PESHAWAR: The Iranian foreign ministry has said the Afghan media reports about the arrival of Taliban members in Iran were groundless. In a statement emailed to The News, the ministry’s spokesman Bahram Ghasemi clarified that the claims about the presence of Taliban members in Iran were completely baseless. “Tehran’s relations with Kabul have been founded on friendly and brotherly grounds as the two governments seek common interests and security,” he added. https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/173912-Tehran-denies-arrival-of-Taliban-members-in-Iran
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GILGIT: Scholars in Gilgit-Baltistan on Sunday demanded that health and education sectors in the region should be made a part of the mega infrastructure projects under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). “Obviously CPEC would pass through G-B and people are bound to suffer from dust and other pollutants once the traffic starts flowing through it,” asked Mujahid Shah, a PhD scholar while addressing a seminar in Gilgit on Sunday. The seminar, titled “CPEC and prospects…
The founder of one of China’s few websites dedicated to reporting human rights abuses has been formally arrested for leaking state secrets, Amnesty International said on Thursday – the latest blow in a broad crackdown on activists. Huang Qi ran the website “64 Tianwang”, named in part for the bloody June 4, 1989, crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters, for nearly two decades. Its headlines – such as “Village officials stab campaigner” and “Gangsters detain protester”…
From Mongolia’s “it won’t happen again” promise to Norway finding its way back after a six-year feud with China and the small Western African island country of Sao Tome and Principe’s returning to the one-China policy, a series of diplomatic events at the end of 2016 have piqued observers and the media’s interest in China’s increasing economic leverage over foreign affairs. In the West’s narrative, China is wielding an economic cudgel to acquire geopolitical advantages.…
China’s first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, as part of a fleet of Chinese warships, set off for an open-sea training exercise recently. American and Japanese analysts believe that the Liaoning and its fleet will go beyond the first island chain and head to the Western Pacific. Some believe it will go to the South China Sea. The drill indicates that the combat capability of China’s aircraft carrier has enhanced and its areas of operation have…
The author is a reporter with the Global Times With persistent concerns expressed by India about China’s exploitation of the Yarlung Zangbo River, upstream from the Brahmaputra River in India, officials and scholars should study the possibility of borrowing on the experience of the Lancang-Mekong cooperation (LMC) mechanism to resolve disputes along trans-boundary rivers. The second LMC foreign ministers’ meeting was held in Cambodia on Friday, during which the six members – China, Myanmar, Laos,…
US President-elect Donald Trump appointed China hawk Peter Navarro as head of the new National Trade Council Wednesday. Navarro’s public image is largely shaped by his three books about China: The Coming China Wars, Death by China, and Crouching Tiger: What China’s Militarism Means for the World. An article in The New Yorker once said Navarro’s views on trade and China were so radical that it’s impossible to “find another economist who fully agrees with…
The author is a senior fellow of Shanghai Institutes for International Studies and a visiting fellow of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China According to Pakistani media, Amir Riaz, the Pakistan Army’s Southern Command chief, on Wednesday invited India to join the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and “share the fruits of future development by shelving anti-Pakistan activities and subversion.” Amid escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, Riaz’s remarks have drawn wide…
The author is a reporter with the Global Times “In a surprise move, a top Pakistani General has invited India to join the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC),” Indian news agency PTI reported recently. Surprise aside, New Delhi should consider accepting the olive branch Pakistan has extended in a bid to participate in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Such an opportunity could be transient. There is a possibility that the open attitude toward India joining the CPEC…
A key member of the Taliban group was killed along with at least 12 other militants in the strategic Kunduz city. The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement said “Afghan National Security Forces launched a joint clearance operation in Kunduz city capital of Kunduz province.” The statement further added “As a result of this joint operation, 13 armed Taliban including Mullah Ramazan a key member of armed Taliban group were killed and 14 others…
LANDI KOTAL: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Wednesday that the Afghan leadership’s anti-Pakistan diatribe in an ‘enemy country’ could jeopardise the friendly relationship between the two neighbouring countries. He said this during his first visit to the Pak-Afghan border at Torkham where he shook hands with Afghan border guards as a friendly gesture. “The Afghan leadership should refrain from levelling baseless allegations of abetting terrorism and harbouring militant organisations while speaking at…