Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Sep 13 (APP): Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said the government would extend utmost assistance to the foreign investors and expressed confidence that the Chinese investment in Pakistan would open up immense employment opportunities.

The prime minister expressed these views in a meeting with heads of the Chinese companies. China’s ambassador Nong Rong, federal minister Hammad Azhar, Shaukat Tareen and Asad Umer, and Commerce Adviser Abdul Razak Dawood, Special Assistant CPEC Khalid Mansoor and senior officials were also present.

ISLAMABAD, Sept 13 (Reuters) - A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) commercial passenger flight took off from Kabul airport on Monday, bound for Islamabad, a Reuters witness said.

The PIA (PIAa.PSX) flight is the first commercial passenger flight from Kabul since the foreign troop withdrawal and evacuation process was completed in Afghanistan. Last week the Qatari government flew civilian charters out of Kabul.

ISLAMABAD, Sep 12 (APP): Pakistan on Sunday shared with the world another dossier comprising incriminating audio, video and documentary evidence on gross human rights violations, war crimes, genocide and torture against the Kashmiris by the “fascist Modi regime” in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

ISLAMABAD, Sept 12 (NNN-APP) – Twelve people were killed and two others injured, due to heavy downpour in Mansehra district of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, today, local media reported.

Four to five houses were torn down to the ground, due to land slide caused by heavy downpour, the reports said.

There were 16 people in the houses and search for the remaining two has been underway, according to media.

The injured were shifted to a nearby hospital.

ISLAMABAD, Sept 11 (APP): India had been using Afghan soil against Pakistan since 2001 by investing about $3 billion on infrastructure, training of Afghan forces and other projects to establish a network for its permanent foothold and to achieve its overt and covert designs.

According to experts, by sponsoring terrorism against Pakistan from Afghan territory, India had violated different Articles of the United Nations Charter including Article 2(4), Article 41(3) of the Vienna Convention, and Paras 2 and 5 of UN Security Council Resolution 1373 of 2001.

ISLAMABAD, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has decided to resume commercial flights to Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, starting from Sept. 13, the airline said on Saturday.

"The official flag carrier of Pakistan (PIA) is going to start again its flight operations for Kabul," Arshad Malik, chief executive officer of the PIA, told Xinhua, adding that the first flight will leave for Kabul on Monday from Pakistani capital of Islamabad.

ISLAMABAD, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Experts from around the world say politically-driven attempts by the United States and its allies regarding COVID-19 origins tracing are hindering global efforts to fight the disease.

Politicizing origins tracing disrespects science, endangers human lives and undermines efforts to end the pandemic, said the experts at a webinar organized by the Friends of BRI Forum, a Pakistan-based think tank, on Friday.

11 Sep 2021; MEMO: Pakistan and Qatar urged the US today to unfreeze Afghanistan's assets to save the country from total economic collapse, Anadolu Agency reports.

Speaking at a joint news conference in Islamabad, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said protecting the interests of the Afghan people must be a top priority.

ISLAMABAD, Sep 10 (APP): Foreign Minister of Spain Jose Manuel Albares on Friday said his government would closely work with Pakistan on efforts towards peace in Afghanistan and for the region’s future.

“We want to work very closely with Pakistan with a promise for the betterment of the region’s future,” the Spanish foreign minister said in a joint press conference with Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi.

ISLAMABAD, Sep 9 (APP): Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah Mehmood Qureshi Thursday said Pakistan and Qatar would continue to play their facilitative role for peace and stability in Afghanistan.

Speaking at a press conference here along with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, he said he and the Qatari minister discussed the latest developments in Afghanistan.