BEIJING/TAIPEI: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang pledged “peaceful reunification” with Taiwan on Sunday as well as resolute steps to oppose Taiwan independence, with Taipei responding that Beijing should respect the Taiwanese people’s commitment to democracy and freedom.
China, which claims democratic Taiwan as its own territory, has increased its military activity...
Islamabad , March 3: A study into the legal barriers faced by religious minorities living in Pakistan revealed that a significant number of religious minorities have been reported as facing difficulty in obtaining computerised national identity cards (CNIC) or being unable to obtain one at all.
Numerous basic rights of citizenship in Pakistan are...
Beijing, March 2: China has unveiled an ambitious plan to construct a new railway line along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and through the disputed Aksai Chin region.
According to a new railway plan revealed by the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) government, the ‘medium to long-term railway plan’ will...
Islamabad , March 3: Pakistan's government has accepted another International Monetary Fund (IMF) demand, announcing a surcharge of up to PKR 3.23 per unit on electricity consumers across the nation from July 1, Dawn reported.
The decision has been taken to generate PKR 335 billion more in revenue over the next fiscal...
Protests continued in Quetta, Karachi, Kech, Khuzdar, Mand and other parts of Balochistan against the enforced disappearances of Baloch women.
New series of these protests are taking place after the enforced disappearances of Baloch women. On February 3, Pakistan Army in collaboration with intelligence agencies forcibly disappeared Rahim Zehri, his...
Taipei: The United States has approved the potential sale of $619 million in new weapons to Taiwan, including missiles for its F-16 fleet, as the island reported a second day of large-scale Chinese air force incursions nearby.
The arms sales are likely to further sour already tense ties between Washington...
New Delhi: China’s number of working people has fallen by more than 41 million in the past three years, reflecting both the coronavirus pandemic’s toll on the economy and a decline in the working age population, according to a report.
Some 733.5 million Chinese people were employed in 2022, reported...
New Delhi: Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday described India as a “highly responsible” nation and lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi for presenting a balanced position as the president of the G20 during the grouping’s Foreign Ministers’ Meeting.
The Russian foreign minister emphasised the friendly relationship between Russia and...
The use of Open-source intelligence, known to practitioners as OSINT, in Ukraine, is transforming the way information and intelligence are collected, analyzed, produced, and disseminated.
Although intelligence has been a crucial element of warfare since time immemorial, the increasingly widespread availability of open-source intelligence tools to civilians is dramatically changing...
New York , February 27: Over five dozen protesters gathered outside a building housing a Chinese ‘police station’ accused of spying on dissidents in the Chinese community in New York.
On Saturday, the protesters gathered outside 107 East Broadway where the ChangLe Association Inc, a non-profit which operates a “service...
