China’s corruption crackdown goes all the way to the top, with former security tsar to be investigated
China’s increasingly ambitious crackdown on corruption looks set to
claim its most senior scalp to date with the news that the country’s
former security tsar is to be investigated for graft.
The investigation into Zhou Yongkang, who sat on the
all-powerful Standing Committee of the Politburo, is yet another sign
that President Xi Jinping is cementing his authority at the helm of the
world’s most populous nation.
The move comes just days
after the highly public trial of former rising star Bo Xilai, who was
seen as an ally of Mr Zhou, and will send even greater shockwaves
through the Chinese political establishment. Although retired, Mr Zhou
is one notch higher in the Communist Party’s power structure than Mr Bo.
The inside story of how an Eid gift, phone calls and letters helped intelligence agencies track down Indian Mujahideen chief Yasin Bhatkal
Catching Mohammed Ahmed Zarar Siddibappa, better known as Yasin Bhatkal, was no walk in the park.
One of India's most wanted terrorists, Bhatkal kept a hop, skip and jump ahead of India's intelligence agencies for five years.
Intelligence
sources have revealed that Bhatkal used several phones, frequently
changing numbers as well as devices, to ensure he could not be tracked.
It wasn't just
cellphones he relied on, often resorting to using booths for local calls
and writing letters to relatives and associates in India and abroad.
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"We managed to track him down
through the phone calls and his correspondence through letters. We also
used a strong network of human intelligence to trace him to his hideout
in the interiors of Nepal near Pokhra," said a home ministry official.
Sources said Bhatkal's call
details reveal that he was constantly in touch with Indian Mujahideen
(IM) leaders in Pakistan as well as some people in Dubai.
The
National Investigation Agency (NIA) has meanwhile, got Bhatkal to Delhi
from Patna. The agency has been given Bhatkal's custody for 12 days so
as to interrogate him and his close aide Asadullah Akhtar alias Haddi.
Both
were arrested at Raxaul in Bihar near the Indo-Nepal border early on
Thursday morning. NIA sources said Bhatkal has not revealed much so far.
"He seems to be a
hard nut to crack and is not speaking much. He has given information
about IM's top leadership in Pakistan but is silent about the group's
strategy and plans," said an official.
Bhatkal
will be grilled about his possible role in the Dilsukhnagar attack in
Hyderbad in February and the recent bomb explosions in the Mahabodhi
temple complex at Gaya, Bihar.
Sources
said while he mentioned atrocities of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar he
denied any involvement in the Bodh Gaya explosions.
Indian intelligence agencies also had information about Bhatkal planning a visit to Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh.
Sources said the reason for his visit is not known.
"We will interrogate
him about his plans to visit Dharamshala," said a source. Sources said
Bhatkal has confirmed that top IM operatives Riyaz Bhatkal and Iqbal
Bhatkal are in Pakistan, Riyaz in Karachi while Iqbal shuttles between
Karachi and Dubai.
The
third top IM commander Amir Reza Khan, according to Bhatkal, is running
terror camps in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Bhatkal and Akhtar are brought to
Delhi by NIA officials in a special plane
Top IM operative Yasin Bhatkal, seen removing his face mask while in
custody, has reportedly confessed to the ISI giving patronage to the terror outfit
Information about IM's
Pakistan network would be useful but Indian agencies are more interested
in information about the Bhatkal's network across the country.
"He
is said to be the head of IM operations within India. We believe he
will have explosive information that can dismantle the entire group,"
said an intelligence official.
THE EIDI CLUE
The
Rs 1 lakh eidi (Eid gift) Yasin Bhatkal sent to his Delhi-based wife
before Eid, celebrated earlier this month, perhaps proved to be his
undoing and gave away his Nepal hideout.
This transfer of money, which was done through normal banking channels, alerted sleuths of the IB, who suspected Bhatkal may have been planning to enter India to carry out a terror attack or flee from his hideout at Pokhra.
This transfer of money, which was done through normal banking channels, alerted sleuths of the IB, who suspected Bhatkal may have been planning to enter India to carry out a terror attack or flee from his hideout at Pokhra.
طالبان سے مذاکرات کا آغاز، ’فائدہ ہونا شروع ہوگیا‘
پہلی مرتبہ ہے کہ مسلم لیگ (نواز) کی حکومت نے طالبان سے رابطوں کی تصدیق کی ہے
پاکستان کے ایک اعلیٰ سرکاری عہدیدار نے بی بی سی سے بات کرتے ہوئے حکومت اور پاکستانی طالبان کے درمیان مذاکرات کے آغاز کی تصدیق کرتے ہوئے کہا ہے کہ ’ان سے پہلے ہی فائدہ ہونا شروع ہوگیا ہے‘ جبکہ طالبان نے بھی ان ابتدائی رابطوں کی تصدیق کی ہے۔
Nine in every 10 Pakistanis are anxious: Survey
KARACHI Via Express Tribune):
Whether it’s the law and order situation or the incessant rise in fuel prices, tensions are high and nerves are shot in Pakistan.
Nine in every ten Pakistanis are anxious and “very nervous” about some issue or another, which is the largest proportion across the globe, according to a recent survey published by JWT titled “AnxietyIndex study – Global Report 2013”. The 27-country market study assesses and records the levels and drivers of consumer anxiety around the world.
