Dr Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg Serious discussions are taking place in Washington and Gulf capitals about the shape of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-US relations under President-elect Joe Biden. The prospect of the new administration focusing internally on fighting the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and jumpstarting its economic recovery is understandable. But that has not, in the past, […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Italy’s Italian Ambassador to Pakistan Andreas Ferrarese has urged to enhance the bilateral trade between Pakistan and Italy to its full potential from current $1.7 billion to $5 billion annually. In an interview, he said both the countries were interested to achieve the trade balance as currently Pakistan had a trade surplus with […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered the armed forces to strengthen training under real combat conditions and raise their capability of winning wars. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), made the remarks at a CMC meeting on […]
Read MoreTehran: An Australian-British academic jailed for spying by Iran has been released after two years behind bars, in a swap for three Iranians linked to a botched Bangkok bomb plot. Middle East scholar Kylie Moore-Gilbert said that departing Iran was “bittersweet” despite “injustices” endured during more than 800 days detained in the country’s toughest prisons.“I […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Pakistan’s leading opposition politician Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said has been tested positive for the coronavirus.The 32-year-old chief of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and son of former two-time prime minister Benazir Bhutto went into isolation after being infected with the virus. “I have tested positive for #COVID-19 & am self-isolating with mild symptoms. I’ll […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior and former Interior Minister Senator A. Rehman Malik has written a letter to US President elect Joe Biden and has extended him heartiest congratulations over his victory in elections. In his letter, Senator A. Rehman Malik has extended best wishes to President elect Joe Biden and writes […]
Read MoreLondon: The United Kingdom (UK) has pledged £155 million aid to support peace and stability in Afghanistan.A statement issued by the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) issued here said the UK aid pledge for 2021 would help reduce child mortality rates and improve access to education and vital infrastructure. The statement added the […]
Read MoreStaff Writer Kabul: Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to pace up their joint efforts to reduce recent spate of terrorist incidents in Afghanistan through close coordination and intelligence sharing. Prime Minister Imran Khan and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in a joint press stake-out at ARG Presidential Palace this week reaffirmed their commitment towards taking urgent […]
Read MoreStaff Writer Gilgit: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has claimed that the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI)-led government will fall by January. In a media interaction here this week, he said that the people of Gilgit-Baltistan were supporting the PPP for the last three generations. “The people of GB have shown trust on the […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Nanjing: President Xi Jinping has underlined the importance of developing the Yangtze River Economic Belt to promote the country’s high-quality socioeconomic development as proposed in a blueprint adopted by a key party meeting recently.Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Beijing: Southwest China’s Yunnan Province, which had the country’s largest remaining poor population at the end of last year, has eradicated absolute poverty, officials said. The last nine counties in the province were delisted from the poverty-stricken county list, which meant all its 88 poverty-stricken counties have shaken off poverty, said Huang Yunbo, […]
Read MoreZafaruddin Mahmood Recently I had been reading in the western media negative stories and reports about Xinjiang. These are repeated by media in other countries without verifying the facts. Unfortunately, most of the commentators are looking at China/Xinjiang through the eyes of the western media which at times is biased for one reason or the […]
Read MoreDr Javed Ali Kalhoro The recent US election results are quite surprising. The world, especially Pakistan, was conjecturing if Donald Trump is re-elected, the ongoing peace process in Afghanistan may reach its finale. The Pakistan Embassy in Washington D.C. also predicted that Mr Trump is going to continue with his position in the presidential office. […]
Read MoreMuhammad Asif Noor While the global north was gearing up for the mother of all elections in the US, which have strong political and strategic ripple effects, the global south was finalizing in a peaceful and purposeful manner wherein the fifth plenary session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was […]
Read MoreZamir Ahmed Awan – People’s Daily The 20th meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held a video meeting on November 10. The conference was chaired by President Putin as current Chair of SCO for the year 2019-20. All the member states took an active part, and President […]
Read MoreCornelia Meyer As the saying goes, breaking up is hard to do. This also holds true for the divorce between the UK and the EU. If things were not complicated enough in ending a 45-year partnership, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and a recession not seen in a lifetime have certainly made matters worse. In 2019, […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Senior Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Senator Rehman Malik has said that the young people were the future of the country. A delegation of the Student Youth Council called on Senator A. Rehman Malik Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior at Parliament House, Islamabad. The delegation of Youth Council included students from various […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Shanghai: President Xi Jinping attended a grand gathering to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the development and opening-up of Shanghai’s Pudong last day. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered an important speech at the event. Efforts should […]
Read MoreNewswire Gilgit: Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that his party will soon form the federal government. Speaking at a recent election rally in Gilgit, he said in the past the political party in the federal government formed government in Gilgit Baltistan but “now the PPP will form the government […]
Read MoreJackie Dunham Toronto: Days after the US election was called, President Donald Trump still refuses to concede to his Democratic rival Joe Biden as he holds out hope the election results might still go his way.And while Biden and his team are preparing for their move to the White House, Trump is still in power […]
Read MoreNewswire Washington: America has chosen Democrat Joe Biden as its 46th president, turning at a time of national crisis to a man whose character was forged by aching personal tragedy and who is pledging to restore calm and truth after Donald Trump’s exhausting and manic single term. In a victory speech Saturday night in his […]
