China to develop two mega-dams in Gilgit-Baltistan at a cost of Rs 1.72 lakh crore: Report
World | May 16, 2017 22:33 ISTChina has signed an MoU to fund and build two Indus mega-dams in Gilgit-Baltistan at a total cost of $27 billion.
China has signed an MoU to fund and build two Indus mega-dams in Gilgit-Baltistan at a total cost of $27 billion.
Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif today said that the multi-billion dollar CPEC was an economic project open to all nations in the region and it must not be politicised.
Pakistan's state-run APP news agency quoted Sharif as saying that both Pakistan and China favoured negotiations with India as the "most viable solution to the Kashmir dispute”.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has told the country's powerful Army that his meeting with Indian steel tycoon Sajjan Jindal last month was part of a back-channel diplomacy.
Pakistan Army on Wednesday backed off from its stand after publicly questioning Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s decision to sack an adviser over the 'Dawn leak'.
In an interesting development, Rawalpindi Police has registered a report against Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for provoking people against the Pak Army and creating hatred against the armed forces.
She also criticised Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), a ruling government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, for raking up the issue.
All major attempts to normalise relations between the two nations have been quickly followed up with an act that changes the scenario altogether.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has met his top ministers and aides to discuss options before the government to defuse a simmering civil-military row over a leaked report that had angered the powerful army.
The Pakistan Army on Saturday rejected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's decision to sack his trusted aide Tariq Fatemi for leaking information to the media, saying his action is incomplete.
In October last year, a columnist for Dawn newspaper wrote a front-page story about a rift between Pakistan's civilian and military leaderships over militant groups that operate from Pakistan but engage in proxy war against India and Afghanistan.
In its first ‘Watch List 2017’ of the year, the think-tank said that Pakistan is unwilling to facilitate talks between Taliban and Afghanistan and continues to support proxies.
Expressing concern over the development, Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) demanded a clarification from the government.
Indian steel magnate Sajjan Jindal secretly met Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during an unscheduled visit to Islamabad, triggering speculation in Pakistani media that bilateral talks between the two neighbouring sides may revive soon.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is in the "driving seat" in handling relations with India, Pakistan envoy Abdul Basit has said.
The Pakistan Supreme Court has cleared Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's daughter Maryam Nawaz in the Panama Papers case.
According to the inquiry committee report, it is Fatemi who was primarily responsible for leaking report of the key meeting to the newspaper without due permission.
Since its inception, no government in Pakistan other than the erstwhile Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) completed its tenure democratically and handed over the leadership baton to the next regime.
A five-judge bench, comprising Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, Justice Gulzar Ahmed, Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, Justice Azmat Saeed and Justice Ijazul Ahsan granted 60 days’ time to the JIT to table its report.
Former Pakistan ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani has said that Islamabad’s “spy games” are making it tougher for the two South Asian neighbours to even explore peace.
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