[Dhaka Tribune] The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka is working round the clock to uncover the truth behind the circumstances that got 23-year old Foyzur Rahman Faizul involved in militancy. Not a complicated problem to solve. Read on.
In search of answers, officials concerned have interrogated the youth multiple times.
CTTC Additional Deputy Police Commissioner Md Saiful Islam said: "Faizul belongs to a devout Moslem family. His behavior began changing from 2016, as he started reading material from the Ahl al-Hadith sect of Islam.
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"Hard to tell. He was a nice boy"
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[ATimes] If Islamabad's plan to counter terror funding and money laundering fails to satisfy the Financial Action Task Force, the consequences could be grave.
With Pakistan set to be placed on the inter-governmental Financial Action Task Force’s “grey” list this June, following a round of farcical diplomacy in Paris last month, the country appears to be edging toward global banking isolation.
Pakistan temporarily avoided being put on the grey list after failing, at the Paris meeting, to present its proposal to counter terror financing and money laundering. But Islamabad’s proposal will be scrutinized in a June meeting, and failing to satisfy the FATF could in fact result in Pakistan being put on the black list, alongside only two other offenders: Iran and North Korea.
Pakistan hasn’t taken the necessary measures, as per the FATF’s instructions, to curb money laundering or combat financing for terrorism – the two domains that the watchdog reviews.
The FATF has “40 plus 9” recommendations for all states – 40 pre-date 9/11; nine came after it. Pakistan falls short on many of those.
“These are crystal clear instructions sent out to all the countries. Pakistan has been failing to fulfill its requirements,” says economist and columnist Farrukh Saleem, who is executive director of the Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) in Islamabad.
The FATF judges states on three levels: legislation, institutional capacity and conviction. Speaking to Asia Times, Saleem said Pakistan hasn’t been doing enough of any of those fronts.
“As far as the repercussions [for being put on the FATF grey list] are concerned, no country in the world can live in isolation – it’s a global village now,” he said. “Our imports are worth approximately US$55 billion, exports worth US$20 billion, with around US$20 billion worth of remittances. So roughly there’s US$100 billion worth of business that involves Pakistan – and all of this is through banking channels.
“Once a country is on the grey list, all banking channels are put under scrutiny. This would result in constant delays in transactions. And there is a chance that many banks would simply refuse to do business in Pakistan.”
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After General Zia ul-Haq attempted to implement sharia-based Islamic banking in the nineteen eighties Pakistan banks began to keep two sets of books. Only one of which was shown the government. Thus began the corruption later manifested by the failure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. Nothing much has changed, and rampant corruption exists in the Pak banking sector today.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi issued a decree including the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) into the country’s armed forces, according to KUNA news agency.
The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), also known as Hashd Shaabi, will get the same rights and privileges as the Iraqi armed forces, the KUNA news agency reported.
The Shiite-dominated units, which also include Sunni components, will also be subjected to legislation regulating military service as well as getting access to military institutes and colleges.
The Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi’s decree also determined a supreme chief of the PMF and his two deputies, whose title will be set by the supreme commander of the armed forces.
Paramilitary members will be given similar salaries to the members of the military under the Ministry of Defense’s control, the decree said. They will also be subject to the laws of military service and will gain access to military institutes and colleges.
The PMF was formed in line with a fatwa of Iraqi top Shiite holy man Ayatollah Ali Sistani in 2014 to resist ISIS*.
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[IsraelTimes] Palestinian official says warming Jerusalem-Riyadh ties are undermining the PA, with the Saudis no longer viewing Israel as 'the greatest enemy in the region anymore'.
Top Israeli and Saudi Arabian officials reportedly held a series of secret meetings in Cairo last week, ahead of US President Donald Trump’s expected unveiling of his long-awaited Middle East peace plan.
Earlier on Friday, a report in the privately owned Egyptian newspaper Al Shorouk said several unnamed Arab countries were advising PA President Mahmoud Abbas to accept whatever plan the Trump administration put forth, or risk “regretting” it later.
[IsraelTimes] UNIFIL spokesperson says there is 'no appetite for instability or for war' from either side, after heightened tensions over border wall, offshore gas fields
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It's not that they're suddenly 'talking' to Israel. They've been doing that for years. It's that they're communicating in public and don't care who knows it.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish government has opened the border to tens of thousands of faceless myrmidons to infiltrate Syria, Syria’s Ambassador to the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Bashar Jaafari told Sputnik.
"The Ottoman Turkish government has opened the border for tens of thousands of faceless myrmidons to enter Syria," Syria’s Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Jaafari said.
He noted that the Ottoman Turkish government committed to arming faceless myrmidons and financing their activities, set a camp for their military training on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... ’s territory, and facilitated their access to chemical weapons.
According to Jaafari, terrorist groups allegedly inspired by the Ottoman Turkish government robbed factories in Aleppo. The value of the loot is estimated to amount to tens of billions of US dollars.
He stated that Turkey did not stop after committing these crimes and launched direct aggression in Afrin. Jaafari stressed that Turkey in its official statements refused to comply with the provisions of UNSC Resolution 2401 on cessation of hostilities in Syria.
Last week, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2401 that urges all parties to the conflict to immediately stop all festivities and adhere to a long-term humanitarian ceasefire for at least 30 days across the entirety of Syrian territory in order to ensure the safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid supplies, as well as the medical evacuation of injured people. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... truce violations continue to take place in the crisis-torn country, including in Eastern Ghouta. Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... criticized the resolution, noting that Ankara has been conducting operation only against terrorists.
On January 20, Ankara, jointly with the opposition Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... forces, launched Operation Olive Branch in Afrin in order to "clear" Turkey’s Syrian border from the terrorist threat. Turkey considers the PYD, a Kurdish political party in northern Syria, and the YPG militia to be linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), listed as a terrorist organization by Ankara.
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[TheLongWarJournal ]Maj Gen Qassem Soleimani, the chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Qods Force, addressed last month a commemoration held in Iran for slain Lebanese Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh (AKA Hajj Radwan). State-affiliated media outlets published different versions of the same speech.
Mughniyeh was a founder of Hezbollah, serving as its international operations chief and liaison with Iran. He was the architect of a string of notorious bombings, kidnappings, hijackings and assassinations including the bombings of the U.S. embassy and Marine barracks in Lebanon in the 1980’s. More Americans died in his orchestrated attacks than anyone else prior to 9/11. Mughniyeh died in a car bombing in Damascus in 2008. Initial suspects were the Syrians or the Israelis. Later revelation pointed to the latter, with the help of the Central Intelligence Agency.
“They [Israel] know, but must more seriously know that the qisas [retribution] of Imad and all the Imads who’ve been martyred in Palestine, Lebanon and Iran is not the firing of a missile and killing someone,” Soleimani warned, “the qisas of these bloods is the destruction of the child-killing Zionist regime, and this is a certain matter.”
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[Dhaka Tribune] The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka is working round the clock to uncover the truth behind the circumstances that got 23-year old Foyzur Rahman Faizul involved in militancy.
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
