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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday held a groundbreaking ceremony for two controversial Chinese nuclear plants near Karachi, which are set to add 1,100 megawatts to the country’s electric grid.

Interrupting their holidays for the second time this summer to cast ballots on a Greek rescue, lawmakers in the Bundestag lower house approved the rescue plan by 453 votes to 113.

Hurriyat leaders Yasin Malik, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Syed Ali Shah Geelani are said to be in house arrest.

The German parliament has approved a third bailout deal for Greece by a large margin.

The European Stability Mechanism will release the first tranche of funds to enable Athens to meet a €3.2bn bond repayment due to the European Central Bank on Thursday.

Ahead of the scheduled National Security level talks, Pakistan High Commission has extended its invitation to Hurriyat leaders for talks with its National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz, media reported.

A Greek minister gave on Monday the strongest indication yet that the government will call a confidence vote following a rebellion among lawmakers from the ruling Syriza party over the country’s new bailout deal.

Finance ministers of the 19-nation euro single currency group have approved the first 26 billion euros ($29 billion) of a vast new bailout package to help rebuild Greece’s shattered economy.

Islamabad summoned India’s deputy high commissioner JP Singh not once, but twice to register protest.

The €85 billion package – which introduces sweeping austerity measures – was ultimately approved with support from opposition parties after an all-night parliamentary session.

Pakistan may have finally agreed to honour the bilateral understanding for NSA-level talks, but that has not calmed the apprehension in New Delhi about the intent of the estranged neigbour, especially that it may use the occasion for grandstanding for the domestic audience.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that his visit to United Arab Emirates, UAE will boost ties and will enhance economic as well as trade relations.

Rahul during his speech was visibly angry against Swaraj for alleging that his family had helped Bofors accused Ottavio Quattrocchi and Bhopal gas leak accused Warren Anderson flee from India.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s Syriza party looked set to split after the leader of its far-left faction called for a new movement to fight a bailout deal that lawmakers will vote on later on Thursday.

“The impediment to greater and more enhanced cooperation between Iran and Pakistan will have been removed, through the removal of sanctions and that is why the work on the Iran-Pakistan pipeline could go ahead more expeditiously”, he said following talks with Aziz and...