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MoU signed with Chinese universities

GWADAR: The University of Turbat has signed memorandums of understanding (MoU) with four universities of China’s Hainan province. The pacts were signed during the concluding...

Pakistan stays committed to Paris accord: Zahid Hamid

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Law, Justice and Climate Change Zahid Hamid held meeting with Ambassador of the European Union delegation to Pakistan, Jean-Francois Cautain,...

US govt supports sale of F-16s to Pakistan: official

WASHINGTON: The US State Department has informed Congress that it wants to retain the flexibility that foreign assistance provides, to do business with Pakistan....

US panel endorses bill to withhold $450m

WASHINGTON: A US congressional panel has endorsed a draft bill that seeks to block $450 million in aid to Pakistan for failing to take...

China & South Asia

INDIA’S protracted, unsuccessful dialogue with China on the boundary dispute brings home a fundamental that talks are doomed to failure unless both parties are...

Balochistan CM views CPEC as game changer

ISLAMABAD: The government and the people of Balochistan are fully endorsing projects under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), stated Balochistan Chief Minister Sanaullah Zehri...

CPEC body to visit China in attempt to address opposition’s reservations

ISLAMABAD: Members of the parliamentary committee on the China-Pakis­tan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will be heading to China for a week, where Chi­nese authorities are...

U.S. wants increased India, Pakistan dialogue on counter terrorism

The U.S. has said that it wants increased dialogue between India and Pakistan on counter terrorism co-operation. “We have said many times that there is...

India is Losing Kashmir

Kashmir has been simmering in decades of conflict since the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. The violence reached its peak in the...

Pakistan woos Renault-Nissan in push for auto investment

Pakistan is wooing foreign car makers like Renault-Nissan with generous import duties, but convincing them to set up factories will be an uphill challenge...

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