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by Gordon G. Chang First published by The Gatestone Institute China’s economy is worse than it appears, and its vaccines, needed for a full recovery, are still in development, far behind America’s. In the meantime, Beijing’s response to the coronavirus, which includes the smearing of America, is resulting in China losing friends worldwide. (Photo by Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images) The U.K.-based Centre for Economics and Business Research believes that, due to China’s superior response to COVID-19, the Chinese economy will become the world’s largest by 2028, five years earlier than previously forecast. “For some time, an overarching theme of global…
By National News Desk Islamabad: Pakistan confirmed on Tuesday its first case of the new Coronavirus variant found in the United Kingdom after it identified a strain that spreads at a much faster pace in three samples taken from passengers who had returned from Britain. The health department in Sindh reported that samples of 12 returnees were taken for genotyping, of which six tested positive. “Samples of 3 UK returnees show a 95 per cent match for the new Coronavirus variant from the UK in the first phase of genotyping,” he said in a tweet. The health department said that…
By National News Desk Islamabad: Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lobbied the Imran Khan Government on Tuesday for the arrest of Pakistan’s Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and former Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif in connection with assets beyond the scope of the case. Slamming Khan’s government, Nawaz Sharif called Asif’s arrest a “joke.” “Khawaja Asif’s arrest in asset beyond means is a joke and shows the desperation of the government,” Nawaz Sharif was quoted as saying by Pakistani journalist Murtaza Ali Shah. He further said that Asif’s arrest will not affect the resolve of the 11 party-alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement…
By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is all set to host opposition leaders for the 13th anniversary of the death of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh in Larkana on Sunday. The gathering of opposition leaders is taking place at a time when the People’s Democratic Movement is preparing for phase two of its anti-government campaign. The PDM is an 11-party opposition alliance that has held anti-government rallies against the Imran Khan government on charges of electoral rigging, corruption and the dominance of the Pakistan Army in the country’s politics. PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari…
By National News Desk Islamabad: Neha loved the hymns that filled her church with music. But she lost the chance to sing them last year when, at the age of 14, she was forcibly converted from Christianity to Islam and married to a 45-year-old man with children twice her age. She tells her story in a voice so low it occasionally fades away. She all but disappears as she wraps a blue scarf tightly around her face and head. Neha’s husband is in jail now facing charges of rape for the underage marriage, but she is in hiding, afraid after…
Abdullah Momand After 9/11, when the Taliban regime on Afghanistan soil was overthrown and war broke out, Pakistan’s tribal districts, including Afghanistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were engulfed in war and the flames of terrorism were felt everywhere. Following the formation of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in 2008, when military operations began in the former FATA, the tribal elders stood by the army against terrorism which resulted in the martyrdom of more than 2,000 tribal elders, in suicide attacks, IED attacks and targeted killings. During 2017, the government and the military leadership began arming people in the tribal districts, and peace…
By National News Desk Islamabad: European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has extended a ban on Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) for three months, despite the Pakistani officials’ expectations that ban would be lifted. The EASA on Saturday informed that the PIA that the ban would only be lifted after a safety audit of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), Dawn reported. The EASA had in July suspended the authorisation for PIA to operate flights in the EU member states for six months due to safety concerns. On Friday, Pakistan Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan had told reporters in Taxila that most…
By Our Saff Reporter Islamabad: Hundreds of people came out on streets in Dera Ghazi Khan (DGK) of Punjab province to protest against the “cold-blooded assassination” of rights activist Karima Baloch on Saturday. They held placards showing support to Karima and raised slogans against government. One of the placards read: ‘Karima Baloch is the soul of Baloch Resistance’. Pamphlets were also distributed on behalf of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee Dera Ghazi Khan. Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) appealed to Baloch’s of DGK to rise against the oppression of state on Baloch land. “A large number of people have gathered in Dera Ghazi…
By National News Desk Islamabad: The British government’s report has revealed that illegal money from Pakistan continues to make its way to the United Kingdom, and vice versa, without hindrance as “corrupt foreign elites continue to be attracted to the UK property market, especially in London, to disguise their corruption proceeds.” The “National Risk Assessment of money laundering and terrorist financing 2020” report, published by the UK Treasury and Home Office, listed countries such as China, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Russia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the top hotspots from which most money flows are processed and routed. “The…
By National News Desk Islamabad: On Friday, Pakistan’s regulators condemned Internet giants Google and Wikipedia for “disseminating sacrilegious content.” The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) called for the immediate removal of “unlawful content” from Google. The regulators pointed to pages that refer to the religious leader Mirza Masroor Ahmad as the new “Khalifa” or leader of Islam, thus contradicting the dominant religious beliefs in the region. They also mentioned the “unauthentic version of the Holy Quran” on the Google Play Store. “Complaints were also received regarding hosting of caricatures of Holy Prophet (PBUH) and dissemination of misleading, wrong, deceptive and deceitful…