarely done before," said Michael Kugleman, deputy director of the Asia Center at the Washington-based Wilson Center. "The protesters, with their focus on indignities and injustices in the tribal areas, are undercutting a narrative the military is trying to project about peace and normalcy returning to the tribal belt after many years of war."
Infuriated by Pashteen's outspoken criticism, the army has accused him of being backed by "foreign powers," a term usually used to refer to neighboring Afghanistan or rival India. The army has also turned its intimidation tactics against his movement, pressuring news organizations throughout the country to ignore it and setting intelligence agents on university professors to try to force them to identify students attending protests. One political analyst was told his weekly column, in which he urged dialogue with Pashteen's movement, could not be published because the newspaper was "under pressure" to remove it.
"The military believes that (if) these protests get any air, they can turn from small fires into massive political conflagrations, so the best tactic is to deprive them of oxygen from the start," said Daniel Markey, director of the Global Policy Program at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. "And, to be sure, they are operating in a challenging and contentious political climate."
Political chaos has marred much of the last year in Pakistan. Its prime minister was unseated on corruption charges, and handed a lifetime ban from participating in politics. Pashteen's attacks on the military come as Pakistanis prepare to go to the polls later this year and could undermine the army's traditional ability to influence the elections.
"The army tends — also something we've seen before — to want to control or manage political outcomes as much as possible," Markey said.
The journalists' advocacy group, Reporters without Borders, issued a statement last week complaining about the military's efforts to muzzle Pakistan's media and nearly 100 Pakistani journalists signed a petition condemning censorship.
"After a week with several cases of overt press censorship in Pakistan, Reporters Without Borders ... reiterates its solidarity with the country's journalists and deplores the way the military continues to impose its diktat on the media," the statement said. "The latest subject to be placed off limits is the Pashtun (Protection) Movement, which has been organizing protests in defense of Pakistan's Pashtun minority and denouncing human rights violations by the military targeting Pashtuns."
Mosharraf Zaidi, whose column was pulled by a local English language newspaper, said the supporters of Pashteen's movement are mostly young and educated. They have known only war and chaos, he said, and most know or are related to someone who has been killed or taken either by militants or the military.
Zaidi said he had hoped Pashteen's movement "would prompt an honest discussion about our (decades-old) relationship with violent extremism
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...istan-army-of-abuses/articleshow/63950921.cms
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We should help Pakis increase their defence spending and actually help them use their ammunition.Defence & Debt servicing swallow more than half of Pakistan budget, only 15.2% for development
It is often said that while most countries have an army, in Pakistan, it is the Army which has a country. And this is perhaps why such an idea persists - Pakistan's cabinet approved a budget for 2018-19 that gave the military Rs 1.2 trillion Pakistani Rupees (PKR), which was 23 percent of the total budget. Combined with the debt and interest repayments, more than half of the total budget of Pakistan went straight out of control of the government elected by the people.
Pakistan's total budget for 2018-19 was PKR 5.237 trillion. A whopping 30.7 percent, or PKR 1.607 trillion was just repayment of existing debt and interests, up 17.8 percent from last year. Debt servicing a defence alone accounted for 53.7 percent of the total budget of Pakistan, newspaper Express Tribune reported.
So, compared to a defence budget of PKR 1.2 trillion, how much did the government allot for development? Just PKR 800 billion. That's just 15.2 percent of the budget. And, that's a massive 20 percent lower than it was last year.
A senior official has characterised the 10 percent rise in military expenditure as a 'normal rise' and said no 'extraordinary increases' are expected in coming years.
The budget also featured a record level of deficit of PKR 2.029 trillion, all of which would be bridge by further borrowing. This means Pakistan will just for this year borrow 25 percent more than it will pay back. This is perhaps better understood from the context of the coming elections in Pakistan - an unprecedented third in a row.
Ratings agencies like S&P and Fitch, and global financial institutions like IMF have all expressed alarm over the fact that Pakistan is increasingly becoming financially unsustainable. Pakistani politicians have however been busy selling the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as a magic wand solution, creating the illusion that it will start paying out within a year.
All this, without taking much of the cost of CPEC into account. Even the State Bank of Pakistan has said it does not have a clear picture of how much of CPEC's cost is based on loans from China, how much is Chinese investment and how much the Pakistan government is footing.
Whoever wins the election later this year, or even if the military returns to power, the new government is now faced with handling a country that's in even more of a financial shambles than ever before.
http://zeenews.india.com/world/mili...nly-15-2-percent-for-development-2101277.html
Nice to see the pak army itself turning pakistan into a hollow
Hopefully we give enough excuses for them to use that defence budget across all borders.
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Kashmir Kashmir Kashmir!!
These frikkin Pakis think of Kashmir even when they're having sex!
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Statement by Foreign Ministers on Afghanistan
NATO Foreign Ministers call on Pakistan “to close terrorist sanctuaries and to work to prevent terrorist financial flows and cross-border attacks, including by working with its neighbours”.
NATO Foreign Ministers call on Pakistan “to close terrorist sanctuaries and to work to prevent terrorist financial flows and cross-border attacks, including by working with its neighbours”.
