Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Uzbekistan on Tuesday on a two-day official visit to enhance bilateral relations with the Central Asian country. Pakistan and Uzbekistan have strengthened ties through trade and economic cooperation. A $1 billion trade deal was signed in 2023, and plans for further collaboration, including a roadmap for industrial cooperation, show […]
Read MoreWelcoming the High Commissioner, who is serving in her first ambassadorial role in Bangladesh, Yunus expressed hope that her tenure would further strengthen bilateral relations between the two nations. Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has urged the Maldivian government to consider regularising undocumented Bangladeshi expatriates and to recruit more workers from Bangladesh. He made the […]
Read MoreThe Palestinian militant group Hamas said it would suspend talks with Israel if it did not release 602 Palestinian prisoners. The release was in exchange for the release of six Israeli prisoners from Gaza on Saturday (February 22). Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi made the announcement in a statement on the social media platform Telegram on […]
Read MoreIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that Tel Aviv will not allow the country’s new government to operate south of the Syrian capital, Damascus. Netanyahu made the remarks while attending a military event in Israel on Sunday (February 23), Al Jazeera reported. At the event, Benjamin Netanyahu demanded the complete “demilitarization” of the southern […]
Read MoreThe White House has backed the Israeli government’s decision to suspend the release of Palestinian prisoners. The US government said on Sunday that the move was in response to Hamas’ “barbaric treatment” of Israeli prisoners. Israel said it had suspended plans to release 620 Palestinian prisoners held by Hamas in Gaza in exchange for six […]
Read MorePakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has expressed his desire to make his country a bigger nation than India. He expressed this hope while addressing a large public meeting in the country’s Dera Ghazi Khan on Sunday. Vowing to make unremitting efforts to achieve the goal, the prime minister said, “We will leave India behind one […]
Read MorePakistani security forces raided a militant hideout in the restive northwest near the Afghan border, killing 10 militants, the military said Monday. The military did not provide additional details about the militants killed in Bagh, a town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. But such operations are often conducted against the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan. […]
Read MoreNepal said on Monday seven more projects funded by the United States have been put on hold after President Donald Trump suspended foreign development assistance. President Donald Trump ordered a 90-day pause in US foreign development assistance on the day he returned to the White House, pending assessments of efficiency and consistency with US foreign […]
Read MoreTerming the ‘anti-India’ statements of the advisors of the Bangladesh interim government as ‘ridiculous’, Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said that Bangladesh needs to decide what kind of relationship it wants with India. He said, ‘We have given a very clear message – you are our neighbour, we want the situation to be calm, we […]
Read MorePakistan and Bangladesh have resumed direct government-to-government trade for the first time since the 1971 war of liberation. Express News reported on Saturday (February 22) that the first consignment of government-approved goods has now set sail from Pakistan’s Port Qasim. This is being seen as a historic step for the trade relations between the two […]
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