Beijing has summoned a US diplomat after lawmakers in Washington approved legislation that calls for slapping sanctions against senior Chinese officials for human rights violations linked to a crackdown on the country’s Muslim minority. The Uighur Act of 2019 criticizes Beijing’s “gross human rights violations” in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, where about 1 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities …

LAHORE: Page after page, the names stack up: 629 girls and women from across Pakistan who were sold as brides to Chinese men and taken to China. The list, obtained by The Associated Press, was compiled by Pakistani investigators determined to break up trafficking networks exploiting the country’s poor and vulnerable. The list gives the most concrete figure yet for …

Two local farmers walk past a residential house painted with a Chinese flag in Makit county, Kashgar, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Sept 23, 2019. Herald Report China has criticized the passage of a Xinjiang-related bill by the United States House of Representatives, urging Washington to stop pushing the bill to become law. China will respond further if necessary, reports ChinaDaily.com …

She met him as a ‘refugee’ in German street, reports Russian.TV channel RT Kidnapped and sold into slavery at 14, one former Yazidi sex slave finally had the chance to confront her brutal Islamic State (IS) captor in a heartwrenching moment that has gone viral. Her story also had a disturbing European twist. Standing before her abuser, Ashwaq Haji Hamid demanded answers, while …

Responding to Governmental Repression against Students Solidarity March Member of Student Action Committee Lahore and Progressive Students’ Collective responding to the baseless propaganda being carried out against students’ rightful demands and the harassment of organisers for speaking truth. We would like to reiterate that our politics is solely based on the rightful and constitutional demands of student rights and considering …

Sessions judge rejects police request for Alamgir Wazir’s physical remand, sends him to jail on judicial remand Herald Report Left-wing activists have been granted interim bail in a sedition case. Ammar Ali Jan took to Twitter to announce the development. They along with slain student Mashal Khan’s father Iqbal Lala and Alamgir Wazir were nominated in FIR for participating and addressing …

Herald Report   Naqeeebullah Mehsud’s father, Muhammad Khan Mehsud, lost his battle to cancer and the system on Monday morning without seeing justice for his son who was killed in a staged encounter by Rao Anwar in January 2018 in Karachi. The Sindh High Court had indicted the former Senior Superintendent of Police for his involvement in the murder of …

Herald Report Islamabad, Nov 30: The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA), the electronic and digital media watchdog, has written a letter to Freedom House, contesting the findings of its country report on “Freedom on the Net” on Pakistan, dubbing it biased and one-sided. However, the Islamabad High Court had recently restrained the digital and electronic media watchdog from blocking online content …

Students will march on Friday, Nov 29, in over 50 cities of Pakistan and its administered Kashmir as well as Gilgit-Baltistan for their rights including restoration of student unions, affordable and quality education, transportation and hostels By Farman Ali As the mobilisation for “Student Solidarity March” gains momentum with the song “sarfaroshi ki tamanna’ reverberating through Pakistan and its controlled …

Over 30 students are waiting for their scholarship promised by the GB government for the last eight months Herald Report A group of students from Gilgit-Baltistan, currently studying in a Chinese university, have sent an SOS call to the GB government to release their scholarship immediately and save them from psychological strains that are negatively impacting their studies. The students …