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Sino-Indian project in Afghanistan signals cooperation, message to Pakistan
During the two-day informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in Wuhan which concluded on April 28, India and China agreed for the first time to implement a joint economic project in war-torn Afghanistan.
A ground-breaking joint Sino-Indian economic project in Afghanistan will send the signal that cooperation can prevail over competition and a message to Pakistan that China recognises India’s legitimate role in Afghanistan, say strategic experts.
During the two-day informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in Wuhan which concluded on April 28, India and China agreed for the first time to implement a joint economic project in war-torn Afghanistan. Indian and Chinese officials will identify the project and work out the modalities of cooperation.
The two Asian powers had earlier discussed possible cooperation in third countries and as early as in 2010 when officials from the two countries exchanged views on possible infrastructure projects in Afghanistan. But the discussions which were subsequently sidelined got a major boost at the summit where Modi and Xi talked cooperation in a third country.
“There will be more China-India projects in the region in the pipeline, some of which will involve a third party,” Vice Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou told a media briefing at the end of the summit. Separately, an Indian official said the project will be in Afghanistan.
The decision will have a bearing on the region and on Afghanistan’s role as a “roundabout” of cooperation in Asia, said Barnett Rubin, Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation and former advisor to UNAMA (UN Mission to Afghanistan).
“This agreement constitutes recognition of Afghanistan’s efforts to become a “roundabout” of Asian cooperation — it is exactly what the government has been working for. It also constitutes an implicit rebuke to both the U.S. and Pakistan,” Rubin said.
He added: “The Trump administration has tried to portray Asia as the scene of a new cold war between China with the Belt and Road Initiative and the so-called ‘Indo-Pacific’ led by the US and India. This agreement showcases the Chinese position that cooperation should prevail over competition, while theTrump National Security Strategy emphasises the primacy of competition,” Rubin said.
Chinese academics agreed, saying it opens up opportunities for India and China to engage in other countries.
“It is a good start. More joint projects should be in their shared neighborhood such as Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and other ASEAN countries. Africa is also a region of full of possibilities,” said Lili, south Asian scholar at the Institute for International Relations at Beijing’s Tsinghua University.
“It is worthwhile to have such kind of cooperation in Afghanistan. There are so many areas we can cooperate like in infrastructure and mining,” said Hu Shisheng, director of the Institute of South and Southeast Asian and Oceania Studies in Beijing.
The Sino-Indian agreement is expected to rile Pakistan which has consistently tried to exclude India from a region it considers as its strategic area of influence.
Although the Chinese scholars were reluctant to comment on how Pakistan will react to the Modi-Xi decision, Rubin was clear about the message it has sent out.
“The message to Pakistan is clear: China welcomes India’s legitimate role in Afghanistan. For years the Pakistan military has rationalised its support for the Taliban and other pressures on Kabul by citing the threat posed by the Indian presence in Afghanistan. Now without saying a word directly to Pakistan, China has announced that it not only recognises but wants to cooperate with the Indian presence in Afghanistan,” Rubin said.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/indi...to-pakistan/story-PWe0Ovcx4AHk9EVOKzlldK.html
pakistan needs china more than china needs pakistanchina has already conlonised pakistan and is now breeding inside pakistan, so..chinese exploration further in this region with India a powerful player in Afghanistan is understood.
what can pakistan legitimately contribute? Control Talbian?
. If India, china and USA comes to a stable equation in Afghanistan, taliban will automatically be drained...
Oh Well!!!!
India-china bilateral trade is much more than the chinese investment in pok and through the terrorist infested pakistan all the way to Gawadar port.
During the two-day informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in Wuhan which concluded on April 28, India and China agreed for the first time to implement a joint economic project in war-torn Afghanistan.
A ground-breaking joint Sino-Indian economic project in Afghanistan will send the signal that cooperation can prevail over competition and a message to Pakistan that China recognises India’s legitimate role in Afghanistan, say strategic experts.
During the two-day informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in Wuhan which concluded on April 28, India and China agreed for the first time to implement a joint economic project in war-torn Afghanistan. Indian and Chinese officials will identify the project and work out the modalities of cooperation.
The two Asian powers had earlier discussed possible cooperation in third countries and as early as in 2010 when officials from the two countries exchanged views on possible infrastructure projects in Afghanistan. But the discussions which were subsequently sidelined got a major boost at the summit where Modi and Xi talked cooperation in a third country.
“There will be more China-India projects in the region in the pipeline, some of which will involve a third party,” Vice Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou told a media briefing at the end of the summit. Separately, an Indian official said the project will be in Afghanistan.
The decision will have a bearing on the region and on Afghanistan’s role as a “roundabout” of cooperation in Asia, said Barnett Rubin, Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation and former advisor to UNAMA (UN Mission to Afghanistan).
“This agreement constitutes recognition of Afghanistan’s efforts to become a “roundabout” of Asian cooperation — it is exactly what the government has been working for. It also constitutes an implicit rebuke to both the U.S. and Pakistan,” Rubin said.
He added: “The Trump administration has tried to portray Asia as the scene of a new cold war between China with the Belt and Road Initiative and the so-called ‘Indo-Pacific’ led by the US and India. This agreement showcases the Chinese position that cooperation should prevail over competition, while theTrump National Security Strategy emphasises the primacy of competition,” Rubin said.
