After months of intense speculation and official reticence, China has finally confirmed its two former defense ministers who vanished from public view last year had been under investigation for corruption.
Their dramatic downfall has exposed deep-rooted alleged deceit in key sectors of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s military modernization drive despite...
The United States added six companies to its trade restriction list on Tuesday, including four for their links to the training of China's military forces, according to a government posting.
Two of the companies are in China, one in South Africa, two in the United Arab Emirates and one in...
BEIJING: China’s President Xi Jinping said there were “deep-seated problems” in the Chinese military’s politics, ideology, work style and discipline, state-run CCTV reported on Wednesday (June 19), amid an ongoing military anti-corruption purge.
“There must be no hiding place for corrupt elements in the army,” he was quoted as saying...
Telecom companies in Pakistan have been operating a mass surveillance system, enabling the interception of telecom customers' data without regulatory mechanisms or legal procedures, as directed by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA).
According to a written order, Justice Babar Sattar mandated the PTA officials to file their responses within six...
Former US President Donald Trump met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his private club and residence, Mar-a-Lago, Florida, on Friday.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that Hamas's deadly terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7 and the ensuing war in Gaza would not have happened if he had won the...
Three retired military personnel were taken into military custody in connection with court martial proceedings against former spymaster Faiz Hameed for his alleged involvement in victimising the owner of a private housing society, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a press release on Thursday.
According to the statement, three...
The World Uyghur Congress, a Germany-based organisation advocating Uyghur rights, released a statement on Thursday highlighting the plight of Uyghur individuals seeking refuge and asylum.
The WUC emphasised the cases of 43 Uyghur refugees held at the IDC Suan Phlu Immigration Detention Centre in Bangkok, Thailand, since 2014, and Idris Hasan, detained in Morocco since 2021,...
A group of U.S. lawmakers who met the Dalai Lama in India on Wednesday said they would not allow China to influence the choice of his successor, comments expected to anger Beijing, which calls the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader a separatist.
The remarks come as Washington and Beijing seek to...
China accused NATO on July 11 of seeking security at the expense of others and told the alliance not to bring the same “chaos” to Asia.
The statement by a Foreign Ministry spokesperson came a day after NATO labelled China a “decisive enabler” of Russia's war against Ukraine.
“NATO hyping up China's responsibility on...
A group of U.S. lawmakers who met the Dalai Lama in India on Wednesday said they would not allow China to influence the choice of his successor, comments expected to anger Beijing, which calls the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader a separatist.
The remarks come as Washington and Beijing seek to...
