A proposal for a visa waiver program for nationals from other BRICS nations has faced obstacles in India, particularly because of “security concerns” with China. If India moves to tighten visas for Chinese, it would mean a loss of billions of dollars in income every year. The past few weeks have seen ups and downs in Sino-Indian ties. New Delhi believes that it is Beijing that blocked its membership bid to the Nuclear Supplier Group…
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BEIJING — A Chinese court on Tuesday sentenced a human rights activist who had criticized the government to a suspended three-year term in prison, in the first of several trials apparently intended to showcase the Communist Party’s hard-line attitude toward dissent. The activist, Zhai Yanmin, was arrested last year as part of a sweeping crackdownon human rights lawyers and their associates. He pleaded guilty on Tuesday to subverting state power, according to state news media,…
China’s growing population of so-called ethical hackers, who have long existed in a legal gray area, fear a government crackdown after authorities took away the founder of its largest independent community. Fang Xiaodun, a security engineer, set up Wooyun in 2010 as an online platform for Chinese hackers who work to help protect vulnerable networks. The community had about 20,000 registered users when it suddenly shut down on July 19. It hasn’t reopened since. Unclear…
Religious extremism is spreading in China faster than before, and its impact is greater than ever, affecting Chinese cities and even students on campus, experts warned. A young man from Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region died in Syria after he was recruited by the Islamic State group, a religious expert told a seminar held in Shanghai Tuesday. The seminar was co-organized by Nangyang Technology University’s Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, the Shanghai…
Pakistan and Turkey have long enjoyed the warmest of relations. There are no disputes and relations have continued in an equable and mutually supportive manner for decades. A large rock has now been thrown in this otherwise still pool, and the failed coup in Turkey on July 15 has had effects that have now reached our shores. There are 23 schools and colleges in Pakistan run by the PakTurk charity. They have 11,000 students enrolled…
Pak-Turk Schools are working properly and there is no order for closure of these schools in Pakistan from the federal, provincial or Turkish governments. This was stated by Pak-Turk Schools Regional Director Mehmet Ijnalan while heading a delegation of Pak-Turk Schools which called on Sindh Minister for Education Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar here on Tuesday. The delegation comprised Director Education Ali Yilmaz, Ahmet Kaye from Pak-Turk Schools, Private Schools Director General Mansoob Ahmed Siddiqui and…
ISLAMABAD – Turkey yesterday pressed Pakistan to act against Pak-Turk schools allegedly run by cleric Fethullah Gulen as Ankara fully backed Islamabad on the Kashmir dispute with India. Although his Pakistan counterpart Sartaj Aziz – Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs – only promised to investigate the working of Pak-Turk schools network, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Islamabad had pledged its full support in closing down schools and businesses across Pakistan linked to…