Deepak Kumar Nayak
INDIA
On Nov 11, 2018, a Border Security Force (BSF) Sub-Inspector was killed inwards an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) triggered yesteryear Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres close the Koliyabeda expanse inwards Kanker District. Another BSF trooper was injured inwards the explosion. Police disclosed that the Maoists triggered some other 5 IED blasts at sort locations inwards the areas betwixt Kattakal together with Gome villages inwards the District, though at that spot were no casualties. These incidents took house a solar daytime ahead of the scheduled polling inwards the region.
The get-go stage of the two-phase State Assembly Elections is beingness held on Nov 12 [at the fourth dimension of writing] piece the minute stage is scheduled to live held on Nov 20, 2018. Polling inwards eighteen constituencies inwards 8 Districts–Bastar, Kanker, Sukma, Bijapur, Dantewada, Narayanpur, Kondagaon together with Rajnandgaon–is beingness held inwards the get-go stage [these are the 8 districts inwards Chhattisgarh which get got been listed amidst the xxx worst Naxal(Left Wing extremism, LWE)-affected Districts across the country.] The remaining 72 constituencies volition become to the polls on Nov 20. Counting of votes volition live held on Dec 11.
On Nov 8, 2018, at to the lowest degree 4 civilians together with a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Head Constablewere killed when cadres of the CPI-Maoist triggered an IED targeting a omnibus carrying CISF personnel inwards a hilly expanse inwards Bacheli inwards Dantewada District.The dead civilians included the omnibus driver, ii helpers, together with a truck driver who had taken elevator inwards the bus. Two CISF troopers were also injured inwards the incident. The explosion took house when the CISF personnel were returning to their campsite inwards Akashnagar later purchasing groceries from a nearby market. The CISF unit of measurement was deployed inwards the expanse for the get-go stage of the polls inwards the State.
On Nov 7, 2018, the married adult man of asarpanch (head of the Panchayat, hamlet aeroplane local self-government institution) was killed yesteryear CPI-Maoist cadres inwards Sukma District. KalmuDhruva was brutally beaten to expiry amongst sticks. Sukma, Superintendent of Police (SP) Abhishek Meena disclosed that Dhruva, the victim, was a worker of the Communist Party of Republic of Republic of India (CPI), piece his married adult woman is thesarpanch of Bodko village.
On Oct 30, 2018, 4 persons, including a Doordarshan(national Television)camera human being andthreeCentral Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel,were killed whenCPI-Maoist cadres attacked the crew members of Doordarshannear Nilawaya hamlet nether Aranapur Police Station limitsin Dantewada District. According to reports, aDoordarshanteam gone to Dantewada for coverage of election related developments.
In a sort incident on the same day, a 65-year-old villager was killed when a push clit per unit of measurement area bomb, suspected to get got been planted yesteryear the Maoists, went off close Nawadih hamlet nether Samri Police Station limits inwards BalrampurDistrict.Road construction move is reportedly nether agency inwards Samri.
On Oct 28, 2018, a local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was critically injured later he was attacked yesteryear one-half a dozen suspected CPI-Maoist cadres amongst acuate edged weapons inwards Dantewada District. Nandlal Mudami is a Zilla Parishad (District Council) member. Dantewada SP Abhishek Pallav stated, “Mudami played a major purpose inwards bringing people inwards Palnar to the mainstream. This angered the Naxals [Left Wing extremism, LWE]. We used to hold getting the information that they are planning to blast back.” BJP is the ruling political party inwards the State.
On Oct 27, 2018, 4 personnel of the CRPF were killed together with some other ii injured inwards an assault carried out yesteryear CPI-Maoist cadres merely a kilometre away from the CRPF’s Murdana campsite nether Awapalli Police Station inwards Bijapur District. Troops of the 168thBattalion were out on an ‘area domination' practice together with a road-opening functioning betwixt Murdana together with Timapur when they were attacked about 4.10pm. TheMaoists get-go blew upwardly a Mine Protected Vehicle (MPV) together with therefore fired upon the injured troopers amongst automatic weapons, killing 4 personnel on the spot.
