Category: International

US President Joe Biden struck a note of confidence on Tuesday on meeting his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the upcoming G20 summit in Bali this Fall. Asked if he would see Xi Jinping at the gathering of world leaders, the president said, “If he’s there I’m sure I’ll see him.” The comments come […]

LAHORE: An accountability court in Lahore on Wednesday deferred the indictment of Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shehbaz in a Rs16 billion money laundering case after the prime minister and his son moved fresh pleas seeking acquittal in the probe. Sharif and his family are facing charges of money laundering of billions of rupees […]

TAIPEI: A group of French lawmakers landed in Taipei on Wednesday, the first high-level European delegation since China conducted huge war drills to protest a visit to the island by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Democratic Taiwan exists under constant threat of an invasion by authoritarian China, which claims the self-ruled island as part of […]

Pakistan is scrambling to widen a breach in its biggest lake to prevent it from overflowing amid unprecedented floods that have inundated a third of the South Asian nation, as the United Nations warned of more misery to come. Flooding, brought by record monsoon rainfall and glacier melt in the north, has impacted 33 million […]

NEW DELHI — India and Bangladesh reached an agreement on sharing the waters of a common river and pledged to boost trade links as they reaffirmed close ties Tuesday during a visit to India by Bangladesh’s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina. Calling Dhaka “our biggest development and trade partner in the region,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra […]

Islamabad: Qatar has declined Pakistan’s investment request for a deposit of at least USD 2 billion, media reports said citing sources and added that the had been altered now in a bid to gain Doha’s favour. According to media portal Business Recorder quoting sources, the middle Eastern country has turned down Pakistan’s finance minister Dr […]

ISLAMABAD — The U.N. refugee agency rushed in more desperately needed aid Monday to flood-stricken Pakistan as the nation’s prime minister traveled to the south where rising waters of Lake Manchar pose a new threat. Two UNHCR planes touched down in the southern port city of Karachi and two more were expected later in the […]

Beijing: The Group of Seven (G7) countries in June 2022 came out with a new programme – Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII) to meet the financial and technical needs for building quality infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries in order to end the dominance of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Valerio Fabbri, […]

The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Monday decided to shut down transmission of Bol News and Bol Entertainment for what it said was their failure to secure security clearance from the interior ministry. In its meeting today, Pemra was told that it had also revoked the licences of the channel — owned by […]

Ramallah, occupied West Bank – Israel has said that there is a “high possibility” that slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was “accidentally hit” by Israeli army fire but added that it would not be launching a criminal investigation. Israeli authorities released on Monday afternoon the results of their own investigation into the killing. […]