The Communist Party issued two sets of guidelines and regulations tightening its grip on cadres’ political conduct on Wednesday, calling on members of the decision-making Central Committee to report on each other’s discipline violations. Party chief Xi Jinping explained the new rules by saying that senior cadres, including members of the Politburo Standing Committee, should take the lead in setting a good example of political conduct. The documents were adopted during the Central Committee’s sixth…
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On China’s popular streaming video app YY, you can chat about the Dalai Lama or the party drug ecstasy, but if you want to talk about people from Henan province stealing manhole covers, you’ll have to switch to a different app. A group of internet researchers based in North America spent more than a year tracking how some of China’s better known social video apps censor their users. Their latest findings, released in a report…
ISLAMABAD: With Iran coming out of decades-long global economic isolation, China has offered Pakistan that it was willing to finance the un-built portion of a multibillion-dollar gas pipeline project. Officials told The Express Tribune that the China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau (CPPB) – currently engaged with the $1.4 billion Gwadar-Nawabshah LNG terminal and pipeline project – was keen to work on the remaining portion of the gas pipeline from Gwadar to the Iranian border to implement…
There are reports of killings from both sides as border skirmishes are going on unabated between the armies of Pakistan and India. Not surprisingly, both sides appropriate the blame to the other for these ceasefire violations. The fresh escalation along the Line of Control (LoC) and working international border has cast a shadow on intra-Kashmir trade with authorities suspending the cross-border trade after two days of intense exchange of fire that has left some civilians…
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan and India were withdrawing more than a dozen diplomats from the other country after a spike in spying allegations from the two sides, further vitiating the atmosphere in the nuclear-armed South Asia. As many as six officials in the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi returned home yesterday, amid the ongoing diplomatic tussle and skirmishes along the Line of Control. According to diplomatic sources, the decision was taken as the Indian government…
ISLAMABAD: A big Indian espionage network in Pakistan has been exposed as five more Indian diplomats have been found involved in terrorism. The network of spies was discovered in the light of investigation of arrested RAW agent Kulbhushan Yadav. Islamabad is expected to announce at any time that two Indian ‘diplomats’ are persona non grata and expel them for carrying out subversive activities inside Pakistan.While there is still no official comment on these latest expulsions,…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday busted a network of Indian spies ‘working under diplomatic cover’ in a move sure to exacerbate tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours that have been simmering for months. Official documents seen by The Express Tribune reveal that at least eight staffers of the Indian High Commission in Islamabad had been identified as serving officers of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and India’s Intelligence Bureau (IB). Rajesh Kumar Agnihotri, who is…
ISLAMABAD: In information leaked to the media, the identity of eight Indian officers and staffers believed to be undercover operatives and posted at the country’s high commission was made public on Wednesday. The alleged Indian intelligence personnel, whose cover was blown in the media leak, are Rajesh Kumar Agnihotri (posted as commercial counsellor); Balbir Singh (posted as first secretary, press and culture); Anurag Singh (working as first secretary, commercial), Amardeep Singh Bhatti (visa attache); Dharmedra,…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan may expel two Indian diplomats in Islamabad for spying and has revealed their names, the latest tit-for-tat measure amid worsening ties between the neighbours. According to sources, Rajesh Kumar Agnihotri has been identified as the RAW station chief, while Balbir Singh has been identified as an officer of the Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB). Both officers were working at the Indian High Commission office in Islamabad. According to sources, the two diplomats had been…