On Oct 25, 2018, a CRPF trooper was injured inwards an IED blast triggered yesteryear CPI-Maoist cadres inwards Sukma District. The incident took house when a squad of CRPF's 223rdBattalion was out on an anti-Naxal functioning inwards a forested expanse nether Jagargunda Police Station limits.
According to partial information compiled yesteryear the Southern Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP), at to the lowest degree vii civilians together with nine Security Force (SF) personnel get got been killed inwards fifteen incidents of LWE-linked violence (data till Nov 11, 2018) recorded inwards 37 days, since the State Assembly Polls wereannounced on Oct 6, 2018.
In the interim, on Oct 8, 2018, intelligence units operating inwards Chhattisgarh warned of heightened Maoist action inwards the State, specially inwards Bijapur, Dantewada, Narayanpur together with Sukma, inwards the run-up to the State Assembly elections. At to the lowest degree nine incidents of LWE-linked violence havealready been recorded.
The Maoists had called upon voters to boycott the Assembly polls inwards the State.Among others, Maoist banners written inwards Hindi were recovered from forests inwards the Bastar regiononOctober 30, 2018, declaring,
Farzi Chhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha ka Chunao ka Bahiskar karo. Janatana Sarkar ko majboot karenge unka vistaar karenge. Janyudhya ko tej karke, daman yojna-samadhan ko harayenge. [Boycott simulated Chhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha (Assembly) election. Strengthen together with expand people's government. Speed upwardly people’s state of war to defeat oppressive regime]
Inspector Salim of Katekalyan Police Stationin Dantewada Districtstatedon Oct 31, 2018, that election preparations were going according to schedule, despite threats together with the boycott telephone telephone yesteryear the Naxals. He elaborated,
We are trying to ensure that polling takes house here. Forces from other areashave also come upwardly to assist us. It is truthful that Naxals be inthis expanse together with they get got been campaigning together with advocating against participationin elections; sometimes fifty-fifty scaring the locals inwards such a agency that they desistfrom casting votes. However, nosotros are prepared to aspect upwardly all challenges…It’s challenging but nosotros are ready. Villagers are connecting amongst us.
According to a study dated Oct 31, 2018, the State Government has built upwardly a polling booth inwards the Telam hamlet of the Katekalyan part inwards Dantewada District.The villagers inwards the expanse volition live getting an chance to cast their vote for the get-go fourth dimension since independence together with are reportedly excited close the construction of the polling booth inwards their village.
Meanwhile, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister (CM)Raman Singhstated on Oct 31, 2018, “We get got prepared a roadmap on how ameliorate safety tin live provided to media together with locals… We get got adequate safety for polls.”
Indeed, inwards take in of the threat perception,in eighteen constituencies falling inwards the Bastar region, which become to the polls inwards the get-go stage on Nov 12, close 65,000 additional troops from diverse Central together with State Police Forces get got been deployed, every bit disclosed yesteryear officials on Oct 31, 2018:“About 650 companies of fundamental together with State [from other States]Police Forces volition live deployed for the get-go stage of polls inwards the State. The (personnel of) Chhattisgarh Police is inwards add-on to this.”Chhattisgarh has a Police population ratio of 228.60 per 100,000 (as on Jan 1, 2017), substantially higher than the national average of 150.75, but significantly below the required strength, inwards take in of the scale of the ongoing Maoist insurgency.There is no informationat acquaint regarding additional deployment for the 72 constituenciesfor the minute Phase of polls to live held on Nov 20. Around 50 battalions of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) rest posted inwards Chhattisgarh throughout the year.