Chinese academics agreed, saying it opens up opportunities for India and China to engage in other countries.
“It is a good start. More joint projects should be in their shared neighborhood such as Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and other ASEAN countries. Africa is also a region of full of possibilities,” said Lili, south Asian scholar at the Institute for International Relations at Beijing’s Tsinghua University.
“It is worthwhile to have such kind of cooperation in Afghanistan. There are so many areas we can cooperate like in infrastructure and mining,” said Hu Shisheng, director of the Institute of South and Southeast Asian and Oceania Studies in Beijing.
The Sino-Indian agreement is expected to rile Pakistan which has consistently tried to exclude India from a region it considers as its strategic area of influence.
Although the Chinese scholars were reluctant to comment on how Pakistan will react to the Modi-Xi decision, Rubin was clear about the message it has sent out.
“The message to Pakistan is clear: China welcomes India’s legitimate role in Afghanistan. For years the Pakistan military has rationalised its support for the Taliban and other pressures on Kabul by citing the threat posed by the Indian presence in Afghanistan. Now without saying a word directly to Pakistan, China has announced that it not only recognises but wants to cooperate with the Indian presence in Afghanistan,” Rubin said.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/indi...to-pakistan/story-PWe0Ovcx4AHk9EVOKzlldK.html
pakistan needs china more than china needs pakistanchina has already conlonised pakistan and is now breeding inside pakistan, so..chinese exploration further in this region with India a powerful player in Afghanistan is understood. what can pakistan legitimately contribute? Control Talbian?
. If India, china and USA comes to a stable equation in Afghanistan, taliban will automatically be drained...Oh Well!!!!
India-china bilateral trade is much more than the chinese investment in pok and through the terrorist infested pakistan all the way to Gawadar port.
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Explosions in Nepal targeting Indian installations show Pakistan's ISI is secretly expanding terror cells there
New Delhi: Nizam turned slowly along a dusty road in Dera, Gorkha nestled within treacherous Mansiri Himalayan range. Steering through the barren and deserted locality that had taken the hardest hit in the 2015 earthquake, Nizam’s sidekick Attaullah pointed towards Tehfuzul Madrasa. This was one of the safe houses the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has been using for sleeper cells to wage a campaign of terror activities targeting India.
Organisations like Tehfuzul served as a perfect front for Indian fugitives and Pakistan-trained operatives to lie low, regroup, arrange material and funds before planning an infiltration into Indian territory. The terror facilitators were under full surveillance. The coordinated operation, a result of the India-Nepal developing mechanism to share high-grade intelligence, had culminated in a covert operation neutralising the most active terror cell linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) — that former national security advisor MK Narayanan had once termed as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the ISI.
Months later, two back-to-back explosions in Nepal targeting Indian installations came as a grim reminder that ISI-sponsored terror remnants are still active in the Himalayan country. Although Nepal's police at this stage sees the hands of a banned communist outfit in two improvised explosive device (IED) attacks at Biratnagar and Sankhuwasabha district, senior Indian intelligence officials are not ruling out the active participation of Jihadi cells operating from various remote parts of Nepal.
On 18 April, unidentified persons carried out a blast at the Indian embassy camp office in Biratnagar damaging the wall-fencing. On 29 April, suspected Jihadi elements targeted office of Arun-III, a 900 MW hydropower project in Sankhuwasabha being developed by India's Sutlej Jala Vidhyut Nigam, a mini ratna of the power sector. The attack on the power station comes at a time when Nepalese government is preparing to host Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is expected to lay the foundation stone for the project with his Nepalese counterpart KP Sharma Oli in the second week of May.
Cracking down on terror operation cells
Nizam and his tribe are not new breed in Nepal. They have been operating under the protective cover of the ISI since former Pakistani president General Ayub Khan met King Mahendra in 1962 and the two countries decided to enhance diplomatic ties, providing an opportunity to then ISI chief Brigadier Riaz Hussain to gain a foothold in India's backyard. The latest intelligence dossiers reviewed by Firstpost show the terrorists exploiting the remote and ideal terrain in Nepal. Several pockets like Bhuta, Ahle, Pachera, Tamgaas, Khairani, Biratnagar and Pokhara have turned into hubs for ISI facilitators, recruiters, sympathisers and financiers.
While the Nepal Police in the days to come, will investigate and interrogate the suspects in the latest explosions, the dossier reveals an unprecedented insight into the Pakistan ISI network and sleeper cells operating in various parts of Nepal. According to the intelligence dossier, the ISI has made arrangements at Biratnagar for accommodation and for providing fake Nepalese resident cards for potential Jihadis travelling to Nepal. Providing details of a suspected module, the dossier said, terror cells had not only provided accommodation for him at a safe house on Karsiya Road in Biratnagar, but also arranged a fake citizenship card within a few days. The handlers keep shifting the recruits from one place to another under the veil of contractual jobs at restaurants and educational institutions.
