Pakistan's Punjab home department has deployed 11,225 security personnel in the province in an attempt to protect Chinese nationals working on Beijing's multi-billion dollars projects in the country.
The security personnel includes Army, Rangers, Special Protection Unit (SPU), Special Branch representatives, police and departmental security, the News International reported, adding that the personnel are for
the protection of 3,355 Chinese nationals working on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor projects and non-CPEC projects.
Citing sources, the Pakistani publication reported that in CPEC projects, 665 Chinese nationals are working at hydropower project, Karot, Rawalpindi, 303 Chinese nationals working at Sahiwal Coal-fired Power project, 12 Chinese working at Quaid-i-Azam Solar Park,
Bahawalpur, 59 Chinese at Karachi-Lahore Motorway Project and 50 Chinese are working at 660 KV Matiari-Lahore Transmission Line.
In the recent meeting with China's envoy Nong Rong and Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Bajwa, Pakistan reiterated its strong commitment to providing full
security to the Chinese workers and ensuring that there will be a "safe and secure environment" for employees of all CPEC projects.
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#Chinese Soldiers "Panicked Into Retreat" In #Galwan, 38 Drowned: Report
The report said "after Col. Fabao left the arena", and watching the "bodies of Major Chen Hongrun, Junior Sargeant Xiao Siyan and Private Chen Xianrong," that "PLA soldiers panicked into retreat"
The account of the Galwan violence in Australian newspaper "The Klaxon" -- pieced together by a group of social media researchers -- claims the Chinese soldiers who drowned in the Galwan river in June 2020, were in retreat after the clash with Indian troops.
he report says China had lost 42 soldiers in the clash -- many more than the four it had claimed. The "PLA soldiers panicked into retreat" and at least 38 of them were washed away, the report said.
#China hires US influencers to clean its image ahead of Winter Olympics!
It was discovered that the Chinese government spent $300,000 to seek the services of influencers with hundreds of thousands of followers on platforms such as Instagram and TikTok.
With the slogan “Together for a Shared Future,” China’s governing Communist Party and the International Olympic Committee are hoping that the spats would fade away once the Games begin.
Last month, it was discovered that the Chinese government spent $300,000 to Vippi Media, a public relations agency located in the United States, to seek the services of influencers with hundreds of thousands of followers on platforms such as Instagram and TikTok.
Religious extremism likely to worsen in #Pakistan in future
Pakistan’s problem of religious extremism is likely to worsen in the near future unless the state adopts a gradual policy shift toward the separation of religion and politics, said an Islamabad-based think tank.
In a report titled “How Youth in Sindh View State, Society, Religion, and Politics”, the think tank said Sindh has been seeing an upsurge in incidents of violence against religious, sectarian and ethnic minorities since the beginning of the 21st century.
#Pakistan’s bleak picture on counter-terrorism continues ahead of FATF session
Pakistan’s grey episode on promoting terrorism and its continuing bleak picture on counter-terrorism continues ahead of the (FATF)’s plenary session this month, as noted by Times of Israel.
The FATF, the global anti-terrorist financing and anti-money laundering watchdog, during its plenary session in October 2021, reviewed the progress Pakistan had made in compliance with its standards and decided to retain it on the Grey List.
Pakistan had then claimed that Jaish-e-Muhammad Chief Maulana Masood Azhar (MMA) was untraceable and a proclaimed offender.
⏹️Heavy snow decimates #Turkey’s modernisation claims and exposes rampant corruption
⏩The most affected site due to heavy snowfall was the recently constructed ‘Istanbul Airport’. It was promoted as the dream project of #Erdogan.
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Turkey, which has been comparing its infrastructure and facilities with European standards, received heavy snowfall in the third week of January 2022, which caused havoc all around.
The Airport was closed, people were stranded on roads, one of the roofs of cargo terminal collapsed and traffic on highways was closed. However, authorities apparently blamed municipalities for not taking appropriate measures to tackle the situation.
#China asks Imran Khan for support on #Uygur issue during Winter Olympics in return for loans -Hong Kong newspaper
Khan will be attending the opening ceremony of Beijing winter Olympics on Thursday, which is boycotted by the West including the US, Australia, and Britain, because of widespread allegations of Chinese atrocities against the Uyghur community.
Khan too said that he was too excited to witness his first ever Olympics, but the main purpose of his China visit was to persuade his Iron brother Xi Jinping to give a $3bn loan.