Pakistan, Egypt vow to deepen defense, security cooperation
- 01-Dec-2025
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan and Egypt vowed to deepen defense and security cooperation, ARY News reported, quoting Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). According to ISPR, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Dr. Badr Ahmed Mohamed Abdelatty paid an official visit to GHQ, where he met Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir in Rawalpindi. During the meeting, both sides held detailed discussions […]
Egypt hopes Pakistan will contribute ‘expertise, resources’ to rebuild Gaza
- 30-Nov-2025
ISLAMABAD: Egypt’s Foreign Minister Dr. Badr Ahmed Mohamed Abdelatty on Sunday expressed hope that Pakistan would contribute its expertise and resources to support the reconstruction of Gaza. Speaking at a joint press conference alongside Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar, the Egyptian foreign minister said Cairo looks forward to Pakistan’s participation […]
Egypt trains hundreds of Palestinians for future Gaza police force
- 30-Nov-2025
Gaza City: Egypt is training hundreds of Palestinian police officers with an eye towards integrating them into a post-war security force in Gaza, a Palestinian official told AFP. Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty announced the plan to train 5,000 officers for Gaza during talks with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa in August. A first group […]
Egypt opens colossal new antiquities museum after two-decade wait
- 02-Nov-2025
CAIRO: Prime ministers, presidents and royalty descended on Cairo on Saturday to attend the spectacle-laden inauguration of a sprawling new museum built near the Pyramids to house one of the world’s richest collections of antiquities. The inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum, or GEM, marks the end of a two-decade construction effort hampered by the […]
Sisi opens Grand Egyptian Museum, calls it ‘new chapter in history’
- 02-Nov-2025
The President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday opened the Grand Egyptian Museum, a long-awaited, billion-dollar showcase for pharaonic treasures, saying that its inauguration opened “a new chapter in history”. “Today, as we celebrate together the opening of the Grand Museum of Egypt, we are writing a new chapter in the history of the […]
Egypt hopes vast new museum by the Pyramids will accelerate tourism revival
- 30-Oct-2025
CAIRO: Egyptian officials are hoping the inauguration of a vast new museum on Saturday will accelerate the revival of a tourism industry hampered for more than a decade by internal upheaval, a pandemic and regional conflicts. Officials believe the Grand Egyptian Museum, or GEM, alone could draw as many as 7 million additional visitors annually […]
Egypt to host Palestinian conference on Gaza future: Hamas
- 04-Oct-2025
A senior Hamas official said Saturday that Egypt would organise a conference for Palestinian factions to decide on the post-war future of the Gaza Strip, after the group accepted to release hostages under a US ceasefire plan. Egypt will host an “intra-Palestinian dialogue on Palestinian unity and the future of Gaza, including the administration of […]
Ishaq Dar, Egyptian FM discuss Pakistan Saudi Arabia defense agreement
- 19-Sep-2025
ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Ishaq Dar received a phone call from Egyptian Foreign Minister Dr. Badr Abdelatty, who warmly congratulated Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on the signing of their Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement. During the telephonic conversation held on Thursday evening, the Egyptian foreign minister said the Pakistan-Saudi Arabia defence agreement […]
Egypt’s Sisi orders authorities to study pardon for activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah
- 09-Sep-2025
CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered authorities on Tuesday to study the possible pardon of high-profile Egyptian-British activist and blogger, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a statement by the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights said. Abd el-Fattah, 43, is a leading symbol of resistance to authoritarian rule and has spent most of the past decade […]
Iran’s foreign minister to meet IAEA chief in Egypt
- 09-Sep-2025
TEHRAN: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will meet on Tuesday with United Nations nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi in Egypt, the first such meeting since Tehran suspended cooperation with the agency two months ago. “During a trip to Cairo, a meeting will be held with the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency to […]