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July 5, 2026

Frontpage.dev

Balochistan Hosts Its First-Ever Trade and Investment Expo This Month, Showcasing Minerals and Gwadar

The Balochistan Investment and Trade Expo 2026 will be the province's first-ever event of its kind, bringing together investors, diplomats, industrialists, and entrepreneurs to showcase Balochistan's mineral wealth, Gwadar port, and agricultural and tourism potential. The province covers 44 percent of Pakistan's land area and hosts major mining projects including Reko Diq and Saindak, but insurgency and infrastructure gaps have historically kept investment far below the resource base.

November 25, 2025

News Desk

Barrick committed to Pakistan’s Reko Diq copper project, says interim CEO

Reko Diq added 13 million ounces to Barrick’s reserves and will produce up to 400,000 tonnes of copper annually Barrick Mining Corp remains committed to its Reko Diq copper mine in Pakistan, one of the world’s largest undeveloped deposits of the metal, its interim chief executive said on Tuesday after reports of a possible exit. The $7 billion project in Balochistan is being carried out in equal partnership between the company and the Pakistani authorities and is expected to start production by the end of 2028. Barrick’s board had raised the possibility of a break-up of the company’s assets, which

November 7, 2025

News Desk

Trump expands critical minerals list to copper, coal and uranium

A general view of the White House as U.S. President Donald Trump’s motorcade returns after a trip to Trump National Golf Club, in Washington, DC, U.S., July 20, 2025. — Reuters Outline a plan to push the US to secure supplies. Copper vital for electric vehicles, power grids, data centers. Coal Met aligns with Trump’s fossil fuel support. The Trump administration on Thursday added 10 minerals to a list it considers essential to the U.S. economy and national security, including copper, vital to electric vehicles, power grids and data centers, and metallurgical coal, used to make coke fuel for steelmaking.

April 6, 2025

Syed Faisal Ali

Senior State Department Officials to Visit Islamabad Amid Trump’s Focus on Global Minerals

In a statement released by the U.S. Department of State, “Senior Bureau Official (SBO) for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, Eric Meyer, will lead an interagency U.S. delegation traveling to Islamabad from April 8-10, 2025, to advance U.S. interests in the critical minerals sector at the Pakistan Minerals Investment Forum. He will meet with senior Pakistani officials to expand opportunities for American businesses in Pakistan and promote the deepening of economic ties between our two countries. SBO Meyer will also engage with senior officials to underscore the vital importance of our continued collaboration on counterterrorism.” According to

September 7, 2024

News Desk

Haider Copper Bags, Makes History

PARIS: Pakistan’s Haider Ali continues to make his country proud by proving to be its most successful individual athlete on the international stage. On Friday, Heider won his fourth Paralympic medal as he threw his discus 52.54 meters to take bronze at the Stade de France. Haider was competing in the F37 category. He won Pakistan’s first gold medal at the Tokyo Paralympics. Now his medal tally at the Games, the biggest stage in the world, stands at four with one gold, one silver and two bronze medals. Heider was looking to defend his title but found himself stuck with

July 24, 2024

News Desk

Chinese engineers and Taliban begin copper mining project in Afghanistan after 16-year delay

KABUL: Chinese engineers and the Taliban government rushed to Afghanistan on Wednesday in a project to mine the world’s second-largest copper deposit after a 16-year delay caused by the war. Surveyors estimate that Mes Aynak, 40 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of Kabul, contains 11.5 million tons of copper ore, a vital electronic component that has soared in price. A $3 billion deal signed in 2008 gave a Chinese state-owned company mining rights but never came to fruition as fighting raged between NATO-led troops and Taliban insurgents. Taliban officials joined diplomats and businessmen from Beijing at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday

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