As China is now fixing its eyes on Bhutan by declaring a Bhutanese wildlife sanctuary along their border as a disputed territory, Bhutan swiftly jumped to its feet and issued a demarche to China. The demarche was a follow-up to protests earlier against Beijing’s attempt to make a

Iran has halted the executions of three men who were sentenced to death over anti-government protests last year, according to one of their lawyers. Babak Paknia told reporters that a request for a retrial had been accepted by the supreme court. The decision comes after a hashtag

India is the hardest-hit country with 1,078,782 cases, 26,838 deaths and 677,856 recoveries from coronavirus in Saarc regions at 15:20 pm till Sunday (Bangladesh Time), according to latest data from worldometer. Pakistan is the second worst-hit Saarc regions with 5,568 deaths and

It seems that China is following a double standard as far as environmental safety issues are concerned as despite earning applause for promising to make a clean environment, the dragons remain the highest producer of coal in the world. "While China – the world’s largest coal

The Chinese government is pressuring the families of soldiers who died in a violent border clash with India in June not to conduct burials and in-person funeral ceremonies in an attempt to cover up an episode that Beijing appears to consider a blunder, according to a U.S. intelligence

Geneva: Members of the Pashtun community gathered at Broken Chair in Geneva and demanded an investigation into the human rights violation committed against them by Pakistan. Life of Pashtun people on Pakistani grounds has never been an easy affair. Fight for basic human rights and

London's police force has suspended an officer pending an investigation after footage emerged of him kneeling on the side of a Black suspect's head and neck. Footage of the arrest in north London on Thursday shows two officers holding down the handcuffed man. At the

China appears to have failed to secure its "expansionism" beyond Pakistan and North Korea, neither of which has a viable alternative. Both Islamabad and Pyongyang -either willingly or unwillingly succumbed to China's tactics. "Yet today as the world stares at the inevitable and

Eight people have died in Thursday's two separate cases of building collapse in Mumbai, caused by heavy rain.  Rescue operations at the site of the building collapse in south Mumbai's Fort area continued this morning, with the death count touching six.  Four bodies were

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