China today refuted a report that it is secretly holding talks with Baloch militants in Pakistan for more than five years to protect its $60 billion CPEC, and hoped that Pakistan will step up security for the ambitious project. “I have never heard the report mentioned by you,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said […]

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The freeze on security aid to Pakistan, announced by the Donald Trump Administration early this year, has been incorporated in the $1.3 trillion spending bill which will fund the federal government for the remainder of fiscal 2018. Congressional leaders, after weeks of negotiations, last night reached a deal on federal spending till September 30, two […]

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