Pakistan is “no longer” considering India for most-favored nation (MFN) status, said Pakistani Federal Minister for Commerce Khurram Dastagir Khan, here on Saturday. Khan, however, said that Pakistan and India have agreed to work together and boost commercial relations by giving non-discriminatory market access (NDMA) status to each other.
An international conference on higher education, featuring a range of collaborative and networking opportunities, opens its gates for visitors today.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has sent a letter to the family of a Saudi employer who was murdered by his Indonesian maid asking for pardon.
Saudi Arabia has finalized plans to build life-saving emergency earthquake shelters following warnings of an ever-increasing number of large-magnitude earthquakes that can hit different countries and regions across the globe, including the Middle East.
A delegation from the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), headed by its director general, Suleiman J. Al-Herbish, signed SR29 million worth of grant agreements at the conclusion of a high-level mission to Palestine.
Jakarta has transferred nearly SR7 million in blood money to save Indonesian migrant worker Satinah Binti Jumadi Ahmad, on death row for murdering her Saudi employer in 2009.
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and US President Barack Obama agreed to work closely and remain strategically “aligned” on a range of bilateral and regional issues, said a senior US official in Riyadh on Saturday.
Iranian nuclear deal, Syria’s three-year-old civil war and their repercussions on the neighboring countries were the central themes of the talks between Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and US President Barack Obama on Friday.
Saudi Arabia will participate in a landmark global nuclear security summit in the Netherlands, to be attended by US President Barack Obama with 58 world leaders, and over 5,000 delegates from across the world on Monday.
Saudi Arabia’s decision to declare regional militant and insurgent groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, “terrorist entities” was strongly favored by a cross-section of Saudi citizens and Arab expats on Saturday.