China has launched a new initiative called the “Belt and Road Skills-Building-Dreams Action” to strengthen international skills cooperation among participating countries. Announced by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security on Tuesday, the action aims to promote joint vocational standards, share training resources, cultivate skilled trainers, achieve mutual recognition of training certificates and establish cooperative brands. These efforts ultimately …

ISLAMABAD: Building on recent engagements between Pakistan and China, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday gave the greenlight to relocate Chinese industries to Pakistan as part of joint ventures between the two countries’ companies. Chairing a meeting to discuss matters of the Board of Investment (BoI), the prime minister said that promoting both local and foreign investment in Pakistan was among the …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said time-tested Pak-China friendship is indispensable for bilateral as well as regional peace and development, expressing great satisfaction over complete political consensus in both countries on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. He expressed these views while talking to Minister of International Department of the Communist Party of China (IDCPC) Liu Jianchao, who along with a …

ISLAMABAD: Rare political consensus was shown on Friday at the third meeting of the Pakistan-China Joint Consultative Mechanism (JCM) of Political Parties on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in Islamabad as a visiting Chinese minister stressed that internal stability was essential for Pakistan’s development. The cross-party political unity was shown at the CPEC Pakistan-China Political Parties Forum co-chaired by Deputy …

GWADAR: President Asif Ali Zardari has called for enhancing the capacity of the law enforcement agencies (LEAs), posting competent officers in Balochistan, and improving the prosecution mechanism to effectively counter terrorist elements in the province. The president expressed these views while chairing a meeting on the security and law and order situation in Balochistan on Thursday. Interior Minister Moh­sin Naqvi, Chief Minister …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has said India has no right to object to the references made to Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan-China joint statement issued in Beijing after talks between Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his Chinese counterpart Li Qiang on June 8, and reiterated it is an established fact that Jammu and Kashmir is an internationally-recognised disputed territory. “It is an …

BEIJING: China is the world’s largest cherry market, and Pakistan has reached a significant milestone by exporting its first shipment of fresh cherries to China. Utilizing a reefer container, Pakistan aims to export 260 tonnes of fresh cherries to China in reefer containers by the end of June. This achievement is a result of a phytosanitary agreement signed between China …

ISLAMABAD: Pak­istan and China on Saturday vowed to strengthen their strategic relations and safeguard common interests, besides promoting socio-economic development and well-being of the people of both countries. According to the Prime Minister’s Office, the two sides agreed to work together to jointly uphold regional peace, stability, development and prosperity, and accelerate the building of an even closer “Pakistan-China community …

BEIJING: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the Pakistani delegation with him visited China’s historical Terracotta Warriors Museum in Xi’an on Saturday. The visit came following an invitation extended by Chinese President Xi Jinping to see the museum in his hometown. During the visit, the prime minister and the delegation were briefed on the preservation and restoration of historical heritage and …

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday spoke highly of China-Pakistan relations and called for more efforts to build a closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future in the new era during a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Beijing. China and Pakistan are good neighbors linked by mountains and rivers, good friends who share faith and righteousness, …