Exports of Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines have dropped significantly this year due to its low effectiveness, especially against new mutations of the virus. At the end of 2020, when the world urgently needed COVID-19 vaccines, China provided a large number of vaccines to low- and middle-income countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe. However, […]Read More

A 10-member delegation led by Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif held a series of meetings with party supremo Nawaz Sharif in London earlier this week to discuss ways to deal with political, economic and constitutional crises facing the country. PML-N leaders won’t say what decisions were taken at those meetings. Whatever was decided will be put […]Read More

Pakistani President Arif Alvi has requested Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial to form a judicial commission to thoroughly probe the allegations of regime change “conspiracy” to avert political and economic crisis in the country and keep the political powder keg from igniting. In a letter to the chief justice, the president said the commission be […]Read More

Sri Lankan Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has refused to admit the no-confidence motion (NCM) against President Gotabaya Rajapaksa immediately, saying that he needs to first consult the Attorney General about its legality. “At the party leaders’ meeting, the Speaker agreed to place the NCM against the Government in the Order Book. But he insisted […]Read More

Daesh and other groups are trying to regroup in Afghanistan, according to Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. “ISIS and other groups are trying to put themselves back together, they have not succeeded yet and they have not yet presented a threat to the U.S. homeland but we are watching […]Read More

The Chinese Communist Party’s insistence on “zero-Covid” strategy to tackle local outbreaks is not so much about science but the choice of its top leader Xi Jinping, who ties the success of the strategy to his own greatness, says Jeffrey A. Tucker, president of Texas-based think tank the Brownstone Institute. “Xi Jinping made a profound […]Read More

Imran Khan may be out of power but his allegations of a ‘foreign conspiracy’ to bring down his government continues to reverberate so much so that the new Pakistani government has now announced that an ‘independent’ inquiry commission would probe the ex-premier’s claims. The findings of the commission will be put before the masses so […]Read More

“The human rights ministry should be shut down if ethnic profiling is happening.” Strong words from Chief Justice Athar Minallah of Islamabad High Court while hearing a petition filed against harassment of Baloch students protesting in Islamabad last month over the disappearance of their missing colleague. “Why is there a human rights ministry when neither […]Read More

A post-graduate student of Ludong University in China’s Shandong Province has been expelled after he opposed campus lockdown and frequent Covid-19 tests for students. Last month, Sun Jian protested on campus by putting up a banner that asked for the lockdown to be lifted. In December last year, in an ‘open letter to leaders of […]Read More

Ali Sabry who resigned a day after he was made Sri Lanka’s Finance Minister earlier this week has said he accepts responsibility for his role in the ongoing economic crisis. “There is no point cheering when things go well and trying to escape through the back door when things go poorly. So I take responsibility […]Read More
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