Since obtaining a Nepalese passport remains a major obstacle, recruits are sent to nondescript places like Ahle village to pick up the Nepali language. Intelligence officials said even the prime suspect in power project blast, the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) — that has been banned by the US Treasury since 2012 — is getting tacit support from the ISI. "The cells active in Kathmandu facilitate visas for terrorists to move in and out of the country before planning sabotage operations. In the last two years, with the help of the Nepal Police, several modules were neutralised. Many of these terror cells had visited countries like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on visas sponsored by ISI-backed networks operating in Dammam and Riyadh," the dossier said.
It is learnt that in January 2018, Indian intelligence agencies handed over a list of five suspected terror-facilitators operating from Biratnagar and Kathmandu, and also involved in drug trafficking, human trafficking and counterfeit Indian currency. A majority of those in diplomatic circles after 2015 had believed that India was losing its grip in the Nepal security scenario before Oli landed at Palam Airport in the first week of April. But, in the security establishment, there have been growing concerns since 2008 that Nepal is turning out to be India’s Achilles heel.
"Concerns were raised immediately after the 2008 Mumbai terror attack that Kashmiri extremists were moving into Nepal and linkages of insurgent groups from the North East were also established with terror cells operating across the border. They were taking advantage of a vulnerable porous border. We have held several rounds of meetings to address the deficiencies, but it is practically not possible to seal every inch of the 1,751-kilometre border. Moreover, the open border has helped to enhance people-to-people contact, but certainly some areas especially in the Terai region are being monitored," intelligence sources said.
The Ministry of Home Affairs, in its recent report, had said that the main challenges are to check misuse of the open border by the terrorists and criminals for illegal and anti-national activities and to improve security. "To facilitate bilateral dialogue on matters of mutual concern regarding border management, the Governments of India and Nepal have decided to constitute an institutionalised mechanism in the form of home secretary-level talks and a joint working group at the level of joint secretaries. In addition, there is a mechanism of border district coordination committees at the level of district officials of the two countries. These mechanisms serve as platforms for discussing issues of mutual concern such as containing cross-border crimes, smuggling, situations arising out of terrorist activities and national and regional/local levels," the home ministry had said.
A senior intelligence officer said that in the age of ever-changing dynamics of terrorism, cutting edge intelligence is the only deterrent to thwart terror attacks and stop the IEDs from exploding. He also pointed to a recent crackdown on a syndicate that was smuggling fake Indian currency from Jhapha in Nepal, arguing that money was flown in the country by ISI with an aim to trigger economic terrorism in India.
"Terror groups' loyalty towards the ISI is well-known. We are working in coordination with Nepal’s security agencies to create a formidable information network to deactivate terror cells being secretly expanded by the Pakistani intelligence organisation," the intelligence officer said
https://www.firstpost.com/india/exp...tly-expanding-terror-cells-there-4451715.html
New Delhi: Nizam turned slowly along a dusty road in Dera, Gorkha nestled within treacherous Mansiri Himalayan range. Steering through the barren and deserted locality that had taken the hardest hit in the 2015 earthquake, Nizam’s sidekick Attaullah pointed towards Tehfuzul Madrasa. This was one of the safe houses the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has been using for sleeper cells to wage a campaign of terror activities targeting India.
Organisations like Tehfuzul served as a perfect front for Indian fugitives and Pakistan-trained operatives to lie low, regroup, arrange material and funds before planning an infiltration into Indian territory. The terror facilitators were under full surveillance. The coordinated operation, a result of the India-Nepal developing mechanism to share high-grade intelligence, had culminated in a covert operation neutralising the most active terror cell linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) — that former national security advisor MK Narayanan had once termed as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the ISI.
Months later, two back-to-back explosions in Nepal targeting Indian installations came as a grim reminder that ISI-sponsored terror remnants are still active in the Himalayan country. Although Nepal's police at this stage sees the hands of a banned communist outfit in two improvised explosive device (IED) attacks at Biratnagar and Sankhuwasabha district, senior Indian intelligence officials are not ruling out the active participation of Jihadi cells operating from various remote parts of Nepal.
On 18 April, unidentified persons carried out a blast at the Indian embassy camp office in Biratnagar damaging the wall-fencing. On 29 April, suspected Jihadi elements targeted office of Arun-III, a 900 MW hydropower project in Sankhuwasabha being developed by India's Sutlej Jala Vidhyut Nigam, a mini ratna of the power sector. The attack on the power station comes at a time when Nepalese government is preparing to host Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is expected to lay the foundation stone for the project with his Nepalese counterpart KP Sharma Oli in the second week of May.
Cracking down on terror operation cells
Nizam and his tribe are not new breed in Nepal. They have been operating under the protective cover of the ISI since former Pakistani president General Ayub Khan met King Mahendra in 1962 and the two countries decided to enhance diplomatic ties, providing an opportunity to then ISI chief Brigadier Riaz Hussain to gain a foothold in India's backyard. The latest intelligence dossiers reviewed by Firstpost show the terrorists exploiting the remote and ideal terrain in Nepal. Several pockets like Bhuta, Ahle, Pachera, Tamgaas, Khairani, Biratnagar and Pokhara have turned into hubs for ISI facilitators, recruiters, sympathisers and financiers.
