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ISLAMABAD: Air China announced to launch its new route to connect Chinese capital Beijing with Islamabad and Karachi starting on October 26. Air China, with A330-200 operations, will fly three flights a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday between China and Pakistan, said a press release issued here on Thursday.

China seems to have installed weapons, including anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems, on the seven artificial islands it has built in the South China Sea, a US think tank reported Wednesday, quoting new images Satellites.

The US and China will wage a war in the next ten years on the islands of the South China Sea, and "there is no doubt about it." At the same time, the United States will be in another "great" war in the Middle East.

US military chiefs insist they will not change their operations despite a move by China to scramble fighter jets to monitor American and Japanese aircraft in Beijing's newly declared air defence zone.

HONG KONG : Standard Chartered is in talks to purchase assets in China and India owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), a source with direct knowledge of

China plans to make more efforts to attract foreign direct investments, which has been on a fluctuating trend in the last two years, registering a positive growth of 4.1% year-on-year in 2016 against a decline of 6.4% in 2015.

The underwater vehicle was taken about 50 nautical miles (90 km) northwest of Subic Bay, Philippines, Thursday night, in a non-violent incident, said Capt. Jeff Davis, spokesman for the Pentagon.The event took place while civilian crew USNS Bowditch was recovering a pair of "naval gliders" that regularly collect information on water temperatures, salinity and sea clarity.

Reuters reported exclusively on Wednesday that both sides were drafting memorandums of understanding (MOUs) on cyber theft, intellectual property rights, services, agriculture and non-tariff barriers to trade, including subsidies. On Friday, Trump said he did not like MOUs because they are short-term in nature, and he wanted a long-term deal. An industry source briefed on…

The Directorate General of Anti-Dumping and Allied Duties (DGAD) an arm of the Commerce Ministry has notified the final findings of the anti-dumping investigation on the dumping of aluminium radiators of various types. Aluminium radiator sub-assemblies, aluminium radiator core, including in CKD or SKD conditions are among the types of radiators used in automobiles, being investigated for dumping allegations from China. The notification was released on March 20, 2017.

Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Sunday that Japan does not acknowledge China's establishment of an air defense identification zone over the Japan-controlled Senkaku islets group.

India and Pakistan's admission as full members to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) will be formalised at the political and security grouping's summit in Kazakhstan next week, China announced today, while hoping that they would "strictly follow" its charter.

The Liaoning aircraft carrier has reached Hainan military base and we will continue to monitor its progress," a senior Taiwanese military official told Reuters on condition of anonymity

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's upcoming visit to Australia is likely to see the already flourishing economic cooperation between the two countries make further progress.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday said the economy of country was turning around with good growth rate and the government was committed to providing conducive economic environment to the private sector. Talking to Jin Liqun, President Designate Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) here at the PM House, the Prime Minister said the government had invested a lot of resources in energy sector.

ABU DHABI: Pakistan batsman Shoaib Malik said his sparkling double hundred against England was inspired by seeing his Indian wife Sania Mirza sweep to a series of tennis titles in 2015. Malik hit a career-best 245 to cap a remarkable return to Test cricket after five years on the sidelines and four days after Mirza clinched the China Open in Beijing alongside Martina Hingis.