2. Security

    2022-11-22

    Tehran, Moscow agree to manufacture drones in Russia for Ukraine war

    New intelligence reveals Iran has agreed to help Russia build weaponised drones, with production potentially beginning within months.

  3. Terrorism

    2022-11-21

    Militant leader says IRGC supporting terror attacks inside Pakistan

    Pakistani Baloch militants are accepting aid and shelter from the Iranian regime that oppresses their ethnic kinsmen in Iran.

  4. Security

    2022-11-18

    With mounting losses, Russia recruits former Afghan forces to fight in Ukraine

    Recruiters are targeting former Afghan security forces living in Afghanistan and Iran, and leveraging desperate economic situations to convince the soldiers to fight in Ukraine.

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Pakistan's Main Line-1 project reignites debate over Chinese loans

The line is undergoing a $9.85 billion upgrade and renovation as part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Analysts say Pakistan should reconsider the deal.

Pakistan's Main Line-1 project reignites debate over Chinese loans
  1. Human Rights

    2022-11-17

    Researchers say Chinese spyware targets Muslims through apps

    The spyware enabled hackers to collect sensitive data including a user's location, contacts, call logs, text messages and files, a report said, and could also take photos and record calls.

  2. Crime & Justice

    2022-11-17

    Pakistani court freezes bank accounts of Chinese companies involved in fraud

    The companies and suspects cheated the public out of 1.1 billion PKR (about $5 million) through fraudulent investment schemes, including online Ponzi and pyramid schemes.

  3. Terrorism

    2022-11-16

    Pakistan Taliban kill 6 police officers in gun ambush

    Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif offered his condolences, saying that 'terrorism continues to be one of Pakistan's foremost problems'.

  1. Economy

    2022-11-15

    Pakistan's Main Line-1 project reignites debate over Chinese loans

    The line is undergoing a $9.85 billion upgrade and renovation as part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Analysts say Pakistan should reconsider the deal.

  2. Economy

    2022-11-14

    A continent away: Russia's war in Ukraine jeopardising food security in Africa

    Russia's invasion of Ukraine is having debilitating consequences in East Africa, with millions of residents facing starvation due to food shortages and the unbearable cost of living.

  3. Human Rights

    2022-11-11

    Fear and propaganda: Russian tactics in captured lands

    Psychiatrists say chronic shortages of basics and food helped wear down Ukrainians' resistance to the propaganda. 'First they destroy a person morally' then fill them up with 'new ideas'.

  4. Analysis

    2022-11-10

    The murky military co-operation between Iran and Russia

    Winning Russia as a close ally is all the more attractive for Iran's leadership right now, as it can count on Moscow to turn a blind eye to Iran's human rights and economic violations.

  5. Human Rights

    2022-11-09

    Iran hangs Baluch prisoner who was already dead: rights group

    The prisoner in Sistan and Baluchestan was killed by prison guards just prior to his planned execution. But his corpse was still hanged to avoid legal consequences.

  6. Security

    2022-11-08

    Buried phones, bribes and paranoia: Life under Russian occupation

    The accounts of life under occupation by those who managed to escape tell a tale of near-total paranoia and subjugation to the whims of soldiers and Kremlin appointees.

  7. Security

    2022-11-08

    Russian army faces 'catastrophic' conditions as winter approaches in Ukraine

    With its supply lines disrupted and ranks decimated, the Russian military faces a frigid winter with little fuel, food, shelter and medical supplies on the frontlines.

  8. Crime & Justice

    2022-11-07

    Desperate and isolated, Iran finds itself in de facto state of war with Ukraine

    By supplying Russia with hundreds of attack drones, sending experts to train forces in Crimea, and parroting Kremlin rhetoric, the Iranian regime has cast its lot with a fellow international pariah.

  9. Crime & Justice

    2022-11-03

    Iran deeply enmeshed in arms trafficking network with Horn of Africa terrorists

    Evidence is clear that Iranians are playing a central role in a network of arms traffickers that have facilitated weapons transfers to multiple terrorist groups in the Horn of Africa.

  10. Terrorism

    2022-11-02

    Arrest of Baloch militant uncovers secret training ground in Iran

    The arrested militant confessed that he had received training in Sarvan, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran.

  11. Environment

    2022-11-01

    Heat, then floods ruin Pakistani farmers' livelihoods

    The rise of extreme weather events linked to climate change has deepened insecurity throughout the country and put greater focus on the biggest greenhouse emitters.

  12. Diplomacy

    2022-11-01

    50 countries at UN condemn China's Xinjiang rights abuses

    'Clearly, diplomatic momentum in favor of holding Beijing accountable for its human rights violations is growing,' said the Human Rights Watch's UN director, Louis Charbonneau.

  13. Protests

    2022-10-31

    Return of protests in Gwadar puts spotlight on Chinese influence in Pakistan

    Instead of providing teachers and schools to Gwadar residents, the CPEC has led to military checkpoints and military personnel who guard Chinese nationals and their interests, say locals.

  14. Society

    2022-10-28

    US commits another $30 million for Pakistan flood relief

    The assistance brings to $97 million the flood aid to Pakistan by the United States, the largest donor.

  15. Refugees

    2022-10-27

    Iran's beleaguered security forces increase pressure on Afghan refugees

    Arbitrary arrests, torture and deportation of Afghan refugees in Iran are increasing, according to recent returnees and observers on the border.

  16. Terrorism

    2022-10-26

    ISIS mass grave unearthed in Syria's Palmyra brings grim reminder of past

    A dozen bodies of civilians and soldiers were found in a mass grave near Palmyra's archaeological theatre. In 2016, ISIS executed at least 280 people in the city.

  17. Security

    2022-10-25

    Pakistani forces thwart ISIS-K effort to shift operations to Balochistan

    A series of raids in Balochistan has set back the plans of ISIS-K terrorists to shift operations from Afghanistan and exploit the restive province.

  18. Politics

    2022-10-21

    Called out on drone transfers to Russia, Iran claims victimhood

    Despite Iran's denials, there is ample evidence that Russia has used Iranian drones in its war on Ukraine to carry out hundreds of attacks.

  19. Society

    2022-10-20

    Russia's war in Ukraine pushes 4 million children in Central Asia, Europe into poverty

    'The steep rise in child poverty will almost certainly result in lost lives, lost learning and lost futures', said UNICEF regional director Afshan Khan.

  20. Economy

    2022-10-19

    Pakistani workers involved in China's BRI projects face draconian COVID restrictions

    Workers employed by Chinese-backed projects in Pakistan have been forbidden from seeing their families for months, according to a recent investigation.

  21. Health

    2022-10-18

    Gates Foundation pledges over $1 billion to eradicate polio

    The organisation has pledged $1.2 billion to immunise children against the polio virus around the world, with a focus on Pakistan, one of the few countries where polio remains endemic.