Beijing is now planning to combine all ethnic minorities into singular national identity
Jan 09, 2021, at 08:16 pm
Beijing: China is believed to be engaging in the practice of combining all the different ethnic minorities in China into a singular national identity and thereby imposing the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) ideology on them, media reports said on Friday.
Conflict with Tibet: China performs military air drill over Lhasa
Jan 09, 2021, at 03:22 am
Beijing: China performed a military air drill over Lhasa region, amid alleged growing resentment against Beijing in Tibet, media reports said.
Beijing is now emerging as world's worst abuser of internet freedom: Report
Jan 09, 2021, at 03:10 am
Beijing: China is emerging as a nation which is not giving its citizens the same freedom as other nations plan to give.
Pakistan: Christian person moves to high court to demand her release from 'illegal' detention
Jan 09, 2021, at 03:03 am
Islamabad: A Christian person, who is kept in Peshawar Central Prison, moved to the high court on Wednesday to seek his release from the prolonged ‘illegal’ detention, media reports said.
Pakistan: Riot police use batons, lob tear gas shells to disperse protesting teachers
Jan 09, 2021, at 02:55 am
Muzaffarabad: Riot police resorted to baton-charge and lobbed tear gas shells to disperse protesting teachers in Pakistan's Muzaffarabad region on Wednesday, media reports said.
Pakistan court sentences Mumbai attack conspirator Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi to 15 years' imprisonment
Jan 08, 2021, at 09:18 pm
Islamabad: A Pakistani court on Friday sentenced Lashkar-e-Taiba top commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi for 15 years of imprisonment.
Hong Kong: UN human rights office urges immediate release of arrested activist
Jan 08, 2021, at 06:50 pm
New York: The UN human rights office (OHCHR) on Thursday voiced deep concerns over the arrests of over 50 individuals under the new National Security Law in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China, and called for their immediate release.
Expert believes Taliban failed to change its way despite Intra-Afghanistan talks
Jan 08, 2021, at 05:04 am
Keeping in mind the recent negotiations that the Afghanistan government and Taliban resumed, several American policymakers have opined that the Taliban has changed but the people of the war-battered nation feels that the group still believes in its "medieval, totalitarian, and dogmatic ideologies".
Sri Lankan Navy seizes over Rs 600 million worth drugs, role of Pakistan ISI suspected
Jan 07, 2021, at 10:31 pm
Colombo: A special operation carried out by the Sri Lankan Navy in the seas off Negombo on Monday led to the apprehension of 4 suspects with over 100 kg of Crystal Methamphetamine (ICE) and about 80 kg of Hashish besides seizure of a multi day fishing trawler used to transfer the narcotic substances.
China is waging cognitive warfare against Taiwan, warns Think tank
Jan 07, 2021, at 10:27 pm
Beijing: China is waging “cognitive warfare” against Taiwan by using tools like misinformation and an army of online trolls, a think tank has alerted.
COVID-19 pandemic: Experts alert Hong Kong govt about social unrest among youth
Jan 07, 2021, at 10:07 pm
Hong Kong: Experts have warned Hong Kong authorities that they must tackle students’ pent-up resentment against the government and frustration over the coronavirus pandemic as their anger may soon explode into social unrest.
Jan 07, 2021, at 05:00 am
Islamabad: Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) president Maulana Fazlur Rehman has challenged PM Imran Khan and his government and said the 11-party alliance will show their cards at the right time which will leave the government shell-shocked.
Demonstrators protest outside Canadian Embassy in Paris to demand justice for Karima Baloch
Jan 07, 2021, at 04:14 am
Paris: Several protesters assembled outside the Canadian Embassy in Paris and demanded justice for activist Karima Baloch.
Hong Kong arrests over 50 opposition figures under national security Law: Reports
Jan 06, 2021, at 11:07 pm
Moscow/Sputnik: Police in Hong Kong on Wednesday detained over 50 high-profile anti-Beijing activists and politicians, including one US national, in early morning raids, media reported.
Pakistan: Protest against coal miners killings continue
Jan 06, 2021, at 10:08 pm
Islamabad/UNI: The Hazara community continued their sit-in protest against the killing of Shia Hazara miners in the Machh area of Balochistan on Sunday, refusing to bury their deceased till Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan meets them.
