Four of the six mega BRI corridors – including the controversial and sensitive China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) – run through southern Xinjiang, which is till today dominated by Uyghur Muslims. ..…
The British controlled Australia and Canada, much of eastern and southern Africa with smaller enclaves along the “gold coast”, all of what is currently India and Pakistan, Burma, Malaysia and Singapore. ..…
Two bomb blasts struck former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s motorcade on October 18, 2007 in the southern port city of Karachi. Bhutto was returning to Pakistan after almost eight years. The attack left 139 people dead. ..…
The first was that for nearly five years following US military Afghanistan, United States did not deploy US & NATO Forces Southern Afghanistan particularly in areas contiguous to Pakistan leaving Pakistan Army to virtually to re-subjugate these areas through Taliban.. ..…
Taliban leadership lost control of the country and relocated to southern Afghanistan and across the border to Pakistan. ..…
With this latest of Kashmir crisis between nuclear powers Pakistan and India, Southern Asia has once again shown that it's perceived as the generator of global instability.. ..…
The attacks were targeted killings that took place on May 12 and 15, and resulted in the death of two police officers in Baluchistan’s southern Mastung district. The Amaq Media Agency also claimed it targeted militants from Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Quetta, the provincial capital..…
Pakistan has allocated additional funds to develop CPEC infrastructure projects in the southern province of Balochistan (Express Tribune, March 22, 2019)—a region that has recently seen threats to Chinese citizens and PRC infrastructure projects from separatist insurgents (China Brief, 15..…
Based on media reports, the US troops occupying a 55-km zone in Southern Syria block Russian and Syrian diplomatic and military officials from entering Rukban to provide people with humanitarian aid. . . . . . . . . . . . Pakistan's Political, Religious Groups Launch Campaign to..…
That included huge doses of state violence in Kashmir, three wars between India and Pakistan, threats to invade Hyderabad, an invasion of Goa, wars to conquer rebels in mountainous northeast and central India, Pakistan, and Burma (which continue today), and the Bangladesh Liberation War. . The..…
Senator Sehar Kamran of the Pakistan Peoples Party | seharkamran.com Incidents like these are quite common across the poverty-ridden and tradition-bound southern and south-western parts of Punjab. ..…
These deaths also explain the sad state of nutrition and mother-child healthcare available to these communities, easily in districts with concentration of Hindu southern Sindh and in katchi abadis of the urban centres throughout Pakistan, including Islamabad.. ..…
In his book The Hundred-Year Marathon China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as Global Superpower, that China has strategy to subvert U.S.-led world economic and order and to replace it with communism by 2049, the anniversary of Communist Party's rise to China. ..…
Inaugurated in April 2015, CPEC is a bilateral agreement between Pakistan and China to develop an extensive economic and infrastructure corridor through Pakistan—one which will ultimately connect the port of Gwadar in southern Pakistan to the city of Kashgar, in China’s Xinjiang..…
Unlike the elitist Pakistan People’s Party, however, which is led by the Westernized Sindhi feudal landlords and represents the traditional and rural masses of the southern Sindh province, the broad-based and urban middle class vote bank of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Movement for Justice is..…
As well-informed readers must be aware that military operations have been going on in the tribal areas of Pakistan since 2009, but a military operation – unlike a law enforcement operation, as in the southern port city of Karachi – is a different kind of operation; it’s an all-out war...…
To his right is General Asim Saleem Bajwa, former head of the Pakistan Army’s media wing, who currently leads the Southern Command in Quetta. . ... Interestingly, in making this pitch to the gathering of the world’s business elites, Khan was accompanied by General Asim Saleem Bajwa,..…
Furthermore, according to Pakistan’s National Commission for Human Rights, 509 Shi’a Muslims belonging to the Hazara ethnic group had been killed in Pakistan’s western city of Quetta since 2013. Although a southern Punjab-based sectarian militant outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi frequently..…
From the earliest days, Pakistan was a bri darling, with China spending some $60 billion to build a deepwater port on the country’s southern coast and linking it by 2,000 miles of road and rail up to the China-Pakistan border. ..…
Son-biased sex ratios at birth have been identified in several Asian countries,1 most notably in several provinces in China and northern states of India, but also in Vietnam and Pakistan. Son-biased sex ratios are not static, with declines noted in Southern Asia, specifically in Sri Lanka,..…
Following severe flooding in southern Pakistan last year, for example, the central government immediately called for foreign assistance. ..…
Established in 1996 as Shanghai Five, SCO now includes four Central Asian states, Russia, and China, while southern neighbors such as Iran, Pakistan, and India trying to become full members. ..…
According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), AQAP officially endorsed the movement for southern secession in May 2009. That earned it a rebuke from bin Laden's chief ideologists in Pakistan, who reminded AQAP that al-Qaeda does not back national movements, but seeks an international Islamic..…
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton congratulated the brave men and women who tracked down and ultimately killed Osama bin Laden near Islamabad, Pakistan, yesterday. . . Meanwhile, Marines in Camp Pendleton in southern California said, “it’s about time we got” bin Laden — nearly 10..…
Drought, linked to the long-term changes in weather patterns associated with climate change, has devastated four different population centers: southern Africa, including South Africa, the enclaves of Lesotho and Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Madagascar; the Horn of Africa, including Ethiopia,..…
Alvi, a senior member of Khan’s party from the southern Sindh province, faced little challenge from Aitzaz Ahsan, from the opposition Pakistan People’s Party, and Maulana Fazlur Rehman, a pro-Taliban, anti-U.S. radical Islamist. ..…
Helmand, Taliban southern Afghanistan that borders Pakistan, remains the main opium poppy-cultivating province.. ..…
Most of Afghanistan is cultivated and produced in southern provinces that border Pakistan and have been Taliban strongholds, namely Helmand and Kandahar, the deadliest provinces for U.S...…
Opium cultivation and production is source of funding for Taliban, particularly in southern Afghanistan, along Pakistan border.. ..…
In addition to Shabana, Malik portrays a Middle Eastern Muslim, a black woman born in the southern United States, a Moroccan-American Muslim and a woman who was born in Pakistan. ..…
Bulgaria: Numerous southern villages are being converted to Islam by force. 3/3 . Gujranwala, Pakistan: A Muslim mob attacked Christian worshippers, killing a woman and injuring 28 people. ..…
State-run television said car packed with estimated 440 pounds of explosives blew up on road on the capital's southern outskirts, wounding dozens and shattering car and apartment windows. ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN Leader Pakistanis do not back rebels -- The minister insisted Saturday that..…
Obama was in Pakistan for about three weeks, said the campaign, staying with his friend's family in Karachi and also visiting Hyderabad in Southern India. Pakistan in 1981 was under military rule. It was difficult for U.S. citizens to travel to the country without assistance. ..…
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