Washington DC , July 10: Highlighting religious discrimination in Pakistan, human rights activists raised concern over the decline in the percentage of minorities in Pakistan.
Naveed Walter, the President of Human Rights Focus Pakistan said that the population of minorities in Pakistan has come down to 3 per cent from 23 per cent since its independence...
NEW DELHI: Nepal's very expensive Pokhara international airport is shaping up to be an economic albatross for the cash-strapped nation and has saddled it with debt to creditors in Beijing for years to come.
The fate of the airport strongly parallels that of Gwadar Port in Pakistan which was built under China's Belt and...
The U.S. government is preparing evacuation plans for American citizens living in Taiwan, three sources told The Messenger.
The planning has been underway for at least six months and “it’s heated up over the past two months or so,” said a senior U.S. intelligence official who spoke on the condition...
The US government wants to work with allies like India to combat disinformation generated by countries like Russia and China by ensuring access to the tools necessary to expose foreign information manipulation, a senior American diplomat has said. During a meeting at the US Embassy in London this week,...
Braving China’s wrath and sidelining its One China principle, India sealed an agreement with Taiwan (often called Rogue state by Beijing) that aims to alleviate Taipei’s labor shortage. Signed on February 16, the pact between the two nations, signaling a potential bolstering of bilateral ties, focuses on recruiting Indian...
Lahore , November 13: Amid economic deprivation and unemployment, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern over the growing sense of powerlessness among ordinary people in Pakistan.
It reported that the political engineering due to the upcoming general elections in Pakistan has made democracy, electoral politics and...
China has mapped out its imperial ambitions—literally. Last Monday, China’s Ministry of Natural Resources released its new “standard map,” which includes not only Taiwan, but also parts of the maritime zones of the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia. It also includes land that China disputes with India—and even...
New Delhi , January 5: In a high voltage drama unfolding in the high seas, Indian naval warship INS Chennai reached the hijacked vessel MV Lila Norfolk off Somalia coast on Friday and issued a warning to the pirates on board to abandon the vessel, military officials told.
The Indian...
Islamabad , May 23: Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Tuesday granted interim bail to former Prime Minister Imran Khan in eight cases registered against him until June 8 related to violence that erupted at the Judicial Complex here in March.
Multiple cases were registered against Imran Khan after clashes erupted between police and...