China's plan to create dam along South Asian rivers triggers tension in India, Bangladesh
Jan 06, 2021, at 04:44 pm
Beijing/New Delhi/Dhaka: China's plan to build a super dam on a major river that flows into India and Bangladesh is surely threatening to create a flashpoint with New Delhi and even raise concern for Bangladesh, a nation which is dependent on the river for fresh water, media reports said.
Chinese lawyer accuses authority of “framing” him for helping Hong Kong activists
Jan 06, 2021, at 04:39 pm
Beijing: A mainland Chinese lawyer has claimed he has been informed by authorities that his licence could be revoked for 'making inappropriate remarks on the internet' after he helped 10 Hong Kong activists for crossing the border, media reports said.
Pakistan: Funeral of 11 coal miners killed in Machh terror attack held
Jan 06, 2021, at 04:33 pm
Islamabad: Funeral of the 11 coal miners, who were killed in a terror attack on Sunday, was held in Pakistan's Machh region on Monday, media reports said.
Lawyer kidnapped from Pakistan residence by men posing as CTD officials
Jan 06, 2021, at 04:30 pm
Islamabad: Unknown people, who were posing as Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) officials, kidnapped a lawyer from his residence in Pakistan's Islamabad city recently, media reports said.
Dialogue only possible after Imran Khan resigns: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Jan 06, 2021, at 04:27 pm
Islamabad: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari targeted Imran Khan and said that the option of dialogue at national level is possible only after the prime minister steps down.
Hindu temple vandalised in Pakistan: SC directs govt to rebuild it soon
Jan 06, 2021, at 04:25 pm
Islamabad: Pakistan Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to rebuild the recently vandalised Hindu religious site in Tehri district.
Senior PPP leader slams Imran Khan, says his govt's stubbornness is hurting Pakistan
Jan 06, 2021, at 04:22 pm
Islamabad: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader and former leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah on Monday attacked PM Imran Khan and said his government’s stubbornness is causing damage to the country.
Did Chinese billionaire Jack Ma go missing for flying too close to the red sun?
Jan 05, 2021, at 11:41 pm
Jack Ma Yun, the founder of Alibaba Group, a Chinese e-commerce giant, is missing from public view ever since he criticised the country's banking system in October, 2020.
China refutes allegation of US Deputy Security chief on Coronavirus' leak from Wuhan lab
Jan 05, 2021, at 12:29 am
Beijing/Sputnik: US Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger's allegation that the coronavirus had slipped out of a lab in China's eastern Wuhan city is false, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying said on Monday.
Several Pakistani Christian families flee Lahore neighbourhood after threat
Jan 05, 2021, at 12:01 am
Islamabad: A Christian body has claimed that hundreds of Pakistani Christian families from Charar, a locality in Lahore city, have fled their homes after a mob threatened to set fire to their neighborhood.
Enforced disappearance in Pakistan: Family members of victims demonstrate in Karachi
Jan 04, 2021, at 11:49 pm
Islamabad: Families of Shia victims of ‘enforced disappearance’ demonstrated close to Karachi's Mazar-i-Quaid on Dec 25.
Afghanistan: IED blast leaves 2 killed in Nangarhar
Jan 04, 2021, at 10:12 pm
Kabul: At least two people were killed as a roadside blast hit Nangarhar region in Afghanistan on Monday, media reports said.
Airstrike in eastern Afghanistan leaves 13 Taliban killed: Authorities
Jan 04, 2021, at 09:56 pm
Kabul/Sputnik: Thirteen Taliban fighters were killed by an airstrike in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, the provincial press office said on Monday.
Bangladesh: PM Sheikh Hasina asks police to check cybercrimes, drug abuse, money laundering
Jan 04, 2021, at 09:35 pm
Dhaka/UNI: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked the police personnel to stop cybercrimes alongside money laundering, human trafficking, terrorism, militancy, abuse of drugs, gangster culture and repression on women and children.
Pakistan: Mob vandalises Hindu shrine in Karak
Jan 04, 2021, at 03:18 am
Islamabad: A violent mob vandalised a Hindu shrine and set it on fire in Pakistan's Karak district on Wednesday, media reports said.