Brussels, March 28 (IANS) The non-recognition of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) stems not from a lack of claim by Tibet but from China’s coercive and economic capacity, which renders such a claim “diplomatically untenable”. Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama’s enduring voice underscores that moral legitimacy can persist amid political silence. Tibet may never find recognition in the halls of the United Nations, yet it continues to resonate in the conscience of humanity, a repo…
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New Delhi, March 27 (IANS) India on Friday sharply criticised the recent comments made by Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir during a meeting with senior Shia clerics of the country, in which he reportedly stated that those sympathetic to Iran should relocate there. Addressing a weekly media briefing in New Delhi, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that such remarks reflects Pakistan’s long standing pattern of persecution against minorities, including the Shia comm…
Islamabad, March 11 (IANS) Pakistan’s sanitation workers endure hardship driven by entrenched caste hierarchies, discriminatory hiring, absence of legal protections, institutional neglect, social stigma, gendered exploitation, and economic injustice. Their suffering is deeply embedded in the fabric of the state and society, rendering it largely invisible, a report said on Tuesday. According to a report in the European Times, with their labour sustaining cities, preventing disease, and upholdin…
Brussels, March 4 (IANS) Russia and China’s backing of Iran amid the conflict in the Middle East remains strategically ambiguous, designed to signal defiance of Washington, yet carefully restrained to prevent dangerous escalation, a report detailed.According to a report in the ‘European Times’, although Iran receives weapons and diplomatic backing, it stands alone on the battlefield, with China and Russia intent on avoiding confrontation with Washington.Both Beijing and Moscow, it said, are ca…
Madrid, Feb 9 (IANS) Spain’s decision to reform its immigration system has sparked a question that European Union has long avoided instead of resolving it – how regularisation policies in a nation operate in a borderless continental space and the implications it produces beyond the state that implement them. Spain has taken the decision as it faces labour shortages, demographic ageing and backlog of unresolved asylum and residency applications. Enhancing legal pathways, regularising undocumented…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) Over the last decade, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) has experienced persistent economic stagnation and a major contributor to economic deceleration, which is getting worse, is the region’s growing fiscal vulnerability, a report has said.According to the report in European Times, the deepening economic stagnation in PoK is marked by “slowing growth, rising unemployment, rising poverty, and shrinking development spending”.In 2020, public development spending account…
Islamabad, Jan 25 (IANS) As many as 3,995 registered HIV-positive children in Pakistan’s Sindh, and more than 100 new cases reported in Karachi in 2025, expose systemic failure of infection control and regulation, a report has stated. Nearly 4,000 children in Sindh living with HIV, many of them not infected at birth or through personal behaviour but in healthcare facilities where patients undergo treatment, making negligence a crime, according to a report in Pakistan’s leading daily, The Express…
Beijing, Jan 25 (IANS) China’s sedentarisation of Tibetan nomads in Amdo, Qinghai, and Sichuan, being showcased as modernisation and ecological protection, has become a story of displacement, cultural erosion, and contested hope, a report has stated. The policy demonstrates the tension between state-led development and the resilience of Tibetan identity, a report has stated. “Beginning in the early 2000s, China accelerated the ‘Nomadic Settlement Project’ under the Opening of the West campaign…
Islamabad, Jan 17 (IANS) Pakistan’s surveillance regime has evolved over the last two decades, from fragmented partnerships into a unified, state‑controlled censorship and monitoring system, including metadata harvesting, device intrusion, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) filtering and national-level internet control, a report stated on Saturday. It added that since 2024, infrastructural, legal, and policy changes have fundamentally altered the internet experience in Pakistan.“Pakistan’s surve…
Brussels, Jan 2 (IANS) The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) infiltration campaign across the West is no longer a distant threat but a present reality, marked by deceptive tactics ranging from covert espionage to embedded vulnerabilities, prompting calls for a coordinated Western response, a report said on Friday. It added that the CCP’s deception rests on a dual narrative–presenting itself as a responsible global partner while embedding vulnerabilities, influencing financial flows, and leverag…