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MOSCOW: Russia said on Friday it would stage massive military drills in the Caucasus later this month with troops from several countries, including Pakistan, China and Iran, invited to participate. More than 12,000 troops will take part in the “Caucasus-2020” war games, which will take place in southern Russia from Sept 21 to 26 and include land and naval exercises, …

ISLAMABAD: Experts have advised Islamabad, Beijing and Tehran to develop their trilateral mechanism to benefit from the signing of a China-Iran strategic deal. The suggestion was put forward at a webinar hosted by the Islamabad Policy Institute (IPI), which was chaired by Senate Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed. The webinar was attended by representatives of local as …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan, China, Afghanistan and Nepal have agreed to jointly fight COVID-19 and resume economy. The agreement reached at a quadrilateral virtual meeting of foreign ministers hosted by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Radio Pakistan reported on Tuesday. Minister for Economic Affairs Khusro Bakhtiar represented Pakistan at the session. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang said that China stands ready to continue …

ISLAMABAD: Reviewing the progress in the Afghan reconciliation process, Pakistan and the United States on Sunday agreed to continue working towards “mutually agreed goals” defined in the landmark peace deal between the US and Taliban in Doha in February. The resolve to continue working together for bringing peace to the war-torn neighbouring country was made by US Special Representative for …

ISLAMABAD: Despite high running tensions between Pakistan and India over held Kashmir, the Foreign Office on Thursday said the two were cooperating with each other to fight desert locust invasion under a forum administered by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Pakistan is part of FAO’s Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in South-West Asia (SWAC), which is one of …

KARACHI: Pakistan and Kuwait have agreed to increase bilateral cooperation in multiple fields of defence and security, including export of defence products, training, provision of trained manpower / human resource and cooperation in counterterrorism domain. Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa discussed these issues with the Kuwaiti leadership during his day-long official visit to the country. …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Turkey on Friday agreed to transform their ties into a strategic economic partnership. The two sides, which signed 13 memorandums of understandings (MoUs) inc­luding a joint declaration after the sixth meeting of the High-Level Strategic Co­operation Council (HLSCC), importantly app­roved a Strategic Economic Framework (SEF) and an accompanying elaborate plan of action to implement the new vision …

LAHORE: Pakistan and India won their last pool matches against Azerbaijan and England, respectively at the World Cup Kabaddi (indigenous style) in Gujrat on Friday. Pakistan and India have already qualified for the semi-finals along with Australia and Iran. Both the semi-finals will be played at the Punjab Stadium in Lahore on Saturday. India play Australia in the first semi-final …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Turkey on Thursday finalised two memorandums of understandings (MoUs) to increase the level of economic engagement and mobilise the untapped potential for increasing trade and investment. The understanding was reached during a meeting of the Joint Working Group (JWG) on Trade and Investment held on the sidelines of the two-day visit of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Two …

LAHORE: Pakistan outplayed an inexperienced Australia side 62-25 on Thursday to qualify for the Kabaddi World Cup semi-finals at the Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad. In pool ‘A’, India grabbed top spot after defeating Iran 50-39 and confirmed their place in the last-four stage. Iran and Australia are the other two teams who reached the semi-finals, respectively. Pakistan chose to raid …