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10 foreign victims identified after Nanga Parbat attack
Taliban claimed responsibility on behalf of Junood ul-Hifsa, a new faction set up to avenge US drone strikes. PHOTO: AFP
By China P. L.A From Gilgit to Gwadar port through a natural response in opposition to militarization. U.S. drone falsely propagated by adding it to disorientation.चीन द्वारा पी. एल.ए. के माध्यम से गिलगित से लेकर ग्वादर बंदरगाह तक सैन्यीकरण करने के विरोध में एक स्वाभाविक प्रतिक्रिया है। इसे अमेरिकी ड्रोन से जोड़कर झूठा प्रचारित कर भटकाव करना है।
The bodies of 10 foreign tourists and a Pakistani guide shot dead by gunmen in an unprecedented attack...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 19:32
Foreign tourists' murder: Tour operators urge authorities to seal the area
Tour operators' association says it takes 18 hours to get out of the area, extends help to catch them. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Association of Tour Operators (PATO) has condemned the brutal killing of nine foreign tourists near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) and urged the military and government authorities to immediately seal the area and search the gunmen.
“It takes 18 hours on foot to reach the road,” PATO President Amjad Ayub said, adding that 18 hours have not passed since the incident and if the area is properly cordoned off and...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 23:28
Nepal-India cross-border petroleum pipeline in the works
Nepal Oil Corporation ( NOC ) has said it has initiated the process of land acquisition for the proposed Nepal-India cross-border petroleum pipeline.
The corporation has proposed a 200 x 300 metre land plot on the southern side of the existing Amalekhgunj depot, according to the NOC .“The proposal has been sent to the National Planning Commission (NPC),” said NOC Acting Managing Director Suresh Kumar Agrawal.A technical committee formed to make appropriate recommendations to the NPC — the main body looking after the much-delayed 41-km Amalekhgunj-Raxaul pipeline — has suggested...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 23:25
Afghanistan to kick off Taliban peace talks in Qatar: Karzai
Afghanistan will send a team to Qatar for peace talks with the Taliban, President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday, as the US-led Nato coalition launched the final phase of the 12-year war with the last round of security transfers to Afghan forces.
Karzai's announcement was the first possible step forward in the peace process, which has struggled to achieve results despite many attempts, and is likely to be applauded by his Western backers.“Afghanistan's High Peace Council will travel to Qatar to discuss peace talks with the Taliban,” Karzai said in Kabul, referring to the council...
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Taliban to open Doha office on Tuesday: Al Jazeera
A Taliban office, touted as a tool to help facilitate talks between the militants and the Afghan government, will open on Tuesday in Doha, the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television reported.
Al Jazeera cited anonymous sources for its Monday report and gave no further details but a Taliban spokesperson in Kabul told AFP he was “unaware” of any such development.In April Afghan President Hamid Karzai said the opening of a Taliban office in Doha could “facilitate the peace process”.He made the remarks in an interview with al Jazeera following talks in Doha with the ruler of the energy-rich Gulf...
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Secret Societies Mushroom in Southern China
A paramilitary guard stands guard on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, March 5, 2013.
AFP
Authorities in southern China are increasingly worried about a growing number of secret, mutual assistance societies that have sprung up in recent years to address growing social inequalities, official media reports say.Southern and eastern China is the traditional home of secret societies, known in Western popular culture as "triads."But many groups now regarded as criminal or shady were initially set up as mutual help groups in times of oppression, or as informal banking and commercial networks...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 18:27
The Advani-Modi relationship
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June 16, 2002: Union Home Minister L.K. Advani expresses “satisfaction” over the performance of the Narendra Modi administration in rehabilitating Gujarat riot victims
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September 20, 2002: Deputy Prime Minister Advani rejects Modi’s “Hum paanch, hamaare pachees”, a slur against minorities, saying the comment was unbecoming of a Chief Minister
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October 8, 2002: Advani says, “It is not sufficient to win elections... it must prove its worth to the people by ensuring good governance”, at the “sankalp sammelan” of the Gujarat unit of the BJP. “Go for self-introspection and accept...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 18:04
Experiments With Democracy in Bhutan
By OMAIR AHMAD
Singye Wangchuk/ReutersA statue of Lord Buddha at Kuensel Phodrang in Thimphu, Bhutan on May 20, 2012.
