Tag Archives: Pakistan

LANDIKOTAL – The Pakistan Customs officials on Thursday said that despite scarce facilities and untrained staff at the Afghan Customs office, they have witnessed up to 50 percent increase in trade volume after the Pakistani prime minister inaugurated 24/7 opening of the Torkham border on September 18. However, Afghan authorities …

ISLAMABAD – Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is likely to make short visits to Saudi Arabia and Iran after concluding his three-day visit to China, Daily Times reported Thursday. Khan will hold consultations for the trips to Riyadh and Tehran after returning home from China. Sources add that the dates …

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Sunday authorized US Senator Chris Van Hollen to visit Kashmir and meet local people to get first-hand information on the situation in areas near the border control line (LoC) de facto controversy between Jammu and Kashmir between Pakistan and India, a Pakistani official said Monday. According …

KABUl – On Thursday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Sibghatullah Ahmadi publicly supported Pakistan’s hosting of a Taliban delegation, while President Ashraf Ghani’s spokesperson Sediq Sediqqi condemned the meeting as inappropriate. Later in a tweet, Sediqqi claimed that MoFA’s Ahmadi was not expressing the views of the Afghan government. …

ISLAMABAD – China and Russia have offered to revive Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) as its companies have expressed keen interest in investing worth billions of investments in Pakistan Steel Mills. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was briefed on the offer made by Chinese and Russian companies at a high-level session …

ABU DHABI – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced on Friday its decision to invest $5 billion in an oil refinery project in Pakistan by the end of 2019. In an interview to Arab News, UAE Ambassador to Pakistan Hamad Obaid Ibrahim Salem Al-Zaabi said that soon they are going …

ISLAMABAD/BEIJING – Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan will visit Beijing next week to bolster ties between the strategic partners, South China Morning Post reported Thursday. Khan is slated to deliver a speech at the China-Pakistan business forum in the Chinese capital on October 8 to promote “economic and trade exchange …

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s Senate Chairman Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani Tuesday said that Pakistan valued its bilateral relations with Germany and desired to further expand mutual collaboration in different sectors to bring people of the both the countries closer, APP reported Tuesday. He emphasized the need to further strengthen the existing bilateral …

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has decided to open major border terminals on the Pak-Afghan border amid presidential elections after receiving a request from its neighbor, a statement by Pakistan’s Foreign Office said Saturday. According to the details provided in the statement, Pakistan received request from Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defence on very …

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has closed all border crossings with Afghanistan after the Taliban threatened to disrupt upcoming presidential polls in the war-wracked country. The Pakistani foreign office said in a statement that in view of the upcoming Afghan presidential elections and in support of domestic transition in Afghanistan, it was …