Tag: Islamabad

New Delhi: A day after their meeting across a glass panel with Kulbhushan Jadhav in Islamabad, the mother and wife of the Indian national on death row in Pakistan, met External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj here on Tuesday. According to reports, Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar and External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar accompanied Jadhav’s mother […]

Islamabad:The mother and wife of alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav met the death row prisoner at the Pakistan Foreign Office here on Monday amid tight security. The 30-minute meeting started at 1.48 p.m in the presence of Indian Deputy High Commissioner J.P. Singh, Geo News reported. Earlier, Foreign Office Spokesperson Mohammed Faisal tweeted a picture […]

Mumbai: The relatives of Kulbhushan Jadhav will reach Islamabad today for a scheduled meeting with the death row prisoner, according to an activist. “His mother, Avanti Jadhav, and his wife are expected to fly from Dubai to Islamabad for their first ever interaction later in the day. According to available information, Kulbhushan Jadhav will be […]

Islamabad: Violent protests erupted across Pakistan on Saturday after security forces launched an early-morning crackdown on thousands of religious demonstrators camped on a highway in the capital in which a policeman was killed and 200 hundred people were injured. The authorities ordered private television channels to go off the air. Roughly 8,500 elite police and […]

Islamabad: Pakistan has justified Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed’s release, accused by India and the US of masterminding the 2008 Mumbai massacre, claiming that Islamabad remains committed to the implementation of UNSC sanctions regime on terrorists and has taken several steps in this regard. The Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief, who carries a $10 million US bounty […]

London: Asserting that war was no more an option, two former spy chiefs of Pakistan and India have stressed on the urgent need for diplomatic talks and communications between Islamabad and New Delhi. Former Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General, General (Retd) Ehsanul Haq, and former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) chief Amarjit Singh Dulat […]

Jammu: The Pakistani Army resorted to heavy shelling and firing on Wednesday at three places on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, Defence Ministry sources said. Mortars, automatics and small arms were used to target Indian positions in Degwar, Talwan and Mandiyalan areas. “Indian positions are retaliating strongly and effectively. […]

Islamabad:  Ousted Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday was re-elected “unopposed” as the president of the ruling PML-N on Tuesday, reclaiming his position as the head of his namesake party. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Tariq Fazal Chaudhry submitted Sharif’s papers for party president in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) while no other candidate […]

Islamabad: With the population of elderly people in the country growing fast, the incidence of Alzheimer’s is increasing alarmingly with around two million Pakistanis suffering from the preventable condition and their numbers continue to mount, health experts have warned. Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia that causes problems with memory, thinking and behaviour changes and the […]

New York: Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif has said that Islamabad cannot take responsibility for peace and security in Afghanistan, adding that effective border management with Kabul is imperative to stop infiltration of terrorists. Speaking at the Asia Society seminar in New York, the minister said that the US cannot succeed in Afghanistan by waging war. He […]

United Nations: India hit out at Pakistan saying it has callously exploited the picture of an injured Palestinian girl to spread falsehoods about India and to divert attention from Islamabad’s role as the hub of world terrorism. Paulomi Tripathi, a First Secretary in India’s UN Mission, on Monday held up both the fake picture used […]

Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday summoned India’s Deputy High Commissioner in Islamabad J.P. Singh, a day after two civilians were killed in a ceasefire violation allegedly by Indian forces on the Line of Control. Pakistan’s Foreign Office said in a statement that it condemned the “unprovoked ceasefire violations” by the Indian Army in Dewara and Kakran […]

Islamabad: With the BRICS declaration for the first time naming Pakistan-based anti-India terror groups like the LeT and JeM for their violent activities, an editorial in Dawn on Wednesday noted that Islamabad “must not make the mistake of dismissing the signal” from the five-member bloc. “The message is uniform from friend and foe alike: Pakistan’s […]

New York: The top US official overseeing South Asia diplomacy will visit Islamabad this week following US President Donald Trump’s stern warning to Pakistan against harbouring terrorists. Alice Wells, who is the Acting Assistant Secretary of State in-charge of South and Central Asia, will meet Pakistani officials during her visit, the State Department announced on […]

Islamabad: The only panacea to achieve peace between Pakistan and India is finding a solution to the Kashmir issue, Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif said on Sunday. “We know how to secure our borders, however, lasting peace can only be attained through solving the Kashmir issue,” he said while speaking to media in Sialkot, according to […]