Category : Neighbourhood Intel

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

The vice-governor of the junta-controlled Central Bank of Myanmar, Daw Than Than Swe, was shot at her house in Yangon’s Bahan Township on Thursday, becoming the highest-ranking regime official so far to be attacked. Conflicting reports have emerged over whether she survived the attack. A member of an anti-regime guerrilla group in Yangon claimed responsibility […]Read More