While the Nepal Police in the days to come, will investigate and interrogate the suspects in the latest explosions, the dossier reveals an unprecedented insight into the Pakistan ISI network and sleeper cells operating in various parts of Nepal. According to the intelligence dossier, the ISI has made arrangements at Biratnagar for accommodation and for providing fake Nepalese resident cards for potential Jihadis travelling to Nepal. Providing details of a suspected module, the dossier said, terror cells had not only provided accommodation for him at a safe house on Karsiya Road in Biratnagar, but also arranged a fake citizenship card within a few days. The handlers keep shifting the recruits from one place to another under the veil of contractual jobs at restaurants and educational institutions.
Since obtaining a Nepalese passport remains a major obstacle, recruits are sent to nondescript places like Ahle village to pick up the Nepali language. Intelligence officials said even the prime suspect in power project blast, the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) — that has been banned by the US Treasury since 2012 — is getting tacit support from the ISI. "The cells active in Kathmandu facilitate visas for terrorists to move in and out of the country before planning sabotage operations. In the last two years, with the help of the Nepal Police, several modules were neutralised. Many of these terror cells had visited countries like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on visas sponsored by ISI-backed networks operating in Dammam and Riyadh," the dossier said.
It is learnt that in January 2018, Indian intelligence agencies handed over a list of five suspected terror-facilitators operating from Biratnagar and Kathmandu, and also involved in drug trafficking, human trafficking and counterfeit Indian currency. A majority of those in diplomatic circles after 2015 had believed that India was losing its grip in the Nepal security scenario before Oli landed at Palam Airport in the first week of April. But, in the security establishment, there have been growing concerns since 2008 that Nepal is turning out to be India’s Achilles heel.
"Concerns were raised immediately after the 2008 Mumbai terror attack that Kashmiri extremists were moving into Nepal and linkages of insurgent groups from the North East were also established with terror cells operating across the border. They were taking advantage of a vulnerable porous border. We have held several rounds of meetings to address the deficiencies, but it is practically not possible to seal every inch of the 1,751-kilometre border. Moreover, the open border has helped to enhance people-to-people contact, but certainly some areas especially in the Terai region are being monitored," intelligence sources said.
The Ministry of Home Affairs, in its recent report, had said that the main challenges are to check misuse of the open border by the terrorists and criminals for illegal and anti-national activities and to improve security. "To facilitate bilateral dialogue on matters of mutual concern regarding border management, the Governments of India and Nepal have decided to constitute an institutionalised mechanism in the form of home secretary-level talks and a joint working group at the level of joint secretaries. In addition, there is a mechanism of border district coordination committees at the level of district officials of the two countries. These mechanisms serve as platforms for discussing issues of mutual concern such as containing cross-border crimes, smuggling, situations arising out of terrorist activities and national and regional/local levels," the home ministry had said.
A senior intelligence officer said that in the age of ever-changing dynamics of terrorism, cutting edge intelligence is the only deterrent to thwart terror attacks and stop the IEDs from exploding. He also pointed to a recent crackdown on a syndicate that was smuggling fake Indian currency from Jhapha in Nepal, arguing that money was flown in the country by ISI with an aim to trigger economic terrorism in India.
"Terror groups' loyalty towards the ISI is well-known. We are working in coordination with Nepal’s security agencies to create a formidable information network to deactivate terror cells being secretly expanded by the Pakistani intelligence organisation," the intelligence officer said
https://www.firstpost.com/india/exp...tly-expanding-terror-cells-there-4451715.html
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Pak Minorities being persecuted by Sunni Islamic Terrorists
Minorities in Pakistan are facing persecution by the state and non-state actors, says Dr Iftikhar Ayaz, Ambassador of the UK-based Universal Peace Federation.
Recently, members of the Hazara community were targeted in a sectarian attack in Quetta, capital of Pakistan's Balochistan province.
In Pakistan, targeted killings of minorities have continued as are they being attacked by Taliban, Islamic State, and other Sunni Muslim militant groups for their religious beliefs. Hazaras, whose population is around half a million in and around Quetta are a mainly Shi'ite Muslims.
Another community which has been facing persecution in Pakistan is Ahmadiyya.
Since, Pakistan is home to the largest population of Ahmadis in the world, they have been facing persecution by Muslim fundamentalists, who consider them as non-Muslims.
Dr. Iftikhar Ayaz, ambassador of Universal Peace Federation, Ahmadiyya Community said, "The important point to understand is that the Human Rights Charter assures every human being the freedom of religion. Which is very important and it must be respected by all states and regimes and also the countries. It is no use of emphasizing trying to pressurize people in trying to accept one faith and reject the other."
He added, "The World would not accept it, and Ahmedia community is a peaceful community everywhere in the world and one of the fundamental teachings of the Ahmedia community is to remain loyal to the government of the day."
Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan is facing discrimination since 1984, when the then President of Pakistan Muhammad Ziz-ul-Haq brought Ordinance XX in the Constitution.
The legislation restricted the religious freedom of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, prohibited the reading and writing of the Quran and building mosques.
It also prohibits calling themselves Muslim and threatened prison terms for any individual who in any manner whatsoever outages the religious feelings of Muslims.
"In 1984, Zia (Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq) came and he said this is not enough, we have to paralyze and cripple the Ahmedis, so that they cannot even move, so he came up with the Ordinance twenty. He also added Article 298B, under which an Ahmadi can be imprisoned for three years or fined fifty thousand rupees," said Dr Ayaz.
