China signed a deal with Sri Lanka late last year to further develop the strategic port of Hambantota and build a huge industrial zone nearby, a key part of Beijing’s ambitions to create a modern-day “Silk Road” across Asia. The agreement was welcome relief for the island nation of 20 million people. As they try to reduce the country’s debts,… Read more »
KARACHI: Language acquisition and the role of the state to facilitate it were among some of the topics discussed by renowned linguist Dr Tariq Rahman at the opening of a four-day short course titled ‘Importance of language in education’ on Monday. Organised by the Irtiqa Institute of Social Sciences and held at the Gulshan Public School, the keynote speech titled… Read more »
WASHINGTON: The United States and India on Monday signed a defence agreement that will have a direct impact on both Pakistan and China. The Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) allows the two allies to use each other’s military facilities for checking China’s growing influence in Asia and in the fight against terrorists. Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar — in… Read more »
Chinese State Commissioner for Counter Terrorism and Security Cheng Guoping met Tariq Fatemi, special assistant to the prime minister on foreign affairs, at the Foreign Office on Monday, a press statement from the foreign ministry said. Guoping is on a three-day visit to Pakistan. During the meeting, Fatemi assured Guoping of Pakistan’s support for China on all core issues, adding… Read more »
GUWAHATI: Assam AIUDF legislator Aminul Islam was suspended from the House by the speaker Hitendra Nath Goswami for three days on Monday, for live streaming his speech in the Assembly on a social medium on Friday. Islam, who live streamed his speech on Facebook, admitted breaking the rules ‘to take his speech to a wider audience,’ but insisted that rules… Read more »