Read MoreNewswire Astore: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has promised equal rights for the people of Gilgit-Baltistan. Speaking at a public meeting in Astore last week, the PPP leader said that Gilgit-Baltistan would also be given the right to rule and the right to property, and the right to employment. Criticizing the present […]
Read MoreNong Rong I am honored to be the 18th Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. A few days ago, I departed from Beijing, flew over the towering Karakorum Mountains and arrived in the beautiful city of Islamabad with joy. Although this is my first visit […]
Read MoreAbdul Basit Addressing an election rally in Gilgit on November 1 Prime Minister Imran Khan officially declared his government’s decision to give Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) the status of a province of Pakistan on a provisional basis. This, according to him, was being done in tune with the aspirations of the people of GB and the status […]
Read MoreWang Wen – Global Times In the past year, I have been honored to be employed as a consultant of the 14th Five-Year Plan by two ministries and a western province. I have deeply felt that it is difficult and complex for China, a global power, to formulate its five-year plan, and that the 14th […]
Read MoreNewswire Kabul: Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo, NATO’s Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, held talks with Afghanistan reconciliation talks leader Abdullah Abdullah last week as part of the peace efforts. Abdullah later tweeted: “Pleased to meet HE Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo @pontecorvoste, @NATO’s Senior Civilian Representative in AFG @NATOscr. We exchanged views on the #AfghanPeaceProcess, the talks in […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior Senator Rehman Malik has written a letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan, advising him for moving the matter of US-India Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA) in the United Nations. In his letter, Senator A. Rehman Malik urges the Prime Minister Imran Khan “in the national interest, […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Pakistan People’s Party chief Bilwal Bhutto Zardari is confident that the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI)-led government will be removed by January. The PPP chief, who has been campaigning vigorously in Gilgit-Baltistan ahead of the general elections in the automatous region has urged Prime Minister Imran Khan to quit as he had failed to deliver.“In […]
Read MoreMoscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin is continuing his policy of “multifaceted de-escalation,” Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, commenting on the Russian leader’s new initiative in the sphere of arms control.Putin offered NATO a deal: Russia is ready not to deploy intermediate- and shorter-range missiles on the country’s European territory, along with weapons whose […]
Read MoreIslamabad: Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior Senator Rehman Malik has fully supported Azerbaijan as it liberates a town and several occupied villages from Armenia illegal occupation.In an interview with an Azerbaijan newspaper, Senator Rehman Malik demanded the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to tender an apology for alleging Pakistan for sending troops to Azerbaijan. […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Pakistan’s former first lady – a former Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairperson – Begum Nusrat Bhutto was remembered last week on her ninth death anniversaryShe was 82 when she died in 2011 on October 23. Begum Nusrat Bhutto was the widow of the former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and the mother of […]
Read MoreRobin Levinson-King Washington: A fierce battle over who should vote and how has sparked hundreds of lawsuits and prompted accusations of voter suppression. So what are the barriers to voting and why do they exist?Images of the long queues of early voters were both celebrated as a sign of enthusiasm and criticised as evidence of […]
Read MoreS. Ali Islamabad, October 21: China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has bolstered the economic activity in Pakistan as the multi-billion-dollar project is creating jobs, developing underdeveloped areas and connecting the whole region, senior government officials said.To government officials engaged with the CPEC told Covert that the CPEC had stimulated Pakistan’s economy and it was moving upwards […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: Conspiracies against the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will be defeated, and anti-CPEC elements will not be tolerated said the Pakistani Interior Minister Brigadiar Ijaz Shah (retd).In a television interview, Shah said, “The enemies of CPEC are involved in creating instability in Balochistan. Our next war would be fought against them.”“To further strengthen […]
Read MoreTatyana Stanovaya The US presidential election is one of the most important events in Russian domestic politics, a popular Russian joke has it. There is actually some truth in this: the outcome of the U.S. campaign will have a noticeable effect on the Kremlin’s future actions, and not just abroad but at home, too.It’s generally […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Senior Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Senator Rehman Malik wants India to be on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)’s grey list. Senator Malik, Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior, has written a letter to Dr Marcus Pleyer, President FATF, pleading him to place India on the grey list of FATF for its […]
Read MoreNewswire Beijing: China has urged U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to respect facts and stop fabricating all sorts of lies about China.“Otherwise, he will only further damage his own credibility, and undermine the US national image and interests,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said.Zhao made the remarks at a regular press conference when […]
Read MoreNewswire Islamabad: Senior Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Senator Rehman Malik has warned the government against exposing expose former President Asif Ali Zardari to COVID-19.Senator Malik, the Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior, expressed his concerns over the issuance of arrest warrants for former president Asif Ali Zardari He said the National Accountability Bureau shall […]
Read MoreNewswire Kabul: NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo has warned that violence will ruin the peace process.The envoy raised his grave concerns about the fresh wave of violence in Afghanistan, particularly the attack in Helmand.“The continuation of these attacks will impact the Doha peace process,” he said. The NATO envoy said that […]
Read MoreNewswire Multan: Former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said that protesting within and outside the parliament in constitutional limits is a political right.“Today a crippled democracy exists in the country,” talking to media here, Gilani said. “We have struggled for restoration of constitution in its genuine shape,” the former prime minister added.“The people have […]
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