Islamabad: Pakistan’s Ambassador to China, Masood Khalid has said Islamabad and China are working for establishing peace in the region. Besides giving a new dimension to the bilateral relations between Islamabad and China, China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), it has provided job to at least 70,000 Pakistani citizens, he added, a report in Radio Pakistan […]
Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi will leave for Afghanistan on Saturday (today) during which he will meet Kabul leadership and discuss bilateral issues and security matters of the region. During his daylong maiden trip to Afghanistan after assuming new responsibilities, Mr Qureshi would meet Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and other senior officials. ‘The […]
GAZA: Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians and wounded at least 30 others taking part on Friday in weekly protests at the fortified Gaza Strip border, Palestinian medical officials said. The Israeli military said it used force necessary to prevent border breaches by some 12,000 Palestinians who massed at several points near the fence, some of […]
MADRID:Spain will go ahead with the sale of 400 laser-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia, Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said on Thursday, after the deal was halted amid concerns over the Saudi role in the war in Yemen. “The decision is that these bombs will be delivered to honour a contract that comes from 2015, and […]
WASHINGTON: The U.S. State Department on Tuesday expressed deep concern over China’s “worsening crackdown” on minority Muslims in the Xinjiang region, as the Trump administration considered sanctions against Chinese senior officials and companies linked to alleged human rights abuses. Discussions have gained momentum recently within the U.S. government over possible economic penalties in response to […]
KABUL: A suicide bomber in Afghanistan killed at least 25 people at a gathering on Tuesday on the highway between the eastern city of Jalalabad and the main border crossing into neighbouring Pakistan, officials said. The blast, less than a week after a suicide attack killed more than 20 people in the capital, Kabul, came […]
Kabul: More than 50 people were killed and several others wounded in daily violence across Afghanistan within the day, authorities said Monday. In a latest string of targeted killings in the war-torn country, former police officer Mohammad Idress, together with a college student, were killed in Mazar-i-Sharif city, capital of northern Balkh province Monday morning […]
TOKYO: Japan’s agriculture ministry said on Sunday it had confirmed the country’s first outbreak of swine fever in 26 years and suspended exports of pork and wild boar meat. The fever, a different kind from the African swine fever that has broken out in China, was found in a farm in central Japan’s Gifu city, […]
BASRA: Iraqi officials in Basra lifted a curfew on Saturday night that had been in place since 4 p.m. (1300 GMT), the military said. The streets of Basra were calm on Saturday, after days of violent protests rocked Iraq’s southern oil hub. Organisers of the demonstrations said they would pause on Saturday, but there was […]
New Delhi: Within days after a ‘successful’ round of Indo-US talks at the level of foreign and defence ministers, US President Donald Trump has said his administration wants to stop the subsidies that growing economies like India and China have been getting. Addressing a fundraiser event, President Trump said India and China “call themselves developing […]
