Last week, Judge Ghulam Murtaza Virk of Judicial Magistrate Lahore cleared businessman Umar Farooq Zahoor in two cases of money laundering - registered against Mr Zahoor by his former wife Sophia Mirza and Shahzad Akbar.
The prohibition signed into law by Governor Greg Gianforte will serve as a legal test for a national ban of the Chinese-owned platform, something that lawmakers in Washington are increasingly calling for.
Xiao Qian told reporters in Canberra that China would resume imports of Australian timber as of Thursday after Beijing clamped down on the trade in 2020.
66 members of the US Congress have written to Secretary of State Blinken, asking him to exert pressure on the Pakistani government in order to address the continually worsening human rights violations in the country.
Held in the ancient Chinese city of Xi'an, the historic eastern end of the Silk Road that linked China to Europe through Central Asia, this week's summit is of "milestone significance", Beijing has said.
