Beijing plans to build its second offshore naval base near a strategically important Pakistani port following the opening of its first facility in Djibouti on the Horn of Africa last year. Beijing-based military analyst Zhou Chenming said the base near the Gwadar port on the Arabian Sea would be used to dock and maintain naval […]Read More
The Trump administration will suspend most security assistance to Pakistan, the State Department said on Thursday, expanding its retribution over militant safe havens that U.S. officials blame for ongoing violence in Afghanistan. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert, speaking to reporters, said the suspension would allow the administration, which will freeze the aid payments but not […]Read More
WASHINGTON — When Pakistani forces freed a Canadian-American family this fall held captive by militants, they also captured one of the abductors. United States officials saw a potential windfall: He was a member of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network who could perhaps provide valuable information about at least one other American hostage. The Americans demanded access to the […]Read More
By F.M. SHAKIL Blame it on political chaos, corruption or a deteriorating law and order situation in Pakistan. Whatever the cause, Chinese enthusiasm for the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is waning and Beijing has taken several road, mass-transit and industrial zone projects off the table, either temporarily or permanently. Two road projects that have […]Read More
By Lawrence Sellin Retired Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve According to a December 12, 2017 Urdu-language news site report, during a high-level meeting presumably between Chinese and Pakistani officials held on the last day of the November Chinese Economic Summit in Hong Kong, China offered to train Pakistani security forces to protect both the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor […]Read More
By Shahdad Baloch After series of interferences in the Middle East, now Iran has opted the policy of diluting the Baloch struggle for an independent homeland through her notorious ‘proxy war’ doctrine. The most recent development was witnessed after the Kurdistan referendum, where Iranian revolutionary guards backed Iraqi forces in their attempt to sabotage the […]Read More
QUETTA: A Pakistani minister in Balochistan has said on Sunday that genocide is the only effective solution to address security issues. Home Minister, Sarfaraz Bugti, during a meeting with local elders in Dera Bugti, said: “to save the future generations and for a prosperous Pakistan, there is no other option but to carry out genocide […]Read More
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) Friday urged Pakistani authorities to meaningfully engage with the process to improve the human rights situation in the country. Frederick Rawski, ICJ’s Asia Director said, “Pakistan’s past engagement with the UPR has been characterized by denial and defensive posturing. As a recently-elected member of the UN Human Rights Council, it […]Read More
During her speech at UN General Assembly, Pakistani diplomat Maleeha Lodhi showed a photo of a female victim from Gaza but said she was from Kashmir United Nations: In a major goof-up, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN Maleeha Lodhi on Sunday flashed a picture of an injured Gaza girl with no connection to India […]Read More
LONDON: Baloch leader and the head of Free Balochistan Movement Hyrbyair Marri said in a statement from London that the occupying states of Iran and Pakistan have always closely cooperated against the Baloch national cause in order to counter and eliminate the Baloch freedom struggle. He said that both states were equally involved in occupying […]Read More
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