Chris Blackburn
@CJBdingo25
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Comms at European Bangladesh Forum (EBF) I'm interested in international relations and security. #RecognisetheGenocide1971 #HimalayasWatch @GFAfghanistan
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#BREAKING: Fresh clashes reported between Afghanistan and Pakistan at Af-Pak border. Casualties on Pakistan side. Afghanistan’s 201st Khalid bin Walid Army Corps launched retaliatory strikes on Pakistani outposts in Nangarhar & Kunar after Pakistan’s recent airstrike on Kabul.
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‘Taliban Expand Ties with India, While Accusing Pakistan of Bombing Afghanistan,’ reports @nytimes. Says, Afghanistan’s Taliban government is striking a delicate balance in the region by elevating its relationship with India, https://t.co/dYW7BRMuDy
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As it elevates its relationship with India, Afghanistan’s Taliban government is striking a delicate balance in the region.
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Cutting overseas aid puts national security at risk - Failing to support fragile states when they most need our help leads to costlier military operations and humanitarian programmes https://t.co/QAY5XafQeT
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Failing to support fragile states when they most need our help leads to costlier military operations and humanitarian programmes
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"charges linked to 1971 war-era crimes." What are you talking about? #Recognise1971Genocide
🚨 Breaking from Dhaka….. Bangladesh Army confirms that 15 serving officers are now in military custody, out of 25 indicted by the International Crimes Tribunal on charges linked to 1971 war-era crimes. 📢 Major General Hakimuzzaman announced at a press briefing, calling it a
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@CJBdingo25 @hrw Chris, there are HUGE fundamental differences between the IGov and its predecessor, the Hasina dictatorship. How can you deny this obvious reality? We are moving forward with a new Bangladesh, and the next step involves reforms and elections. Specifically legal reforms. I
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Afghan Foreign Minister of Taliban Amir Khan Muttaqi addressing press conference in New Delhi at Afghanistan Embassy. Sadly not a single female journalist was allowed in the presser. I raised the issue with the security staff at the Embassy Gate but they did not listen.
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On 10 October in 2014 Malala Yousafzai was in a chemistry class at her school in Birmingham. During the class she received the news that she had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In line with her values, after hearing the news the youngest awarded laureate went back to her
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There needs to be accountability. That's for sure. So, I ask you the question does this horrific state sponsored "de-Baathification" programme which has led to mass arbitrary arrests and in some cases mob murder lead to a better society? And do you support it? @hrw , and
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During the 20 year Afghan War, at least 2,459 U.S. military personnel died, including 2,420 KIA. 20, 739 injured. 30,177 post 9/11 war suicides. For what? To give China Bagram? To recognize Taliban as a legitimate government in Afghanistan? To recognize Al Qeada as a legitimate
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Trump’s push to “take back” Bagram, Afghanistan, has reignited a dangerous rivalry between Washington, Moscow, and Beijing. Read Georgia Pietropaoli’s latest for Narrativa360: https://t.co/4B08gmg9ko
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In this country we need to discuss the hate preachers at our mosques.
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For those hoping for an inclusive Afghanistan, this might be a blessing in disguise- sparks, shifts, and chaos. India claims its stance is pragmatic, though many see it as provocative. India insists it will always remain a friend to the people of Afghanistan, regardless of who
Setting the Record Straight on Afghanistan–India Relations It is now completely clear that the closure of the Afghan diplomatic mission in New Delhi in late 2023 was not due to any internal infighting, as MEA claimed at the time. The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of
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Excellent analysis.
The visit of Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to New Delhi marks a significant inflection point in South Asian geopolitics. India has quietly emerged as a strategic beneficiary of the ongoing friction between Pakistan and Afghanistan, a dynamic largely of Islamabad’s
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In 2021 when Taliban took power, first thing that happened was @NIA_India opened a new office right next to Darul Uloom Deoband.
India: Darul Uloom Deoband, leading center of Islamic learning in the Indian Subcontinent (at part with Egypt's Al-Azhar University), gives a grand welcome to Afghanistan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi
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Because Awami League did many things wrong doesn't mean we forget Jamaat's war crimes of 1971 or ignore the naked radicalism in display post Hasina.
Are you joking? The only genocidal/fascist movement in Bangladesh has been Jamaat. You know the history of 1971? AL aren't fascist by any stretch of the imagination. But they need to be made accountable like everyone else. @hrw and others say justice is selective...
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Are you joking? The only genocidal/fascist movement in Bangladesh has been Jamaat. You know the history of 1971? AL aren't fascist by any stretch of the imagination. But they need to be made accountable like everyone else. @hrw and others say justice is selective...
@CJBdingo25 @hrw So, are you saying that debaathification or denazification were bad things? Should Saddam and Hitler's friends and supporters have been given a free pass and rehabilitated post-conflict? Do I think that the members of the Sheikh Family death cult and their supporters and
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Yesterday, at the launch of a report by Shopran, a new human rights group, the government's press secretary @CApress_sec, Shafiqul Alam, disparaged human rights reporting done by local Bangladesh groups and the country's media and called for the involvement of international human
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The cultural essence of the so-called New Bangladesh under Yunus is steadily being stifled, as his supporters persistently harass and attack cultural practitioners. This growing repression stems from the Yunus administration’s capitulation to Islamist radicals, which has silenced
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