India added a record number of Covid-19 cases - nearly 35,000 - in the last 24 hours, breaching the one million mark. It has the world's third-largest case load, after the US and Brazil - the only three countries so far to record more than a million coronavirus cases.

New York police identified a person of interest in the death of tech entrepreneur and Pathao co-founder Fahim Saleh, who was found decapitated and dismembered in his Manhattan apartment earlier this week, said police sources.  Police also said that the victim was tased before he was

There is another lockdown underway, forced by falling artillery shells rather than invading viruses. This one also requires frightening choices between bad options. Cross-border shelling between Pakistan and India has intensified in recent months along the Line of Control in Kashmir,

Kashmiri writer and intellectual Junaid Qureshi lambasted on the All Party Hurriyat Conference saying that it propagates the ideology and propaganda of Pakistan and never worked for the welfare of the Kashmiri people. While interacting with Dr Shabir Choudhary, a writer and political

Pakistan has restored the bank account of  Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief and 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafeez Saeed and five others, media reports said. The restoration of bank accounts has taken place following formal approval of the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security

China uses corrupt leaders of economically weak countries to make inroads into those nations- Nepal being a case in point, suggests a report in Global Watch Analysis. Roland Jacquard, the author of the article, explains that “this enables Chinese companies to not only further their

Seven Turkish security personnel were killed when a reconnaissance plane crashed in eastern Van province, state-owned Anadolu news agency quoted the interior minister as saying on Thursday. Suleyman Soylu said the plane crashed on a mountain at an altitude of 2,200 feet (670 metres).

American scholar Michael Rubin has said Pakistan's failure of several decades to hold to account the terror complicity of its spy wing the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has soiled the Islamic nation's reputation. "Decades of failing to hold Inter-Services Intelligence

The final outcome of the border standoff between China and India may be uncertain, but the consequences of New Delhi's decision last week to ban 59 Chinese apps, including the popular video-sharing app TikTok, are clear. Should the ban stick, and be emulated by other countries, it

In a move aimed at provoking its neighbours and the West, China recently sent a coast guard ship into the disputed waters of the South China Sea. The incident took place on July 1 as Express.co.uk reported that China Coast Guard (CCG) ship 5402 left the port of Sanya in China’s

Since Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan fondly remembers the founder of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, as a “martyr” of the faith, it is only relevant to talk about this “sacred” relationship. Osama bin Laden’s Syrian mother was one of the many wives of his millionaire Yemeni

After several reports of the Chinese government torturing its ethnic minority community surfaced, the authorities are now considering to sue the researchers and think tanks who are behind these revelations. The Global Times has reported that German researcher Adrian Zenz and a think

India has recorded 23,779 coronavirus deaths from 9,10,174 cases at 3:00pm till Tuesday, according to latest data from worldometer. So far, 573,283 patients have been considered recovered from the contagious virus while 3,13,112 are active cases, the source said. Among the active

China is interfering in Nepal’s internal politics through its embassy and making efforts to keep the embattled Prime Minister KP Oli’s government afloat, sources said on Tuesday. Sources have warned that Chinese Ambassador to Nepal, Hou Yanqi, has held several meetings with

China's pursuit of offshore resources in parts of the South China Sea is "completely unlawful", US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said. Pompeo said he wanted to make clear that Beijing's "campaign of bullying to control" the disputed waters was wrong. China said that the

Focussing on the threat which China poses to the world, FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday said Beijing is working to compromise American health care organizations, pharmaceutical companies, and academic institutions conducting essential COVID-19 research. He said almost half of

Questioning the silence of the Muslim nations over China's continuous atrocities carried out against Uyghur Muslims, a noted British journalist said these nations only use the idea of Muslim solidarity when it suits them "But the main reasons why Muslims suffer in silence is that

Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Hou Yanqi’s meetings with a number of government officials and political party leaders have drawn concerns from political analysts and former diplomats for coming at a time when Nepal’s internal politics is in disarray and political actors are increasingly

The controversial construction of the first Hindu temple in Pakistan’s capital has been halted after it was challenged in the courts. Plans for the Shri Krishna temple on a 1,860 sq metre (20,000 sq ft) site in Islamabad include a Hindu crematorium and a community hall for the

As if a scripted response was ready, Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan, did not lose the opportunity to blame India for the attack on the Pakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi by Baloch separatists on June 29, 2020, which led to the death of about 13 persons including the four militants.