Tag: China
Govt to extend railway track to China: Bilour
Minister for railways Ghulam Ahmad Bilour said railways’ network is being extended to China and Afghanistan. He was speaking during ‘Question Hour’ during National...
Police fire tear-gas, beat protesters in China
Police fired tear-gas and beat demonstrators who stormed government buildings in southern China on Tuesday to protest a power plant, witnesses said, in the...
Chinese hockey team arrives in Karachi
The Chinese hockey team reached Karachi to play a four-match series against Pakistan.
Talking to media at the Karachi Airport, Chinese captain Li Gao Chao...
Top Chinese official due this week
Top Chinese Foreign Ministry official Dai Bingguo will visit Pakistan this week to discuss the current standoff between Pakistan and the US and other...
Thousands rally in China
Thousands of residents of a Chinese village under police blockade rallied Thursday to demand the government take action over illegal land grabs and the...
A tumultuous year for the cement industry
The Financial Year 2010-2011 was not fruit full for the cement industry of Pakistan. Sluggish demand in the local market, increased competition in the...
15 killed in China school bus accident
Authorities in eastern China said 15 primary school children were killed when the bus they were travelling in rolled into a river, in the...
Dangerously isolated
Revision of security paradigm required
What needs to be discussed by Pakistan’s foreign policy wonks during the ongoing ambassadors’ meeting is the country’s unending isolation....
Climate change
Durban Conference makes headway
There is no such thing as a free lunch. Or, that’s what the human race’s abode, the earth, is telling us...
China to play hockey series in Pakistan
Pakistan will welcome the Chinese hockey team for a four-match series this month, keen to encourage international sport back to the country, an official...
Drones and dystopia
Unmanned predators are the future of military technology
During the last few weeks, Pakistan’s media has been focused on the events related to Memogate, the...
Ten years on, US business rethinks China dreams
Few in the United States would recognize Charlene Barshefsky or remember what she did. Not so in China where the former Trade Representative says...
China to provide $4b for Diamer Bhasha dam project
China has assured Pakistan that it will be providing financial assistance up to $4 billion for 4500 MW Diamer Bhasha Dam project to be...
The impoverished ‘Asian Century’
By 2050, Asia will have more than five billion people, while the European Union’s share of the global population will decline from 9 per...
Anyone for a free cataract surgery? The Chinese are here…
Following Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s announcement of sending a medical mission to Pakistan for conducting 1,000 free cataract surgeries, an eight-member Chinese medical team...
China, US hold military talks
Chinese and US defence officials opened military talks in Beijing on Wednesday after ties were strained by American arms sales to Taiwan and a...
China arrests 600 in huge child trafficking bust
Chinese police have busted two huge child trafficking rings that spanned 10 provinces, arresting more than 600 suspects and rescuing 178 children, the government...