In the 37 days since the notification of the Elections on Oct 6, 2018, SFs get got neutralised vii Maoists inwards 5 sort incidents together with arrested at to the lowest degree some other 16. Continuing SF push clit per unit of measurement area has led to the give upwardly of at to the lowest degree 104 LWE elements inwards the province (data till Nov 11, 2018). Notably, over the yesteryear 10 months together with eleven days, SFs get got neutralised 104 Maoists inwards 46 sort incidents together with arrested at to the lowest degree some other 315 inwards the State. SF push clit per unit of measurement area has led to the give upwardly of at to the lowest degree 273 LWE elements inwards Chhattisgarh (data till Nov 11, 2018).
Assembly Elections inwards 2013 had been quite peaceful. On Oct 4, 2013, the Election Commission had announced two-phased electionsin Chhattisgarh on Nov eleven together with 19, 2013.According to the SATP database, 4 SF personnel together with i civilian were killed inwards 12 incidents of LWE-linked violence betwixt Oct 4, 2013, together with Nov 19, 2013.There were at to the lowest degree 5 Maoist fatalities during this menstruum of 46 days. Moreover, the voter turnout stood at over 77 per cent across the State. One constituency (Kurud) saw an astonishing 88 per cent vote.
A high voter turnout is i time over again expected inwards the electrical current Assembly elections, despite the relative spike inwards LWE-violence since the publication of the electionnotification. In an unrelated yesteryear pregnant development, according media reports on Nov 5, 2018, Muppala Lakshmana Rao aka Ganapathy, the 71-year-old ‘general secretary’ of the CPI-Maoist, had been replaced yesteryear his ‘second-in-command’ Nambala Keshava Rao akaBasavaraj (63). It is to live noted that Basavaraj was heading the CPI-Maoist's ‘military-wing’, PLGA (People's Liberation Guerrilla Army), since its inception. He is also suspected to live behind almost all major Maoist attacks that get got taken house inwards Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra together with Odisha inwards the recent past. Basavaraj is an goodness inwards explosives together with military machine techniques together with has a goodness network amongst arms traders. He also has a reputation for greater proclivities to violence than Ganapathy. While this transition has non been confirmed yesteryear Maoist sources, if corroborated, it would advise the possibility of heightened Maoist violence, despite the rising push clit per unit of measurement area of the SFs over the yesteryear years.
SRI LANKA
Fueling Uncertainty
S. Binodkumar Singh
Research Associate, Institute for Conflict Management
In a surprising political development, a coalition partner of the Sri Lankan Government, the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA), announced its conclusion to exit the National Unity Government (NUG) on Oct 26, 2018. NUG was formed on August 20, 2015, amongst a coalition betwixt UPFA together with the United National Party (UNP). Soon later the announcement, the Presidential Secretariat published ii Extraordinary Gazettes to withdraw Ranil Wickremesinghe from the Prime Minister’s post, together with to appoint sometime President together with Kurunegala District Member of Parliament (MP) Mahinda Rajapaksa every bit Prime Minister. Justifying his precipitous political maneuver piece addressing the patch on Oct 28, 2018, President Maithripala Sirisena categorically stated “There was a policy conflict betwixt Hon. Ranil Wickremesinghe together with me, during the concluding 3 together with one-half years. Apart from policy differences, I noted that at that spot were also differences of civilisation betwixt Mr Wickremesinghe together with me. I believe that all those differences inwards policy, culture, personality together with comport aggravated this political together with economical crisis.”
Significantly, President Sirisena's UPFA together with Prime Minister Wickremesinghe's UNP formed the NUG on a platform of goodness governance next the Parliamentary Elections held on August 17, 2015. There has, however, been growing tension betwixt the coalition partners on several policy matters together with the President has been critical of the Prime Minister Wickremesinghe together with his policies, specially on economy.
