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Pakistani opposition parties on Sunday demanded Prime Minister Imran Khan's immediate resignation and pledged to launch a nationwide protest movement aimed at unseating his government.“We demand Prime Minister Imran Khan ... resign immediately,” hard-line politician Maulana Fazalur Rehman told a press conference following a one-day multiparty meeting in Islamabad.Rehman's ...

Researchers plan to start a clinical trial for an additional dose of a coronavirus vaccine candidate co-developed by China’s CanSino Biologics and a military-backed research unit, according to a clinical trial registry.A single dose of the vaccine candidate Ad5-nCoV, one of a handful that China is pursuing, has final-stage ...

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned on Thursday that the novel coronavirus is driving discrimination towards vulnerable communities in Asia, including migrants and foreigners.The humanitarian agency surveyed 5,000 people in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar and Pakistan and found about half blamed a specific group ...

Pakistani police on Sunday said they have arrested one of two suspects in the rape of a woman who was dragged from her car and attacked in front of her children after her car broke down on a desolate highway in central Punjab province.The police said the woman had ...

China has appointed a trade specialist as its new ambassador to Pakistan in an apparent bid to breathe new life into its multibillion dollar infrastructure development partnership with its western neighbour.Despite having no formal experience as a diplomat, Nong Rong – the Communist Party secretary of the ethnic and religious ...

China could potentially “weaponise” some of the projects in its transcontinental infrastructure strategy the Belt and Road Initiative because of their dual capability for commercial and military use, a US think tank’s report has said.Released on Tuesday by Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI), the report said China had carved ...

A former army general who was last year put in charge of China’s belt and road projects in Pakistan has become embroiled in a corruption scandal, once again dragging Beijing into its close ally’s dirty domestic politics. Pakistan’s government and powerful military have worked hard to suppress the mainstream ...

The Chinese capital will allow inbound flights from eight countries from Thursday, easing a five-month ban on international passenger services in another sign that life is returning to normal in Beijing.The Civil Aviation Administration of China said on Wednesday that Beijing would reopen to nine international flights from eight ...

Pakistan on Tuesday blocked access to Tinder and several other dating apps in a bid to control “immoral” and “indecent” content, just days after regulators threatened to shut down YouTube for similar reasons.The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said it had barred users from accessing Tinder, Grindr, SayHi, Tagged and ...

The day after the US was added to Hong Kong’s list of “high risk” countries (joining Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines and South Africa), I started getting concerned emails and WhatsApp messages. American and Hong Kong colleagues trying to get back to the city were anxious ...