Law & Paneir

  ACCORDING to US President Joe Biden, Islamic state (ISIS) leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, also known as Hajji Abdullah, Amir Mohammed Said Abdul Rahman al-Mawla, and Abdullah Qardash, were killed by a bomb that he detonated himself last Thursday.   This year’s most high-profile terrorist group leader has been exterminated. Despite the fact that the deaths of terrorist group leaders have been considered as detrimental to the groups’ continued existence, the atrocities perpetrated by these groups around the world are obvious evidence that they pose a threat to the peace and security to any nation in the globe. Since the onset of the US-led war on terror following September 11, terrorist organisations’ leaders have been hunted own; either captured or hunted down.   The pressing question here is why, despite their leaders being targeted and assassinated, security and intelligence agencies are unable to defeat these groups completely.   These groups, ...

  WITH Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) forging diplomatic ties, the situation is putting many Muslim majority countries in a dilemma including Malaysia, said an expert.   “Malaysia and a few other Muslims countries support the Palestinian cause and are opposed to Israel’s atrocities against them. “But with UAE and other Middle Eastern countries normalising ties with the Zionist nation, the situation is becoming very complicated for us,” Arunachala Research & Consultancy Sdn Bhd principal consultant R Paneir Selvam told FocusM. On Jan 31, ISRAEL’S president, in making his first visit yesterday to the UAE, said his country supports the Gulf state’s security needs and wants more countries in the region to join its new detente with the Arab world. The UAE, along with Bahrain, signed US-brokered normalisation agreements with Israel, dubbed the “Abraham Accords”, in 2020. The two Gulf states and Israel share concerns about Iran and its regional allies. Among ...