Deepening the crisis further, on Oct 27, 2018, President Sirisena suspended Parliament until Nov 16, 2018, every bit Prime Minister Wickremesinghe refused to select his unconstitutional removal together with called for an immediate parliamentary session to evidence that he retains the bulk inwards Parliament. Further, on Oct 29, 2018, a novel Cabinet of Ministers nether Prime Minister Rajapaksa was sworn inwards earlier President Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat inwards Colombo.
Reacting sharply to his sacking at a nationally televised press conference inwards the black of Oct 26, 2018, Wickremesinghe asserted "I am addressing y'all every bit the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. I rest every bit Prime Minister together with I volition business office every bit the Prime Minister. Only I get got the majority. The exclusively agency that tin live changed is through a no confidence motility or if I resign.”
According to the Article 42 (4) of the Constitution of Sri Lanka the President shall appoint every bit Prime Minister the Member of Parliament, who, inwards the President's opinion, is most probable to ascendance the confidence of Parliament. Article 46 (2) states that the Prime Minister shall give-up the ghost along to handgrip business office throughout the menstruum during which the Cabinet of Ministers continues to business office nether the provisions of the Constitution unless he – (a) resigns his business office yesteryear a writing nether his paw addressed to the President; or (b) ceases to live a Member of Parliament. In the 225-member House, the Rajapaksa-Sirisena combine had exclusively 95 seats together with was curt of a uncomplicated majority. Wickremesinghe’s UNP had 106 seats on its own, together with was merely vii curt of the majority. Earlier, on Apr 4, 2018, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe successfully defeated a No-Confidence Motion engineered yesteryear Sirisena together with backed yesteryear Rajapaksa. Of the 225 MPs, 122 MPs – 104 of the UNP, xvi of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), together with i each of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) together with Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) – voted against the No-Confidence Motion.
Meanwhile, UNP senior Ministers together with MPs at media briefings held inwards Temple Trees, Colombo, on Oct 28, 2018, said they would select to the streets together with protestation against the unconstitutional ability transfer together with the proroguing of Parliament. Angry protests rocked Sri Lanka’s uppercase every bit thousands of demonstrators gathered on Oct 30, 2018, for a bulk rally organized yesteryear UNP against what it said was a “coup” yesteryear President Sirisena. Police sources estimated close 25,000 people thronged the rally.
Separately, to ensure that Prime Minister Wickremesinghe's privileges are protected until the Parliament makes a conclusion on a Prime Minister due to the crisis province of affairs prevailing inwards the country, Speaker Karu Jayasuriya, inwards a missive of the alphabet to the President, on Oct 28, 2018, stated, “I consider it my initiative of all duty to protect the rights together with privileges of all Members of Parliament, specially inwards the context of the serious political-constitutional crisis which has arisen inwards the country. I get got received a asking to protect the rights together with privileges of Hon. Ranil Wickremesinghe until whatever other individual emerges from inside Parliament every bit having secured the confidence of Parliament.” On Oct 30, 2018, inwards a missive of the alphabet to the President, the Speaker reiterated, "Once again, inwards the scream of democracy, I kindly urge y'all to summon Parliament forthwith for the wellbeing of world together with to ensure judge without allowing the Earth to live dragged into a crisis.”
Supporting Prime Minister Wickremesinghe, the main Tamil party, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) which has xvi MPs inwards the House, inwards a tilt issued on Nov 3, 2018, decided to back upwardly the no-confidence motility brought yesteryear the UNP against novel Prime Minister Rajapaksa. Similarly, the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP, People's Liberation Front) which has 6 legislators, also announced on Nov 7, 2018, that the political party would back upwardly whatever motility brought to defeat the political conspiracy hatched yesteryear President Sirisena together with sometime President Rajapaksa.
