Los Angeles Times | China and Pakistan take swipes at Trump's Afghanistan policy Los Angeles Times Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif's first trip abroad to Beijing this week appeared to highlight how ties between the two all-weather allies have grown even closer while Pakistan's crucial relationship with the U.S. is disintegrating amid mutual ... China, Pakistan take swipes at Trump's Afghan policy China about-turn: Pak made sacrifices in fighting terror, has 'clear conscience' BRICS over, China back to defending Pakistan on terror: Islamabad has clear conscience, made sacrifice |
The Independent | Christian teenager beaten to death by classmates in Pakistan The Independent Sharoon Masih was the only Christian in his year and was attacked after he apparently drank from the same glass as a Muslim. The 17-year-old had only been at MC Model Boys Government School Burewala in Punjab for three days before the incident. Christian teenager in Pakistan beaten to death by classmates after drinking from same glass as Muslim boy |
South China Morning Post | China and Pakistan team up for swipe at Trump's Afghanistan plans South China Morning Post Trump infuriated Pakistan last month when he accused Islamabad of giving safe haven to extremists and threatened to withhold military aid. He further raised alarm in Pakistan when he raised the prospect of enlisting India as part of a stepped-up ... China back to being 'friends' with Pakistan after BRICS terror bashing Trilateral meeting of Pakistan, China, Afghanistan FMs likely this year I Was Ambassador to Pakistan, and America Can't Simply Punish Islamabad |
London Review of Books (subscription) (blog) | Pakistan, Polio and the CIA London Review of Books (subscription) (blog) But the disease stubbornly persists in Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan. By the mid-2000s, Pakistan had almost eradicated polio: there were only 28 cases in 2005, 1.4 per cent of the global total. But there have been 380 in the last three years, 81 ... |
The Wire | A Bicycle Ride Around the Borders of Pakistan The Wire Once during a conversation with a young Kashmiri man about the conflict between India and Pakistan, I reluctantly expressed the opinion that the Partition and the subsequent sense of loss have a stronger impact on people's hearts and minds in the ... |
The Guardian | 'Anything is possible in Pakistan – but everything is impossible': Sarmad Masud on filming My Pure Land The Guardian The kalashnikov would be kept on the wall, hung above the living quarters of the family's two-storey home, where she grew up with her two sisters, and their older brother Sikander in rural Sindh, Pakistan. They were comfortable, but not extravagantly ... |
Bloomberg | This State Holds the Key to Power in Scandal-Hit Pakistan ... Bloomberg Above the pristine lobby of a new hepatitis prevention and treatment clinic in Lahore, capital of Pakistan's Punjab province, a portrait of Chief Minister Shehbaz ... Shehbaz Sharif plans to sell out Pakistan's largest solar plant ... |
Independent | Pakistan PM opens country's fifth nuclear power plant Independent Islamabad, Pakistan | AFP | Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Friday inaugurated the country's fifth nuclear power plant, developed in collaboration with China amid hopes that his government could end chronic power shortages this year. Pakistan Prime Minister Inaugurates China-Backed Fifth Nuclear Power Plant Pakistan inaugurates 5th nuclear power plant to solve energy crisis PM inaugurates country's 5th nuclear power plant at Chashma |
Geo News, Pakistan | Confrontation between institutions unhealthy for Pakistan: Rabbani Geo News, Pakistan “Institutional dialogue is important. My suggestion of national dialogue had nothing to do with the national dialogue proposed by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. I proposed national dialogue amongst the four pillars of the state so they could engage with ... |
The Straits Times | Winning in Punjab key to victory in Pakistan polls The Straits Times LAHORE (Punjab) • Above the pristine lobby of a new hepatitis prevention and treatment clinic in Lahore, the capital of Pakistan's Punjab province, a portrait of Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif smiles down on the waiting patients. This is the Punjab that ... |