“India is a key strategic partner of the US and we’re dedicated to advancing that partnership, every single day,” said a top White House official ahead of the India-US 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue scheduled in New Delhi on November 10. The White House official also said it is for New Delhi...
Union Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan arrived in Tokyo on Wednesday morning and said that India and Japan cherish a Special Strategic and Global Partnership rooted in ancient historical ties. "Reached Tokyo this morning. Look forward to my engagements including interaction with Indian community. India and Japan...
New Delhi: Some Pakistanis online called their government’s support to Palestine and its people merely “window dressing” after a private bank’s internal circular reportedly directed its branches to refuse any donations to the accounts of the embassy of Palestine in Islamabad. One of Pakistan’s largest private retail banks, Bank Alfalah,...
NEW DELHI: Unidentified men gunned down Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Akram Ghazi in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, marking the second assassination of a terrorist who had India as his main target in the last one week. Akram Khan alias Ghazi was one of top recruiters for Lashkar between 2018-2020 and was responsible for...
Hundreds of school students in Gilgit along with their parents took to the streets against unreasonable hikes in their school fees. The students have complained that their schools lack even the basic requirements, they do not have furniture, they have to sit in open classrooms and have no drinking water facility. A disgruntled student speaking about the...
Chinese and US officials are likely to hold more talks on trade and economy, as Vice Premier He Lifeng started his visit to the US on Wednesday, at the invitation of US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, another major step to stabilize bilateral ties. And, in a speech in Singapore on...
China is revamping the Belt and Road Initiative, which has pumped billions of dollars in grants and loans into developing countries over the last ten years. This comes as the country attempts to rein in the risks that plagued its earlier investments, according to a new report released on...
Assuming Xi Jinping and Joe Biden finally sit down together next week in San Francisco after a year of posturing, accusations, backchannel signalling and wayward surveillance balloons, the results will be underwhelming. There is so little trust – a week before the expected meeting, the Chinese had still not formally...
ISLAMABAD -- Two decades of Chinese lending to Pakistan totaled about $21 billion more than previously thought, a study revealed this week, while also showing that the cash-strapped South Asian country has the biggest China-funded energy portfolio in the world. AidData, a research institute at William and Mary University in...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has once again rejected the media reports about the alleged supply of arms to Ukraine, saying Islamabad has neither supplied nor does it intend to supply arms to Kyiv. Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, while responding to media queries, stated that Pakistan has stressed the need...