Category: World

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in a meeting with Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India Sohail Mahmood on Tuesday said that Pakistan wants regional peace as unrest and chaos will not serve anyone’s interests, Radio Pakistanreported. Mahmood was called back to Islamabad for consultations following last week’s suicide bombing in occupied Kashmir’s Pulwama district, in which over […]

BEIJING: China’s government on Monday accused the United States of trying to block its industrial development by alleging that Chinese mobile network gear poses a cybersecurity threat to countries rolling out new internet systems. And in a potential blow to the US’s effort to rally its allies on the issue, British media reported that the […]

Pakistan has called back its high commissioner in India for consultations, announced Dr Mohammad Faisal, the spokesperson of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Monday. “He left New Delhi this morning,” said Dr Faisal in a tweet. Dr Mohammad Faisal ✔@ForeignOfficePk We have called back our HIgh Commissioner in India for consultations. He left New Delhi […]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday formally commenced a public hea­­ring on the conviction of Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, with India presenting its arguments first. Harish Salve is representing New Delhi, while English Queen’s Counsel Khawar Qureshi will make submissions tomorrow from Islamabad’s side. Then India will reply on Feb 20 while Islamabad […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa saw off Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman at Nur Khan Airbase as his first state visit to Islamabad came to an end on Monday evening. At a joint press briefing prior to Prince Mohammad’s departure, Prime Minister Khan thanked him and […]

Four Indian soldiers and three Kashmiris were killed on Monday morning during a fierce gunbattle in occupied Kashmir’s Pulwama district, where a suicide bomber killed at least 41 Indian paramilitaries last week. Indian forces have launched a massive hunt for Kashmiri fighters in parts of occupied Kashmir since Thursday, when an explosives-packed van rammed into a convoy […]

The morning after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman promised to deliver “whatever we can do” for Pakistanis living in the kingdom, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry announced that MBS had ordered the immediate release of over 2,000 Pakistani prisoners in Saudi jails. Prime Minister Imran Khan at a ceremony held to welcome the crown prince […]

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Sunday offered Iran cooperation in investigations into the deadly bombing of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) bus. The offer was made during a telephonic conversation between Foreign Minister Qureshi and his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif. A Pakistani delegation would now travel to Tehran to discuss Iranian concerns. This was […]

SRINAGAR: India has warned against rising communal tensions across the country as Kashmiris living outside India-held Kashmir faced property evictions, job suspensions and attacks on social media after a suicide bomber killed 44 paramilitary personnel in the Himalayan region. The car bomb attack on a security convoy on Thursday, carried out by a 20-year-old Kashmiri man, was […]

CUCUTA: The US military airlifted tons of humanitarian aid to a Colombian town on the Venezuelan border on Saturday as part of an effort meant to undermine socialist President Nicolas Maduro and back his rival for the leadership of the South American nation. Three scheduled Air Force C-17 cargo planes that took off from Homestead […]