The Lowy Institute of Australia published a report on Wednesday that found China’s funding for its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects in Southeast Asia is about $50 billion short of its commitments, apparently due to a variety of causes, from political instability in BRI countries to reduced demand for fossil fuel projects.
An unknown terrorist rammed a vehicle carrying explosives into a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a project in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, on Tuesday, the latest in a growing number of attacks targeting China’s Belt and Road Initiative in the region.
The government of Pakistan confirmed the execution of “intelligence-based anti-terrorist operations” within Afghanistan on Monday, outraging the Taliban which claimed to have responded by bombing Pakistani military bases “with heavy weapons.”
The Indian government announced plans to implement a controversial 2019 law that fast-tracks citizenship for non-Muslim refugees.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was sworn in for another term on Monday, despite opposition protests.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, already jailed on corruption and national security charges, was indicted on Tuesday on charges that he and his wife Bushra Bibi accepted parcels of land as bribes when Khan was in office.
Recent reports from the U.N. and America’s top watchdog agency on Afghanistan indicate that al-Qaeda is thriving in Afghanistan nearly three years after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban.
Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) announced it will join with the Sunni Ittehad Council party (SIC) in a bid to form a government.
As the dust settled from Pakistan’s highly contentious elections, presumptive prime ministerial candidate Nawaz Sharif stepped aside in favor of his younger brother Shehbaz, the former PM who is now likely to receive another term – even though the populist party of his predecessor Imran Khan won the most seats.
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), the political party of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, held massive protests over the weekend to denounce “rigging in the general election” held last week.
Early results in Pakistan’s elections show former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party taking the lead.
Pakistan’s elections were marked by a government shutdown of mobile Internet services and bloody terrorist attacks.
Two bombings targeting a political party headquarters and a local government office killed at least 28 people in Balochistan, Pakistan, on Wednesday – the day before a massive nationwide election preceded by outsized political violence and what some have branded state persecution of opposition parties.
The Taliban on Thursday rejected a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) report that said al-Qaeda has established “up to eight” new training camps, plus a number of safe houses, in Afghanistan since President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from the country in 2021.
The Indian Defense Ministry announced this week that it had begun a joint army exercise alongside Saudi Arabia named “Sada Tanseeq,” or “Forever in Coordination,” expected to run through February 10.
Just one day after receiving a ten-year sentence for mishandling documents, former Pakistani PM Imran Khan got 14 years for corruption.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was sentenced to another ten years in prison for mishandling security documents.
The Taliban terrorist organization that rules Afghanistan urged its neighbors in Iran and Pakistan to show “restraint” after the two nations bombed each other, allegedly to diminish the threat of ethnic Baloch separatist groups to their respective governments.
International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi said that Iran stymied nuclear inspectors as it stockpiled uranium.
The government of Pakistan confirmed “precision strikes” on alleged terror targets in Iran on Thursday, apparently a direct response to Iranian forces invading and bombing Pakistan less than two days prior.
The government of Pakistan banned former Prime Minister Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (PTI) from using its distinctive cricket bat logo on Monday, which effectively means PTI candidates cannot appear on ballots.
Nuclear-armed Pakistan on Wednesday warned that Iran will face “serious consequences” for a wanton missile strike on the Balochistan region.
India sent ten warships to deter the Iran-backed Houthis and other pirates but refused to join U.S.-led Operation Prosperity Guardian.
New Year’s Eve this weekend has ushered in the most eventful of political seasons in America: a presidential election year.
Acting Pakistani Prime Minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar announced on Thursday that New Year celebrations will be banned nationwide to “express solidarity with our Palestinian brothers and sisters.”
Shawn VanDiver, president of an advocacy group called AfghanEvac, told Reuters on Tuesday that at least 130 Afghan refugees who were being processed for resettlement to the United States have been caught up in Pakistan’s massive deportation program and sent back to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) translated remarks from a conference in Islamabad last week during which leaders of the Hamas terrorist group and Islamic scholars agreed Pakistan could end the Gaza war by threatening Israel with nuclear annihilation.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan used artificial intelligence (AI) to address a virtual rally from prison.
A Christian man is in hiding in Pakistan after a neighbor accused him of blasphemy for sharing a Bible passage on Facebook.
Pakistani police are investigating the murder of a teenage girl whose death was ordered by her village council of elders after a video of her dancing with young men was posted on social media.
Israel on Tuesday banned the Pakistan-based terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba, perpetrators of the Mumbai massacre in November 2008.
Miss Pakistan, Erica Robin, wore a burkini during the swimsuit competition at the Miss Universe pageant on Saturday.
The Taliban regime in Afghanistan sent a high-level trade delegation to Pakistan on Tuesday for trilateral talks that included Uzbekistan.
Serbian police said Friday they made seven arrests on suspicion of smuggling people into Hungary as part of a days-long crackdown.
November 1 is Pakistan’s deadline for all undocumented migrants to leave the country, or else authorities will forcibly deport them.
Three people were killed and one more injured during a raging hours-long battle between migrant smuggling gangs at the Serbia-Hungary border.
Pakistani media reported on Monday that the government has deported 59,561 Afghan migrants in less than a month, with seven days to go until Islamabad’s deadline for all illegal migrants to return to Afghanistan.
The Taliban blasted Pakistan Wednesday for ordering roughly 1.73 million Afghans living in the country illegally to leave by November 1.
A powerful suicide bomb was detonated near a mosque in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Friday, killing at least 52 and injuring 70 more at last report.
Prime Minister of Pakistan Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar used his address to the United Nations to demand that nations outlaw “Islamophobia.”
