A day after ISI chief Lt. Gen. Nadeem Anjum held an unprecedented press conference and targeted Imran Khan, the former prime minister hit back. Addressing a crowd in Lahore as his party began the long march towards Islamabad, Imran castigated the ISI director general for claiming his organisation was apolitical and neutral. He said the spy chief […]Read More

China is developing its nuclear forces to threaten the United States and shield its authoritarian ambitions, according to the Biden administration’s newly published National Defense Strategy. The strategy highlights China’s communist regime as “the most comprehensive and serious challenge to U.S. national security” and directs political and military leaders to “act urgently to sustain and […]Read More

Claiming that the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has received “good response” from the people during its “Ekwa Negitimu” (Let’s Rise Together) rallies, former PM Mahinda Rajapaksa said that the SLPP will not only rise again but also formulate programmes to rebuild the country. Addressing the third rally in the series, Rajapaksa said: “You all know […]Read More

A statement issued by Nepal’s election commission asking the public to refrain from making “negative” comments on prominent leaders or risk legal action has created a flutter. The statement came following posts on social media, with the primary theme “No, Not Again”, calling on voters to reject certain politicians, particularly those who have been prime minister at least […]Read More

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of Sri Lanka has launched an investigation into a financial fraud involving Rs14 billion in a fake crypto currency scheme. Police Spokesman Nihal Thalduwa said the alleged fraud was carried out by a Chinese couple and a Sri Lankan citizen and 8,000 people had fallen victim to it since 2020, […]Read More

A senior U.S. naval commander has warned that Beijing could start a military conflict as soon as this year and that the Indo-Pacific needs to be prepared to experience conflict in the near future. “If I look at the trends from, let’s say, 2018 to now in how we talk about China, in the 2018 […]Read More

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a body that leads global action to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, has taken Pakistan off its ‘grey list’, four years after putting the country on a list of nations under increased monitoring. Pakistan has strengthened the effectiveness of its AML/CFT (Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism) regime and […]Read More

The National Assembly of Pakistan has amended its rules to make the prior permission of the speaker mandatory for the arrest of any member of the house and the issuance of production order for an arrested lawmaker. When the session convened only 21 members (of a total of 259) were present but no one pointed […]Read More

Sri Lanka is set to become an investor-friendly country while reaching its aspiration of becoming an export-oriented economy and restructuring its debt, said President Ranil Wickremesinghe. “We have to seriously look at foreign investments replacing foreign loans as the island’s main source of income,” he said at the opening of a 50-storey commercial complex in […]Read More