Condemning the President's unconstitutional ability transfer, a grouping of civil social club representatives met Speaker Jayasuriya on Oct 31, 2018, together with handed over a petition containing unopen to 16,000 signatures obtained through the Internet, urging that Parliament live reconvened instantly to re-establish commonwealth inwards the country. Separately, on Nov 6, 2018, the Maha Sangh, a large grouping of Buddhist monks, gathered close the Buddha statue at Viharamahadevi Park inwards Colombo together with walked to the New Town Hall demanding the restoration of Parliament together with accolade of democratic principles together with processes. Prior to the convention at the Town Hall, the Maha Sangha came to Temple Trees together with blessed UNP leader Wickremesinghe. The Maha Sangha chanted Seth Pirith [Most Powerful Protection incantation] together with invoked blessings on Wickremesinghe.
In a setback to President Sirisena, Sri Lanka's Attorney General Jayantha Jayasuriya on Oct 31, 2018, refused to endorse the President's dismissal of the Prime Minister for a sometime strongman defendant of rights abuses, the clearest sign yet that the displace was unconstitutional. Jayasuriya's refusal bolstered Wickremesinghe's claim that the President acted exterior the Constitution yesteryear dumping him inwards favour of Rajapaksa, a sometime President who ruled amongst an atomic number 26 fist for a decade. In some other blow to President Sirisena, Manusha Nanayakkara, a UPFA Deputy Minister resigned on Nov 6, 2018, together with backed the ousted Wickremesinghe, declaring that inwards his sentiment Wickremesinghe was soundless the legitimate Prime Minister every bit accepted yesteryear the Speaker.
Significantly, on Nov 2, 2018, a resolution signed yesteryear 118 MP’s against the appointment of sometime President Mahinda Rajapaksa every bit the Prime Minister was handed over to Speaker Jayasuriya. In the resolution, the MPs stated, “We also don’t select whatever of the decisions together with appointments made yesteryear the President that followed the appointment of Mr. Rajapaksa every bit the Prime Minister.” On the same day, UNP MP Palitha Range Bandara revealed that he was offered USD 2.8 i M m together with a Ministerial portfolio to bring together the Rajapaksa Government.
The international community reacted adversely to the Wickremesinghe’s dismissal. Expressing keen trouble concern on Nov 1, 2018, Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) Antonio Guterres urged President Sirisena to revert to Parliamentary procedures together with allow the Parliament to vote every bit shortly every bit possible. Similarly, on Nov 6, 2018, the Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland encouraged the political leaders together with people of Sri Lanka to engage inwards constructive dialogue together with uphold the dominion of law inwards monastic tell to resolve the crisis. Likewise, on Nov 7, 2018, the U.S. urged President Sirisena to reconvene Parliament immediately. Meanwhile, a delegation of the European Union (EU) issuing a articulation tilt inwards understanding amongst the European Union Heads of Mission every bit good every bit the Ambassadors of Kingdom of Norway together with Switzerland resident inwards Colombo declared, on Nov 9, 2018,
We consider it essential that Parliament live allowed to demonstrate its confidence yesteryear voting instantly when reconvened inwards monastic tell to resolve the serious uncertainties currently facing the country. Any farther delay could harm Sri Lanka's international reputation together with deter investors. Respect yesteryear all stakeholders for the provisions of the constitution volition live of import to maintain the confidence of the Sri Lankan people inwards democratic governance together with the dominion of law.
In the aspect upwardly of growing calls to halt the political impasse inwards the country, partially revoking his monastic tell that suspended the House till Nov 16, President Sirisena, yesteryear his monastic tell of Nov 1, 2018, recalled Parliament on Nov 5. Once again, on Nov 4, 2018, President Sirisena issued an Extraordinary Gazette notification summoning Parliament on Nov 14. According to the extraordinary gazette notification signed yesteryear Udaya R. Seneviratne, the Secretary to the President, Parliament would live reconvened on Nov xiv at 10:00 a.m.
