Syeda Mubeena Hashmi Posted in Sports
Pakistan began its Asian Games campaign strongly on Sunday, defeating Kazakhstan 3-1 in men’s volleyball. Murad Khan led the scoring with 21 points as Pakistan secured an early advantage in Pool A. In squash, Noor Zaman defeated compatriot Mohammad Ashab Irfan 3-0 in the men’s singles bronze-medal playoff. The result kept Pakistan’s medal tally at four bronze medals at the Aichi-Nagoya Games. Read More…
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday urged an increase in trade volume between Pakistan and Kazakhstan to $1 billion as both countries signed over 30 memoranda of understanding (MoUs) in several sectors, including petroleum, mining, and maritime affairs. Addressing a joint press conference after the signing ceremony, the prime minister said the existing level of trade between Islamabad and Astana did not reflect the true strength of relations or the economic potential of the two sides. Read More…
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Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev arrived in Pakistan on a two-day official visit as his plane landed at Nur Khan Airbase on Tuesday. President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Ishaq Dar received the visiting dignitary upon his arrival. The Kazakhstan president is accompanied by a high-level delegation, comprising senior cabinet ministers and other high-ranking officials. Read More…
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US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords to have normalised relations between Israel and Muslim-majority nations. The announcement came after Trump said he had held a call with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. "We will soon announce a Signing Ceremony to make it official, and there are many more Countries trying to join this club of STRENGTH," Trump wrote on Truth Social. Read More…
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Kazakhstan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Murat Nurtleu on Monday arrived in Islamabad for a two-day official visit. The Kazakh DPM was received at the airport by Additional Secretary West Asia Syed Ali Asad Gillani and other senior government officials, said the Foreign Office spokesperson. The DPM was accompanied by a high-level 13-member delegation, including the minister of transport, FO spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan said in an earlier press statement. Read More…
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Russia on Friday started work to build the first nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan, the world's biggest uranium producer and vast Central Asian state where Moscow, Beijing and Europe are all vying for influence. Russia has historically been the sole dominant player in the region and is trying to maintain its leading position, while China has invested billions into Kazakhstan under its Belt and Road Initiative. In a joint statement, Kazakhstan and Russia's nuclear agencies said that they had started "engineering surveys to select the optimal site and prepare project… Read More…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologised to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a "tragic incident" following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that killed 38 people. In an official statement Saturday, the Kremlin said air defence systems were firing near Grozny on Wednesday due to a Ukrainian drone strike, but stopped short of saying one of these hit the plane. On Friday, a US official and an Azerbaijani minister made separate statements blaming the crash on an external weapon. Read More…
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Kazakhstan's Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Alibek Bakayev, met Pakistan's Minister for Industry and Production, Rana Tanveer Hussain, in Islamabad to discuss industrial and agricultural cooperation. Hussain praised the friendly ties and expressed Pakistan's interest in boosting trade with Kazakhstan. Bakayev highlighted Kazakhstan's eagerness to learn from Pakistan's agricultural expertise, with both sides agreeing to enhance collaboration in these sectors. Read More…
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has met with his Kyrgyz counterpart Sadyr Japarov in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana. “President (Erdogan), who is in Kazakhstan's capital Astana for the 10th Summit of the Organization of Turkic States, met with President Sadyr Japarov of Kyrgyzstan,” the Turkish presidency said on X on Thursday. No further information was provided about the meeting. Read More…
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Kazakhstan on Tuesday said it had begun international arbitration court proceedings against energy majors including ExxonMobil and Shell over $16.5 billion (15.2 billion euros) in costs deducted from the revenues from two oilfields. The government “has begun international arbitration against the Karachaganak and Kashagan (operating) companies,” Energy Minister Almasadam Satkaliev was quoted by the official news agency Kazinform. Read More…
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