Islamabad: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to retain his post of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president following the general council meeting, ARY News reported on Monday.The Pakistan-based media outlet reported citing sources that the PML-N’s general council meeting would be held in the first week of May in which a recommendation to make Nawaz Sharif the party’s

Washington: The Chinese government has arbitrarily arrested and detained over one million Uyghurs and members of other predominantly Muslim minority groups from 2017 to 2023, according to a report released by the United States.The "2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices" released by the US on Tuesday, emphasised that the genocide and crimes against humanity have occurred during the year

Taipei: Taiwan is battling a sustained Chinese espionage campaign and to root out those spies, the legislators of Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) have proposed an amendment to strip benefits from military retirees who have received suspended sentences for espionage-related offences, Taipei Times reported.Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Puma Shen alleged that China

Brussels: European Commission has announced that on April 18, it adopted specific rules on the issuing of multiple entry visas to Indian nationals, which are more favourable than the standard rules of the Visa Code that applied to date.A press release by the delegation of European Union to India and Bhutan said, "This new visa ‘cascade’ regime for Indian nationals residing in India who apply for

Berlin: Germany has arrested three people suspected of supplying sensitive technologies to China, whereas, the UK has arrested two, reported Al Jazeera.The prosecutors in Berlin said that the three German nationals had handed technologies with potential military purposes to Chinese intelligence, with whom they have been working since at least June 2022.Meanwhile, the UK said the arrested duo were

Beijing: China has accused the United States of escalating military tensions in the region following the recent deployment of a powerful missile launcher in the Philippines capable of firing weapons with a range of up to 1,600 kilometers, CNN reported on Monday.The US Army’s Mid-Range Capability (MRC) ground-based missile system, also known as the Typhon system, has been deployed to the