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Anti-Terror Agency Keeps Pakistan on ‘Gray List’0
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- February 21, 2020
By Ayaz GulbvFebruary 21, 2020 ISLAMABAD – A global agency leading the fight against the financing of terrorism and money laundering has kept Pakistan on its “gray list” of nations with inadequate mechanisms to curb funding sources to terrorist groups. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) met Friday at its headquarters in Paris and reviewed Islamabad’s
These are the parameters on which Pakistan has failed to meet FATF targets0
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- February 21, 2020
Pakistan hasn’t been blacklisted by the FATF, but has remained on the ‘grey list’ for failing to meet targets on various action points. NAYANIMA BASU 21 February, 2020 New Delhi: Pakistan has once again managed to save itself from being blacklisted by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF), but it will continue to remain in the
Arundhati Roy on writing fiction in the time of Hindutva0
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- February 21, 2020
Arundhati Roy 21 February 2020 caravanmagazine.in This is the text of the 2020 Clark Lecture in English Literature, instituted by Trinity College, Cambridge. Arundhati Roy is the first Indian writer invited to deliver it. Thank you for inviting me to deliver this, the Clark Lecture, now in its one hundred and thirty-second year. When I
Migration remarks: Indian media blasts BJP, praises Bangladesh0
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- February 21, 2020
Tribune Desk February 19th, 2020 File photo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina Reuters Indian analysts also questioned BJP’s reported claim that 4 million illegal Bangladeshi immigrants were now in India The Indian media has come down heavily on the country’s ruling right wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Global Terrorism Finance Watchdog Blacklists Iran, Grants Reprieve To Pakistan0
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- February 21, 2020
February 21, 2020 A global financial watchdog has blacklisted Iran for failing to take measures against money laundering and the financing of terrorist groups. The Paris-based task force, an inter-governmental organization that underpins the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing, made the announcement on February 21. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) also granted
Abdullah Slams EU For Recognizing Afghan Presidential Election Results0
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- February 21, 2020
February 20, 2020 Radio Free Afghanistan KABUL– Afghanistan’s outgoing Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah has complained to the European Union about its recognition of final official Afghan presidential election results showing President Ashraf Ghani has been reelected. In a Twitter post that included a copy of his letter of complaint, Abdullah declared on February 20
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COVID-19 in China: Testing the Quality of Humanity0
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- February 20, 2020
by Nilantha Ilangamuwa 20 February 2020 Many opinions have been penned and circulated the globe over a new outbreak of novel viral influenza. It has been killed over a thousand of innocent Chinese people according to official figures. As it came from China, no candlelight vigil had been holding at major cities in western countries,
A closer look at refugee integration in India0
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- February 19, 2020
by Ujjwal Krishna 19 February 2020 Widespread protests against India’s Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, have brought refugees front and centre in the national discourse. However, the state of the evidence on refugees and their integration in India remains sketchy at best. Introduction At a geopolitical level, India has maintained a restrained stance with respect to
Off Ramps from Confrontation in Southern Asia – Book Review0
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- February 18, 2020
by Zahoor Ahmad Dar 18 February 2020 Boundless and unfading are the reverberations of some contretemps that forces many to untimely embrace their deathbed, and if by a happy chance one escapes it, pulls it down into a perpetual state of fire and brimstone. A nuclear war is an apt embodiment of such a contretemps.
WAR, PEACE AND GENDER: WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN CONFLICT AND POST-CONFLICT SITUATIONS0
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- February 18, 2020
by Shrutika Pandey 18 February 2020 The cycle of conflict and peacemaking has been dominated by men for centuries, even though women constitute a vast majority of the civilians that are impacted in armed conflicts. Women are displaced, widowed, killed and raped on account of armed conflicts. The realization that women must have a role
Pricey Combat Planes and even Pricier Operational Costs0
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- February 18, 2020
by Jamal Hussain 17 February 2020 Acquisition of airpower is an expensive proposition. The exponential rise in the cost of successive generations of modern combat planes, which represent the queen in the air warfare chessboard, is a classic example. The piston engine/propeller driven powered predecessors of modern fighter-strike aerial platforms that were ubiquitous during the
Pakistan puts press freedom at the core of struggle for new world order0
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- February 17, 2020
By James M. Dorsey 17 February 2020 A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts, Tumblr, Podbean, Audecibel, Patreon and Castbox. Sweeping new regulations restricting social media in Pakistan put freedom of expression and the media at the heart of the struggle to counter both civilizationalist
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Bangladesh: The manuscript of a forbidden history
Bangladesh government’s Year of Mujib begins this Friday (January 10th). The authorities will do all they can to stop the publication of history critical of the country’s independence leader. Pinaki Bhattacharya January 9, 2020 In 2013, I read the book India after Gandhi by Ramchandra Guha. By then I had written a book, Sonali Banglar Rupali Kotha, on the
Telling good lies: Digital rhetoric and rumor in Bangladesh
by Sayeed Al-Zaman 15 February 2020 How to convince people? Thousands of ways might be there but with a single instrument, that is language. Pursuing others using speech was thought be an art in the Classical Greece: they named it “rhetoric”. Yet, some thinkers like Plato, who was discontented with rhetoric and designated it as