Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has left for China on a two-day visit to attend the annual meeting of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) being held in Beijing. There, he is likely to sign 27 MoUs and agreements – 21 related to energy production – amounting to an estimated total of $33 billion. Much of this would have already been done had the Chinese President not cancelled his visit to Pakistan last month owing to the sit-ins…
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BEIJING: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif was accorded a warm welcome when he arrived here on Friday on a three-day visit to China. Besides holding talks with Chinese President Xi Jingping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang, he will represent Pakistan at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) meeting being held here. In a statement before leaving for the visit, the prime minister said he was going to China to save the people from extra…
BEIJING/ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif was accorded a warm welcome when he arrived in Beijing on Friday on a three-day visit to China. He was greeted by a smartly turned-out contingent of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Sources said that the visit would help in ushering in an era of development, prosperity and generating employment opportunities to over one million youth of the country. During his visit to China, the…
GWADAR: A vehicle of the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) was damaged in a bomb blast in Panjgur town on Friday. According to official sources, the powerful explosion occurred near Rakhshan river when an FWO convoy was passing through the place. One of the vehicles in the convoy was damaged. “ It was a time device that was detonated by remote control to hit the FWO convoy,” police said. Security forces launched…
By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, November 8th, 2014. GILGIT: Though fuel prices have been slashed by the government, the benefit is yet to trickle down to the people in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B). “The prices of grocery and other daily commodities are still soaring,” said Imtiaz Khan, a resident of Gilgit, on Friday. “We were expecting a considerable decrease in prices of daily items transported to Gilgit but that has not happened,” he complained.…