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So if the US and India demand, as they will, that Pakistan disband the Lashkar and similar terrorist outfits that have enjoyed military patronage in the past, dismantle their training facilities, freeze their bank accounts (before they are simply transferred to another name) and arrest their leaders, they will face a typically Pakistani conundrum: the military isn’t willing, and the civilian government isn’t able.
As part of the trade-off, terrorist leaders who are officially under house arrest – like Maulana Masood Azhar and Hafiz Saeed – remain able to open offices, address rallies, and preach jihad freely.
To its credit – albeit under pressure from donor countries – the Bengali authorities seem to sense that their country is drifting toward becoming a failed state and are making greater efforts to arrest Islamist killers, despite some of them being part of the ruling coalition.
Optimists beware: the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky--and the freezing of his shares in oil giant Yukos--will have a profound long-term impact on Russia's economy and on relations between business and government.
My longstanding skepticism about this promise has now hardened into certainty: the Yukos affair will make it impossible to sustain the growth rate required to achieve this goal because the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the seizure of his assets has dealt a devastating blow to business confidence.
On the contrary, the arrest of Khodorkovsky has only whetted the prosecutors' appetite.
Then, to arrest the resulting loss of economic momentum, the PBOC loosened monetary policy in November 2011.
And those who struggle to control their use can seek treatment without fear of arrest or the stigma of dependence on an illegal substance.
If I were raped in Uppsala, where Assange is alleged to have committed his crime, I could not expect top prosecutors to lobby governments to arrest my assailant.
Just as everywhere else, Sweden’s male-dominated police, she explained, do not tend to see these victims as “innocent,” and thus do not bother building a case for arrest.
Even when an alert is removed from Interpol’s databases, you can continue to face the threat of arrest when traveling, or be refused visas in a never-ending cycle of persecution.
Every year, Interpol issues more than 11,000 “Red Notices” – alerts that ask member countries to locate and arrest an individual pending extradition.
Tiananmen Square RevisitedNEW YORK – The publication of secret, audio-taped memoirs by fallen Communist Party reformer Zhao Ziyang, who sought to “eradicate the malady of China’s economic system at its roots” and died under house arrest for his efforts, is reigniting debate over the complex legacy of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
The arrest in January 2012 of the chief judge of the supreme court, Abdulla Mohamed, on charges of corruption and malpractice was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Most recently, an arrest warrant was issued for Qasim Ibrahim, the leader of Jumhooree, another opposition party.
The recent cancellation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit in response to the arrest of Nasheed, with whom the Indian leader had close ties, is also likely to encourage Yameen to seek a closer alliance with China.
One of three young women treated with radiation to the chest to arrest Hodgkin’s disease will develop breast cancer by age 32.
One challenge is the need to arrest the erosion of America’s relative power, which in turn requires comprehensive domestic renewal, including fiscal consolidation.
It is not just that Trump cannot be blamed for America’s relative decline; he may actually be set to arrest it.
When, after the eight catastrophic years of George W. Bush’s presidency, Barack Obama entered the White House, it seemed for a moment as if America might be able to arrest its downward slide.
This would represent an almost irresistible opportunity for China to champion global free trade and arrest the trend toward protectionism.
Five days later, Pakistan’s ever-active Supreme Court ordered the arrest of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf and 16 other senior government officials for alleged involvement in what was called the “rental power” case.
And the prosecution of opposition members, which has now culminated in the arrest and detention of former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko – during an ongoing trial that most of the West has deemed political – seems to confirm that the rule of law is being brushed aside.
But the true reason for Ai’s arrest is obvious.
On the day of Ai’s arrest, former Global Times journalist Wen Tao was grabbed off the street in broad daylight.
To be sure, the regime considers Ai’s arrest a preemptive measure to prevent the outbreak of public demonstrations.
And his arrest seems to be just the beginning.
Ai’s arrest and disappearance, along with the severe prison sentence imposed on the Noble Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, are driven by the same motivation: to dam the potential for political unrest and purge independent intellectuals.
But, for this dialogue to have any real legitimacy, it must include the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who has endured decades of house arrest, and her party, the NLD.
Slouching Toward Fanaticism in PakistanPresident Bush's comparison of the capture of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (reputed to have planned the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon) to the liberation of Paris in 1944 was certainly hyperbolic, but the arrest was a political blessing for the US President all the same.
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