Bhutan does things differently in South Asia, and nothing illustrates this so as much as the way it has conducted its transition to democracy.
In December 2007, I was driving from Thimpu, the capital of Bhutan, to Paro, a small city 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of the capital. Along the way, just before a bridge spanning the river, I noticed a small bulletin board and saw my first election posters in Bhutan. The board was around two meter square, and a few neat A4-size election...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 17:44
Bangladesh clears foodgrains transit for India's Tripura
In a move that will strengthen bilateral ties between Bangladesh and India, the Bangladesh Government has granted permission to Tripura to transport foodgrains through its territory.
Owing to the difficult hilly terrain and lack of proper facilities, the Northeast often faces problems in food supplies.Especially during the monsoon period, floods and landslides cause huge problems in transporting essential items through roads.Recently, following a series of diplomatic discussions, the Bangladesh government has agreed to allow the transportation of 10,000 tonnes of food grains for Tripura via its territory.The transit will take place from Haldia port in West Bengal to Ashuganj port in Bangladesh from where food grains will be transported...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 17:35
Hunger halved in Bangladesh and the Maldives ahead of 2015
Bangladesh and the Maldives are set to get UN recognition as one of the first countries that achieved the most fundamental millennium development goal (MDG) — halving the incidence of hunger — well ahead of the target year 2015.
To celebrate this feat, Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Jose Graziano da Silva has invited Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to receive a “Diploma Award”.The proportion of population below poverty line dropped from over 58 percent in 1990 (the MDG base year) to 31.50 percent in 2010. And on June 12, FAO declared that Bangladesh...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 17:31
US favours Indo-Pacific corridor linking India, BD, Southeast Asia
The United States has called for creation of an Indo-Pacific corridor linking India, Bangladesh and Southeast Asia for greater trade and cooperation in the region and for a long-term multilateral and bilateral partnership.
The corridor is to spur economic development, regional growth and prosperity through closer economic cooperation, increased trade and investment, and better energy, transit and communications links, a senior US official told a meeting of the Asia Society Global Forum in Washington DC Wednesday, according to a statement issued by the US State Department."No...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 09:28
Book Review: India Grows at Night
by Srivatsa Krishna
In his latest book, Gurcharan Das argues that India is a land of private success in the midst of public failure.
I had reviewed Gurcharan Das’ The Difficulty of Being Good, which I thought was brilliantly written; but his new book India Grows at Night is badly written and argued even worse.
The principal argument of the book is India is a land of private success and public failure, which one cannot disagree with at large, though there are substantial exceptions in both cases which Das conveniently glosses over.
He states that the country’s IT sector grew because...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 19:53
Tibetan Nun Sets Herself Ablaze in New Self-Immolation Protest
Assembly of monks at Nyatso monastery, June 10, 2013.
Photo courtesy of an RFA listener.
A Tibetan nun set herself ablaze on Tuesday during a large religious gathering in China’s Sichuan province in protest against Beijing’s rule in Tibetan areas, sources said.The woman, who has not been identified, self-immolated near Nyatso monastery in Tawu (in Chinese, Daofu) county, which is also close to a police facility, a Tibetan living in Nepal told RFA’s Tibetan Service, speaking on condition of anonymity.“The area has now been clamped down on by a huge security force,”...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 19:49
China's House Church Crackdown Gathers Pace
A public security official watches a house church gathering in Beijing in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of a house church activist
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong have launched a crackdown on two unofficial Protestant "house churches" in recent days, according to a prominent church leader.House churches in Shandong's Linshu and Yutai counties have been ordered to close and accused of "illegal assembly," pastor Zhang Mingxuan, who heads the nationwide Protestant Chinese House Church Alliance, said on Tuesday."They were holding a meeting in one of the...
Posted by Jamboodweepsecurity.blogspot.in on 19:46
Fifteen Myanmar Ethnic Groups to Form Unified Party
Citizens register to vote in by-elections at a polling station in Taunggyi, Nov. 7, 2010.
AFP
More than a dozen ethnic groups within a loose alliance agreed Tuesday to establish a unified political party in a bid to secure greater representation for Myanmar’s minorities in the national parliament ahead of 2015 elections, according to officials.The agreement by 15 of the groups to form the Federated Union Party (FUP) was made on the opening day of a two-day conference held in eastern Myanmar’s Shan state capital of Taunggyi, Oo Hla Saw, general secretary of the Rakhine...
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