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Tax fraud disfigures the Beautiful Game
ANOTHER of football’s current greatest players has gone on trial in Spain charged with tax evasion. Cristiano Ronaldo is alleged to have evaded more than $17 million in taxes, an offense the Real Madrid player is vigorously denying.Last year Barcelona’s Argentinian star Lionel Messi was found guilty of defrauding the Spanish treasury of $4.8 million and was sentenced to 21 months in jail which he avoided by paying $250,000. Earlier in the year, Messi’s teammate Javier Mascherano was given a one-year jail sentence for tax fraud, which was suspended.The question these high-profile cases provoke is why these fabulously-paid individuals should seek to avoid paying the tax like ordinary people. The first answer is that there is a huge industry in Europe and North America that specializes...
August 01, 2017

Tax fraud disfigures the Beautiful Game

Nawaz Shareef
Judicial coup in Pakistan?
ON the surface everything looks fine. A democratically elected prime minister steps down over corruption charges after the apex court of the country finds him guilty of small crimes and misdemeanors linked to offshore accounts in Panama and undisclosed monies in the Gulf.Didn’t the Panama Papers spark the resignation of Iceland’s Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson? We also know about the intense scrutiny Britain’s David Cameron had to go through over his family’s tax affairs.But when we dwell deeper into the nearly eight-month long process that resulted in Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s resignation on Friday, some disturbing questions emerge. It was opposition leader Imran Khan, the head of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party, who pushed the court to hear...
July 31, 2017

Judicial coup in Pakistan?

British injustice
Charlie Gard never had a chance. Not only because he suffered from an extremely rare genetic condition causing progressive brain damage and muscle weakness. His condition was half the problem. That the law prevented him from seeking treatment - though it was a slim chance, might have worked or at least extended his life - was part two of the issue. As a consequence, Charlie died on Friday one week before his first birthday but not before generating so much controversy across the world that maybe the laws that did not help him survive will someday change.Shortly after his birth, Charlie was diagnosed with mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, a rare inherited condition that causes muscle weakness and loss of motor skills.When Charlie’s medical team, with second opinions from several...
July 30, 2017

British injustice

Seeds of another intifada
The second intifada was a period of intense Palestinian-Israeli violence that looks ready to repeat itself.On Sept. 28, 2000, when Ariel Sharon, the then opposition leader, heavily guarded by Israeli soldiers and policemen, walked into Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the move was certain to provoke an angry reaction from the Muslim population who holds the mosque to be the third holiest site in Islam. It did. The five years of the intifada cost more than 4,000 lives, the vast majority Palestinian.And it could happen again. The second intifada had another name: Al-Aqsa intifada. In recent weeks the locus of the Palestinian conflict has shifted to violent clashes with the name “Al-Aqsa” in it: Al-Aqsa Mosque crisis. For the most part, armed conflict and popular unrest have largely been...
July 29, 2017

Seeds of another intifada

Tunisian tourism gets another chance
Tourism is the soft underbelly of every economy, an easy target at which terrorists can strike.Holidaymakers travel abroad to relax and unwind. They are generally innocent of the political situation of the country they visit, rarely speak the language and are almost totally reliant on the local hotel staff and guides who look after them during their stay.Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) has attacked tourists in Turkey, Egypt and Tunisia with devastating results. Turkey has probably done the best job of tightening security. Major tourist sites in Istanbul are now patrolled and monitored. The beach resorts to the south and west of the country have thus far escaped any terror outrage because of a strong security presence. Egypt has been less fortunate despite a heavy police presence at its Red...
July 28, 2017

Tunisian tourism gets another chance

Emmanuel Macron
Macron brokers Libyan ceasefire
France’s new president Emmanuel Macron has pulled of a diplomatic coup by having Libya’s two main rivals agree to an immediate ceasefire and the holding of presidential and parliamentary elections next spring.Leader of the UN-backed Presidency Council (PC) Faiez Serraj met east Libya’s strongman Khalifa Hafter in Paris. They hammered out a 10-point agreement hailed as a roadmap for the return of Libyan peace and stability. The country has been torn apart by conflict since the 2014 Muslim Brotherhood-sponsored takeover of the capital Tripoli.The international community has made a mess of the reconstruction of Libya after the US-sponsored destruction of the Gaddafi regime largely by French and UK warplanes in support of a ragtag army of revolutionaries. It refused to accept the...
July 27, 2017

Macron brokers Libyan ceasefire

Countering terrorist propaganda
There was a duel scene in a British comedy film where a knight has first one and then his other arm cut off and finally his legs. With each loss of a limb he protests it’s only an arm, only a leg. The propaganda of Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) is now remarkably similar in tone. With each defeat, it claims it feels no pain. It described the loss of Mosul as a “temporary setback”.There is a marked difference in the tone of the terrorists between their glory days when they proudly broadcast appalling footage of the execution of prisoners and the sniveling excuses they are now pumping out to try and explain away the steady destruction of their blasphemous ambitions. Only the dumbest of young dupes could now possibly be attracted to join the terrorists’ ranks from other countries....
July 26, 2017

Countering terrorist propaganda

Does the EU actually have a saber to rattle?
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has just vetoed two of three new laws from the country’s right-wing government which included provisions to allow it to replace top judges with its own nominees.The changes, which were approved by parliament, have led to days of protests and also dire warnings from the European Commission in Brussels to the effect that member states are required to have a clear separation between government and the judiciary.In the long run, it is the intervention of Brussels that is likely to be most controversial aspect of this affair. There is a strong argument that the Polish courts are inefficient and at times corrupt. The influence of the old communist regime is still apparent throughout the court system.The judiciary, whose members enjoy a degree of immunity...
July 25, 2017

Does the EU actually have a saber to rattle?

Inter-Korean talks
ALL those who want to see peace and stability prevail in the divided Korean Peninsula, despite the latest war of words between the US and North Korea, should hope that the North would reconsider its decision and accept South Korea’s offer to hold military talks. The talks aimed at easing animosities along their tense border were to take place last Friday at the border truce village of Panmunjom. The last round of military talks between the two was held in December 2015.The North is also yet to respond to an offer made by the South’s Red Cross to meet on Aug. 1 to discuss potential reunions for divided families. The division of Korea in 1945 and the subsequent Korean War (1950-53) had left many families stranded on opposite sides of the North-South border. Many were parted forever; some...
July 24, 2017

Inter-Korean talks

England breaking the habit
There’s no way around it. Smoking is dangerous. It harms nearly every organ of the body. As such, smoking is not the smart way to go these days, and it is viewed in a decidedly negative light, especially in Western countries. In one, England, the government has set out an ambitious plan to make the country, in effect, smoke-free in the next five years. A new tobacco control plan aims to slash smoking rates from 15.5 percent to 12 percent of the population by 2022, paving the way to a smoke-free generation.That might sound too optimistic in a country where smoking currently kills 200 people a day, where there are still more than eight million smokers and where tens of thousands of children take up the deadly addiction every year. But smoking rates in England are at the lowest level since...
July 23, 2017

England breaking the habit

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