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Tibetan Students Jailed for Defending Language Rights
A poster in Kanlho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture reads “No to mixed language!”
Photo courtesy of an RFA listener
A court in northwest China’s Qinghai province has sentenced eight Tibetan students to prison terms of up to four years for their role in protests defending their right to use the Tibetan language, according to sources in the region and in exile.The students were sentenced on April 10 by the Chabcha (in Chinese, Gonghe) County People’s Court in the Tsolho (Hainan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, the India-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) ...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 16:37
Petition Drive as Australian University Cancels Dalai Lama Talk
The Dalai Lama speaks at the University of Ulster Magee Campus in Derry, Northern Ireland, April 18, 2013.
Photo courtesy of OHHDL
The University of Sydney, one of Australia's top institutions of higher learning, has canceled a scheduled talk by Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, apparently due to pressure from China, triggering a global petition drive by a Tibetan students group to get the university to reverse the decision.The university's Institute for Democracy and Human Rights had organized the on-campus talk by the Dalai Lama during his visit in...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 18:11
Bhutan begins electing new Parliament
The tiny Himalayan country of Bhutan begins electing a new parliament on Tuesday for only the second time in its history, five years after the Buddhist monarchy gave up its absolute power.
Voters will first choose members of the upper house National Council on Tuesday, a non-party body, then in the following weeks will decide which of five parties will form the next government in the National Assembly.Since the beginning of April, the 67 candidates for the 20 elected National Council seats -- five more members will be appointed by King Jigme Khesar Wangchuk -- have been holding debates and public...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 17:56
Google sees global censorship requests rising, S Asia no exception
South Asian countries Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Pakistan are among the countries requesting search giant Google to remove content from its platform. Brazil and the US account for the highest number, followed by Germany, India and Turkey.
Search giant Google continues to receive governments' requests to remove content from its platform. For the July-December 2012 period, the company received 2,285 requests from governments across the world to remove 24,179 pieces of content, against 1,811 requests to remove 18,070 pieces of content in the first half of 2012.Brazil and...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 17:53
India proposes Kazakh pipeline to join TAPI
India and Kazakhstan, seeking to step up their energy links, discuss the concept of an ambitious pipeline that would bring hydrocarbons to the country via several countries. The two sides had first broached the subject last month.
India and Kazakhstan, seeking to step up their energy links, discussed the concept of an ambitious pipeline that would bring hydrocarbons to the country via several countries. The two sides had first broached the subject during Kazakh Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov’s India visit last month.In the second meeting on the subject on Friday, the 1,500 km-long pipeline...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 01:20
Obama: 'I Am Not the Strapping, Young Muslim Socialist That I Used to Be'
April 28, 2013
President Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents Dinner. (AP Photo)
(CNSNews.com) - Speaking at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, President Barack Obama joked that he is no longer a young Muslim socialist.
Early in the speech, Obama jocularly said that his advisers "suggested that I should start with some jokes at my own expense, just take myself down a peg. I was like, guys, after four and a half years, how many pegs are there left?"
A few moments later, the president joked: "Now, look, I get it. These days, I look in...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 01:10
Alleged CIA operator goes on hunger strike in Peshawar jail
Alleged CIA operator Dr Shakil Afridi has reportedly gone on a hunger strike at the Central Jail Peshawar in what his lawyers and family members say is a 'protest against the jail administration’s ill-treatment.’Afridi, through a fake vaccination campaign, was initially said to have provided a lead for the US Navy Seals' operation in which the al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad.Afridi was arrested for his alleged links to the CIA, but was then given a 33-year jail sentence on another charge, this time for having links to the banned religious outfit Lashkar-i-Islam.The decision from the appellate court is expected on May 3 as his counsels have completed the arguments in the case and are awaiting...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 00:59
Pre-poll rigging through other means (Pak)
The bomb blasts ripping through the ANP, the MQM and, though to a lesser extent, the PPPhave been called a new kind of rigging. The idea of the Taliban, who take responsibility for every such attack, is to deter the leaders of these parties from addressing people in the time-honoured political jalsa. Whether it works or not is still to be seen. There is, after all, a possibility that the people will cast sympathy votes for the underdog, forgetting the corruption (or, at least, the anecdotal perception of it) of the ANP and the PPP. But the idea that hundreds of people will lose their lives and thousands will be injured before the elections is appalling. We all know how we have come to this pass and it is in bad taste if...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 00:52
The Lal Masjid report
The Lal Masjid saga represents the struggle that is undergoing in Pakistan between the extremists and the moderates and it is not going to be resolved anytime soon. ILLUSTRATION: ANAM HALEEM
The judicial commission mandated to investigate the 2007 Lal Masjid operation has released its report. Six years after the incident, which led to over 100 deaths, the operation continues to divide the polity demonstrating the extent to which Pakistan has mixed religion and politics. For a starter, it is a good development that the report has been made public. The report tells us clearly that military assistance sought was...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 00:51
Stolen election
The elections have already been stolen. The targeted attacks on the PPP, the MQM and the ANP and the inability of these parties to indulge in any sort of electioneering are indeed a shame. This shows that some parties cannot participate while others can. And it is not the Election Commission who is deciding this.
