(BW News Webdesk) WASHINGTON: China has both commercial and military interests in the Pakistani port of Gwadar, the US think-tank community has told lawmakers, but Islamabad of late is realising that the Chinese investment there is more about its own economic and strategic interests. The strategic Gwadar Port in Balochistan province is being built by […]Read More
LONDON: The Free Balochistan Movement (FBM) organised a two-day protest outside Grosvenor Hotel in London’s Park Lane area against the sale of Baloch lands in Gwadar by a property dealer ‘One Investments’. The participants of the protest were carrying placards and banners against China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, the sale of Baloch lands in Gwadar and human […]Read More
LONDON: The Free Balochistan Movement has announced to organise a two-day protest against the official global launch of the international port city Gwadar by ‘One Investments’ on 27 & 28 January in London. The ‘One Investments’ is trying to lure investors to “securely invest with China’s 4th Largest Construction Company” in Gwadar Balochistan. The Free […]Read More
Washington: The US has asked Islamabad to immediately arrest or expel Taliban leaders who are carrying out terror activities across the border in Afghanistan and prevent them from using Pakistani territory to support its operations. A White House statement in this regard came days after the Taliban claimed responsibility for a major terror attack at the […]Read More
By Harrison Akins Graduate Research Fellow Howard, H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, University of Tennessee In 1962, Henry Kissinger, then serving as a consultant for the National Security Council, was dispatched by President Kennedy on a fact finding mission to Pakistan, a Cold War ally. During his visit, a reporter probed him for […]Read More
Beijing plans to build its second offshore naval base near a strategically important Pakistani port following the opening of its first facility in Djibouti on the Horn of Africa last year. Beijing-based military analyst Zhou Chenming said the base near the Gwadar port on the Arabian Sea would be used to dock and maintain naval […]Read More
The Trump administration will suspend most security assistance to Pakistan, the State Department said on Thursday, expanding its retribution over militant safe havens that U.S. officials blame for ongoing violence in Afghanistan. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert, speaking to reporters, said the suspension would allow the administration, which will freeze the aid payments but not […]Read More
WASHINGTON — When Pakistani forces freed a Canadian-American family this fall held captive by militants, they also captured one of the abductors. United States officials saw a potential windfall: He was a member of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network who could perhaps provide valuable information about at least one other American hostage. The Americans demanded access to the […]Read More
By F.M. SHAKIL Blame it on political chaos, corruption or a deteriorating law and order situation in Pakistan. Whatever the cause, Chinese enthusiasm for the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is waning and Beijing has taken several road, mass-transit and industrial zone projects off the table, either temporarily or permanently. Two road projects that have […]Read More
By Lawrence Sellin Retired Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve According to a December 12, 2017 Urdu-language news site report, during a high-level meeting presumably between Chinese and Pakistani officials held on the last day of the November Chinese Economic Summit in Hong Kong, China offered to train Pakistani security forces to protect both the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor […]Read More
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