Karachi (Pakistan): Families of Baloch and Sindhi missing persons in different Pakistani cities held protests on Eid-al Adha, June 28, against enforced disappearances. In Karachi, Dr Deen Muhammad Baloch’s family and other Baloch families led a march from the Art Council to Karachi Press Club, demanding the release of...
New Delhi: Incessant rains across north India have paralysed normal life, leading to at least 40 reported deaths, landslides, devastation and flood-like situations in even the biggest of cities, including the national capital.   As of the evening of Monday, July 10, the Times of India reported 17 deaths from the...
With New Delhi closely monitoring the Thimphu-Beijing boundary negotiation, India’s top diplomat, Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra called on Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck – not in the neighbouring country’s capital, but in Gelephu, a town near its border with India. The king was accompanied by Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering when Kwatra and New Delhi’s...
New Delhi: Myanmar’s government-in-exile, the National Unity Government (NUG), has asked Myanmarese citizens, who have been “temporarily sheltering” in India due to the military crackdown in that country, to stay away from local political matters and ethnic-based conflicts.   The NUG government’s advisory to the displaced citizens is significant because it...
Kabul , July 9: After schools and universities closed, many students in war-torn Afghanistan turned to training in tailoring, and have called on the Taliban to reopen schools.   Some of these girl students demanded that the de-facto authorities reopen the colleges and universities that were closed to female students in...
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , July 10: In the Khyber province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, a group of tribal clerics has once again took matters into their own hands by enforcing a ban on transgender people dancing and playing music during weddings. The decision was made by a group of 26 clerics on Friday, who also ruled that clergy would not...
BEIJING, July 10: A 25-year-old man was suspected of attacking a kindergarten in China's Guangdong province on Monday, killing six people and injuring one, triggering an outpouring of concern about violence against children at school.   Media reported the attack in Lianjiang county in the southern province was a stabbing. The...
This is the second story in a three-part series about China’s employment environment, from migrant workers and fresh graduates to new job sources and the private sector. For less than a cup of coffee at most major chains, a migrant worker in a major Chinese city can rent a bed...
Amid soaring tensions between the United States and China, Beijing has firmly opposed the meeting of Joe Biden administration's top official on human rights, Uzra Zeya, with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in New Delhi.   Strongly objecting to the meeting, Beijing has asked Washington to stop meddling in the...
The Chinese Communist Party and its People’s Liberation Army are in the process of developing weapons that may pose a new kind of biologocal threat to the world. The Chinese army has established itself as the leader in ‘neurostrike’ weapons, which have been designed to attack or even control...