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PakiStan Parliament condemnS indian firingThe national assembly of Pakistan on Friday passed a resolution condemning the “unprovoked” firing by Indian military that it said had left many civilians and soldiers dead. geo news reported that the resolution was introduced by the Federal Minister on Kash-mir affairs, Birjees Tahir. indian and Pakistani forces have shelled each other’s positions across the Line of control (Loc) in Jammu and Kashmir in recent weeks.

PakiStan national aSSembly unanimouSly adoPtS reSolution condemning india Pakistan’s national assembly on Friday unanimously passed a resolution, strongly condemning the alleged indian attack on Line of control that resulted in the death of seven Pakistani soldiers. The resolution “expressed deep concern over the tragic incident of in-dian unprovoked firing in which seven soldiers of Pakistan army” were killed at the Loc in Bhimber sector recently.

32 Sri lankanS join iSlamic State grouP in iraq: miniSter Thirty two Sri Lankans have joined the islamic State terror group in iraq, a senior minister informed parliament on Friday and vowed to imple-ment the proposed tough counter terrorism act to protect national security. “We are aware that 32 of them have left the country to join islamic State (iSiS),” Justice Minister Wijeyadasa rajapaksha said during the 2017 budget debate. rajapaksha said Sri Lanka would go ahead as planned on the proposed counter Terrorism act despite criticism.N

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Puducherry cm meetS fiShermen in-jured in lankan navy firing Puducherry Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy on Friday called on the two Indian fishermen, who were injured in alleged firing by the Sri Lankan Navy, at the Indira Gandhi Government General Hospital and Research Institute here. He enquired about their health condition and wished them a speedy recovery. The chief minister was accompanied by Agriculture and Education Minister R Kamalakannan. R Balamurugan from Karaikal (Puduch-erry) and A Aravind from Tamil Nadu’s Nagapattinam sustained injuries when the Sri Lankan naval personnel allegedly opened fire at their fishing boat yesterday off the Kodiakarai coast, some 200 km from here./ PTI /

SuSPected filiPino drug lord returnS after abu dhabi arreStManila A suspected drug lord arrived in the Philippines on Friday morning being arrested in Abu Dhabi in October follow-ing months in hiding. The flight carrying Rolando ‘Kerwin’ Espinosa Jr. landed at Manila International Airport around 4 a.m., with Philippine National Police Chief Ronald Dela Rosa personally taking the suspect from the plane, Efe news re-ported. Espinosa fled the country in June, reportedly travelling to Malaysia, Thailand and Hong Kong before eventually being arrested in the capital of the United Arab Emirates. The suspect was in handcuffs and dressed in an orange t-shirt and bul-letproof vest as he was escorted from the plane and presented to the media. “I am now afraid of the police as they secured me during my trip from Dubai to Manila. I will cooperate and tell all names who are connected with drugs,” Espinosa said in a press conference./ IANS /

South korea refuSeS google acceSS to official maPPing dataSeoul South Korea on Friday refused to grant permission to US tech giant Google to use the official maps of the country, citing security concerns with neighbouring North Korea. This means the company’s Google Maps service in South Korea will continue operating with strict restrictions, Efe news reported. South Korea based its decision on the National Security Law, established in 1947, which lays down strict restrictions to protect the country from North Korea. The country’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said in a statement that Google will continue of-fering its services without being able to use government mapping data due to security reasons over the ongoing conflict between South and North Korea. According to the ministry, Google did not accept Seoul’s suggestion to remove or blur important defence or government facilities on its maps, including military bases and the presidential Blue House, located north of the country’s capital. Google has been of-fering its Maps service in South Korea since 2008 although it does not include walking or driving directions or 3D maps./ IANS /

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Beijing Admitting perhaps for the first time that Kashmir dis-pute “does hinder” the USD 46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project, a state media report here on Friday said that this does not mean China should “appease” India to prevent it from playing “little tricks”.

“The dispute over Kashmir between India and Pakistan does hinder China’s efforts in pushing the (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor) forward, but this does

not mean China should ‘appease India’ to prevent the country from playing little tricks,” said the article in the Global Times - part of the People’s Daily group of the ruling Communist Party of China.

It said “India should be aware that its ambition of becoming a great power won’t be realised if it contributes little to promoting regional integration and regional economic development.”

