BEIJING: Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar on Monday expressed Pakistan’s resolve to advance cooperation with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on security and development, the Foreign Office (FO) said. The development comes as the foreign minister met with SCO Secretary General Ambassador Zhang Ming in Beijing, where he arrived earlier today. According to Radio Pakistan, Dar reaffirmed Pakistan’s “unwavering commitment” to the …

GWADAR: Federal Mi­­nister for Maritime Affa­irs Qaiser Ahmed Sheikh has said that Gwadar will play a key role in the economic development not only of Balochistan but also Pakistan in the near future, improving the sta­ndard of living of the people of coastal areas of Makran. Mr Sheikh, who arrived in Gwadar on a three-day visit, expressed these views while …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China on Sunday expressed the determination to further enhance and upgrade cooperation on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects. This was expressed by Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and Zheng Jianbang, the vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China. According to the Foreign Office (FO), the two met on the sidelines of the …

ISLAMABAD/BEIJING: In a historic first, a Pakistani satellite will orbit the moon as part of China’s Chang’e-6 lunar mission, which was launched from Hainan, China, on Friday. The mission, which aims to explore the moon’s “dark side”, will employ lunar research payloads from multiple countries, including Pakistan’s iCube Qamar satellite. The Institute of Space Technology (IST) on Tuesday said Pakistan’s “historic” …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday said that the economic and cultural relationships between Pakistan and China were rapidly growing due to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). In a message on global observance of the Chinese language as one of the largest dialects for communication, he said that a “sufficient number of Pakistanis” were learning the Chinese language, …

ISLAMABAD: Officials of the capital administration and police held a meeting with the staff of Chinese companies for a security audit in view of last month’s suicide attack at Besham in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Five Chinese engineers and their Pakistani driver were killed in the suicide bombing while travelling from Islamabad to a hydroelectric dam construction site in Dasu. Officials told Dawn that after the …

DASU: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Monday assured foolproof security measures for the Chinese nationals working on the Dasu Hydropower Project as well as across the country and resolved to ensure exemplary punishment for the perpetrators of the March 26 Besham incident. A vehicle-borne suicide bomber targeted a convoy of Chinese engineers in the remote Besham area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang on Sunday congratulated Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on his election as prime minister of Pakistan. President Xi Jinping expressed confidence that under the leadership of  Shehbaz and Pakistan’s new government, and the united efforts of all sectors of Pakistan would be able to make new and greater achievements in …

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) holds the potential to assist Pakistan in revitalising its economy and setting the stage for sustainable development. Following the successful completion of the first phase, CPEC has now entered its second phase. The long-term document of CPEC outlines industrialisation and agricultural cooperation as driving forces during this stage – fortunately, these align with Pakistan’s current …

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Secretary Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong, who is currently on a visit to Islamabad, today inaugurated the CPEC Corner at the library of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Speaking on the occasion, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister said that as iron brother and trusted friend, China attached special importance to Pakistan in its …