Category: PAKISTAN
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Chinese Companies Undertake Exploitative Mining in Mineral Rich Gilgit-Baltistan
Earlier this month a Chinese national in Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan was arrested for involvement in illegal mining activities in the region. More than 65-ton mica was recovered from the residence of the Chinese citizen and he was suspected of mining in Gilgit-Baltistan without legal documents. He nevertheless secured bail and produced evidence of contract mining with…
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Rising Anti-China sentiment and Attacks on Chinese in Pakistan
China’s ability to exert influence on Pakistan’s economy has grown substantially in recent years, mainly due to the fact that Beijing is now Islamabad’s largest creditor. However Chinese citizens in Pakistan have faced a series of targeted attacks, causing concern for both China and Pakistan. These incidents have occurred in the context of the China-Pakistan…
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Pakistan disturbs tribal people near the Afghanistan border using a variety of methods.
According to the Afghan Diaspora Network, Pakistan’s goal of upsetting the tribal people in the border areas with Afghanistan includes various facets. In addition to often shooting over the border, violating Afghan airspace with drones, enforcing an economic embargo, and contesting Afghanistan’s sovereignty by giving National Identity Card (NIC) cards to Afghans in border regions…
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UN expert: Taliban’s treatment of women and girls may constitute “gender apartheid”
Given the severity with which the de facto government of the nation continues to abuse their rights, a UN expert said on Monday that the Taliban’s treatment of Afghan women and girls may amount to gender apartheid. On the first day of the Council’s summer session, Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,…
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Two are detained by the Taliban for bringing lithium ore into Pakistan.
According to reports, the Taliban have captured two people in the eastern province of Nangarhar for allegedly trying to transport lithium ore into Pakistan. Four tons of lithium ore were discovered hidden inside a truck below a cargo of coal when two individuals were apprehended on Sunday at the Torkham border crossing, according to provincial…