Fri 02 April 2021: Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained after the junta seized power on Feb. 1, was charged in a military court Thursday with violating the country’s official secrets law. Suu Kyi’s lawyer Khin Maung Zaw announced the news while speaking to reporters following the hearing in Yangon. […]
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Thu 01 April 2021: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday took back its ban on TikTok and asked the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to let the Chinese app operate in Pakistan but make sure that “immoral content” is not uploaded. During the hearing, PHC Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan asked the PTA director general […]
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Thu 01 April 2021: Pakistan’s cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan, on Thursday put on hold a decision made by the country’s top economic decision-making body to allow imports of cotton and sugar from neighboring India, a source told Reuters. In an effort to cool local demand and prices, Pakistan’s Economic Coordination Committee on […]
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Wed 31 March 2021: In the recently released report, Freedom House downgraded India from free to partly free due to the atmosphere of intolerance, treatment of journalists, protestors and religious minorities. The events of 19th March at Jhansi station more than reflect this fact. On 19th March two nuns belonging to Sacred Heart congregation, who […]
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Thu 01 April 2021: Pakistan on Wednesday approved imports of cotton, yarn, and sugar from India, resuming trade with New Delhi after nearly two years. Finance Minister Hammad Azhar told a news conference in the capital Islamabad after a meeting of the Economic Coordination Council, a top decision-making body, that it is allowing the imports […]
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Wed 31 March 2021: Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi appears in good health despite two months of detention, her legal team said Wednesday as diplomatic pressure on the military junta ramped up. Daily protests demanding the restoration of the elected government have been met with a crackdown that has left more than […]
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Wed 31 March 2021: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday replied to a letter written by his counterpart Narendra Modi saying Pakistan desires peaceful relations with India. Modi had written to Khan on the occasion of Pakistan’s Republic Day on March 23, also calling for peaceful relations between the two nuclear-armed rivals. Dated March […]
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Tue 30 March 2021: The United States should fully withdraw from Afghanistan but it must do so responsibly, former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Monday. Last week, President Joe Biden said due to “tactical reasons” the US was unlikely to meet the May 1 deadline to exit Afghanistan stipulated in the agreement the Trump […]
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Tue 30 March 2021: China has approved a sweeping and controversial overhaul to Hong Kong’s political system that will cut the number of directly elected seats in the territory’s mini-parliament and create a vetting committee to approve candidates for office. The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), the top decision-making body of the […]
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Tue 30 March 2021: Indonesian police arrested 13 suspects in a sprawling probe into the suicide attack on the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi province, Antara news agency reported on Monday, citing police. Arrests took place in the provinces of Jakarta, South Sulawesi, West Java and West Nusa […]
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