The article was in response

to a piece by US-based analyst Panos Mourdoukoutas in Forbes magazine yesterday criticising Beijing over the ambitious proj-ect. The Forbes piece has said that China has done “very little to appease India.” The daily has regularly carried articles critical to India for the past few months. On Friday’s was, however, a rare admission that the Kashmir dis-pute hinders the CPEC project, which runs through the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). India

has expressed reservations over the project that links western China to Gwadar Port in the restive Balochistan province in southern Pakistan. The project gives China easy access for trade to Central Asian states and Eu-ropean markets.

China has defended the proj-ect, saying it is a commercial project aimed at improving peo-ple’s lives. In the Forbes piece, Mourdoukoutas said that “China should make peace with India for

forget about the project”.He said China desperately

needs CPEC. It’s part of China’s vision “to write the rules of the next stage of globalisation” and help its export and investment engines grow for years.

“So far, China has done very little to appease India. In fact, it has done quite the opposite: repeatedly blocking India’s ef-forts to join the Nuclear Suppli-ers Group,” he said. “And things could turn worse, if pro-Indian

forces in Pakistan sabotage Chi-na’s CPEC route. That raises the possibility of an open confronta-tion between China and Pakistan on the one side, and India and its allies on the other,” he said.

Countering Mourdoukoutas, the Chinese media article said, “India’s strategic suspicions to-ward China’s rising presence in South Asia may hobble its ambition to be a great power, even though some observers think otherwise.” / PTI /

Kashmir dispute ‘hinders’ China-Pak corridor: Chinese media

iSlaMaBad Pakistan on Friday described as”ambiguous” India’s ‘No First Use’ policy on nuclear weapons and said it cannot be a substitute for verifiable arms control and restraint measures, days Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar questioned the doctrine.

“Pakistan believes the ambigu-ous ‘No First Use’ Declaration is not verifiable and amounts to nothing. It can’t be a substitute for verifiable arms control and restraint measures proposed by Pakistan’s standing offer of Stra-tegic Restraint Regime,” Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Nafees Zakaria said in his weekly briefing.

He was responding to the re-cent remarks by Parrikar in which he asked why India cannot say “we are a responsible nuclear power and I will not use it irre-sponsibly” instead of affirming a “no first use policy”. Later he had said the remarks were personal in nature.

Zakaria said statement by the defence minister of a country that repeatedly and constantly heightens tension and maintains an aggressive posture should be a matter of concern for all.

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India’s No First Use policy on nukes ‘ambiguous’: Pakistan

SEOUL South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s office dismissed a claim by the leader of the opposition that she was planning to declare martial law as “irresponsible dema-goguery”.Park’s administration has been rocked by allegations that a friend used her ties to meddle in state af-fairs and wield improper influence, triggering calls for the president to be impeached or step down. The op-position democratic Party’s leader, choo Mi-ae, said at a party meeting on Friday that there was intelligence Park planned to declare martial law. Park’s spokesman, Jung Youn-kuk, said choo’s comments were “un-becoming of the leader of the main opposition party and are political demagoguery that is exceedingly irresponsible”. Park is under pres-sure from an angry public to step down with hundreds of thousands expected to gather in the capital on Saturday in the fourth straight weekend protest. Park’s father, Park chung-hee, took power in a coup in 1961 declaring martial law and ruled until he was shot dead in 1979. he declared martial law twice more dur-ing his time in office. / rEUTErS /

South korea Park’S office SayS martial law claim “irreSPonSible demagoguery”

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Japan’s PM Abe meets Trump, says confident can build trust

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) in a meeting with US president-elect Donald Trump (L) in New York. Abe voiced confidence on November 17 about Trump as he became the first foreign leader to meet the US president-elect, who was narrowing in on cabinet choices. / AFP

neW yorK Japan’s Prime Min-ister Shinzo Abe described Donald Trump as a “trust-worthy leader” after meet-ing the US president-elect on Thursday to get clarity on statements Trump had made while campaigning that had caused concern about the al-liance.

Abe, speaking after the hastily arranged 90-minute meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan, reporters: “The talks made me feel sure that we can build a relationship of trust.” But he would not disclose specifics because the

conversation was unofficial.Japan’s leadership has been

nervous about the future of an alliance that is core to Tokyo’s diplomacy and security.

Trump had fanned worries in Tokyo and beyond with comments on the possibility of Japan acquiring nuclear arms, demands that allies pay more for keeping US forces on their soil or face their possible withdrawal, and his opposition to the US-led 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade pact.

Abe had worked closely with President Barack Obama on the TPP trade pact, which

was part of Obama’s push to counter the rising strength of China and a pillar of Abe’s economic reforms.

