A top member of US President Donald Trump's Republican Party, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, has congratulated Joe Biden on winning the presidential election last month. Senator McConnell spoke after the electoral college formally confirmed Mr Biden's victory over Mr

When General Pervez Musharraf stepped down as Pakistan’s president in 2008, many had hoped the nation’s coup-riddled politics were headed in a decidedly more democratic direction. Fast forward to the present, Pakistan has moved from a brief period as a functional electoral

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is a timely reminder to the Chinese military that wars of the 21st century will be very different from the battles of the past. The 2020 Azerbaijan-Armenia war is the first conflict in which drones deployed by one side turned the tide in the Nagorno-Karabakh

Soon after Pakistan accused India for spreading disinformation, India retaliated by saying when looking at disinformation, the best example is the “country next door which is circulating fictional and fabricated dossiers and purveys a regular stream of fake news”. Indian

Joe Biden has said it is "time to turn the page" after his presidential election victory was confirmed by the US electoral college. In a speech after the announcement, he said US democracy had been "pushed, tested and threatened" and "proved to be resilient,

US Defence Secretary Michael Pompeo slammed China for charging Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai under the draconian National Security Law and demanded that charges must be dropped. Pompeo further went on to accuse the Chinese Communist Party of its authoritarian rule and making a

Following Pakistan police showing up outside the residence of PML-N lawmaker Azma Bukhari, party’s deputy secretary-general Ataullah Tarar has “warned” the government of “consequences”. Geo News quoted Bukhari as saying in a statement that the police

Pakistan government wants to convert Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan region into a military cantonment, human rights activist Amjad Ayub Mirza said on Saturday, adding that 60 Frontier Corps (FV) soldiers have been sent to the occupied region recently. Mirza, who is also

Canada’s leading think-tank, the Macdonald Laurier Institute, has just published a major new report entitled Khalistan: A project of Pakistan. For the first time, it acknowledged that the Khalistani separatist movement, based in Canada, is a ‘geopolitical project’ of

Amid a series of opposition rallies in Pakistan, the Islamabad administration on Friday extended a ban on all kinds of gatherings of five or more people, processions, and demonstrations at any public place in Islamabad, including the Red Zone, where important government buildings are

Indian External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr S Jaishankar on Saturday said the ongoing border conflicts with China at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) have been disturbing, adding that it has significantly impacted the public image of the communist country. “The events of this year

Four people were stabbed and one shot as thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump returned to Washington for weekend rallies to back his desperate efforts to subvert the election that he lost to Joe Biden. Trump's baseless claims of election fraud led to clashes in major

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) vice president Maryam Nawaz on Thursday appealed to citizens of Lahore to attend the upcoming December 13 rally of opposition's 11-party alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), telling them that the time has come to "get rid of the

To boost adventure tourism, the Jammu and Kashmir tourism department celebrated International Mountain Day at the conference hall of the TRC Sport Climbing at Artificial Rock in Nowgam village on Friday.Speaking to ANI, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Deputy Inspector General (DIG)

The Baloch Republic Party (BRP) organised a demonstration in Busan city of South Korea to highlight gross human rights abuses being committed by Pakistani armed forces in Balochistan province of Pakistan. The protest was held to mark International Human Rights Day on December 10. The

Teng Biao a Grove Human Rights Scholar from the City University of New York said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is a threat to Global Freedom and Democracy. CCP has various ways to deny free speech. One of the ways is visa denial to professors, journalists, artists, politicians

The US Supreme Court has rejected an unprecedented attempt to throw out election results in four battleground states that was backed by President Donald Trump. The lawsuit, filed this week by the state of Texas, sought to invalidate results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and

NATO is increasing cooperation with Australia, Japan and South Korea as the trans-Atlantic security alliance reacts to security challenges it says are posed by China. The move reflects the reality that no single country can combat China on its own, according to NATO Secretary-General

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has new powers to veto or scrap agreements that state governments reach with foreign powers under laws that could stymie China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Australia and further inflame tensions between the trading partners. The laws

The United States on Thursday announced sanctions against 17 officials of China and other foreign governments, as well their immediate family members, for serious human rights violations. On Human Rights Day, United States Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, in a statement, said the