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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Pakistan’s Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz have underlined the need for resolving Syrian crisis through dialogue. Both the leaders discussed the situation in Syria by the phone amid fast growing fear of the possible U.S. unilateral strikes in Syria. President Barrack Obama has approached the Congress for […]
Chairman PTI, Imran Khan Monday strongly condemned US President Obama’s unilateral decision to attack Syria on suspicion of use of chemical weapons. Khan stated that the issue is being investigated by the UN’s inspectors and any action based on the report submitted by these inspectors must be premised on and have sanction of the […]
Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, Monday said that all political forces must rise to the occasion so that national consensus is evolved to address the problems faced by the country. He was presiding over a high level meeting to review the overall security situation of the country, the PM office said. The meeting discussed issues […]
Police in Islamabad on Monday registered murder case against former military President Pervez Musharraf over killings of students during a military raid of Lal Masjid in 2007, lawyers said. Police said nearly 100 people, most of them students of religious school as well as security personnel, had been killed in clashes. Deputy Chief of the […]
The government Sunday denied media reports that talks with the Taliban have started. The BBC Urdu service had earlier reported that Pakistani officials have started talks with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP. The TTP spokesman, Shahidullah Shahid, also rejected the talks reports as baseless and part of propaganda. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar […]
A roadside bomb attack killed at least nine soldiers in the militants-infested North Waziristan tribal region on Sunday, the military said. The Improvised Explosive Device hit a convoy of the security forces in Boya area of North Waziristan, an army statement said. “At least nine soldiers embraced shahadat (martyrdom) in the explosion,” a brief […]
Chairman PTI, Imran Khan, has rejected the government’s POL price hike as a shameful action targeting the poor masses. The government on Saturday raised the prices of petroleum products by up to Rs4.71 per litre. The government also increased the price of high speed diesel (HSD) by Rs2.5 per litre in diesel that will […]
Pakistan is hosting the 33rd Session of the D-8 Commission in Islamabad on 02-03 September in its capacity as the Chair of the Developing-8 Organization for Economic Development, the Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. The D-8 Commissioners from Member Countries (Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey) and D-8 Secretary-General Dr. Seyed Ali […]
An Afghan consulate official, who was abducted by unidentified gunmen in Quetta in July, has been freed, Afghan officials said Saturday. Hashim Popsal Ebrat, a staffer of the Afghan consulate, had been kidnapped from Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province. Afghan embassy spokesman, Zardasht Shams, confirmed that Ebrat has rejoined his family. […]
Pakistan has strongly condemned the US drone strike that killed four people in the country’s North Waziristan tribal region on Saturday, the Foreign Ministry. An American spy aircraft fired missiles into Mir Ali area of North Waziristan and killed at least four people, official sources in the region said. The drone aircraft fired […]
Chief of Awami National Party (ANP), Asfandyar Wali Khan, on Saturday announced dissolution of all party units over election defeat. Speaking at a news conference in Charsadda, Khan admitted that his party faced defeat in the May 11 general elections over poor performance of the ANP government. He said that new elections will be held […]
Indian troops Saturday violated the 2003 ceasefire violation along the Line of Control (LoC) and fired at Pakistani areas, official sources and residents said. They said Indian forces resorted to unprovoked shelling in the Bajwat Sector of Sialkot. Pakistani forces returned fire and silenced Indian guns, official sources said. The sources added that ceasefire violations […]
