The unusual targeting of a Chinese worker in the sprawling port city will alarm the government, which is betting heavily on the $46bn China-Pakistan economic corridor (CPEC) to transform Pakistan’s Continue Reading
While all regions are affected, fast-growing cities in the Middle East, south-east Asia and the western Pacific are the most impacted with many showing pollution levels at five to 10 Continue Reading
It lies in Balochistan, a province in the grip of a long-running separatist insurgency and Pakistan’s most neglected. Gwadar is poor. When a house was recently burgled in the fishing Continue Reading
Officials from the four countries will meet in Islamabad on Monday, Pakistani government sources said, in what they hope will be a first step towards resuming stalled negotiations, and eventually Continue Reading
William Perry, who served at the Pentagon from 1994 to 1997, made his comments a few hours before North Korea’s nuclear test on Wednesday, and listed Pyongyang’s aggressive atomic weapons Continue Reading
Egypt: ‘It pushes you to feel disengaged’ He started training, but one day he overheard his coach make an offhand remark: no Christians would join the first team, or make Continue Reading
Few details were made public about the first known talks between the two sides, held in the hugely symbolic location of Islamabad. A tweet from the office of the Afghan Continue Reading
President Xi Jinping’s two-day trip has been dubbed a “fate-changing visit”, given the importance of the series of agreements he is expected to sign that are intended to turn Pakistan Continue Reading
