Imran to visit China next month

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan will visit China in October, the media reported on Friday.

It will be Imran Khan’s irst visit to China after assuming the ofice. The dates of his visit and meeting schedule with Chinese oficials is being inalised, the News International reported.

It said that Imran Khan will be accompanied by a high-level delegation and will be discussing the China Pakistan Economic Corridor project with the Chinese leadership besides exchanging views on economic cooperation.

The Pakistani delegation will also participate in a conference in China, the report said.

Imran Khan in his post-election address on July 25 had vowed to strengthen and improve Pakistan’s relationship with neighbouring countries, including China.

“We will strengthen and improve our relations with China. We want to work towards success of the CPEC. We also want to send teams to learn poverty alleviation from China,” he had said.

The Russian energy ministry said in a statement that Moscow and Islamabad signed a memorandum of understanding on implementing a project to build an underwater gas pipeline from Iran to Pakistan and India.

“The memorandum provides for the identiication of authorized organisations through which the project will be supported, including during the development of a feasibility study, identiication of the resource base, coniguration and route of the gas pipeline,” the statement said, Xinhua reported.

Russian Deputy Energy Minister Anatoly Yanovsky and Pakistan’s Ministry of Energy Additional Secretary Sher Afgan Khan signed the document in Moscow.