Pakistani President Arif Alvi contracted the Chinese coronavirus two weeks after receiving his first dose of a coronavirus vaccine candidate developed by the state-run China National Pharmaceutical Group, also known as Sinopharm, authorities confirmed on Tuesday.
A Pakistani migrant has been arrested in Ierapetra, Crete, for the assault and attempted rape of a local woman. He is also suspected of sexually harassing five other women.
Concerns have grown in Pakistan about growing public distrust in coronavirus vaccines after Prime Minister Imran Khan revealed this weekend that he tested positive for Chinese coronavirus, two days after receiving his first dose of the made-in-China coronavirus vaccine candidate by Sinopharm.
A court has convicted a former employee of the Swedish migration agency and the foreign ministry of misconduct after issuing bogus visas to Afghan nationals while working at the Swedish embassy in Pakistan.
India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) issued a cybersecurity report on Thursday that found India weathered a dramatic increase in cyberattacks from China and Pakistan during the year of coronavirus lockdowns.
The Indian government is expected to approve a purchase of 30 MQ-9B Predator drones manufactured by San Diego-based company General Atomics in April.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Menendez’s says he has concern over the Taliban not fulfilling their obligations under the deal they signed in 2020 with the Trump administration.
A Pakistani migrant charged with breaking into a French asylum centre with a knife to get at a 14-year-old girl demanded in court that the judge give her to him.
A jihadist group of Balochis, an oppressed and impoverished minority in Iran, claimed responsibility on Tuesday for an attack that reportedly killed at least five members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and took three others prisoner.
China’s effort to promote its coronavirus vaccines is not quite an “all hands on deck” effort, because one set of hands is notably missing: dictator Xi Jinping, who has evidently not been vaccinated himself and is putting very little personal effort into convincing his skeptical subjects to trust Chinese vaccine products.
Indian diplomats condemned the government of Pakistan on Tuesday for what they called the “institutionalized violation of human rights” in that country before the United Nations, where Pakistan sits on the Human Rights Council.
The Islamist regime in Iran reportedly shut down a mobile data network in its southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan this week in response to ongoing protests against the alleged killing of local fuel smugglers by Iranian armed forces.
Former President Donald Trump’s goal of ending endless wars may have left the White House with him, as President Joe Biden appears to be keeping American soldiers in Afghanistan past the May 1, 2021 deadline.
At least 6,500 South Asian migrant workers died in Qatar from 2011-2020, the Guardian reported Tuesday, citing government data from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Qatar.
Pakistan police in Lahore have initiated a manhunt to find two young Christian men accused of blasphemy for allegedly making derogatory comments about Islam.
The independent Pajhwok Afghan News agency published a survey on Saturday that found the Taliban now controls at least 52 percent of the territory in Afghanistan, and rules over 59 percent of the population.
A Muslim teenager shot dead an Ahmadi homeopathic doctor at his clinic in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday.
Bloomberg News reported Wednesday that Pakistan is asking China for relief on the debt from constructing about a dozen power plants under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
A Pakistani rape gang victim in Walsall, England, named 18 abusers in 2013 but police charged no-one and lost 30 hours of her interview tapes, prior to reopening the investigation in 2019.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday freed Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the primary suspect in the abduction and on-camera beheading of journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.
A white British man was fired from his job working for “an Asian company” because he was white, an employment tribunal judge has ruled.
The government of Pakistan recently threatened two American Muslims with prison sentences of up to ten years if they did not take down a U.S.-based “blasphemous” website — a threat one of those targeted told Breitbart News on Tuesday represented “an unprecedented and entirely new frontier of digital policing that Pakistan is trying to impose.”
Human rights activists have reported a negative trend in Pakistan’s violations of religious freedom, insisting that 2020 saw a marked increase in persecution of Christians and other religious minorities.
Former French PM Balladur goes on trial Tuesday on charges that he used kickbacks from arms deals in the 1990s to fund a presidential bid.
An Egyptian judge on Friday overturned an acquittal verdict of two “debauched” young women who were jailed last year for posting “indecent” videos of themselves laughing, smiling and belly dancing on the social media video app TikTok.
Pakistani police have charged three young Christians with blasphemy after local Muslims purportedly found burned pages of the Quran, the Christian Post reported Saturday.
Gunmen from the Islamic State terror group opened fire on a group of Hazara coal miners in southwestern Pakistan Sunday, killing eleven.
The government of Pakistan threatened unspecified “legal action” against Wikipedia and Google this weekend for featuring content about Ahmadi Muslims — considered “impostor” Muslims by radical Islamists — and for featuring cartoons of Muhammad in search results.
Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) arrested ten Chinese nationals who were allegedly operating a “terror cell in the capital city of Kabul,” according to a Christmas Day report from the Hindustan Times.
Some 1,000 girls are forced to convert to Islam in Pakistan each year, according to a report Monday from the Associated Press (AP).
Interpol, a global organization linking the world’s law enforcement entities, warned in a report announced Tuesday that global terrorist organizations and “non-state actors” were attempting to take advantage of the chaos surrounding the Chinese coronavirus pandemic to become more influential.
A 20-year-old Pakistani migrant has been charged with raping an 8-year-old boy in a field near a migrant reception centre on the Greek island of Kos.
Police arrested three Pakistani migrants in Thessaloniki, Greece, after they had allegedly held eight people hostage, ransoming their freedom.
Pakistan accused the Indian military on Friday of shooting at a vehicle carrying two officers from the United Nations Military Observer Group.
Pakistan approved a law Tuesday allowing for the chemical castration of sex offenders, in part a response to public outcry over the recent gang rape of a mother on a motorway.
The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), a coalition of 11 establishment parties in the country, organized a rally attracting over 10,000 people on Sunday, openly defying Prime Minister Imran Khan’s request that, in response to a surge of Chinese coronavirus cases, parties cancel mass events.
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) dispatched fighter jets and soldiers to a Pakistani airbase near the Indian border on Monday for a bilateral drill aimed at preparing both China and Pakistan’s militaries for “actual combat,” the Hindustan Times reported on Tuesday.
Police in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, accepted a First Information Report (FIR), a formal complaint that typically precedes charges, against 150 tied to the opposition Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) for holding rallies that violate Chinese coronavirus containment protocol.
An anti-voter fraud organization has allegedly found a suspicious link between a Nevada state government website and a Pakistani company.
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted an anti-blasphemy resolution Pakistan supported, the Islamic Republic’s foreign ministry announced Thursday.