However, deepening the political crisis further, on Nov 9, 2018, President Sirisena inwards an extraordinary Gazette notification announced the dissolution of the Parliament amongst trial from Nov 9, midnight, together with scheduled full general elections to live held on Jan 5, 2019. Observers say the dissolution was announced every bit Sirisena realized that his de facto Prime Minister Rajapaksa would non ascendance a bulk inwards Parliament. The UNP had a slight border over the Sirisena-led UPFA every bit Rajapaksa, who ruled the Earth from 2005 to 2015 has been defendant of grave human rights abuses together with corruption, together with is unlikely to gain the backing of the xvi parliamentarians of the TNA. The 6 JVP legislators had already announced that they would vote inwards favor of Wickremesinghe.
On the other hand, betraying Sirisena, barely ii weeks later the President installed Rajapaksa inwards office, the latter, along amongst 44 sometime MPs, defected from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), the political party led yesteryear Sirisena, together with joined the Sri Lanka Podujana Peremuna (SLPP), a political political party formed inwards 2016 yesteryear Rajapaksa’s younger blood brother Basil Rajapaksa. H5N1 SLPP rootage said 65 out of 82 sometime SLFP MPs volition eventually bring together the novel party.
Meanwhile, on Nov 12, 2018, several political parties including UNP, JVP, the TNA, Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) together with the All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC), every bit good every bit the civil social club organization, the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), together with Attorney Aruna Laksiri get got filed petitions, naming President Sirisena, Prime Minister Rajapaksa, the Elections Commission together with its members every bit respondents. The petitioners assert that the President has no ability to dissolve Parliament nether the 19th Amendment to the Constitution together with get got requested the Apex Court to number an monastic tell voiding the gazette notification issued yesteryear the President dissolving the Parliament, together with to suspend the upcoming General Election until the verdict on the hearing is passed.
The political crisis started inwards the Island patch on Oct 26, 2018, yesteryear President Sirisena abruptly ousting Prime Minister Wickremesinghe together with replacing him amongst Rajapaksa is expected to give-up the ghost along for quite some time, every bit the thing has at nowadays passed on to the Supreme Court.
AFGHANISTAN
Afghan peace discussed at Moscow Summit: The Moscow Summit on Afghanistan’s peace was held on Nov nine where representatives of the Taliban together with envoys from eleven countries, including the U.S. (US), had participated. “Our countries are facing amongst international insurgency together with i of their targets is Afghanistan. Daesh is the vanguard of these groups together with amongst back upwardly from foreigners it tries to brand a house for itself inwards Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan together with from at that spot expand to the Central Asia together with further. The objective of all these countries is to back upwardly Afghans to eradicate this threat,” said Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Taliban representatives meanwhile said the withdrawal of unusual forces from Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan is the exclusively agency for maintaining security. Tolo News, Nov 10, 2018.
BANGLADESH
Shun path of hatred, urges PM Sheikh Hasina: Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina on Nov 4 urged Islamic scholars together with religious leaders to play their purpose inwards maintaining peace inwards the society, assuring them that her Government would non allow anyone to spread whatever propaganda against Islam. The rally was organised yesteryear Al-Haiyatul Ulya Lil-Zami'atil Qawmiya Bangladesh, a combine of Qawmi teaching boards, to admit the government's recognition of the highest aeroplane offered yesteryear non-government Qawmi madrassa every bit equivalent to postgraduate degree. The combine is led yesteryear Hefajat-e Islam ‘chief’ Shah Ahmed Shafi. The Daily Star, Nov 6, 2018.
MALDIVES
China aims to ‘enslave’ the Maldives, claims sometime President Nasheed: Former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed on Nov nine has stated that despite of the Republic of the Maldives amassing USD 3 billion inwards ‘debt’ to China, the newly elect authorities inwards the Republic of the Maldives would exclusively pay dorsum "the exact amount owed" to China. Nasheed also defendant that mainland People's Republic of China aiming to enslave the Republic of the Maldives yesteryear providing loans to fund several major infrastructure projects, including a Maldives-China landmark distich which connects the Male metropolis to the Airport Island Hulhule. Avas.mv, Nov 11, 2018.
