US Begins the Process to Revoke Citizenship of Pakistani-American: In a rare move, the US has initiated the process to revoke the citizenship of a Pakistani-American who was involved in militancy in Kashmir and is serving a 20-year prison term on terrorism charges.
US Begins the Process to Revoke Citizenship of Pakistani-American
Iyman Faris, who became an American citizen in 1999, was in 2003 convicted of conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaeda and sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment.
Salvage workers in orange overalls and white hard-hats clambers over the hull fixing cables. The name Sewol could just be made out through the grime.
SEOUL, South Korea
Overloaded South Korean Ferry Sunken 3 Years Ago Emerges In Grey Sea. Lee said the ferry would be raised as high as 13 meters above the sea and then moved onto a semi-submersible vessel. That operation was expected to take until Friday. And it would then be taken to a nearby port. But that could take up to 12 or 13 days, he said.
Once the sunken ferry had been secured on the semi-submersible vessel. Bereaved families would be allowed to observe from a closer distance, another official said.
Of those killed, 250 were teenagers from the same high-school. Many of whom obeyed crew instructions to remain in their cabins even as crew members were escaping the sinking ship.
The father of one victim said he would not feel assured until the ship was safely on land.
“The ministry should hurry to recover the missing as a top priority,” Yoo Kyung-Keun, who also heads a families association, said in a statement.
The botched rescue and toll of children in one of Asia’s most technically advanced economies shocked and angered the country. With former President Park Geun-hye and her administration the focus of much of the ire at the time.
Park denied accusations that she failed to act decisively but for many South Korans. She has never fully explained what she was doing during the seven hours between the first news reports and her first television appearance that day.
Her response to the disaster was again raised in recent months after she came under suspicion in the course of an investigation into a corruption scandal that led to her dismissal from office on March 10.