KHYBER AGENCY – The transport community of Khyber held a protest demonstration on Sunday against the alleged extortion by officials in Afghanistan. The protest rally was organized under the banner of Khyber Transport Union at Takia, main Pak-Afghan road of tehsil Landi Kotal and hundreds of transporters beside large number of local tribesmen participated in it. Addressing to the gathering, the union leaders including Shakir Afridi, Attaullah Afridi and Mustaqil Afridi flayed the Afghan officials…
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CHAMAN: The Pak-Afghan border at Chaman remained closed for the fourth consecutive day on Sunday, with the Nato supply and cross-border trade suspended on both sides.At the request of the Afghan Border Force, a flag meeting was called on Saturday, which remained fruitless. The border gate was closed by the Pakistani forces four days back in protest against the insult meted out to the Pakistani flag at the border and the Afghan people’s act of…
Hamid Karzai has clearly not lost his not so subtle touch when it comes to Pakistan. And since Modi is practically rolling out the red carpet for anybody who’ll hop on to his new Balochistan bandwagon, no prizes for guessing where Karzai is these days and what he’s saying. And, just for clarity, when he speaks now of Balochistan – ever since he became president, actually – his reference point is the Quetta Shura, not…
ISLAMABAD: The recent arrest of an alleged financier of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks has been termed a breakthrough in the otherwise stalled case, but it may delay the conclusion of the trial pending in an antiterrorism court (ATC) since 2009. Recently, the Federal Investigation Agency arrested Sufyan Zafar and the ATC sent him to Adiala Jail on judicial remand, allowing the agency to interrogate him. Since the trial is being conducted under Section 21-M…
The author is director of Center for China in the World Economy at Tsinghua University. Today many Chinese people are familiar with and pay attention to the middle-income trap and when China will surpass it, thus joining the group of developed economies. However, findings from our long-term study have shown that the middle-income trap is not the biggest threat to our economy. China has already achieved three desirable conditions that countries who have broken out…
The writer is a reporter with the daily India may need to carefully think about whether it wants to resist or embrace the migration of China’s production capacity, which allegedly involves some investment in heavy polluting industries. China’s leading train maker China Railway Rolling Stock (CRRC) Corporation Ltd announced over the weekend that it had started operations at its first joint venture plant in India. The move is hailed by some media as an opportunity…
In the summer of 2000, Jiang Zemin found himself waiting at one of the cavernous halls within the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The Chinese leader was on hand to receive the former Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew who was visiting the capital. A short but respectful distance away stood a pack of Singapore journalists. In a gallant attempt to make small talk, Jiang remarked at how similar Singaporeans and Chinese, zhong…
BEIJING: China says a branch of its coast guard is holding live-firing exercises in the Tonkin Gulf amid tensions among disputants to territory in the South China Sea. The Maritime Safety Administration said ships and boats were barred from the area between the southern province of Hainan and the northern coast of Vietnam from Monday to Wednesday. China has held several military exercises in surrounding waters since an international arbitration panel last month issued a…