"Both sides agreed to the early conclusion of a local currency settlement system agreement to further strengthen bilateral economic ties," the department has said.

"All five Japanese remained safe," he said of the attack which took place at an upscale community in Karachi early morning.

Since 2003, the Indian government has taken up over 550 High Impact Community Development Projects in Nepal in various sectors and has completed 488 projects.

"Even if those allegations, at the end of the day, prove to be true, that doesn't mean that UNRWA is the perpetrator," he said. 

The temple would be open from 9 am to 8 pm on all days except Monday when it would be closed for visitors. 

Member states of the Eurasian Economic Union, along with Mongolia, Uzbekistan, and two Russian-supported separatist regions of Georgia - South Ossetia and Abkhazia are exempted from the export restriction imposed by Moscow beginning from March 1.  

The two sides discussed the regional security situation resulting from the Gaza conflict, including in the Red Sea, the officials noted. 

"Whether it is this issue or the Russia-Ukraine conflict, whenever it comes to CCE, we fully expect that there will be issues that will elicit different reactions from different people,” he said, adding, "It can be a manner of degree, it can be in different ways. So, I think we are mentally prepared for this". 

“Punjab Governor Balighur Rahman has called the Punjab Assembly session for Friday, in which newly elected members of the assembly will swear in and formation of the new government will begin,” a spokesperson for the Governor's House stated on Thursday. 

The meeting gains significance in the backdrop of some deaths of Indian and Indian-origin students at universities across the US. 

On February 17, the senior Pakistani bureaucrat alleged that the chief election commissioner and the chief justice were involved in “poll-rigging” in the February 8 elections and resigned from his post, taking the "responsibility for all this wrongdoing".

The meeting included U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, and other foreign ministers from countries like Jordan, Qatar, Germany, Britain, France, and Italy.