BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping, also chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), on Thursday presented certificates of order to promote two military officers to the rank of general. The promoted officers are Wang Renhua, secretary of the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the CMC, and Xiao Tianliang, president of the University of National Defense. Zhang Youxia, vice …
NEW YORK: Zhang Jun, China’s permanent representative to the United Nations (UN), said on Thursday that he will soon finish his five-year term in the post and return to China. According to a statement released by China’s Permanent Mission to the UN, Zhang called his UN posting “a great honor and heavy responsibility.” His UN tenure started in 2019. “It …
BEIJING: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged Japan to promote regional peace and stability when meeting with former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Friday in Beijing. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, appreciated Fukuda, former chairman of the Boao Forum for Asia, for his care about the development of the …
PESHAWAR: Reflecting the emergence of a working relationship between the political rivals who rule in the Centre and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, against the backdrop of surging terrorist attacks in the region, Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur received Interior Minister Syed Mohsin Raza Naqvi here on Thursday. During the meeting, CM Gandapur said KP had suffered the most during the war against …
ISLAMABAD: In an apparent bid to avoid a retrial in the cipher case, the counsel for former prime minister Imran Khan and foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday endorsed the cross-examination of key witnesses by state-appointed counsel. The move comes as a surprise, as it contradicts the stance earlier adopted by the PTI legal team, which has maintained that the …
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister of Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar on Thursday said disinformation and fake news are the problems of entire world which should be controlled. During a meeting with the political counselor of the British High Commission, Zoe Ware, the minister said the biggest challenge on social media was fake news. Referring to the restrictions on social media platform …
KARACHI: Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb on Friday expressed hope for reaching a Staff-Level Agreement (SLA) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the end of the fiscal year (June 30), adding that there have not been any final discussions with the Fund yet. The $3 billion standby arrangement with the global lender expires on April 11, and the two sides …
ISLAMABAD: US President Joe Biden, in a first letter to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday, stressed that the “enduring partnership” between the United States and Pakistan was “critical to ensuring the security of our people — and people around the world”. According to the US Embassy in Islamabad, the letter said: “The enduring partnership between our nations remains critical …
ISLAMABAD: In a first, the foreign minister has been included in the Council of Common Interests (CCI) while the finance minister has been excluded, it emerged on Friday. According to a notification from the CCI Secretariat, dated March 25, President Asif Ali Zardari constituted the council on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s advice with effect March 21. The newly constituted council …
ISLAMABAD: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl) will boycott the upcoming by-elections of national and provincial assemblies and instead launch protest movement from Balochistan on April 25 against ‘massive rigging’ in the Feb 8 general elections, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman announced on Wednesday. “The letter of the six judges of the Islamabad High Court to the Chief Justice of Pakistan has confirmed my …