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The latest loan highlights Islamabad's growing dependence on Chinese loans to buffer its foreign currency reserves, which plunged to $9.66 billion last week from $16.4 billion in May 2017.

"I think they're very serious about it. I think they want to do it," he said in a prerecorded interview on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" programme.

The blast, hours after President Ashraf Ghani had visited Jalalabad, damaged shops and buildings around Mukhaberat square in the city, said governor's spokesman Attaullah Khogyani.

The police did not yet have a suspected motive for the on Saturday night attack but said a 30-year-old man was in custody.

Pakistan was placed on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list' on June 27 after it failed to put in place measures to prevent money laundering and other illegal transactions that may be used for financing terrorism.

North Korea agreed at the summit to "work toward denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," but the joint statement signed by Kim and Trump gave no details on how or when Pyongyang might surrender its nuclear weapons.

Analysts hailed Tuesday's drill, which was held in cooperation with local companies and government, as an important move toward military-civilian integration.

So far this year, Chinese companies have spent just $1.6 billion on U.S. assets, down almost 80 per cent from the year-earlier period, according to Thomson Reuters data.

A federal grand jury in Virginia charged James Fields, 21, with hate crimes causing the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring others who had joined the protest against the Unite the Right rally in the Virginian city last August.

The meeting is expected to take place after Trump attends a NATO summit and visits Britain next month.

Abbasi had filed nominations for NA-53 Islamabad and NA-57 Rawalpindi. Initially, the election officials had rejected his nomination from Islamabad but accepted his bid from Rawalpindi.

"There are no opportunities for Qataris to seek justice for these human rights abuses," said Mohammed Abdulaziz al-Khulaifi, one of Qatar's representatives at the hearing.

Videos of the incident shared online showed Li sitting on a ledge for hours while rescue workers tried to talk her down. Some passersby on the street below heckled her, shouting "How come you haven't jumped yet?"

The meeting was the culmination of a rapid detente between Pyongyang and Washington and saw Kim commit to working towards denuclearisation, although critics noted the summit agreement was vague and non-binding.

While U.S. President Donald Trump bowed to political pressure on Wednesday and issued an executive order ending the separations, the U.S Government has been silent on plans to reunite parents split from their children who were separated since the Trump a...

Trump and his administration have faced fierce criticism in recent weeks for separating more than 2,300 children from their families in order to prosecute their parents for crossing the border illegally.