Beijing’s critics accuse it of luring African countries into huge loans, but analysts say the continent’s leaders have more agency. Nkurunziza Alphonse knows that whenever he goes out to protest, he can be arrested, even detained for long periods of time in Kampala’s maximum security prison. It has happened before. Still, as he sat in…
The court says that the reserved decision on Bushra Bibi’s plea of acquittal will be pronounced along with the final decision. The Rawalpindi Accountability Court has adjourned the hearing of the reference of 190 million pounds against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi till September 7. The court headed by…
Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid, who was forced to leave the country after the student protest in Bangladesh, has been in India for the past month. August 5 was the day when the weeks-long student protests in the country turned worse and Sheikh Hasina Wajid had to resign from her post and leave the…
On August 15, social media users were sharing a video of US presidential candidate Donald Trump defending the niqab, arguing that the niqab is a deeply rooted cultural tradition that Afghan women choose and prefer. However, the video is actually from October 2015 when Trump mocked Afghan women at a rally in New Hampshire. As…
The PTI founder Imran Khan denied the claim that he had directed any hidden PTI member to come forward. Imprisoned Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan has warned that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will become a ‘missing person’ once he steps down if his [establishment’s] ‘Plan B’ is implemented. During an informal interaction with reporters…
Former Prime Minister Hasina’s government had imposed a complete ban on the party under the Anti-Terrorism Act days before her removal on August 1. Bangladesh’s new interim government on Wednesday lifted the ban on the country’s largest religious-political party, Jamaat-e-Islami, which was imposed in the final days of now-ousted autocrat Sheikh Hasina’s rule. “Government revokes…
Mark Zuckerberg is giving political victories to Republicans ahead of the 2024 presidential elections, accepting years of GOP complaints about his company’s policies. In recent times, Meta’s chief executive has made public statements clearly supporting the right-wing “censorship” statement and offered Donald Trump praise as an “ugly” He claimed that he wanted to appear “neutral”…
Pakistan’s political Party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) deputy Amir Liaquat Baloch has announced that the religious and political party will launch a shutdown strike across the country on August 28 to increase pressure on the government to provide relief to the people. News reports.Baloch said at a press conference in Islamabad on Monday that the business community…
Pakistan has sent a formal invitation to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Heads of State and Government Summit, which is scheduled to be held in Islamabad in mid-October, official sources confirmed on Sunday. Pakistan’s Prime Minister extended the invitation to the SCO Summit on October 15-16. According to sources,…
Despite Russia’s close ties with Putin, the Indian leader pledged support for Ukraine and said he came with a message of peace. On the first visit to the country by an Indian prime minister since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, India’s Narendra Modi was received by President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Ukrainian capital…