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Pakistan has deployed two security personnel for every Chinese national, as construction work of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has begun in the South Asian country.

The young Afghan boy who captivated hearts after he was pictured wearing a plastic bag as an improvised Lionel Messi jersey has appealed to the UN refugee agency after fleeing Afghanistan.

Naela Qadri Baloch, the Baloch liberation activist who is now living in exile in Canada after suffering imprisonment in Pakistan for her activities, recently visited India to tell the Indians about problems faced by the people of Balochistan.

A 6.6-magnitude quake struck northeast Afghanistan on April 10, the US Geological Survey said, with tremors also felt in Pakistan and India.

Turkey and Pakistan have paved the way for a new free trade deal, which has the potential to reduce barriers in bilateral trade and investment.

Turkish Economy Minister Mustafa Elita? and Pakistani Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan inked the free trade agreement framework in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on March 22.        

A powerful suicide car bomb struck near the Russian embassy in downtown Kabul Jan. 20, with casualties feared from the latest attack in the Afghan capital, the interior ministry said.

At least nine people were killed and 35 injured Jan. 19 in a suicide bomb attack on a market during morning rush hour on the outskirts of Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, officials said.

The bomb exploded alongside a road jammed with traffic in the Wazir Dhand district just outside city limits.

Pakistan on Jan. 11 opened four-country talks aimed at luring the Afghan Taliban back to the negotiating table with the Kabul government, even as the insurgents wage an unprecedented winter campaign of violence.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise stopover in Pakistan on Dec. 25 to meet his counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, the first time an Indian premier has visited the rival nation in over a decade. 

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Konstantinos Koutras responded to journalists’ questions on the latest developments on the European level in the refugee/migration crisis: