Beijing is investing over $US65 billion in infrastructure projects in Pakistan as part of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) under its wider Belt and Road initiative.
The killing of 27-year-old Noor Mukadam on the grounds of an Islamabad mansion has roused anger over Pakistan’s record of protecting women from violence.
Rick Allen died in an avalanche while attempting to scale K2 in northern Pakistan,the world’s second-highest mountain peak.
Former US president George Bush criticised the US withdrawal,saying he fears Afghan women will “suffer unspeakable harm”.
An express train crashed into another that had derailed in Pakistan before dawn,killing at least 45 people,authorities said.
China’s ambassador was staying at a hotel in south-west Pakistan that was bombed,but was not present when it was hit,Pakistan Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad said.
The tensions originated last year when French President Emmanuel Macron defended the publication of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by a satirical newspaper.
The protests called for the French ambassador to be expelled over remarks by President Emmanuel Macron last year about cartoons ridiculing Prophet Muhammad.
Long Dingbin was China’s consul-general in Lahore,Pakistan,where he was involved in delivering several projects under the trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative.
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