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Activists report to police, ‘Penguin’ vows to go ahead with major rally

6Sep

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Activists report to police, ‘Penguin’ vows to go ahead with major rally

Activists report to police, 'Penguin' vows to go ahead with major rally Activists Parit "Penguin" Chiwarak (left), Piyarat Chongthep (centre) and Suwanna Tarnlem, show a three-fingered salute as they left Nang Loeng police station after acknowledging charges related to the rally in front of the army headquarters on July 20. (Photo by Wassayos Ngamkham) Four activists have acknowledged charges against them in connection with a rally at the army headquarters last month while Parit "Penguin" Chiwarak has vowed to go ahead with a major rally next month. The four — human rights lawyer Anon Nampa, Suwanna Tarnlek, former MP candidate of the dissolved Future Forward Party Piyarat Chongthep and Mr Parit — arrived at the Nang Loeng police station on Tuesday to answer the summonses. On July 20,

Pakistan now contemplating on how to save Muzaffarabad: Maulana Fazlur Rehman

5Sep

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Pakistan now contemplating on how to save Muzaffarabad: Maulana Fazlur Rehman

Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman, president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F), Right-wing Pakistani politician ridiculed Imran Khan-led government for its ineffective policies regarding Kashmir.Maulana lambasted Prime Minister Imran Khan as he failed to counter India on Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370 last year, while addressing his supporters in Peshawar recently."India revoked Kashmir's special status and tactically announced the region as its integral part and we were pushed downwards. What were we thinking yesterday and what are we thinking today? Yesterday, we were thinking how to take Srinagar, today we are thinking as to how to save Muzaffarabad", said Maulana.On August 5, 2019, India revoked the special status of Kashmir and fully integrated Jammu and Kashmir with the rest of the count...

32 TIFF movies that people who know film want to see

5Sep

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32 TIFF movies that people who know film want to see

For once this pandemic year, that tingling sensation you’re feeling isn’t coming from the fear of COVID-19. It’s the buzz generated by the Toronto International Film Festival, which is defying the virus by going ahead with its Sept. 10 to 19 cinema celebration, albeit in a downsized form that’s more of an online and outdoor event. Which means it’s time for the 20th anniversary edition of “Chasing the Buzz,” the Star’s annual dive into the hive of pre-TIFF anticipation, taken from a poll of film critics, writers, programmers and scholars. This year, antennae are seriously twitching for “One Night in Miami,” the top pick with five votes and the feature directing debut of Oscar-winning actress Regina King. It dramatically imagines what might have happened had 1960s icons Muhammad Ali, Malc

Biden slams Trump over alleged comments mocking US war dead

5Sep

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Biden slams Trump over alleged comments mocking US war dead

WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden declared President Donald Trump “unfit” for the presidency on Friday, delivering an impassioned reaction to a report that Trump — who never served in uniform — allegedly mocked American war dead. The president and his allies have dismissed the report in The Atlantic as false. The allegations, sourced anonymously, describe multiple offensive comments by the president toward fallen and captured U.S. service members, including calling World War I dead at an American military cemetery in France “losers” and “suckers” in 2018. The reported comments, many of which were confirmed independently by The Associated Press, are shining a fresh light on Trump’s previous public disparagement of American troops and military families. That opens a n

Bangladesh would like to be part of India’s plan of becoming ‘Atmanirbhar’

2Sep

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Bangladesh would like to be part of India’s plan of becoming ‘Atmanirbhar’

After listening to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bangladeshi High Commissioner to India Mohammad Imran has said that Bangladesh would also like to be a part of India’s plan of becoming Atmanirbhar (self-reliant).“I attended the Independence Day celebrations at Red Fort...It was very encouraging listening to Prime Minister Modi. We look forward to having a much better relationship with India. We already have very good relations with India and it can be taken to a higher level,” he said.He further said that India and Bangladesh can complement each other with regard to becoming ‘atmanirbhar’.“Be it at the personal level or at the national level, everyone should be atmanirbhar. As India will be ‘Atmanirbhar’, we also want to be a part of it. I think that if we both work together, we bot

