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BEIJING: China and Pakistan have signed three new cooperation agreements focused on clean water, media collaboration, and transport robotics, expanding their partnership into sustainable development and smart technology. The initiatives include water purification and desalination projects in Sindh, as well as the introduction of service robots in hotels, hospitals, and airports across Pakistan. Cultural ties are also deepening, with Pakistani and Chinese films now being screened in each other’s cinemas. Senator Saleem Mandviwalla highlighted improving economic indicators in Pakistan and emphasized the need to align with China’s upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan to further boost trade, investment, and technological collaboration.

Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz said that after India’s defeat, the world was now viewing Pakistan with a changed attitude. Speaking to media in London, she said the love she received from the people of Punjab was beyond anything she had ever imagined. She added that after India’s attack, the manner in which Pakistan responded was due to the leadership of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Field Marshal Asim Munir and the entire army, who deserved full credit for the victory. CM Maryam said Field Marshal Asim Munir had provided remarkable leadership, and that the whole world was now listening…

The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has categorically rejected almost all points of the proposed 27th Constitutional Amendment, with Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari declaring that the party will not compromise on provincial rights and financial autonomy. Speaking to the media after a meeting of the Central Executive Council (CEC), Bilawal said the PPP had turned down every proposal in the amendment draft except one. “We categorically reject the proposal to change the NFC Award and abolish the provincial share,” he asserted. “Under no circumstances will the PPP support this.” Charter of Democracy principles Bilawal reiterated that the Charter of Democracy (CoD) had…

The venues for the T20 World Cup 2026 have been finalised, according to the foreign media reports. According to details, the matches of the 10th edition of the mega-event will be played in Ahmedabad, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, and Mumbai, the website reported. Colombo and Kandy will also host fixtures of the mega event, the cricket website added. The Pakistan national cricket team will play its matches in Sri Lanka. It is pertinent to note that the T20 World Cup 2026 is scheduled to be held in India and Sri Lanka. The matches of the tournament will take place from February…

HANOI: At least five people died in Vietnam after Typhoon Kalmaegi pummelled coastal regions with destructive winds and heavy rain, officials said on Friday, following the storm’s deadly passage through the Philippines where it killed at least 188 people. The storm made landfall in central Vietnam late on Thursday, uprooting trees, damaging homes, and triggering power outages, before weakening as it moved inland. Authorities warned of continuing heavy rainfall of up to 200 millimetres (8 inches) in central provinces from Thanh Hoa to Quang Tri, and said rising river levels from Hue to Dak Lak could trigger flooding and landslides. In the…

BELEM, Brazil : Country leaders at a climate summit in Brazil on Thursday bemoaned the fractured global consensus on climate action, taking swipes at the climate-denying US government while trying to assure the world they were still on mission. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres tore into nations for their failure to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as Brazil hosted world leaders for a summit ahead of the COP30 climate conference in the rainforest city of Belem. “Too many corporations are making record profits from climate devastation, with billions spent on lobbying, deceiving the public and obstructing progress,” Guterres said in…

Chinese EV maker XPENG presented its Next-Gen IRON humanoid robot as a central element of its “Physical AI” strategy at its XPENG AI Day 2025, held Wednesday at XPENG Science Park in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province. Four Physical AI products – VLA 2.0, Robotaxi, Next-Gen IRON and ARIDGE flying systems –  were unveiled, which the company said would be mass produced. He Xiaopeng, chairman and CEO of XPENG, launches the Next-Gen IRON humanoid robot during XPENG AI Day 2025 held in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province, November 5, 2025. /VCG Next-Gen IRON features an “extreme anthropomorphism” design with a…

Chinese Premier Li Qiang has signed a State Council decree promulgating a regulation on the monitoring of the ecological environment. The new regulation, which will take effect on January 1, 2026, comprises seven chapters and 49 articles. It aims to standardize ecological environment monitoring activities, enhance monitoring capabilities and ensure the quality of relevant data. An automated monitoring station on a hillside along the Yangtze River, southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, February 2, 2025. /VCG The regulation emphasizes the need to accelerate the development of a modern ecological environment monitoring system, with a focus on comprehensively enhancing the automation, digitization and…

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday held phone talks with British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on bilateral ties. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said that amid today’s volatile and turbulent international situation, China-Britain relations either forge ahead or drift downstream. Both sides should enhance strategic communication and promote the sustainable development of bilateral relations along a healthy, mutually beneficial and stable track, Wang said. Noting that as major countries and permanent members of the UN Security Council, China and Britain shoulder important international responsibilities for world peace, stability…

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday stressed adopting high standards for building the Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP). Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks when hearing a work report in Sanya, south China’s island province of Hainan, on the building of the Hainan FTP. Building the Hainan FTP is a major policy made by the CPC Central Committee to comprehensively deepen reform and opening up in the new era, Xi said. He stressed earnestly studying and implementing the guiding principles of the fourth…