Pakistan’s Member of the National Assembly Aseefa Bhutto Zardari faced violent protests while her convoy was passing through the Jamshoro toll plaza in Sindh province on Friday, local media reported. Several protesters have been arrested in connection with the incident. The cavalcade of Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, the daughter of President Asif Ali Zardari, was blocked…
“Follow me,” Nando said. “I know where it lives.” It was late morning, hot, humid and quiet. Shafts of sunlight cut through the jungle as we followed a path through the latticed shade. A few hundred yards away, gigantic cargo ships stacked with containers chugged along the Panama Canal. But that was another world. Where…
The Indus and its waters have been making headlines after India suspended the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), a move that rattled Pakistan, which relies on the river basin to irrigate 80% of its farmland and support 90% of its food production. But, it’s not the river Indus or India’s actions that’s causing Pakistan its latest…
Hanging from a ladder attached to the hull of a giant, bobbing tanker, Capt. Efraín Hallax began his climb up to the crew awaiting him atop the Athina, a ship anchored in Panama Bay and third in line to transit the Panama Canal. The daunting ascent up the shifting ship was nothing new for Captain…
The deal had the imprint of a Hong Kong billionaire nicknamed “Superman” for his empire building. One of the tycoon’s companies, which for years has run two ports on the Panama Canal, had been thrust into a broader showdown between China and the United States. So the billionaire, Li Ka-shing, got out of the firing…
Political pressure is mounting over a plan by a Hong Kong conglomerate to sell its Panama ports to BlackRock, the American investor, raising questions about the future of the $19 billion deal. John Lee, the leader of Hong Kong, added his voice on Tuesday to escalating warnings from China, saying the transaction deserved “serious attention.”…
The Chinese government has strongly criticized a planned deal by a Hong Kong conglomerate to sell ports in Panama and elsewhere to an investment group led by an American asset manager, warning that the deal would deprive China of needed influence over key shipping routes. The criticism marks an abrupt shift in Chinese policy toward…
The White House has directed the US military to draft plans for increasing the American troop presence in Panama as part of President Donald Trump’s goal of “reclaiming” the Panama Canal, according to a report. The move is reportedly aimed at countering China’s influence in the region and ensuring US control over the strategic waterway….
US President Donald Trump, during his first address to the Congress, revealed his plans to take back the Panama Canal and Greenland. Trump had mentioned several time that he intends to “take back” the canal from Panama, which took over control of the crucial international waterway in 1999 under a treaty negotiated with the United…
President Trump’s claim that China controls the Panama Canal has placed a Hong Kong tycoon and his conglomerate at the heart of a showdown between the United States and China. That sprawling company, CK Hutchison Holdings, is one of Hong Kong’s most valuable publicly listed firms and counts some of the world’s biggest investors as…