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BEIJING: Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) and Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) on Tuesday signed an agreement to upgrade trading and surveillance systems. The agreement was signed at a ceremony held in Shenzhen, a major city in the Chinese province of Guangdong. General manager of Shenzhen Stock Exchange Wang Jianjun, chairman of…

ISLAMABAD: In a recent meeting held in Islamabad, China had shared with Pakistan that it has so far invested $12.4 billion in the latter’s energy sector under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) framework. As per the sources, the Chinese side had stated that as of Sept 2019, 12 power generation…

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan said on Monday that provincial government was working on improving the overall business structure to create conducive environment for Chinese and other investors. Addressing a delegation of Chinese and Pakistani investors, he said that his government was focused on attracting investment in sectors of renewable…

Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar has said, “It is sanguine that Pakistan-China relations are touching new heights and bilateral friendship is even more strengthened today. In fact, Pakistan-China friendship is going stronger day by day, he added. He said that CPEC project is a game-changer initiative for Pakistan which…

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentary leader in the Senate Sherry Rehman said the whole nation was united on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. “CPEC is a consensus project with all parties and stakeholders behind it. This is one issue that all of Pakistan is united on,” Senator Sherry Rehman said…

China has asked Pakistan to expedite work on three proposed Special Economic Zones (SEZs), it has reliably learned. According to documents available with Pakistan Today, Chinese officials in recently held Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) meeting in the first week of this month, strongly advised Pakistani officials to expedite the work…

  ISLAMABAD: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has signed a Rs52.5 billion contract with a joint venture of General Electric Hydro China and Power China Zhongnan Engineering Corporation for electro-mechanical works of the Dasu hydropower project (stage-I). Dasu hydropower project’s general manager and project director Anwar ul Haque…

Chinese Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Geng Shuang termed United States Assistant Secretary Alice Wells’ recent comments on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) programme as “mere repetition of old slanders against China, the CPEC and the BRI”. During a press briefing on Monday, Geng pointed out that Wells’ claims had swiftly been…

The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, taking note of the uncalled for, unwarranted and unprecedented statement of US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Ambassador Alice Wells on November 21, 2019 regarding CPEC and Pakistan-China Relations, rejects this statement outright as an unacceptable interference in Pakistan’s sovereign right to…

LAHORE: Punjab Governor Chaudhry Sarwar has said that those hatching conspiracies against China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) were the enemies of Pakistan’s development they would never succeed. He expressed these views while talking to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) central worker Hamid Zaman, and Sheraz Cheema, Shoaib Salman, Mian Waheed and Asima Bajwa…