Squaring the circle in Vienna
July 27, 2021
The negotiations in the Austrian capital Vienna to revive the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – or the Iran nuclear deal – seem to have reached a critical juncture as the negotiating parties await the initiation of the seventh round of talks despite invariably divergent objectives.
While both parties continue to express their willingness to go back to the original deal and adhere to their respective commitments under the 2015 agreement, the sequencing of the process has become a sticking point where each side wants the other to make the first move.
Iran is insisting on a complete lifting of the US sanctions before it returns to complete compliance with the agreement, and a commitment that the US government will not renege on the deal in the future. Washington, on the other hand, is pressing upon Tehran to first halt all activities prohibited under the agreement, especially uranium enrichment. Additionally, Washingt
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan began on Friday a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia to boost historically close relations between the two longtime allied nations. The visit was taking place at the invitation of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who personally received Khan and his high-powered delegation at the Jeddah airport. Pakistani officials said…
Pakistan PM Khan Begins Important Saudi Visit
Voice of America
08 May 2021, 16:05 GMT+10
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan began on Friday a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia to boost historically close relations between the two longtime allied nations.
The visit was taking place at the invitation of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who personally received Khan and his high-powered delegation at the Jeddah airport.
Pakistani officials said that the crown prince, often referred to by his initials, MBS, and Khan later held delegation-level talks that Pakistan s military chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa joined. Bajwa was already in Saudi Arabia to discuss bilateral defense cooperation.
‘Criminals find loopholes to create layers for money laundering’
Islamabad
December 12, 2020
Islamabad : A webinar on ‘Anti-Money Laundering and Global Security’ was organised by Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies, here on Friday.
An international panel of experts from Pakistan and the United Kingdom were of the view that criminal entities had found loopholes in every industry to create layers for money laundering. Prof. Dr Nicholas Ryder, Professor of Financial Crime at UWE, Bristol, said that in order to make state as well as corporate compliance more robust, countries like the US and the EU need to coordinate and cooperate with countries from the South from where taxpayers money is illegally funnelled out. Shakeel Ahmad Ramay from the Sustainable Development Policy Institute stated that politics needed to be taken out of the fight against money laundering.