ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman have agreed to expedite the first wave of a planned $5 billion Saudi investment package for Pakistan, according to the joint statement issued by both countries. The two leaders had held a meeting a day ago during the prime minister’s visit to Saudi Arabia in his first foreign trip since his …
BEIJING: Chinese Premier Li Qiang told U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Sunday in Beijing that the two countries should be partners rather than adversaries. It is hoped that the U.S. will abide by the basic norms of market economy including fair competition and open cooperation, refrain from turning economic and trade issues into political or security issues, and view the …
ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Saturday announced that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered immediate action to be taken against five officials for negligence of duty based on the findings of an inquiry report on the Bisham suicide attack which claimed the lives of six people, including five Chinese nationals. The development comes a week after five Chinese engineers — and their …
ISLAMABAD: PTI leader Barrister Gohar Ali Khan on Saturday ruled out a merger with the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) in case the former was returned its election symbol of the ‘bat’, reasoning that the two were political parties with different orientations. The SIC was earlier joined by PTI-backed independent candidates after they won the February 8 elections, since former prime …
ISLAMABAD: Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) Chairman Mohammad Hamid Raza on Saturday approached the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to seek postponement of April 9 elections being held to fill the seats of Senate chairman and deputy chairman. A petition filed through senior counsel Hamid Khan in this regard said that election should be held to a date after polls in …
ISLAMABAD: PTI leaders on Saturday criticised Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif for labelling Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as ‘a corridor of terrorists and smugglers’, adding that the PDM government was responsible for the resurgence of terrorism. Speaking at a press conference along with Punjab PTI Secretary Information Shaukat Mahmood Basra, PTI Central Information Secretary Raoof Hasan blasted her for blaming the …
PESHAWAR: Eleven candidates for the Feb 8 general elections have moved the election tribunals here, challenging their electoral defeats. Of the petitioners, 10 were independent candidates belonging to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, and one was a nominee of the Awami National Party. Nine of the independents belong to Peshawar. They include former provincial ministers Taimur Saleem Khan Jhagra (PK-79) and Kamran …
ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Sunday rebutted former prime minister Imran Khan’s allegations against the senior military leadership in connection with the Toshakhana case, saying they were “false, fabricated and baseless”. The former premier had alleged that the senior military leadership “implicated” him and his wife Bushra Bibi in the Toshakhana reference “in an attempt to stifle my spirits”. Imran and his spouse …
RAWALPINDI: Two terrorists were killed in an exchange of fire between security forces and militants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district, the military’s media affairs wing said on Sunday. A press release from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that a fire exchange took place between terrorists and security forces last night. “Own troops effectively engaged the terrorists’ location as …
BEIJING: Economic and trade ties should be the stabilizing force of China-U.S. relations, Chinese Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen said as he co-chaired the first vice-ministerial meeting of the China-U.S. commerce and trade working group with U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Marisa Lago. Wang, also China’s international trade representative, visited the U.S. from April 2 to 5 at the invitation …