January 26, 2021
In Europe, concerns are growing about human rights violations in Chinese supply chains. In response, parliaments are forcing their governments to reevaluate their trade and business relationships with Beijing.
Two recent votes show how, in 2021, lawmakers and bureaucrats will face off on China.
A “genocide amendment” in the UK’s parliament
In 2020, as it left the European Union, the UK radically altered its relationship with China, banning Huawei from its network, opening a path to citizenship for Hong Kongers, and restricting foreign investment in select industries. Much of that change was forced upon the government of UK prime minister Boris Johnson a Sinophile with little appetite for angering Beijing by an increasingly hawkish parliament and an active group of human rights campaigners.
Wanted in a Rs 9000-crore bank fraud case, fugitive Vijay Mallya has applied for 'another route' before the UK Home Secretary Priti Patel in a last ditch effort to delay his extradition to India.
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Vijay Mallya appeals to UK Home Secy for another route to stay in the UK ANI | Updated: Jan 23, 2021 06:58 IST
By Poonam Joshi
London [UK], January 23 (ANI): Fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya has appealed to the UK Home Secretary Priti Patel for another route to remain in the United Kingdom.
Mallya s legal representative made the claim during a hearing into the tycoon s bankruptcy proceedings at the UK High Court in London on Friday.
Mallya, 65, has gone through and exhausted the full legal procedures available to him to fight the Indian government s effort to extradite him to India to face charges of defrauding a consortium of banks of more than a billion dollars in relation to the collapse of Kingfisher Airlines in 2013.
Govt’s action, reaction in Broadsheet saga perplexing
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January 21, 2021
ISLAMABAD: As daily doses of new and interesting details of Broadsheet saga continue to pour in, the government’s attempt at damage control comes across as perplexing.
On January 6, 2021 in an inter-ministerial meeting held in the foreign ministry and attended by officials of the Foreign Office, NAB, finance ministry, the attorney general’s office and the law ministry, it was decided to send a legal notice to the United Bank Limited, UK, for “unauthorized debit of account” to pay Broadsheet “without informing” the Pakistan High Commission in London.
On Sept 14, 2020, The News published an exclusive story by its London correspondent Murtaza Ali Shah disclosing that the Pakistan Government had issued instructions to the UBL London office to make a payment of around $27 million to Broadsheet after the company had moved the London high court and obtained freezing orders on monies kept in