Prime Green Recyclers Pakistan’s ship recycling sector has taken a long-awaited step onto the global compliance ladder, with Prime Green Recyclers becoming the country’s first Hong Kong Convention (HKC) compliant yard. Established in 2000 in Gadani as Prime Ship Breakers, the company was later rebranded as Prime Green Recyclers. Classification society Bureau Veritas has issued…
China’s second fifth-generation fighter jet, the J-35, could find buyers in the Middle East as demand grows for advanced stealth aircraft in the region – though its capabilities remain unknown, according to analysts. A model of the J-35 – made by China National Aero-Technology Import & Export Corporation (Catic) and with a design similar to…
China’s aerospace manufacturers have become a growing presence at overseas air shows as the country seeks to expand its arms sales abroad, bolstered by technological advances in the defence and aviation industries. More than 1,500 companies took part in this year’s Dubai Airshow, the largest such show in the Middle East. They included around 80…
After the India-Pakistan conflict in May 2025 following the Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir that claimed 26 lives, China initiated a disinformation campaign to hinder sales of French Rafale jet in favor of its own J-35s, claimed a report by the US. The claim in a report comes months after French intelligence and…
China turned a brief but intense India-Pakistan conflict in May into a live testing ground for its advanced weaponry and intelligence systems, and then aggressively marketed those results to undercut Western arms sales, a US congressional panel said in its annual report on Tuesday. “Beijing opportunistically leveraged the conflict to test and advertise the sophistication…
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan opened a probe Wednesday into the suicide bombing outside an Islamabad district court that left 12 dead the day before, underscoring the challenges facing the government as it struggles with militant attacks, border tensions and a fragile ceasefire with Afghanistan. The attack at the court, located on the edge of the…
Published on: Nov 12, 2025 09:00 am IST Without directly naming who Pakistan was in a “state of war” with, Khawaja Asif indicated that Islamabad was running out of patience with the Taliban regime. Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Tuesday declared that his country was now “in a state of war, calling the deadly…
Pakistan said Sunday it was committed to “dialogue” with Afghanistan despite peace talks ending after Kabul’s warning of a war with Islamabad. The two sides met in Istanbul in an effort to cement a truce agreed on October 19 in Qatar, after dozens of people were killed in cross-border fire between the neighbours.(AFP) According to…
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has said that more than 1,400 people from 36 African nations are known to be fighting for Russia in its war against Ukraine, urging governments to warn their citizens against joining a conflict where they are “quickly killed”. Speaking on Friday, Sybiha accused Moscow of enticing Africans into joining the…
A year ago, the idea that Pakistan would get on America’s good side and dramatically improve its international standing would have seemed far-fetched. Yet that’s exactly what has happened. Under its army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, Pakistan has thus far navigated President Trump’s second term with more aplomb than most countries, including rival India….