A billion people in #India live on less than $4/day - بھارت میں ایک ارب افراد 4ڈالر روزانہ سے بھی کم پر رہتے ہیں،
بھارت میں ایک ارب افراد 4ڈالر روزانہ سے بھی کم پر رہتے ہیں، غربت کی
انتہا ہے۔
With a vast – and, just as importantly, youthful – population, India and its billion-plus potential consumers is on the minds of many Western companies. But will India be able to meet its potential? Ravi Venkatesan, a former chairman of Microsoft India and author of the new book Conquering the Chaos, answers GPS readers’ questions on this and other issues.
Time for Pakistan to face down extremists انتہا پسندوں کا سامنا کرنے کے لئے پاکستان کے لئے وقت
CNN
Editor’s note: Robert M. Hathaway directs the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is co-editor of New Security Challenges in Asia. The views expressed are his own.
Archenemies India and Pakistan, South Asia’s two nuclear-armed powers, are once again trading fire, taking casualties, and hurling accusations. Recent hopes for better relations between these long-time foes have been set back. Unfortunately, we have seen this movie before – and we know it doesn’t have a happy ending.
ٰIndia: Girl dies after falling in hot mid-day meal curry cauldron
August 25: An eight-year-old girl student of a tribal residential school here died of burn injuries today after she fell into a hot curry cauldron.
Banita Kahnhar, a Class III student of Sevashram School run by Odisha government at Girishchandrapur village, accidentally fell into the cauldron when the students were jostling to get the egg curry while the mid-day-meal was being served in the school, they said.
Banita Kahnhar, a Class III student of Sevashram School run by Odisha government at Girishchandrapur village, accidentally fell into the cauldron when the students were jostling to get the egg curry while the mid-day-meal was being served in the school, they said.
PPP Govt's big achievement - پی پی حکومت نے 5 سال میں 8136 ارب کے قرضے لیکر ہوا میں اڑادیئے، حکومت کا قومی اسمبلی میں بیان

| اسلام آباد(نمائندہ جنگ) وزیر مملکت انجینئرخرم دستگیر نے قومی اسمبلی کو بتایا کہ پیپلزپارٹی کی حکومت نے گزشتہ پانچ برسوں کے دوران 8136 ارب روپے کا ملکی و غیر ملکی قرضہ لیا۔ ملکی قرضہ کا حجم 6234.3 بلین روپے آئی ایم ایف کے قرضہ کا حجم 645.3 ارب روپے اور سرکاری گارنٹی جو قرضوں کے لیے دی گئی اس کا حجم 1256.5 ارب روپے ہے۔وہ معیشت کومستحکم بنانے کی بجائے ہوا میں اڑا دیاگیا اور کئی نسلیں مقروض ہوگئیں۔حکومت اس معاملے کی تحقیقات کررہی ہے۔ 2 ماہ میں 342 ارب روپے کا سرکلر ڈیبٹ ختم کیاگیا۔ پنشن کی ادائیگی کے لیے نیشنل بینک کی شرط ختم اوریکم اکتوبر سے بجلی ٹیرف میں مزید اضافہ کیا جائے گا۔ انہوں نے یہ بات جمعہ کے روز قومی اسمبلی میں وقفہ سوالات کے دوران چوہدری حامد مجیدکے سوال کے جواب میں بتائی۔ اسپیکر سردار ایاز صادق نے اجلاس کی صدارت کی۔ وزیرمملکت نے کہاکہ جب پیپلزپارٹی برسراقتدار آئی تو 30 جون 2008ء تک ملک پر واجب الادا مجموعی قرضہ 6044 ارب روپے تھا جبکہ سابق حکومت نے گزشتہ پانچ سالوں میں 8136 ارب روپے کا قرضہ لیا جو قرضہ لیاگیا۔موجودہ حکومت کی پالیسی یہ ہے کہ قرضوں پرانحصارکم کیاجائے۔ غیر ضروری اخراجات ختم کیے جارہے ہیں۔ انکم ٹیکس کی بنیادکو وسیع کیاجارہا ہے۔ توانائی کے بحران کوحل کیاجارہا ہے۔ شائستہ پرویزکے سوال پر وزیر منصوبہ بندی و ترقیات احسن اقبال نے تحریری جواب میں ایوان کو بتایا کہ حکومت نے یکم جنوری 2008ء سے اب تک 2008.269 ملین روپے مالیت کے 9 منصوبوں پرکام شروع کیا جن میں سے چار منصوبے ابھی تک مکمل نہیں ہوئے۔وزیر مملکت انجینئرخرم دستگیر خان نے بتایا کہ حال ہی میں جی ایس ٹی کی شرح میں ایک فی صد اضافے سے حکومت نے 13 جون 2013ء سے 30 جون 2013ء تک 1463.70 ملین روپے وصول کیے۔ ایوان کو بتایا گیا کہ افراط زرکو کنٹرول کرنے کے لیے کئی اقدامات اٹھائے گئے ہیں۔ مالیاتی نظم وضبط نافذکیاگیا ہے۔ ساجد احمدکے سوال پرانہوں نے بتایا کہ 100 روپے کے موبائل کارڈ پر 15 فیصد ودہولڈنگ ٹیکس اور 19.5 فیصد فیڈرل ایکسائز ڈیوٹی وصول کی جاتی ہے۔ |







































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