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Putin Gets Chinese Plaudits for Calling Pelosi Trip ‘Planned Provocation’

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  Putin Gets Chinese Plaudits for Calling Pelosi Trip ‘Planned Provocation’ Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China, February 4, 2022. A senior Chinese Communist Party official publicly praised Vladimir Putin after the Russian leader criticized Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent Taiwan visit as “a carefully planned provocation.” Beijing’s show of support for Putin follows the recent  announcement  of joint Sino-Russian military exercises on Russian territory. Putin made his first public remarks on the heightened tensions in the Taiwan Strait during a global-security conference in Moscow earlier this week. “The American adventure in Taiwan wasn’t just a trip by an irresponsible politician. It was part of a deliberate and conscious U.S. strategy intended to destabilize the situation and create chaos in the region and the entire world, a blatant demonstration of disrespect for another country’s sovereignty and its own...
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Pakistan IMF Deal 2022-23:

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Important progress made over budget 2022-23: IMF  The latest development Discussions on policies to strengthen macroeconomic stability in the coming year continue with Pakistan, says IMF resident chief By   Mehtab Haider  & Web Desk June 22, 2022 International Monetary Fund (IMF) Headquarters in Washington. — AFP WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday confirmed that a breakthrough has been achieved in talks with Pakistan for the revival of the $6 billion loan facility stalled since months due to policy breaches by the previous government. In a statement, IMF Resident Chief Esther Perez Ruiz said, “discussions between the IMF staff and the authorities on policies to strengthen macroeconomic stability in the coming year continue, and important progress has been made over the FY23 budget.” The latest development comes a day after Federal Minister for Revenue and Finance Miftah Ismail had indicated the revival of the agreement with IMF within a day...
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Imran Khan's PTI Hires Lobbying Firm for 'Good Relations' With US, Pakistani Diaspora

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Imran Khan's PTI Hires Lobbying Firm for 'Good Relations' With US, Pakistani Diaspora By:  Manoj Gupta CNN-News18 Last Updated:  AUGUST 12, 2022, 11:07 IST Islamabad, Pakistan   Former prime minister Imran Khan’s party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has hired a lobbying firm in Washington DC at a cost of $25,000 per month to support its “goals for good relations with the United States and the Pakistani diaspora in the US”. According to documents viral on social media, PTI has engaged Fenton/Arlock LLC, which was also hired by the Pakistan Embassy in United States in March 2022 for $30,000 a month. The documents were unearthed by Uzair Younus, Director of the Pakistan Initiative at the South Asia Center. Younus also shared a link to where the documents are publicly available on a US website. When he was confronted by PTI supporters that the agreement involves the PTI USA and not the PTI Pakistan, he shared a screenshot of the document to corroborate his claim that th...
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Pakistan Army detects high flying projectile coming into its airspace from India: Army spokesman

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  NEWS BRIEF 'Probably A Missile': Pakistan Claims 'Supersonic Flying Object' Launched From India Entered Its Airspace, Crashed by Swarajya Staff - Mar 11, 2022 11:00 AM General Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar, chief of Pakistan Army's propaganda wing Inter-Services Public Relations. The Pakistan Army on Thursday (10 March) claimed that it detected a high-flying projectile that came into its airspace allegedly from India and crashed inside its territory in Punjab province. “On March 9, at 6:43pm, a high speed flying object was picked up inside the Indian territory…From initial course, it deviated and entered Pakistan territory and fell in Pakistani territory, causing some damage to civilian installations but no loss of life was reported,” Pakistan Army spokesman Major General Babar Iftikhar told the media. The supersonic flying object was "most probably a missile" but was "certainly unarmed," the Pakistani side said. There was no immediate reaction from I...
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Pakistan’s ‘dangerous moment’: Imran Khan builds a comeback on bashing the U.S.

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  Imran Khan’s political message is a blend of populism and U.S.-bashing. And it’s working. Imran Khan has never been an ordinary man. Not as a sports celebrity, not as a philanthropist and certainly not now as the disgruntled former prime minister of Pakistan. In April, he was ousted from office via a parliamentary vote of no confidence — and ever since, Khan has taken to blaming the United States for  orchestrating his fall , hand in hand with his political opponents. His coalition partners had decided suddenly to part ways with him — too suddenly, according to Khan, for it to have been their idea alone. Now addressing huge crowds across the country, Khan is asking Pakistanis a simple but highly provocative question:  “Do we want to be the slaves of the United States, or do we want real freedom?” This week, Khan led his supporters on a long march from Peshawar to the capital, Islamabad — a protest that provoked violent clashes between police and his followers. There, he...
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