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Pakistan on Tuesday reaffirmed its commitment to safeguarding its water rights under the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), declaring that the agreement is not merely a water-sharing accord but a lifeline for the country’s 240 million people. The government’s position was outlined during an international seminar titled “Indus Waters Treaty: A Key Instrument of Peace and Regional Stability”, held in Islamabad Tuesday. The seminar brought together Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar, Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar, Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Climate Change Minister Dr Musadik Malik, Indus Waters Commissioner Syed Mehr Ali Shah, Minister…

ISLAMABAD (DI NEWS) : The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal (PBM) for the implementation of the “Establishment of a Centralized Kitchen in Rawalpindi Project” aimed at strengthening social infrastructure serving vulnerable communities in Pakistan. The MoU was signed by Senator Shaheen Khalid Butt, Managing Director of Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal, and Saliha Tuna, Country Head of TİKA Pakistan, in the presence of H.E. Dr. İrfan Neziroğlu, Ambassador of the Republic of Türkiye to Pakistan. Under the project, TİKA will establish a fully equipped, semi-automated centralized kitchen in the Rawalpindi-Islamabad region with…

Naval and air units of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Southern Theater Command (STC) on Tuesday conducted combat readiness patrols in the territorial sea and airspace of China’s Huangyan Dao and its surrounding areas, according to the STC. The STC said that Huangyan Dao is an inherent part of China’s territory and it has enhanced readiness patrols around Huangyan Dao since June. “Such patrols serve as an effective countermeasure to cope with all sorts of rights-violation and provocative acts,” it said. “They are meant to resolutely safeguard China’s territorial sovereignty and uphold peace and stability in the South China…

At the invitation of President of Seychelles Patrick Herminie, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Special Envoy and Minister of Transport Liu Wei attended on Sunday the National Day celebrations commemorating the 50th anniversary of Seychelles’ independence in Victoria, the capital. Herminie met with Liu in Victoria on Monday. During their meeting, Liu conveyed Xi’s cordial greetings and best wishes to Herminie. Liu said that China attaches great importance to the development of China-Seychelles relations and stands ready, as always, to support Seychelles in exploring a modernization path suited to its national conditions, continuously expand mutually beneficial cooperation across various fields, firmly…

China and the European Union (EU) have confirmed the official establishment of China-EU trade and investment consultation mechanism as the two sides held the first meeting of the mechanism, according to a joint statement issued on Tuesday. The two sides identified four initial workstreams under the mechanism, which include trade and investment balancing, export controls, intellectual property rights and WTO reform, the joint statement said. China’s Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao and European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security and Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency Maros Šefčovič co-chaired the first meeting of the mechanism on Monday in Brussels. The two sides…

A concert was held in Beijing on Monday evening in celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Party and state leaders Xi Jinping, Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi and Han Zheng joined an audience of about 3,000 people to watch the performance “Putting the People First.” Held at the Great Hall of the People in central Beijing, the concert featured five segments, honoring revolutionary martyrs, recalling military-civilian solidarity during the years of the revolutionary wars, and depicting development during the years of socialist revolution and…

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office (FO) summoned the Afghan Charge d’ Affaires and issued a strong demarche over the terrorist attack on a Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) camp in Karachi, which claimed the lives of three Pakistan Rangers personnel. In a statement issued on X, FO spokesperson Tahir Andrabi said the Afghan envoy was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs last night, and a strong demarche was issued regarding the attack. A similar demarche was simultaneously conveyed by Pakistan’s Ambassador Ubaid-ur-Rehman Nizamani to the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul. “These demarches were issued in light of the fact that…

By: Ziyoda Rizaeva The official visit of President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev to Georgia is taking place at a time of stronger bilateral cooperation. In recent years, relations between Uzbekistan and Georgia have gained a more stable economic basis. Along with political dialogue, trade, investment, industrial cooperation, transport and logistics are becoming more important. An important step in the development of economic cooperation between Uzbekistan and Georgia was the official visit of Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze to Uzbekistan in March 2025. During the visit, he met with President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the leaders of both chambers of…

Buying interest was observed at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Monday, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index gaining over 400 points during the opening minutes of trading. At 9:50am, the benchmark index was hovering at 180,006.95, up by 435.69 points or 0.24%. Buying was observed in key sectors, including cement, commercial banks, oil and gas exploration companies, OMCs, power generation and refinery. Index-heavy stocks, including HUBCO, ARL, MARI, PPL, POL, HBL, NBP and UBL, traded in the green. PSX extended its bullish momentum during the outgoing shortened three-day trading week as easing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, investor-friendly amendments…

Iran called on Sunday for a new regional security framework involving Gulf countries without the involvement of outside powers, just hours after launching missile and drone strikes on US military bases in Bahrain and Kuwait in retaliation for recent American attacks. Speaking during a visit to Baghdad, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said lasting security in the Persian Gulf should be ensured by countries in the region, while urging all parties to uphold the US-Iran memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at ending the conflict. Addressing a joint news conference in the Iraqi capital, Araghchi said the region needed a new…