ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar will meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington on Friday to discuss bilateral relations and Pakistan’s mediation efforts in the three-month-old conflict between the United States and Iran, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
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Xi hails ‘unbreakable’ friendship with Pakistan as Sharif arrives in Beijing for 75th-anniversary talks
ISLAMABAD: President Xi Jinping welcomed Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to the Great Hall of the People on Monday, saying the two nations’ “unbreakable” friendship is constant in an uncertain world and pledging to build an even closer “China-Pakistan community with a shared future.”
Prime Minister Sharif begins four-day China visit seeking deeper economic ties, new phase of CPEC
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived on Saturday in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou to begin a four-day official visit to China, the first stop in a trip timed to the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Islamabad and Beijing and aimed at advancing the second phase of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
PM Sharif begins four-day China visit focused on trade, investment, and US-Iran conflict
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif departed on Saturday for a four-day official visit to China, where he will meet President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang as the two countries mark the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations.
PM Sharif to visit China this weekend, with US-Iran tensions on agenda
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will travel to China from May 23 to 26 for an official visit that will mark the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries and offer an opportunity to deepen their long-standing “all-weather strategic partnership,” the Foreign Office said on Friday.
Security forces kill 23 militants in northwest operations, including key TTP commander
ISLAMABAD: Security forces killed 23 militants in a series of intelligence-based operations conducted over the past 48 hours in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the military said Thursday.
Security forces kill wanted TTP ringleader and four militants in North Waziristan intelligence operation
ISLAMABAD: Security forces have killed a high-value terrorist commander and four other militants on Thursday in an intelligence-based operation in the Spinwam area of North Waziristan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, officials said.
‘Monstrous and inhumane’: Video of bound, kneeling activists ignites global fury over Israel’s treatment of Gaza flotilla detainees
ISLAMABAD: Israeli authorities have begun detaining hundreds of activists seized from the Global Sumud Flotilla at the southern port of Ashdod, a Palestinian rights group said on Wednesday, after naval forces intercepted the vessels in international waters and diverted them to Israel.
PM Sharif says anti-militant operation in Afghanistan to continue “with full resolve”
QUETTA: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Tuesday that Pakistan’s military operation against terrorist hideouts in Afghanistan would continue with “full resolve,” even as tensions with Kabul show no sign of easing.
Pakistan condemns drone strike near UAE nuclear plant, warns of catastrophic risks amid US-Iran tensions
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Monday issued a sharply worded condemnation of a drone strike the previous day that sparked a fire near the Barakah nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates, describing the incident as a reckless assault on civilian nuclear infrastructure with potentially “catastrophic and irreversible consequences” for human life, the environment and regional stability.