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Pakistan’s government is putting the finishing touches on plans to “provisionally” make the Gilgit-Baltistan region of disputed Kashmir part of the country, risking another high-stakes showdown with India that could lead to war. Analysts focused on South Asia said the decision to grant interim provincial status to Gilgit-Baltistan – ...

'Traffic light' system to govern local lockdowns Local lockdowns are set to be automatically triggered by a three-tier "traffic light" system. We can disclose that alerts will be sent to people's mobile phones under a planned new approach that will divide the country into different areas based on local infection ...

Sikh pilgrims take part in a religious ritual on the occasion of the 481st death anniversary of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur, near the India-Pakistan border on Tuesday. A travel corridor created last year to let Indian Sikhs visit the holy shrine ...

Two men were sentenced to death on Tuesday for starting a fire at a garment factory in Pakistan that killed over 260 people in 2012.A Karachi court found Mohammad Zubair and Abdul Rehman guilty of arson, ruling the pair intentionally set the Ali Enterprises factory ablaze after the owner ...

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 ...