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A visitor picks lychees at an orchard in Gaozhou City, south China’s Guangdong Province, June 5, 2025.Chinese lychees are winning over more fans abroad due to the cold-chain technology and air transportation.In the United Arab Emirates, with a 48-hour transportation process from picking to marketing, Chinese lychees boarded the shelves of supermarkets still with fresh fragrance.Every week, four tons of Chinese lychees are transported in two shipments by air from south China’s Guangdong to Dubai and sold out in just three days.These lychees, across thousands of miles, have become a fresh and sweet business card for China on the tables…
Listen to article ISLAMABAD: In a rare statement, a cabinet body on Friday admitted that poor governance concerns persisted with low transparency in government-owned companies while their cumulative losses increased further to a record Rs5.9 trillion by December last year. The statement issued by the Ministry of Finance after a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on State-Owned Enterprises (CCoSOEs) appeared to be a serious charge sheet about the poor performance of SOEs during the July-December 2024 period of the current fiscal year, particularly the power sector performance. The energy-sector circular debt, comprising power and gas, jumped to Rs4.9 trillion by December last…
Listen to article ISLAMABAD: The Court of Arbitration constituted in accordance with the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) of 1960, ruled on Friday that India’s decision of holding the treaty in abeyance did not deprive it of its competence to adjudicate Pakistan’s complaints against its neighbour. The court issued the “Supplemental Award” on the proceedings instituted by Pakistan against India. “Consistent with this interpretation of the Treaty, the Court has previously found that once a proceeding before a court of arbitration is properly initiated, as in the present case, “there must be a strong presumption against the incidental loss of jurisdiction over the…
Listen to article ISLAMABAD: Finally, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Friday emerged as the single largest party, with the party and its allies simultaneously securing two-thirds majority in the National Assembly after the Supreme Court allotted reserved seats to the ruling coalition. The current parliamentary as well as political equation in the country changed after the top court turned down the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-turned Sunni-Ittehad Council (SIC)’s request for the allotment of the reserved seats after hearing a review petition. On July 12, 2024, the Supreme Court had declared PTI a parliamentary party and held that PTI was eligible to get…
Listen to article The ruling parties have got another victory on the legal front as a constitutional bench (CB) of the Supreme Court has set aside the SC’s July 12, 2024 judgment, which had resurrected the PTI as a parliamentary party and allowed it to get reserved seats in legislatures. “For detailed reasons to be recorded later, subject to amplification or elucidation as may be deemed appropriate, by a majority of 7, all civil review petitions are allowed and the impugned majority judgment dated 12.07.2024 is set aside. “As a consequence thereof, Civil Appeal Nos 33 of 2024 and 334 of 2024…
Listen to article Pakistan on Friday welcomed a decision by the United Nations secretary general to remove references to the country in the annual report on Children and Armed Conflict, calling it a recognition of Islamabad’s efforts to protect child rights. In a statement issued by the Foreign Office on Friday, Pakistan termed the development a “significant outcome” and a testament to its “constructive, sustained, and intensive engagement” with the United Nations, particularly the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict (SRSG-CAAC). The UN’s Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) agenda monitors six grave violations against children…
A staff member tests an unmanned aerial vehicle at the base of the United Aircraft Group in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province, June 26, 2025. (Xinhua/Li An)SHENZHEN, June 27 (Xinhua) — Guangdong has positioned its burgeoning low-altitude economy as a key driver for developing new quality productive forces and cultivating new economic growth points. Shenzhen stands out as China’s “Drone Capital”, boasting a concentration of over 1,700 drone-related enterprises.A staff member introduces an unmanned helicopter at an exhibition hall of United Aircraft Group in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province, June 26, 2025. (Xinhua/Li An)Patrol unmanned aerial vehicles are displayed at…
President Donald Trump said Friday that he is calling off trade negotiations with Canada in retaliation for taxes impacting major US tech firms, adding that Ottawa will learn of their tariff rate within a week. “Based on this egregious Tax, we are hereby terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform. He added that Canada will soon find out the levy it needs to pay to do business in the United States, calling his country’s northern neighbor “very difficult” to trade with. Washington has previously taken issue with Canada’s…
Listen to article Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lt General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry has said the military has no interest in engaging with political parties and should not be dragged into politics. In an interview with the BBC Urdu, the military spokesperson reiterated that the institution has consistently maintained that politics is the domain of elected representatives. “The army has always been clear that politics is the job of politicians. Whichever party is in power represents the state at that time,” he said. He said baseless rumours and assumptions were often spread against the military for political objectives. “When the Marka-e-Haq arrives,…
LAHORE: Political space for opposition parties, particularly the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), may have further shrunk after the establishment bolstered its ties with the West, as analysts suggest that the beleaguered party’s chances of making a political comeback during the current regime were virtually nonexistent. However, they caution that the budding relationship with the Trump administration could be a volatile, double-edged sword for the powers that be. Former Punjab caretaker chief minister and senior political analyst Hasan Askari said that PTI has no political future under the current dispensation, which he described as being firmly controlled by a powerful establishment. According…