Pakistan's cash-strapped economy is struggling to stabilise from a financial crisis and secured a $3 billion standby arrangement from the International Monetary Fund last summer.
Foreign Minister Jaishankar, who has made a mark on the international platform for his sharp attitude regarding China and Pakistan, has once again made a scathing attack on Pakistan.
President Xi last week had expressed "deep concern" over the security of Chinese nationals working in Pakistan on the CPEC projects and sought "reliable and safe environment" for them.
Pakistan's Army Chief General Bajwa headed the Pakistani delegation in an "Apex meeting" with the Chinese military in China.
Their meeting has been scheduled to be held in Guangzhou as Beijing is currently under semi-lockdown to contain the fast-spreading Omicron variant of the COVID-19.
More than 3,400 cases of Covid cases were reported in China on Friday. Apart from this, 20,700 such cases were also detected in which patients did not show any symptoms.
On Tuesday, Wang said that China would not attend the security dialogue on Afghanistan convened by India due to "scheduling reasons".
Haley slammed Biden for his disastrous withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan. “By the end of that speech that President Biden gave, it was the beginning of the lame duck presidency for Joe Biden,” she said.
In 1999, Pakistan and China had inked an agreement to jointly develop and produce the JF-17 "Thunder". They had also decided to share the development cost.
Pakistan has sought the $6 billion loan help from China for Main Line (ML-1) project against which, Beijing has sought guarantees due to the Islamabad's weakening position.
He also alleged that Muslims were earlier misled over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), but as those efforts did not succeed, now farmers were being told that they will face losses due to the new laws.
At least a dozen odd attacks have been carried out on Chinese properties and citizens by the BLA over the last few years.
"The agreement will be finalised between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Economic Zones Development and Management Company (KPEZDMC) and CRBC later this month," Executive Business Development and Media at KPEZDMC Arbab Harron told the Xinhua news agency, without giving exact date for the finalisation of the agreement.
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a planned network of roads, railways and energy projects linking China's resource-rich Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region with Pakistan's strategic Gwadar Port on the Arabian Sea.
This was announced by Pakistan Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Ali Haider Zaidi on Tuesday. He said that the government has granted tax exemption to the China Overseas Ports Holding Company (COPHC) for 23 years to facilitate establishment of its industrial units at Gwadar Port.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is slated to attend the China Pakistan Business Forum in Beijing on October 8. This will be Khan's third visit to China after coming to power in August 2018, The News International reported on Tuesday.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has said the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will attract trade, investment and technology from China to Pakistan so as to help boost his country's future development.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said it won't comment on the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) decision to put Pakistan on the "grey list" and counselled the world to see the efforts made by Islamabad in an "objective" way.
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