President-elect Solih seeks FBI’s assist to line ‘missing’ State funds, says report: The President-elect Ibrahim Solih is seeking the assistance from the United States’ (US) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to line the missing State funds. As per the reports inwards the Los Angeles Times dated Oct 30, post victory inwards the 2018 Presidential election, Solih met amongst Chinese Ambassador [identity undisclosed] to the Republic of the Maldives together with discovered that the Republic of the Maldives at nowadays owes mainland People's Republic of China nearly USD 3 billion, double the previously estimated USD 1.5 billion. Maldives Times, Nov 10, 2018
NEPAL
Constitution volition live at risk if federalism fails, says NC fundamental fellow member Shekhar Koirala: Nepali Congress (NC) fundamental fellow member Dr Shekhar Koirala on Nov 6 said that the country’s constitution volition live at risk if the scheme of federalism fails. He said, “The acquaint authorities should non fail. The federal authorities has to educate laws every bit early on every bit possible together with paw over the responsibleness of constabulary direction together with employee’s adjustment to the provincial governments. Delay inwards this regard must live prevented every bit this may ignite protests. Cordiality must be amidst political parties inwards monastic tell to select the Earth on the path of evolution together with prosperity.” The Himalayan Times , Nov 8, 2018.
PAKISTAN
War on terror left one-half a i M m dead inwards 17 years, says Brown University’s ‘Costs of War Project’ report: War-related violence has killed 65,000 people inwards Islamic Republic of Pakistan inwards the concluding 17 years, including 23,000 civilians, 9,000 safety personnel together with ninety American contractors, says a study released on Nov 9. The ease of the casualties were anti-government fighters. The study yesteryear the Brown University’s Costs of War Project notes that since 2001, when the U.S. launched its state of war on terror, close 507,000 people get got been killed inwards Pakistan, Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan together with Iraq. The study also warns that at that spot has been a 22 per cent growth inwards state of war deaths inwards the yesteryear ii years. Dawn, Nov 10, 2018.
2,714 persons killed inwards 409 drone strikes, terror attacks since 2004, says NACTA sources: H5N1 total of 409 drone attacks get got been conducted inwards Islamic Republic of Pakistan since Jan 2004, inwards which 2,714 persons get got been killed together with 728 injured, National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) sources said. The bulk of the strikes were carried out during the Government of Islamic Republic of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) betwixt 2008 together with 2012. Sources inside the National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) latterly shared details, claiming that the menstruum saw 336 aerial attacks, inwards which 2,282 people lost their lives together with 658 received injuries. Dawn, Nov 9, 2018.
National Commission for Enforced Disappearances disposes off 3,633 cases inwards October: The National Commission for Enforced Disappearances has disposed of 3,633 cases yesteryear Oct due to personal efforts of its president Justice (retired) Javed Iqbal. According to a tilt of the commission, a total number of cases were 5,507 together with at nowadays exclusively 1,874 are pending. The missing individual committee of research on enforced disappearances during the calendar month of Oct 2018 disposed of 78 cases together with at nowadays total residue numbers of cases are 1874 upwardly to Oct 31, 2018.The missing individual committee has conducted 537 hearings, 243 hearings inwards Islamabad, 66 inwards Lahore together with 228 inwards Karachi during Oct 2018. The Nation, Nov 6, 2018.
SRI LANKA
President announces dissolution of Parliament together with scheduled full general elections on Jan 5, 2019: Deepening the political crisis he created ii weeks ago, Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena inwards an extraordinary Gazette notification announced the dissolution of the Parliament amongst trial from Nov nine midnight together with scheduled full general elections to live held on Jan 5, 2019. Nominations volition live called from Nov xix till 12 noon of Nov 26 during which nomination papers shall live received yesteryear the Returning Officers of the respective districts. The novel Parliament volition run across on Jan 17, 2019. Colombo Page, Nov 10, 2018.
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