Pro-royalists disperse after countering student rally at Democracy Monument

1Sep

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Pro-royalists disperse after countering student rally at Democracy Monument

Pro-royalists disperse after countering student rally at Democracy Monument Pro-royalists gather on Ratchadamneon Avenue near the Democracy Monument before walking to the monument on Sunday. (Photo by Arnun Cholmahatrakul) Pro-royalists have ended their rally near the Democracy Monument, leaving some members to observe the student-led demonstrations against the government. The nationalistic pro-monarchy movement, led by vocational students, dispersed from Ratchadamnoen Avenue around 4pm, but its leaders said some would remain to monitor the anti-government demonstration. Earlier, about 60 pro-royalist demonstrators, led by vocational students, converged at the Democracy Monument in Bangkok holding national flags and portraits of His Majesty the King and royal family members in an attem...

Chinese Communist Party more assertive, demanding: Report

30Aug

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Chinese Communist Party more assertive, demanding: Report

Top US and European think tanks has cautioned that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has emerged more “assertive, demanding, unyielding, confrontational, and punitive” in its international posture.A report titled ‘Dealing with the Dragon: China as a Transatlantic Challenge’, has summarized changing U.S. and European views of, and relations with, China.The contents of report is based on a symposium convened in Berlin, Germany in February 2020, which brought together 43 strategists and China specialists from the United States and 11 European countries for intensive discussions over three days.The first half of the Symposium was structured to probe the debates on both sides of the Atlantic, while the second half was dedicated to “deep dives” into seven specific dimensions of China’s behavior

29Aug

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Navy on defensive over sub plan

Royal Thai Navy top brass hold a press briefing at the force's headquarters in Bangkok on Monday to defend the purchase of two more submarines worth a massive 22.5 billion baht from China. Apichit Jinakul The Royal Thai Navy has defended its planned procurement of two more submarines worth a massive 22.5 billion baht from China, and accused the Pheu Thai Party of exploiting the issue for political gain. The government and navy are under fire after a House subcommittee last Friday approved the purchase. The public outcry over the submarine procurement forced the navy to hold a media conference on Monday. The topic #PeopleSayNoToSubs (in Thai) has been among the top hashtags since the budget got the nod from the subcommittee. During Monday's press briefing at the navy headquarters in Ban...

Social media outburst against former Malaysian PM Mahathir for targeting Kashmir

28Aug

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Social media outburst against former Malaysian PM Mahathir for targeting Kashmir

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad faced heat on Twitter after he raised the issue of Kashmir in one of his tweets."Now that I am no more the Prime Minister, I take it that I can now speak without restrain and address the Kashmir issue without threats of boycotts and such. At Kashmir's one year lockdown since 5th August,” he said in a tweet.On his comments, Twitterati lashed out at him for not speaking about human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims. They also accused him of not raising global concerns over Pakistan sponsored terrorism and human rights violations in Balochistan, Singh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.Shoaib Wani said, "Now I can speak freely! if you really mean what you say, can you raise your voice against Uyghur Muslims in China? CCP suppressing our fellow Musli

26Aug

By Stuart WhiteNo Comments

## Pitiful state of Pakistan ##

In July 2018, Pakistan was accused by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) of not doing enough to counter terrorism and subsequently was put on FATF’s grey list. It is only after FATF’s approval that millions of dollars in grants and aid are given to countries combating terrorism.The next session of FATF, which has seen delays due to COVID 19 pandemic, is due again shortly. Pakistan’s recent admission and subsequent denial of designated global terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, who is accused by India of the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb attacks that claimed the lives of more than 250 and wounded 900 innocent civilians, is testimony to the pitiful state Pakistan has got herself into. Not only that, this demonstrates Prime minister Imran Khan’s desperation for seeking financial aid (admitting that Dawoo