Pakistan is gearing up to secure its capital, Islamabad, ahead of a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit. The event, taking place on Tuesday and Wednesday, will see the attendance of key regional leaders, including India’s foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and China’s Premier Li Qiang.In preparation for the summit, Pakistan’s government…
ISLAMABAD: People in Pakistan’s northwestern upper and lower Kohistan districts blocked the Karakoram highway on Friday to protest the suspension of senior police officers over last month’s suicide attack, in which five Chinese nationals lost their lives.The Chinese engineers, working on construction of a hydroelectric dam on the river Indus in Dasu region of Kohistan,…
A suicide bombing in northwest Pakistan targeted a convoy of Chinese engineers heading to a construction site, resulting in the deaths of five Chinese nationals, including a female engineer. The incident highlights security challenges faced by foreign workers in the region. Source link
NEW DELHI: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday ordered to punish at least five senior police officials for negligence after a suicide bomber killed five Chinese engineers at a major dam site in March.Pakistan’s information minister Attaullah Tarar said the Prime Minister Shehbaz sharif has appointed a committee which identified a regional official, three…
