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Pakistan has decided to seek USD 2.7 billion loan from China for the construction of package-I of the Mainline-1 project of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).Citing government officials, The Express Tribune has reported that the sixth meeting of the financing committee on ML-1 project, which includes dualisation and upgrading ...

KARACHI, Pakistan Pakistan on Tuesday urged member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to collectively oppose the rising wave of Islamophobia and neo-Nazism across the globe.“We must oppose all extremist and xenophobic ideologies, including racist ideologies inspired by neo-Nazism and Islamophobia, and call for focusing on building interfaith and ...

More than a month after Pakistan first unveiled plans to annex the Gilgit-Baltistan region – its only land link to China and located in disputed Kashmir – and grant its residents full citizenship rights, an ominous silence hangs over the isolated mountainous region. Instead of celebrations, almost all the ...

KARACHI, Pakistan Asim Saleem Bajwa, an adviser to Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan, stepped down on Monday, weeks after allegations regarding his family's assets."I requested the honorable Prime Minister to relinquish me from the additional portfolio of SAPM on information and broadcasting. He very ...

Pakistan’s deep ties with China is no secret, but greater economic and military cooperation in PoK and Occupied Gilgit-Baltistan also point to Beijing’s vested interest there. (Reuters image)China is helping Pakistan set up a new missile system in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) amid the Ladakh standoff. Beijing is also assisting ...

India08:14 GMT 27.09.2020(updated 11:46 GMT 27.09.2020) Get short URLAmid the frequent ceasefire violations, Indian security force officials have revealed that there has been a spurt of weapons being air-dropped from drones and drugs being smuggled by Pakistanis along the international border and Line of Control over the past few ...

NEW DELHI: China may be one of the first countries to emerge from Covid-19, but the pandemic promises to fundamentally change Beijing’s biggest geopolitical and geo-economic project— the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI). Two new reports point to an ongoing recalibration of BRI, and specifically its flagship project — ...

Most importantly, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is the main underlying reason for Pakistan’s attempts to bring about political changes to the territory of Gilgit-Baltistan.BRIG N K BHATIAPakistani minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan, Ali Amin Gandapur, reignited the contentious issue of grant of provincial status to Gilgit-Baltistan by ...

A campaign by opposition politicians in Pakistan to oust Prime Minister Imran Khan and the official in charge of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in Islamabad may cause some disruption but is unlikely to derail the multibillion-dollar scheme, analysts say.Opposition party leaders on Sunday launched a joint campaign to ...

China’s ‘Safeguards’ Against India & US’s InterestsThe Chinese are thinking ahead on Afghanistan and laying the ground for the future, said security expert James Dorsey, as per the FT report. A second tribal leader in Balochistan, who returned from Afghanistan in late August after spending a month there, told ...