ISLAMABAD: As a Pakistani team leaves for Beijing to seek reduction in interest rates and extension in the tenure of the debt taken for China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) energy projects and nuclear power plants, Chinese companies have ruled out the possibility of renegotiating the power purchase contracts.
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Nearly two dozen members of the UK Parliament on Tuesday called for the immediate release of former prime minister Imran Khan, who is currently imprisoned in Adiala Jail along with his wife, Bushra Bibi.
This call to action emerged during a hearing in the House of Lords Committee Room, addressing...
India and Russia have doubled their payments in national currencies (rupee-rouble) since last year despite sanctions by the U.S. and European Union, said Russia's largest, state- controlled bank Sberbank that handles a majority of payments for Indian exports to Russia.
The surge may rise further after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's...
The United States expressed concern over the government’s decision to potentially restrict the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.
During a press briefing on Monday, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller responded to questions regarding the “possible restrictions on PTI.”
He stated that the US has observed governmental statements imposing restrictions on political...
Hundreds of mosques and Islamic shrines have been destroyed by China in recent years, as Beijing aims to erase the Islamic culture associated with the Xinjiang province and forcefully assimilate the Uyghurs with their Han Chinese culture, a report by The Economist stated.
World Uyghur Congress reacted to the report,...
US politician Rob Wittman, Vice President of the House Armed Services Committee Republicans, has strongly condemned China's actions towards African workers and Uyghur Muslims, labeling them as "absolutely criminal."
Wittman asserted, "China is the greatest human rights violator on the face of the earth." He particularly highlighted the atrocities against...
The leadership of the Central Tibetan Administration in exile has welcomed Presidential assent to the Resolve Tibet Act in the U.S. Welcoming President Joe Biden’s signature on the Act, Sikyong Penpa Tsering has vowed to campaign for the Tibetan issue through “non-violent means”. The approval of the Resolve Tibet...
The Chinese authorities on Friday forcibly closed an age-old Tibetan school, namely Jigme Gyaltsen Nationalities Vocational High School in Tibet's Golok, while hiding the true reason behind the order, the Central Tibetan Administration reported.
The Chinese government had launched investigations into monks or nuns under the age of 18 and...
The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE), representing East Turkistan and its people, said that the Court of the Citizens of the World, a quasi-judicial body, has held Chinese President Xi Jinping "directly responsible for the genocide of Uyghurs."
East Turkistan, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of...
The East Turkistan National Movement, a Washington-based NGO, is calling for people to commemorate the 2014 Yarkand Massacre, where thousands of Uyghurs were killed by Chinese government forces. This incident marked the beginning of what the organization terms as the ongoing genocide of Uyghurs.
The organization has scheduled an event...