What is more shameful is the lack of regret being shown by their political rivals. Asfandyar Wali informs us that the only two parties that expressed sympathy with the rising death toll of his party’s workers are the PPP and the MQM. The rest remain silent. There should have been more magnanimity. But then, possibly magnanimity would have put them out of favour in other quarters.
Ludicrous was the statement by Imran Khan in which he told the Taliban to be patient...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 00:27
Pakistani News -- Today
PPP supporters inspect the motorcycle which had the bomb planted on it. PHOTO: AFP
* Bomb attack on Peshawar election office leaves 3 dead* Bomb kills five at Kohat election office: Officials* Another attack: Bombing at NA-40 candidate’s office* Blast near MQM office in Karachi kills five*Two killed in blast near PPP meeting in Karachi* Grenade attack on election office kills one in Balochistan* Bomb blast in Quetta injures 13*Pre-poll violence: Nine killed in Quetta, Karachi blasts* Roadside Bomb: BNP-A leader attacked in Panjgur* One wounded in explosion in Hyderabad (Pak)
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Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 00:01
Rule of law and hypocrisy
ISLAMABAD: It is regrettable that our country has remained democracy-starved for long periods in its history. However, genuine democracy can only be attained in Pakistan when our political elite accept the reality of the rule of law and when hypocrisy is eschewed. If this happens, it can result in the country adopting the right policies, taking into consideration pluralism, populism and institutionalism as a path to good governance. Our ruling elite should have the courage to create and implement genuine reforms that respect the rule of law and not the rule of a few in the country.
Hashim Abro
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Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 23:50
One wounded in explosion in Hyderabad (Pak)
PHOTO: FILE
One person was wounded in an explosion that took place in the Pathan Goth area of Hyderabad on Sunday, Express News reported.
The explosion occurred outside Ma Ji Hospital. Initial reports suggested that it occurred due to explosives that were planted on a bike.
The bomb disposal squad arrived to the scene of the explosion.
Terrorist attacks have stepped up across the country ahead of the general elections, with the Taliban targeting the Awami National Party (ANP), Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 10:32
Hundreds March to Press for Letpadaung Protesters’ Release
Protesters march to a police station near the copper mine in northern Burma's Sagaing division, April 26, 2013.
RFA
Hundreds of local villagers opposed to a controversial Chinese-backed copper mine in northern Burma staged a protest march on Friday to demand the release of three demonstrators detained in clashes with police.
The three were detained Thursday after police shot and beat protesting farmers and activists in the first major violence surrounding the mine near Mount Letpadaung in northern Burma’s Sagaing division since the authorities brutally suppressed mass...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 10:17
Second Clash Reported in Xinjiang
Map showing location of Hotan county in Xinjiang.
RFA
Two community police personnel have been killed and three motor vehicles set on fire in China's troubled western region of Xinjiang's Hotan county, Uyghur sources said Friday, triggering a fresh security alert after the worst violence in four years earlier in the week.The Uyghur Online website reported that investigations were under way following the fresh violence in Hotan's Yengi Awat (in Chinese, Yingawa) village on Thursday, two days after 21 people were killed in clashes in Siriqbuya (Selibuya) township in Kashgar prefecture.The report...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 10:04
Envoy Urged to Press Uyghur Rights in China
A map showing Kashgar prefecture's Maralbeshi (Bachu) county in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
RFA
An exiled rights group has called on the U.S. envoy to China to raise human rights violations against the mostly Muslim Uyghur minority with the government in Beijing, two days after 21 people were killed in the worst episode of violence in the restive Xinjiang region in nearly four years.U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke was visiting Xinjiang with a trade delegation when the clashes took place Tuesday in Maralbeshi (in Chinese, Bachu) county in Kashgar prefecture, and...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 14:56
South Asian states urged to develop cooperation in energy
Senior economist Dr Akmal Hussain has stressed upon the South Asian countries to develop co-operation in the field of energy and share their energy recourses by establishing a South Asian grid.
He also said Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan have lot of potential of generating power and these countries are capable of fulfilling the energy needs of the whole region.Akmal was addressing a seminar on energy crisis organised by South Asia Free Media Association (Safma) on Friday. Akmal said that Pakistan's biggest problem in the power sector is circular debt and the government should arrange eight billion dollars to pay the debt. He also said Pakistan should also buy electricity from Iran and India to meet its need.While quoting the data...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 15:51
MD Salim Ashrafi on New Trends in Terrorism
Forum for integrated National security - FINS: MD Salim Ashrafi Chairman, state Walf Board, Chattisghad in a seminar on Threat to National Security: New Trends of Terrorismhttp://youtu.be/Ua6s9N31N3...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 21:10
Cyber war and global order
by -- Sreeram Chaulia
Startling new developments in the American national security doctrine have shaken the foundations of thinking about fear and safety in the world. Chiefs of intelligence agencies in the US have released a report claiming that cyber attacks and cyber espionage pose a greater danger than conventional terrorist groups like the Al Qaida. The speed with which Internet-based technology is evolving and the alacrity with which various state and non-state actors are trying to leverage it for their own self-interests is baffling even to an advanced web-based great power like America, not to mention less technically adept nations.Concern over the rising vulnerability on the Internet has not only spooked the US defence establishment, but also spilled...
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