A majority of people facing blasphemy charges are from the Ahmadia community.
The Lahore based Center for Social Justice estimated that at least 1,472 people have been charged with blasphemy from 1987 to 2016. Of the 730 Muslims charges, 501 were Ahmadis.
Dr Iftikhar Ayaz said, "The Blasphemy laws, as I told you, if I said that I am an Ahmadi and I am a Muslim, then that is Blasphemy, and I could be hanged and nearly 53 of our Ahmadies have been charged under the Blasphemy laws and lot of them have been locked in black cells waiting for their deaths."
Pakistan has forever, been an intolerant country, especially for the religious minorities, whether they are, Hindus, Sikhs, Christians or even the Ahmadiyyas.
This is worst human rights violations which the international community needs to review
http://www.dnaindia.com/world/repor...eing-persecuted-by-islamic-terrorists-2611825
Minorities in Pakistan are facing persecution by the state and non-state actors, says Dr Iftikhar Ayaz, Ambassador of the UK-based Universal Peace Federation.
Recently, members of the Hazara community were targeted in a sectarian attack in Quetta, capital of Pakistan's Balochistan province.
In Pakistan, targeted killings of minorities have continued as are they being attacked by Taliban, Islamic State, and other Sunni Muslim militant groups for their religious beliefs. Hazaras, whose population is around half a million in and around Quetta are a mainly Shi'ite Muslims.
Another community which has been facing persecution in Pakistan is Ahmadiyya.
Since, Pakistan is home to the largest population of Ahmadis in the world, they have been facing persecution by Muslim fundamentalists, who consider them as non-Muslims.
Dr. Iftikhar Ayaz, ambassador of Universal Peace Federation, Ahmadiyya Community said, "The important point to understand is that the Human Rights Charter assures every human being the freedom of religion. Which is very important and it must be respected by all states and regimes and also the countries. It is no use of emphasizing trying to pressurize people in trying to accept one faith and reject the other."
He added, "The World would not accept it, and Ahmedia community is a peaceful community everywhere in the world and one of the fundamental teachings of the Ahmedia community is to remain loyal to the government of the day."
Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan is facing discrimination since 1984, when the then President of Pakistan Muhammad Ziz-ul-Haq brought Ordinance XX in the Constitution.
The legislation restricted the religious freedom of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, prohibited the reading and writing of the Quran and building mosques.
It also prohibits calling themselves Muslim and threatened prison terms for any individual who in any manner whatsoever outages the religious feelings of Muslims.
"In 1984, Zia (Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq) came and he said this is not enough, we have to paralyze and cripple the Ahmedis, so that they cannot even move, so he came up with the Ordinance twenty. He also added Article 298B, under which an Ahmadi can be imprisoned for three years or fined fifty thousand rupees," said Dr Ayaz.
A majority of people facing blasphemy charges are from the Ahmadia community.
The Lahore based Center for Social Justice estimated that at least 1,472 people have been charged with blasphemy from 1987 to 2016. Of the 730 Muslims charges, 501 were Ahmadis.
Dr Iftikhar Ayaz said, "The Blasphemy laws, as I told you, if I said that I am an Ahmadi and I am a Muslim, then that is Blasphemy, and I could be hanged and nearly 53 of our Ahmadies have been charged under the Blasphemy laws and lot of them have been locked in black cells waiting for their deaths."
Pakistan has forever, been an intolerant country, especially for the religious minorities, whether they are, Hindus, Sikhs, Christians or even the Ahmadiyyas.
This is worst human rights violations which the international community needs to review
http://www.dnaindia.com/world/repor...eing-persecuted-by-islamic-terrorists-2611825
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Ahmadis were at the forefront for demanding a separate Pakistan,a special all-Ahmadi brigade of Jihadis called Al-Furqaan invaded Kashmir in 1948,now let them reap what they have sown
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No World Bank hearing likely before Kishanganga inauguration - Pakistan
WASHINGTON: Pakistan has apparently missed the opportunity to involve the World Bank in the Kishanganga dam dispute before it becomes operational.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the disputed project in the next few days and the World Bank has not yet responded to Islamabad’s request for a meeting.
Pakistan wants to send a high-level delegation, headed by Attorney General Ashtar Ausaf Ali, to Washington to share its concerns with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim about the dam.
World Bank has not yet responded to Pakistan’s request for a meeting with its president
The bank has accepted the Pakistani proposal but bank officials say that they are still trying to find an appropriate slot for the meeting because of their chief’s busy schedule. Pakistan had hoped for a meeting in late April, when Mr Ali was in New York for a UN meeting, but it did not happen.
The 1960 Indus Water Treaty (IWT) recognises the World Bank as an arbitrator in water disputes between India and Pakistan as the bank played a key role in concluding this agreement.
The power division of Pakistan’s energy ministry sent a fresh communiqué to the World Bank in early April, urging it to ensure that India abided by the treaty that gave Pakistan control over the water of the Chenab and the Jhelum rivers.
The control over the water flowing in three eastern rivers — Beas, Ravi and Sutlej — was given to India. India may also use the waters of the western rivers in “non-consumptive” ways. India interprets this as a permission to build “run of the river” hydel projects that do not change the course of the river and do not deplete the water level downstream.
