27 July 2023; MEMO: Four leading Pakistani oil companies will join hands with Saudi Arabia's state-owned Aramco for a $10 billion Greenfield refinery project at Pakistan's strategic Gwadar Port, Anadolu Agency reports.
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Pakistani and the Saudi companies in the capital, Islamabad, on Thursday, said a statement from the Ministry of Petroleum.
DHAKA, Jul 30 (NNN-BSS) – Police in Dhaka, yesterday fought with opposition protestors, with teargas and rubber bullets.
In a protest, demanding Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina’s resignation, the opposition protestors gathered in the morning to block traffic on key arterial routes in the capital.
Television footage showed the police used rubber bullets and teargas to disperse the gatherings and drove the protesters away from the streets.
KABUL, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan's state-run Bakhtar News Agency (BNA) has launched Chinese service and begun releasing news in the Chinese language, the state media outlet said on Sunday.
The Chinese news service, according to the BNA, began in July and the media outlet releases Afghanistan's domestic news, China-related news and world news in the Chinese language regularly.
KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up at a political rally in a former stronghold of militants in northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least 44 people and wounding nearly 200 in an attack that a senior leader said was meant to weaken Pakistani Islamists.
NEW DELHI, July 29 (Xinhua) -- India currently has an estimated population of 4,000 tigers, representing an annual growth rate of 6.1 percent, said an official statement issued by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on Saturday.
ISLAMABAD, July 29 (Xinhua) -- The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has brought high-quality development and contributed to a human community with a shared future through win-win economic cooperation between Pakistan and China, highlighting the vitality of China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a Pakistani expert said.
ISLAMABAD, July 28 (Xinhua) -- The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of police in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province arrested 17 terrorists during intelligence-based operations, the police said on Friday.
The personnel of the CTD of Punjab police conducted multiple operations in different districts of the province to avert terror activities, apprehending 17 terrorists, the CTD Punjab said in a statement.
LAHORE, Pakistan/XI'AN, China, July 28 (Xinhua) -- As the sun rises and street lights turn off in Lahore, capital of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, the city wakes up and gets bustling with life.
As the day begins, Zubair Tufail, a team supervisor of operations at a converter station of ±660 kilovolt Matiari-Lahore high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission project in a suburb of Lahore, starts his daily work.
ISLAMABAD, Jul 27 (APP): Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardsri on Wednesday held a telephonic call with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres and discussed post-flood recovery in Pakistan, food security for developing countries and Black Sea Grain Initiative.
On his Twitter handle, the foreign minister said that he thanked the UNSG for his leadership and support for Pakistan flood response.
The foreign minister highlighted challenges faced by the developing countries for food security following supply chain disruptions.
ISLAMABAD, July 25 (APP): Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday congratulated Wang Yi on his appointment as China’s Foreign Minister.
On his Twitter handle, the foreign minister praised Wang Yi as ‘an astute and seasoned diplomat’ with whom he had the distinct pleasure of interacting twice last year.
“I’m confident that under his watch our all-weather strategic cooperative partnership would grow from strength to strength,” he further added.
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