Month: October 2022

Footage has emerged showing what appear to be rare large-scale protests against strict Covid-19 measures in the Tibetan regional capital, Lhasa. Multiple videos on social media show hundreds demonstrating and clashing with police. They are said to be mostly ethnic Han Chinese migrant workers. The city has been under lockdown for nearly three months as […]

I have been carefully following political developments in Pakistan, and fear that the country is inevitably headed for martial law, not immediately, but in about six months or so. Consider the facts: Imran Khan had become the Prime Minister in August 2018 on the platform of integrity, transparency and accountability. However, during his tenure (which […]

Pope Francis has warned priests and nuns about the dangers of watching pornography online, saying it “weakens the priestly heart”. The Pope, 86, was responding to a question about how digital and social media should be best used at session in the Vatican, Pornography, he said, was “a vice that so many people have… even […]

Foreign athletes, farmers and researchers will be able to work in Türkiye for a determined period without a need to obtain a work permit, Labor and Social Security Ministry has announced. The employment regulation aiming to facilitate foreigners to work in Türkiye without a work permit has come into force. Foreigners who will work in […]

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Faisal Vawda on Wednesday claimed that the killing of senior journalist Arshad Sharif was not an accident and his murder was planned in Pakistan. The 49-year-old journalist fled the country in August to avoid arrest after he was slapped with multiple cases, including sedition charges over an interview with PTI leader […]

Hundreds of protesters marched Wednesday to the gravesite of Mahsa Amini in northwestern Iran to mark 40 days since her death while in custody of the nation’s morality police. Amateur video posted to social media sites showed crowds of protesters, some in vehicles but mostly on foot, filling the road leading to Aichi cemetery in […]

WASHINGTON: The United Nations has urged Kenya to conduct a thorough investigation into the mysterious death of a Pakistani journalist, Arshad Sharif, and share the findings with the public. “I saw this tragic report of his death. I think the circumstances need to be investigated thoroughly, and the Kenyan authorities said they would,” Stéphane Dujarric, […]