Pakistan

Islamabad, May 6 (PTI) China said on Saturday that the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan was left over from history and should be resolved as per the UN resolutions while avoiding any unilateral action.

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang arrived in Pakistan on Friday for a two-day visit, which is his first trip to the country. He co-chaired a meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday.

ISLAMABAD, May 7 (NNN-APP) – Pakistan’s weekly inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Index (SPI), posted an increase of 48.35 percent, on a year-on-year basis, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), yesterday.

A sharp increase was witnessed in the prices of essential food items, including bread, milk, pulses, chicken, mutton, eggs, potatoes and other non-food items, during the week ending on Friday, as compared to the corresponding time last year, PBS officials quoted the bureau’s data.

Islamabad, May 6 (PTI) Pakistan authorities have initiated criminal proceedings against six officials who allegedly accessed the personal information of Army chief General Asim Munir's family, a media report said on Saturday.

The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), the top national body tasked with issuing national identity cards and passports by storing data of citizens, took action against its employees following probes.

Islamabad, May 6 (PTI) A day after India criticised the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the foreign ministers of Pakistan and China on Saturday expressed their firm commitment to continue their cooperation on the multi-billion dollar infrastructure projects.

This came at the 4th edition of the Pakistan-China Strategic Dialogue in Islamabad co-chaired by Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and his Chinese counterpart Qin Gang here.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Thousands of mourners on Friday attended the mass funeral of seven minority Shiite teachers who were shot and killed at a school in northwestern Pakistan, drawing nationwide condemnation, officials said.

The mourners also rallied against Thursday’s killings. The teachers were gunned down by unidentified assailants who stormed a school in Kurram, a district in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

ISLAMABAD, May 4 (APP): Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Thursday met his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov here on the sidelines of the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Council of Foreign Ministers being held in Goa, India.

During the meeting, they discussed bilateral, regional and international matters of mutual interest.

Foreign Minister Bilawal assured to work closely for further deepening cooperation in food security, energy and people-to-people contacts.

ISLAMABAD, May 4 (Xinhua) -- At least seven teachers were shot dead on Thursday by unknown gunmen in a school in Kurram district of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said.

According to local police, some unknown armed men entered the Government High School Tari Mangal and killed seven teachers on the spot.

Police and rescue teams rushed to the site and shifted the bodies to a hospital.

Police added that the teachers were present in the staff room of the school when the miscreants entered and opened fire at them.

SWABI, Pakistan, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Nasrullah Khan, a 42-year-old Pakistani mechanic who worked in Sudan, experienced the real adversity of life for the first time since his birth when sitting anguished and penniless in Port Sudan in recent days.

Now safely in his home in Swabi, a city in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, he recalled the intense and moving experience, saying that "the Pakistan-China ironclad friendship helped him out of danger."

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen stormed a school in Pakistan’s volatile northwest on Thursday, killing seven teachers and gunning down another teacher from the school in a separate attack. Earlier in the day, a shootout with militants elsewhere in the region killed six Pakistani soldiers.

The violence underscores the challenges the government of Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif is facing amid a surge in militant attacks across the country in recent months.

ISLAMABAD, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan is taking special measures to bring its underprivileged districts at par with other developed areas of the country for sustainable growth, Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal said on Wednesday.

"Passing on the benefits of development to individuals, communities, and under-developed localities is imperative for achieving sustainable national progress," the minister said while chairing a meeting on development projects of backward districts.