“Alliances cannot function without trust. I am now con-fident that President-elect Trump is a trustworthy lead-er,” said Abe, describing the talks as “candid” and held in a “warm atmosphere”.

Abe gave Trump a golf driver and received golf-wear in re-turn, Japanese officials said.

Photographs taken inside the ornate meeting room at Trump Tower showed Abe accompanied only by an in-

‘Alliances cannot function without trust. I am now confident that President-elect Trump is a trustworthy leader’ShINzo Abe

terpreter and Trump by his daughter Ivanka, her husband and Trump adviser Jared Kush-ner, and Retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn whom a senior Trump official said on Thursday had been offered the national security adviser position.

Abe said he had agreed to meet again with Trump “at a convenient time to cover a wider area in greater depth.” It was unclear if that would happen before Trump’s inau-guration on January 20. Trump official Kellyanne Conway told CBS earlier on Thursday that “any deeper conversations about policy and the relation-ship between Japan and the United States will have to wait until after the inauguration.” Trump officials did not im-mediately comment following the meeting with Abe.

Back in Tokyo, Finance Min-ister Taro Aso commented: “The meeting ran longer than planned, which means that they were on the same wave-length and it went well.” Some of Trump’s campaign rhetoric suggested an image of Japan forged in the 1980s, when To-kyo was seen by many in the United States as a threat to jobs and a free-rider on defence.

A Trump adviser who spoke earlier in the week, however, stressed a more positive view and credited Abe with making changes.

“Frankly, the prime minister has been more assertive and forthright in trying to make those changes to Japan’s global posture,” he said.

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Manila Ousted Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos was buried on Friday at the Heroes cemetery here in a controversial and unexpect-ed ceremony which was not announced by the country’s authorities until a few hours before the funeral.

The body of Marcos, ac-cused of being responsible for the death, torture and il-legal detention of hundreds of thousands and the appropria-tion of about $10 billion of public funds, was transported by helicopter to the Heroes Cemetery, Efe news reported.

The former President was buried in a private military ceremony that had to be guarded by hundreds of forces of the Philippine National Po-lice in order to avoid clashes with victims of his regime. The ceremony was broadcast live in local media from out-side the cemetery. Accord-ing to photos published on Facebook by Imee, one of his daughters, the former dicta-tor’s widow Imelda Marco at-tended the ceremony dressed in black. Marcos’ burial comes just 10 days after the coun-try’s Supreme Court gave the green light, which, according

to opponents of the former dictator’s family, is against the Philippine laws. Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo said on Friday said she was also “disturbed” by the fact that the burial happened “in coordination with the Armed Forces and Philippine National Police demonstrat-ing further that the judicial process has been thoroughly disregarded”. “(Marcos) is no hero. If he were, obviously his family would not have to hide his burial like a shame-

ful criminal deed,” Robredo added. Marcos’ burial at the Heroes Cemetery was ordered in August by President Rodri-go Duterte, after the family of the former dictator submitted the request to previous presi-dents for years but had always been turned down. After hav-ing ruled the Philippines with an iron fist for more than two decades, Marcos was removed from office in February 1986 following a peaceful protest and died in exile three years later. / IANS /

Ex-Philippines dictator buried in Heroes’ cemetery

Members of the family of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos led by former first lady Imelda Marcos (in black) follow the hearse during the

burial at the heroes’ cemetery in Manila.

neW delhi Dubbing it as “blatant lies”, the Navy on Friday denied the Paki-stani Navy claim that it had prevented an Indian submarine from entering its territorial water.

“Indian Navy categorically denies the statement of Pakistani Navy as blatant lies,” Navy spokesperson Captain D K Sharma said.

He added that the Indian Navy did not have any under water movement in the said waters as claimed by the Pakistani Navy. A statement issued by Pakistani Navy had claimed it has proved its vigi-lance and operational competence by detecting and blocking an Indian sub-marine from entering Pakistani waters.

“The unsuspecting submarine was detected and localised south of Pakistani coast on November 16. Thereafter, despite submarine’s desperate efforts to escape detection, it was continuously tracked by Pakistan Navy Fleet units and pushed well clear of our waters,” the statement had said. On Tuesday, Pakistan Navy said that China Pakistan Economic Corridor’s first cargo containers were safely escorted in the Arabian Sea towards their destination to the Middle East and African countries.

Pakistan Army’s powerful Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif had on Wednesday claimed that his men killed 11 Indian soldiers in cross border firing across the Line of Control (LoC). This statement too was denied by the Indian Army./ PTI /

Navy rubbishes Pak Navy claim that it stopped Indian sub from entering waters

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