
Pakistan has returned $1 billion to Saudi Arabia as a second instalment of a $3 billion soft loan, as Islamabad reaches out to Beijing for a commercial loan to help it offset pressure to repay another $1 billion to Riyadh next month, officials said on Wednesday. Analysts say it is ...

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa have underlined the need for the two neighboring countries to boost bilateral security cooperation and border protection efforts. During a meeting in Islamabad on Wednesday, Zarif and General Bajwa discussed issues of bilateral ...