NEWS Pakistan Federal Government has cut Azad Jammu Kashmir’s developmental budget by Rs.2.5billion and Normal Budget by Rs.7billion. AJK authorities protested. “We made sacrifices for Pakistan and today we are not getting anything in return”. The federal government has frozen even the LoC Package Fund. (Kashmir Dharti, Siasat) 1145 Independents Read more ………
NEWS Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Athar Minallah has asked the federal government to produce the missing persons. “Otherwise justify your failure to effectively investigate and trace their whereabouts”. The court also ordered the federal government to issue notices on former president Gen Pervez Musharraf and all the successive chief Read more ………
Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said he is expecting China, along with India and other creditor nations, to help keep the island’s bankrupt economy afloat until the government can clinch an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout and tackle its huge foreign debt. So far, though, China, hitherto considered Read more ………
After a visit to Xinjiang’s Uyghur belt, UN high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, has urged the Chinese government to review its counter-terrorism policies in Xinjiang and appealed for information about missing Uyghurs. She addressed a press conference on Zoom from Guangzhou at the end of a six-day visit Read more ………
China is changing the status quo in the region by conducting military sorties near Taiwan, Premier Su Tseng-chang said Friday. Sending military planes to conduct exercises near Taiwan is “an act of changing the status quo” and an “inappropriate use of force,” he said when asked to comment on Secretary Read more ………
A cache of leaked files and photos sheds new light on the brutal methods used by the Chinese government towards the Muslim Uyghur minority in the north-western Xinjiang region, says Radio Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany’s international broadcaster. China is accused of operating a network of centers in the region to re-educate Read more ………
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin held regular press conference on May 25. DPRK missile test, IPEF launch, Bachelet’s China visit, Wang Fi’s Fiji visit, Texas carnage, PLA exercises around Taiwan, Sino-Australian trade, Japan & NPT and Chinese subsidies besides a host of other issues. EXCERPT Yonhap News Agency: It Read more ………
NEWS According to Afghan media, Sohail Shaheen, a spokesman for the Taliban’s political office in Qatar, said in an interview that Indian diplomats would be provided full security if India reopens its embassy in Kabul. It is the government’s responsibility to provide full protection to all foreign diplomats. (Jang) Making Read more ………
Power projects of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) face further risk of default on the upcoming debt repayments, as their outstanding dues have jumped above Rs340 billion amid Pakistan’s back-pedaling on fulfilling its contractual obligations, a Karachi daily said.. 11 Chinese power companies are facing serious issues due to the Read more ………
Yu Luming, vice chairman of the 13th Beijing Municipal Committee has been axed. His primary membership of the party has been cancelled, according to the People’s Daily. He has been charged with serious violation of discipline and law. Also expelled from the party and public office is Dai Xianghui, formerly Read more ………
Damning documents and photographs have revealed the horrors that Uighur Muslims face in China’s brutal ‘re-education camps’, says Daily Mail. The leak exposes how thousands of Uighurs have been detained on trumped-up ‘terrorism’ charges and given long sentences. It provides an unprecedented insight into the camps built since 2017 across Xinjiang Read more ………
