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Laos to host regional summits in March
Laos will host the 6th CLMV Summit (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam) and the 5th ACMECS Summit (Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy) in Vientiane from March 11-13.The 7th Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Summit, which will be hosted by Vietnam, will also take place in Vientiane at the same time.Vietnam had originally planned to host this summit last year but decided to postpone the meeting. Vietnam now takes this opportunity to host the summit as regional leaders gather together.Yesterday, the CLMV Senior Officials' Meeting and the ACMECS Senior Officials' Meeting took place in Vientiane chaired by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Bounkeut Sangsomsak.Senior officials from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam met to prepare for the CLMV...
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Poor policing
Editorial Desk
The Kathmandu Post
Publication Date : 27-02-2013
There are many problems with law and order in Nepali society, but long hair and ear rings are surely not one of them. The Nepal Police’s arrests on Tuesday of more than 700 youths for wearing their hair long and having ear rings and studs, is a ridiculous example of an inefficient police force trying to win the sympathy of a gullible population that stereotypes everybody who doesn’t dress and behave like them as criminals. The arrest of the youth is an attack on individual freedom and liberty, and is reminiscent of the dictatorial Panchayat system of 'self-governance' that was in effect here until 1990, when over-zealous police officers resorted to such arrests to gain cheap popularity. The...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 22:30
The matter of governance
There has been a lot of talk about how bad governance has been during the outgoing government’s term in office. But how does a government govern from its seat of governance? Obviously, with the help of instruments of governance. And what are these instruments? The civil service, the police, the judiciary and the armed forces. A top civil servant in the mid-1980s told me that if all the summaries moved by his colleagues for consideration of the cabinet, the ECC or the NEC were made public, most who authored these would be lynched by the public in public. According to a former interior minister, he told General (retd) Pervez Musharraf in early 2000 that it was next to impossible for a minister to dip his hand in the official till without the active...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 22:13
If a Shia, you are on your own
Let me make it simple: if you are a Shia in Pakistan, you are on your own. This fact I state for the benefit of all those citizens of this country, Shia and Sunni, who are grieving the slow demise of Mr Jinnah’s Pakistan and expecting that the tide could be reversed through state action.
Now for the longer answer.
There is no doubt about who is killing the Shia. The Lashkar-e Jhangvi (LeJ) has repeatedly taken responsibility for it. Its captured terrorists have often stated before courts that they have killed Shias and, given the opportunity, will do it again. The identity of the killers is a settled issue.
Nota Bene: The issue of the proxy war between Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states and Iran, the funding to Sunni extremist groups and whatever is left...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 22:02
Sindh Assembly resolution condemns PML-N's patronisation of militants
Sindh Assembly also passed a law on organ trasplantation. PHOTO: ONLINE/FILE
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly while passing resolution to condemn the recent string of attacks on religious scholars and attacks on shrines in Sindh and urged the Pakistan Muslim League –Nawaz (PML-N) to discontinue its patronisation of militant organisations.
An attack on a shrine in Shikarpur earlier this week was the latest in a series of attacks on shrines and religious scholars. A resolution against the attacks was moved by the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party’s MPA Imran Zafar Leghari...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 21:57
A broken Land
The dismissal of the provincial government last month has made no difference at all, and we need to think about what can be done to end the unrelenting violence. PHOTO: FILE
Things have gone so badly wrong in Balochistan it is hard to know if they can ever be fixed. The degree of violence sweeping across the province is overwhelming and it is now clear that there is no evidence it is dying out. The Governor’s Rule imposed by the centre a month ago has had no impact on killings in the province. In the latest gory incident to stain the province with still deeper marks of crimson, six labourers working...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 12:25
Sri Lanka military dismisses rights group's claims of sexual violence on Tamil detaineesWed, Feb 27, 2013, 02:18 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Feb 26, Colombo: Sri Lanka military on Tuesday dismissed a report by the international rights group, New York-based Human Rights Watch tat alleged the country's security forces continued to use sexual violence on suspected Tamil Tiger terrorists in detention.
Responding to report, the Military spokesman Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya dismissed the allegations as "fabricated lies".
He said the 75 cases of alleged rape victims who provided their harrowing experiences to the right group...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 12:22
Leading News from Sri Lanka::
* Sri Lankan government not prepared to face international community at UNHRC - UNP MP
Feb 27, Colombo: Sri Lanka's main opposition United National Party (UNP) parliamentarian Ravi Karunanayaka says the government is not prepared to go before the international community at the UN Human Right Council (UNHRC) sessions in Geneva.
Karunanayaka says the government has been unable to meet the international obligations.
He has explained that the President had given certain undertakings to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon; gave undertakings to implement the LLRC and also gave certain undertakings to the Indian...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 11:51
Analysis: Politicians, donors question donor neutrality in Nepal
Far from political wrangling, remote regions pay price of political impasse
KATHMANDU, 26 February 2013 (IRIN) - Dissent in Nepal over the role of ethnicity in a post-conflict state has put donor agencies under increased scrutiny, with politicians and analysts accusing them of meddling, taking sides and circumventing the government to push an agenda of “social cohesion”.
“We got a lot of criticism from all sides. We took the brunt [from all sections of society including marginalized groups, citizens, media and political parties] saying we interfered or didn’t do enough,”...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 11:43
Nepalese woman sets Everest record
Guinness World Records said Nepalese mountaineer Chhurim is the first woman to climb the world’s highest mountain twice in the same season.
Nepalese mountaineer Chhurim entered the record book by scaling Mount Everest twice in the same climbing season. In fact, she did so a week apart.
Guinness World Records said she is the first woman to climb the world’s highest mountain twice in the same season — the brief window of good weather each year that allows climbers to reach the summit.
Nepal’s Tourism Minister Posta Bahadur Bogati handed over the Guinness World Records certificate issued to 29-year-old Chhurim on Monday.
She scaled the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) summit on May 12, 2012, descended to the base camp for a couple of days’ rest and then scaled...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 11:28
Adiala’s missing inmates: Convince us on issue of jurisdiction, says SC
Supreme Court of Pakistan. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
A stiff challenge awaits the counsel for seven men detained in Parachinar, Kurram Agency after they, along with four others, went missing from Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
Their counsel will have to convince the Supreme Court beyond reasonable doubt that the court can exercise its jurisdiction in the tribal areas.
A three-member bench, comprising of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ijaz Afzal and Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed deferred the case till February 28 and directed Advocate Tariq Asad...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 11:23
Rivalry: Sindh CM pokes fun at Sharifs
Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE
In a tone of sarcasm, Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah congratulated Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on receiving the titles of ‘Takht-e-Punjab’and ‘Takht-e-Lahore’ by Pir Pagara during their visit to Sindh on Tuesday.
Talking to a delegation of PPP office bearers, Shah said the titles clearly demonstrate the Sharif brothers’ credentials as “pygmy politicians,” who are confined to Punjab and Lahore. The Sharifs have a narrow vision and a limited political agenda which is confined to...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 11:15
Changing loyalties: Lashkari Raisani sets eyes on PML-N – with conditions
File photo of former PPP leader Lashkari Raisani, who resigned from the party in 2010 and Senate in 2012. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
Nawabzada Lashkari Raisani has emerged from 10 months of virtual isolation to say that he is seriously considering joining the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz .
The former president of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in Balochistan expressed these views right after a meeting with PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif on Monday. However, he did not provide any details of their discussion.
“I am seriously of the mind to join his party,” Raisani...
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