Karachi – AD Ports Group of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed an agreement Thursday to take over the running of part of Pakistan’s main Karachi docking facility in a deal worth an immediate $220 million, the company said.
The deal will come as a shot in the arm for...
Over two thousand Pakistanis who were attempting to move to Italy illegally have been detained in Libyan jails.
Ihsan Ullah whose brother is arrested in a Libyan jail, said huge number of Pakistani nationals have tried to move to Italy illegally recently.
He said that his brother Aman Ullah has been...
TAIPEI: Taiwan is suffering over 100 million cyber attacks on an average annually, and most of them are ‘reasonably suspected to be originating from China,’ said Taiwanese Deputy-Minister of digital affairs Lee Huai jen on Wednesday.
This is three to four times more than most of our neighbouring countries that are much larger than...
The Dutch government is planning to publish new export controls that will restrict more of ASML Holding’s chipmaking machines from being sent to China as soon as next week, according to people familiar with the matter.
The measures, which the government previously pledged to publish before the summer, will not...
Generative artificial intelligence, the technology that viral chatbot ChatGPT is based on, could be the new battleground in the battle for tech supremacy between the U.S. and China, according to one analyst.
Despite the two nations seeking better relations after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chinese President Xi...
BERLIN: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned Beijing on Thursday against using force to change the status quo with Taiwan and expressed concern about the human rights situation in China, days after holding bilateral talks with the new Chinese premier.
Scholz told German lawmakers that Berlin wants constructive relations with China...
KARACHI: The foreign exchange reserves held by the central bank fell by $514.4 million during the week ending on June 16, 2023, according to data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Thursday.
According to the stats issued by the SBP, the country’s foreign reserves dropped by $514...
DHAKA – Bangladesh today said it is going to import more electricity from India in the coming year and sought substantial Indian investment in the two Special Economic Zones in Mongla and Mirsarai to help broaden the country’s export base.
Speaking on the opening day of the two-day India-Bangladesh Strategic Dialogue...
Nuri Mettursun died alone, five months into a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence. No family gathered around his bedside to hear his last words. His funeral was a clinical affair. No one closed his eyes gently, or bound his jaw closed, or washed him ceremonially before swaddling him devoutly in a...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif met IMF MD Kristalina Georgieva in Paris on Thursday for release of halted funds ahead of the credit line’s expiry next week. The Paris pitch came amid claims back home that Shehbaz’s finance minister Ishaq Dar slapped a reporter who asked him questions on the stalled funds.
In Paris, on the...