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  Last Updated On 01 January,2018 10:18 amHe stated that we should continue efforts to make the country stronger.KARACHI (APP):The Governor of Balochistan, Muhammad Khan Achakzai, has said that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor(CPEC) will open up new avenues of the development in the country.He was talking to media after visiting the mausoleum of Founder of Pakistan Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah here on Sunday.The Governor laid wreath at the mausoleum of the Quaid, offered Fateha and recorded his impressions in the Visitors’ Book.He said that Quaid-i-Azam gave the Muslims of the sub- continent a separate homeland so that they could lead their lives with freedom.Achakzai said that it is incumbent upon all to make concerted efforts to make Pakistan strong and prosperous as desired by the founder of the country.He stated that the CPCE will open up new avenues for the development for Pakistan as…

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2017/12/31/extension-cpec-tripartite-partnership-nowhere/
 December 31, 2017ByHikmatullah

Authors: Hikmatullah& Wang LiDecember 26, 2017, when jointly meeting the press with Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani of Afghanistan and Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif of Pakistan, Foreign Minister Wang Yi expressed that China and Pakistan are willing to, together with Afghanistan, actively discuss extending the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to Afghanistan in a proper manner under the principle of mutual benefit and win-win results. China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Dialogue aims to enhance political mutual trust through this platform, eventually, to jointly deal with development and security challenges in the region.In view of bilateral relations, Beijing regards Afghanistan as a key land-corridor of building the “BRI”, and determines to, together with the Afghan side, enhance the docking of development strategies. Accordingly, China a…

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 by hakkpaan ,  December 31, 2017Forward:Pakistan is a signatory to many treaties and conventions that assign the state the responsibility of protecting the citizens of any illegal detention, torture, inhuman and degrading treatment.To name a few most important, Pakistan has signed the Convention Against Torture and the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights on 17 April 2008 and ratified them on 23rd June 2010; signed the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural rights on 3rd November 2004 and ratified it on 17 April 2008; signed the Convention on the Rights of Child on 20 September 1990 and ratified it on 12 November 1990.The government of Pakistan has formed a National Commission for Human Rights, claiming to independently investigate the cases and enforce the laws state has introduced in its legislation covering and protecting the articles of the above-mentioned conventions and c…

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31-12-2017On the 21st of December 2017, a large number of traders, transporters and thousands of common residents of Gilgit-Baltistan launched protests, demanding the withdrawal of imposition of taxes by the federal Government under the Tax Adaption Act 2012. The imposition of taxes was also opposed by the Bar Associations of the Supreme Court and High Court. After 7 days of shutter-strikes and two-month long protests, the Government bowed down and withdrew all impositions of taxes in the region. As agreed, the protesters will end their march toward Gilgit after being presented with a notification concerning the withdrawal of taxes from the Gilgit-Baltistan Council, the Governing body tasked with implementing taxes in Gilgit-Baltistan.Gilgit-Baltistan was granted limited autonomy in 2009, and the imposition of these taxes on residents by the Government was opposed as Gilgit-Baltistan’s constituti…

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By Zhang Ye Source:Global Times Published: 2017/12/31 10:00:180During the tenures of former prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, Australia saw the South China Sea issue as a dispute between China and related Southeast Asian countries, and adopted a relatively neutral and balanced policy. However, in recent years, with conflicts in the region growing, especially after the US conducted so-called freedom of navigation operations, Australia has changed its policy considerably. Its bigoted actions have jeopardized not only China's national interests, but also Australian long-term interests, bringing Canberra's structural contradictions and strategic dilemma to a worse level.Kissing up to the US has led to an imbalance in Australian strategy and squeezed its strategic space. For the smaller medium countries sandwiched between major powers, it is proper and rational to balance their relationships between major powers to serve th…

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Source: Xinhua| 2017-12-31 12:53:35|HELSINKI, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Huge potential lies in the innovation cooperation between Finland and China especially in the coming years, said Petri Vuorio, director for international trade of the Confederation of Finnish Industries.Finland is one of the world's leading innovation economies, and China is striving to achieve economic growth based on innovation and is already a forerunner in many fields, so "there are a lot of opportunities to combine our expertise and reach good results," Vuorio told Xinhua in a recent interview.China and Finland launched a committee for innovative business this June, two months after Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a state visit to the northern European country."We at the business community are very satisfied with the development of the economic relations," said Vuorio. The trend gained momentum especially during Xi's visit, and…

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/china-uses-film-to-sell-its-massive-one-belt-one-road-initiative/news-story/5776cbb029315c77b3bbec0a0567c5aa

Actress Xu Dabao wears a Chinese flag dress at Cannes in May. Photo: Getty Images.ERICH SCHWARTZELThe Australian12:00AM January 1, 2018

For hundreds of years, China used the Silk Road to ship porcelain, tea and other goods around the world. Now the nation is using a new ­incarnation of the old trading network to export a signature product of 21st-century China: movies.The One Belt, One Road ­initiative, announced in 2013, will reconfigure global trading if it succeeds and place Chinese ­invest­ments including railways and power grids in at least 69 countries that mirror the ­ancient Silk Road, including parts of Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa. The program provides a natural export market for China’s growing film industry.Through co-productions with other countries and nationalist on-screen narratives, China’s growing film industry is…

http://dunyanews.tv/en/Crime/421418-Year-2017-20-women-murdered-in-the-name-of-honour-in-Balochistan-

  Last Updated On 31 December,2017 01:26 pmTwelve women died at the hands of either their fathers, husbands or brothers due to domestic disputes while three women committed suicide unable to curb with the circumstances of their lives. Photo: Dunya News(Dunya News) – Violence against women in Balochistan has seen a decline in the year 2017.However, the figures failed to see the same trend when it came to cases of  honour killing . More than 20 women were subjected to the barbaric practice while countless others became victims of domestic violence.Due to lack of education, families forcefully murder countless women in the name of honour, a custim that still prevails in various parts of the country. In Balochistan, the cases of  honour killing  reached 20 this year where in Naseerabad five women and four in Dera Murad Jamali were killed in the name of honour. Three other were killed in De…

http://www.asianage.com/age-on-sunday/311217/the-elephant-in-the-room-balochistan.html

Ahmar MustikhanVeteran Baloch journalist who lives in Washington DC.Published : Dec 31, 2017, 7:12 am ISTUpdated : Dec 31, 2017, 7:15 am ISTDespite Balochistan’s vast riches, majority of Baloch people live in abject poverty. The army boys need to realise the insurgency will continue until they take corrective measures instead of barking at India, and sometimes, Afghanistan.The fairy tale spun by the Deep State in Pakistan, the fifth largest country with the fourth largest nuclear arsenal in the world, is that the country is set to become an Asian tiger thanks to the $62 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor. But like in any fairy tale there has to be a villain that is hell bent upon destroying all the goodness: India.Islamabad accuses New Delhi of fuelling a 12-year-old low level insurgency in France-sized southwestern Balochistan province, citing the case of arrest of Indian national Kulbushan Ja…

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Hi-tech system will help Beijing protect its growing network of interests and investments from the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean, experts sayStephen ChenUPDATED : Sunday, 31 Dec 2017, 4:01PMA new underwater surveillance network is expected to help China’s submarines get a stronger lock on targets while protecting the nation’s interests along the maritime Silk Road, from the Korean peninsula to the east coast of Africa.The system, which has already been launched, works by gathering information about the underwater environment, particularly water temperature and salinity, which the navy can then use to more accurately track enemy vessels as well as improve navigation and positioning.The project, led by the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is part of an unprecedented military expansion fuelled by Beijing’s desire to ch…