Pakistan: 15 Chinese officials join Dasu bus blast probe
18 Jul 2021, 06:18 GMT+10
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], July 18 (ANI): A 15-member team of Chinese officials has joined the investigation led by Pakistan authorities into the bus explosion in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid said the team, which arrived here on Friday, visited the incident site with security agency officials.On Wednesday, a passenger bus exploded in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa s Upper Kohistan district, killing 13 people, including nine Chinese engineers. The explosion took place when the bus was on its way to Dasu.
Rashid said that the Chinese government had also been taken on board and was being informed about updates as they were received.
Daily Times
July 18, 2021
Chairman Pakistan Industrial and Traders Associations Front (PIAF) Mian Nauman Kabir expressing serious concern over the declining trend in foreign direct investment has said that FDI remained negative and posted a decline of 29 percent during the last fiscal year (FY21) despite some positive developments on the economic front.
Quoting the State Bank of Pakistan, he said that foreign investors invested $1.85 billion in Pakistan on account of FDI during FY21 compared to $2.50 billion in same period of FY20, down by $750 million. During the period under review, the country fetched FDI inflows amounted to $3 billion against the outflow of $1.16 million. A massive fall in the FDI has been attributed mainly to a major fall in the Chinese investment in CPEC projects, as net FDI from China was down by over 10 per cent to $758 million in FY21 compared to $847 million FDI in FY20.
Khattak says peace in Afghanistan in interest of Pakistan
July 18, 2021
NOWSHERA: Federal Minister for Defence Pervez Khattak said on Saturday that Pakistan wanted peaceful Afghanistan as it was in its own interest and for lasting peace in the region.
“Prime Minister Imran Khan has given a tit-for-tat reply to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani for his diatribe against Pakistan. Pakistan is a partner for peace in Afghanistan, not a guarantor,” he said while speaking at the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf workers convention here.
Pervez Khattak said that Pakistan was not supporting any group creating unrest in Afghanistan, adding that peace in Afghanistan was our topmost priority.
Shanghai Cooperation Organization s facilitate, not mediate role could be the key to solving the Afghan imbroglio.
Kazakhstan s Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tileuberdi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Tajik Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pose for a family photo before a meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Contact Group on Afghanistan, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Photo: Russian Foreign Ministry / Sputnik via AFP
Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting of Foreign Ministers on Wednesday in Dushanbe, the Tajik capital, may have been an under-the-radar affair, but it did reveal the contours of the big picture ahead when it comes to Afghanistan.
PEC says can help produce electricity at Rs3 per unit
July 18, 2021
MULTAN: Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) has offered the government a helping hand to produce cheapest electricity within the present infrastructure and resources with a roadmap to enhance the production of energy in the country.
Speaking at the PEC August 8 election campaign rally organized by the Wapda NTDC Employees Association here, PEC chairman Javed Saleem Qureshi said if the government joins PEC in its policies, even today they can provide electricity @Rs 3 per unit. He said PEC engineers have made a ventilator to counter Corona at a cost of $ 4,000 which was earlier prepared @$70,000. The government can save billions of rupees by including PEC engineers in the China Pakistan Economic Corridor, he said. He said the PEC leadership has provided jobs to 18,000 engineers and today the largest building in Islamabad is ready for the facilities of engineers.