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Premier says Pakistan is a unique tri-junction of economic corridors linking China, Central Asia, and the Middle EastPrime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif poses for a group photo with world leaders during the Regional Transport Ministers’ Conference held in Islamabad on Friday, October 24, 2025. Photo: APP Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that Pakistan stands as a “unique tri-junction” of economic corridors linking China, Central Asia and the broader Middle East, serving as a vital connector of markets and people while opening new avenues for trade and energy cooperation. Addressing the concluding session of the two-day Regional Transport Ministers Conference…

From AI diagnostics to digital hospitals, global healthcare innovation is on display.A view of an Expo hall. Source: The Express Tribune KARACHI: Health Asia Exhibition is being held at the Karachi Expo Centre from the 23rd to the 25th of October, and is the largest health sector exhibition held in Pakistan with over 200 exhibitors this year and more than 24 countries participating, including Iran, China and Russia. “The destination you have chosen – the right place to be is here,” said Federal Health Minister Syed Mustafa Kamal, addressing representatives from foreign companies. “Our country’s population is growing bigger and…

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has invited Qatari investors to explore new avenues of collaboration under the government’s Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) — a joint civil-military body established in 2023 to assist and fast-track foreign investments. The SIFC has earlier approved 28 major projects worth over $28 billion, spanning sectors such as energy, minerals, agriculture, information technology and infrastructure. These projects, including the Diamer-Bhasha Dam, Reko Diq mining and the Thar Coal rail link, are being offered to Gulf nations including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain. According to state broadcaster Radio Pakistan, Shehbaz extended the invitation during a…

An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 25, 2024 shows a view of the standard-gage yard of Horgos railway port in Horgos, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Chen Shuo)URUMQI, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) — Horgos Port in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has become China’s largest land port for commercial vehicle exports, having shipped more than 300,000 units so far this year, Urumqi Customs said on Friday.In the first three quarters of this year, Xinjiang’s foreign trade value reached 393.14 billion yuan (about 55.4 billion U.S. dollars) — a year-on-year surge of 22.1 percent, reflecting a steady upward growth…

Notification states federal government has reasonable grounds to believe party has connections to terrorism Supporters of the banned Islamist political party TLP chant slogans during a protest rally in Lahore, Pakistan October 22, 2021. PHOTO: REUTERS The Ministry of Interior has issued a notification regarding the ban on the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), stating that the federal government has “reasonable grounds to believe that TLP is connected and involved in terrorism”. The notification, issued on Friday under Section 11B (1)(a) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997, stating that the federal government orders the TLP to be a proscribed organisation for the purpose of…

“Supply constrained,” are the two of the most important words CNBC’s Jim Cramer said he’s heard so far during earnings season and explained why this dynamic is favorable for companies.”When you’re supplied constrained, you have the ability to raise prices, and that’s the holy grail in any industry,” he said.Intel’s strong earnings results were in part because of more demand than supply, Cramer suggested. He noted that the company’s CFO, David Zinsner, said the semiconductor maker is supply constrained for a number of products, and that “industry supply has tightened materially.”Along with Intel, other tech names that are also supply…

This photo taken on Sept. 2, 2024 shows the skyline of the central business district (CBD) at dusk in Beijing, capital of China. (Xinhua/Wang Jianhua)BEIJING, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) — From manufacturing expansion to innovation-driven upgrades, foreign-invested firms are scaling up their investment and positioning themselves for new opportunities in China, as the country pledges even wider, high-standard opening up in the coming years.Last week, Swire Coca-Cola Ltd., a bottler of Coca-Cola, commenced operations at a factory in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou. With an investment of more than 900 million yuan (about 126.9 million U.S. dollars), the plant covers…

After first blast, SP Zubair headed to site, but was killed by second explosion along with two team members Two bomb explosions in Hangu district on Friday claimed the lives of SP Operations Asad Zubair and two policemen, while two others were injured during an anti-terror operation led by DPO Hangu, which also resulted in the killing of two terrorists. According to police, unidentified terrorists first targeted the Ghalmina check post in the Bilyamina police jurisdiction with a powerful explosion. The post was unoccupied at the time, preventing any civilian casualties or property damage. After receiving reports of the blast,…

Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billups exits the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse after his arraignment on October 23, 2025 in Portland, Oregon.Mathieu Lewis-Rolland | Getty ImagesPortland Trail Blazers Head Coach Chauncey Billups appears to be an unnamed co-conspirator identified in a criminal indictment as telling another man the team planned to intentionally lose a March 2023 game against the Chicago Bulls to improve the Trail Blazers’ chances of getting a better pick in the NBA draft.Details in the indictment describing the NBA playing and coaching career of “Co-Conspirator 8,” who leaked the plan to tank the game, match…

India trialled cloud seeding over its smog-filled capital for the first time, spraying a chemical from an aeroplane to encourage rain and wash deadly particles out of the air. Cloud seeding is the practice of using aeroplanes to fire salt or other chemicals into clouds to induce rain. New Delhi city authorities, working with the government’s Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, launched a test run on Thursday afternoon using a Cessna light aeroplane over the city’s northern Burari area. “A trial seeding flight was done… in which cloud seeding flares were fired”, Delhi Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa said in a…