Pakistan argues that the Kishanganga and Ratle projects in the India-held Kashmir would do both — change the course of the river and deplete the water level.
In 2010, Pakistan took the matter to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, which stayed the project for three years.
But in 2013, the court ruled that the Kishanganga was “a run-of-river plant within the meaning of the Indus Waters Treaty and that India may accordingly divert water from the Kishanganga (Neelum River) for power generation.
The court, however, also ruled that India was under an obligation to “construct and operate” the Kishanganga dam in such a way that it “maintains a minimum flow of water in the Kishanganga/Neelum River.”
The minimum flow was fixed at 9cumecs, a unit of flow equal to one cubic meter of water per second.
India declared that it was lowering the height of the dam from the planned 98m to 37m and resumed construction at full swing.
Pakistan, however, collected evidence to prove that India was violating the treaty as well as the court’s verdict in August 2016, Pakistan asked the World Bank to appoint a court of arbitration to review the designs of the Kishanganga and Ratle projects. India rejected the suggestion, saying that Pakistan’s objections were technical in nature, the matter should be decided by a neutral expert.
Pakistan disagreed, arguing that a decision by a technical expert was non-binding and India would be under no obligation to implement the expert’s recommendation.
The World Bank set in motion both processes but paused them when India and Pakistan refused to withdraw their proposals. After the pause, the bank held several rounds of talks, the last of which took place in September 2017, but failed to resolve the dispute.
After India announced last month that it was commissioning all three units at Kishanganga, Pakistan wrote to the World Bank, demanding that it ensure that India abided by the Treaty.
“The World Bank continues to work with both countries to resolve the most recent disagreement in an amicable manner and to safeguard the Treaty,” a bank spokesperson told Dawn when asked how the bank planned to resolve this dispute now.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1406131/no-world-bank-hearing-likely-before-kishanganga-inauguration
WASHINGTON: Pakistan has apparently missed the opportunity to involve the World Bank in the Kishanganga dam dispute before it becomes operational.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the disputed project in the next few days and the World Bank has not yet responded to Islamabad’s request for a meeting.
Pakistan wants to send a high-level delegation, headed by Attorney General Ashtar Ausaf Ali, to Washington to share its concerns with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim about the dam.
World Bank has not yet responded to Pakistan’s request for a meeting with its president
The bank has accepted the Pakistani proposal but bank officials say that they are still trying to find an appropriate slot for the meeting because of their chief’s busy schedule. Pakistan had hoped for a meeting in late April, when Mr Ali was in New York for a UN meeting, but it did not happen.
The 1960 Indus Water Treaty (IWT) recognises the World Bank as an arbitrator in water disputes between India and Pakistan as the bank played a key role in concluding this agreement.
The power division of Pakistan’s energy ministry sent a fresh communiqué to the World Bank in early April, urging it to ensure that India abided by the treaty that gave Pakistan control over the water of the Chenab and the Jhelum rivers.
The control over the water flowing in three eastern rivers — Beas, Ravi and Sutlej — was given to India. India may also use the waters of the western rivers in “non-consumptive” ways. India interprets this as a permission to build “run of the river” hydel projects that do not change the course of the river and do not deplete the water level downstream.
Pakistan argues that the Kishanganga and Ratle projects in the India-held Kashmir would do both — change the course of the river and deplete the water level.
In 2010, Pakistan took the matter to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, which stayed the project for three years.
But in 2013, the court ruled that the Kishanganga was “a run-of-river plant within the meaning of the Indus Waters Treaty and that India may accordingly divert water from the Kishanganga (Neelum River) for power generation.
The court, however, also ruled that India was under an obligation to “construct and operate” the Kishanganga dam in such a way that it “maintains a minimum flow of water in the Kishanganga/Neelum River.”
The minimum flow was fixed at 9cumecs, a unit of flow equal to one cubic meter of water per second.
India declared that it was lowering the height of the dam from the planned 98m to 37m and resumed construction at full swing.
Pakistan, however, collected evidence to prove that India was violating the treaty as well as the court’s verdict in August 2016, Pakistan asked the World Bank to appoint a court of arbitration to review the designs of the Kishanganga and Ratle projects. India rejected the suggestion, saying that Pakistan’s objections were technical in nature, the matter should be decided by a neutral expert.
Pakistan disagreed, arguing that a decision by a technical expert was non-binding and India would be under no obligation to implement the expert’s recommendation.
The World Bank set in motion both processes but paused them when India and Pakistan refused to withdraw their proposals. After the pause, the bank held several rounds of talks, the last of which took place in September 2017, but failed to resolve the dispute.
After India announced last month that it was commissioning all three units at Kishanganga, Pakistan wrote to the World Bank, demanding that it ensure that India abided by the Treaty.
“The World Bank continues to work with both countries to resolve the most recent disagreement in an amicable manner and to safeguard the Treaty,” a bank spokesperson told Dawn when asked how the bank planned to resolve this dispute now.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1406131/no-world-bank-hearing-likely-before-kishanganga-inauguration
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Saudi Arabia reduces tourist visa fee for India and rest of the world – but not Pakistan
ISLAMABAD – The Saudi Arabia government has announced to soften its visa policy for India, and rest of the world, continuing the same old plan for Pakistan.
