Budget 2018-19

  Qureshi said Pakistan was pursuing imperatives of geo-economics and was determined to make the country a hub of trade, investment, and finance Pakistan’s Foreign Minister  Shah Mahmood Qureshi  said on Monday that his country wanted to deepen its longstanding ties with the United States. Qureshi made the remarks during his meeting with Congressman Gregory Meeks, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representative (HFAC), and Congressman Ami Bera, Chairman of the Asia Subcommittee of the HFAC, who called on him. Welcoming the Congressmen to Pakistan, Qureshi said that  Pakistan  valued its longstanding relationship with the US and wanted to further deepen and widen this relationship, according to a statement issued by Foreign Office. He emphasised that Pakistan was pursuing imperatives of geo-economics and was determined to make the country a hub of trade, investment, and finance. He invited US companies to invest in Pakistan’s IT and Healt...

  China’s hackles were raised by advertisements placed in leading Indian newspapers by Taiwan’s govt to mark the democratic, Chinese-claimed island’s national day on Saturday China was accused by Taiwan of trying to impose censorship in India after its embassy in New Delhi advised journalists to observe the “one-China” principle after newspapers carried advertisements for Taiwan’s national day. Coming just months after deadly clashes between Indian and Chinese troops on the disputed Himalayan border between the two Asian giants, the controversy has flared at a time when Indian sentiments toward China are filled with antipathy and suspicion. China’s hackles were raised on Wednesday by advertisements placed in leading Indian newspapers by Taiwan’s government to mark the democratic, Chinese-claimed island’s national day on Saturday. The advertisement carried a photograph of President Tsai Ing-wen and hailed India, a fellow democracy, as a natural partner of  Taiwan . China, which...