Providing relaxation in the visa for the citizens of European and other countries including India, the Saudi government reduced 90-day visit visa fee from 2,000 Riyal to 305 Riyal. Likewise, the fee has also reduced to 180 and 360 days visa.
However, Pakistanis tourists who pay Rs0.1 million to Rs0.4 million for Saudi visa would not be able to avail this opportunity as the policy remains the same.
ISLAMABAD – The Saudi Arabia government has announced to soften its visa policy for India, and rest of the world, continuing the same old plan for Pakistan.
Providing relaxation in the visa for the citizens of European and other countries including India, the Saudi government reduced 90-day visit visa fee from 2,000 Riyal to 305 Riyal. Likewise, the fee has also reduced to 180 and 360 days visa.
However, Pakistanis tourists who pay Rs0.1 million to Rs0.4 million for Saudi visa would not be able to avail this opportunity as the policy remains the same.
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Entered to attack security forces: LeT terrorist tells National Investigation Agency
Arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Zabiullah has told the National Investigation Agency (NIA) that he had entered India to carry out “large scale attacks” on security forces, National Investigation Agency said today in a statement.
He told the agency during the questioning that he had come into India fully armed in March this year, along with five other LeT cadres to target security forces but before he could indulge in an attack, they were confronted by the forces in which members of his team were killed, the NIA said.
“He managed to escape from encounter site,” it said.
20-year-old Zabiullah, a resident of Bosan Road, Mehmood Kote in Multan, Pakistan, said he came “fully armed” in March this year with 22-year-old Darda of Lahore, 26-year-old Shuram of Multan, 20-year-old Faidullah of Gujrawalan, 19-year-old Ummar of Sindh, 19-year-old Kari of Peshawar, Pakistan.
On March 20, during a joint cordon and search operation by the Kupwara police, Army and paramilitary forces, terrorists hiding in the forest fired indiscriminately upon the security forces, the NIA said in a statement.
“During the exchange of fire, five terrorists were killed, all unidentified foreign terrorists. Three Army personnel and two Police personnel were martyred and four security personnel were injured,” it said.
An FIR was registered in the matter on March 20 which was taken up by the NIA on April 17. On April 6, security forces arrested Zabiullah, who had managed to escape an anti-militancy operation, from Juggiyal village in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The arrested militant was produced before the NIA Special Court, Jammu on May 5, and remanded for 10 days NIA custody.
http://indianexpress.com/article/in...-tells-national-investigation-agency-5167184/
Arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Zabiullah has told the National Investigation Agency (NIA) that he had entered India to carry out “large scale attacks” on security forces, National Investigation Agency said today in a statement.
He told the agency during the questioning that he had come into India fully armed in March this year, along with five other LeT cadres to target security forces but before he could indulge in an attack, they were confronted by the forces in which members of his team were killed, the NIA said.
“He managed to escape from encounter site,” it said.
20-year-old Zabiullah, a resident of Bosan Road, Mehmood Kote in Multan, Pakistan, said he came “fully armed” in March this year with 22-year-old Darda of Lahore, 26-year-old Shuram of Multan, 20-year-old Faidullah of Gujrawalan, 19-year-old Ummar of Sindh, 19-year-old Kari of Peshawar, Pakistan.
On March 20, during a joint cordon and search operation by the Kupwara police, Army and paramilitary forces, terrorists hiding in the forest fired indiscriminately upon the security forces, the NIA said in a statement.
“During the exchange of fire, five terrorists were killed, all unidentified foreign terrorists. Three Army personnel and two Police personnel were martyred and four security personnel were injured,” it said.
An FIR was registered in the matter on March 20 which was taken up by the NIA on April 17. On April 6, security forces arrested Zabiullah, who had managed to escape an anti-militancy operation, from Juggiyal village in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The arrested militant was produced before the NIA Special Court, Jammu on May 5, and remanded for 10 days NIA custody.
http://indianexpress.com/article/in...-tells-national-investigation-agency-5167184/
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these idiots!!!!
this is what happens when citizens are taught economics
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Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has ordered an inquiry against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and others for allegedly laundering $4.9 billion to India: Pakistan Media
Statement by National Accountability Bureau claims that the amount was laundered to the Indian finance ministry after which Indian foreign exchange reserves witnessed an increase and Pakistan suffered as a result, reports Pakistan's Geo English
this is what happens when citizens are taught economics
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Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has ordered an inquiry against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and others for allegedly laundering $4.9 billion to India: Pakistan Media
Statement by National Accountability Bureau claims that the amount was laundered to the Indian finance ministry after which Indian foreign exchange reserves witnessed an increase and Pakistan suffered as a result, reports Pakistan's Geo English
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BC!............Now pakistanis will take the credit of our increasing forex reserves.these idiots!!!!
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Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has ordered an inquiry against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and others for allegedly laundering $4.9 billion to India: Pakistan Media
Statement by National Accountability Bureau claims that the amount was laundered to the Indian finance ministry after which Indian foreign exchange reserves witnessed an increase and Pakistan suffered as a result, reports Pakistan's Geo English
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