Tag: Pakistan

Islamabad: A crucial meeting of the Asia-Pacific Joint Group of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is scheduled for September 15-16 to review Pakistans measures against money laundering. However, some important bills regarding the anti-money laundering, vital for Pakistan’s removal from the FATF grey list, are facing blockage in Parliament due to the opposition, which […]

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, while commenting on the recent gang-rape of a women by two men in front of her little kids, said on Monday that rapists should be handed down the most severe punishment to curb rising sexual violence in the country. Imran Khan went on to elaborate the punishments — public hanging […]

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called upon India and Pakistan to move in a positive way to resolve their differences. He sidestepped a question by a Pakistani reporter at a news conference on Wednesday about what the journalist asserted were demographic changes India was making to Kashmir, and instead referred to a statement […]

Islamabad: The Imran Khan government is soon going to illegally integrate the occupied Gilgit-Baltistan region by making it Pakistan’s fifth province. Pakistani newspaper Express Tribune quoted Minister of ‘Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan Affairs’ Ali Amin Gandapur as saying on Wednesday that the government has decided to “elevate Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) to the status of a full-fledged province […]

New Delhi: Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistans spy agency is afflicted by the same bungling and corruption as the rest of the Pakistani state, according to a new book. The book called, “The Nine Lives of Pakistan”, has been authored by Declan Walsh, the Cairo bureau chief of the New York Times. He covered Pakistan for nine […]

Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday categorically rejected any possibility of allowing a Queen’s Counsel by India to represent Kulbhushan Jadhav, who is currently on death-row in a Pakistan jail. During a weekly press briefing, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said that allowing a Queen’s Counsel to Jadhav was out of the question. […]

Islamabad: Pakistan is facing another potential threat of a major damage to its exports as India has applied for an exclusive Geographical Indications (GI) tag to Basmati rice in the European Union (EU). Pakistan on the other hand, is still yet to implement the GI law promulgated in March. Despite the fact that Pakistan produces […]

New Delhi: Pakistan has denied visa to senior diplomat Jayant Khobragade who was set to be appointed as acting head of Indian High Commission in Islamabad, people familiar with the development said on Sunday. It is learnt that Pakistan did not approve his visa on the grounds that he is too senior for the post. […]

Islamabad: Pakistan’s major opposition parties announced that they have formed an alliance to demand the ousting of the incumbent Imran Khan-led government, it was reported on Monday. After naming their alliance as the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), the leaders on Sunday also announced launching of a three-phased anti-government movement under an “action plan” starting from […]

United Nations: The UN’s unfinished agenda item is tackling terrorism emanating from its epicentre in Pakistan, India has said here replying to Pakistan bringing up the Kashmir issue at the international organisation’s 75th Anniversary Commemoration session. Vidisha Maitra, a First Secretary at India’s UN mission, said on Monday: “If there is an item that is […]

Jammu: An arms consignment believed to have been dropped by a drone from Pakistan-based terrorists was seized in Akhnoor sector here in the early hours of Tuesday, a senior police officer said. Senior Superintendent of Police (Jammu) Shridhar Patil said two packets containing two AK assault rifles, three magazines with 90 rounds and a pistol […]

New Delhi: India slammed Pakistan at the UNHRC in Geneva, terming it “a failed state” with no regard for values and culture of democracy. India in its right to reply pointed out that Pakistan’s charade of running with the hare and hunting with the hound was hard to miss. Exercising India’s Right of Reply in […]

United Nations: The “only crowning glory” that Pakistan has to show to the world for the last seven decades is terrorism, ethnic cleansing, majoritarian fundamentalism and clandestine nuclear trade, India said in a scathing response on Friday, slamming Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s “incessant rant” and “venom” in the UN General Assembly. “This august forum […]

New Delhi: India has urged the international community to redress deficiencies at the global level to ensure that perpetrators of the Mumbai and Pathankot terror attacks are brought to justice. Secretary (East), Ministry of External Affairs, Vijay Thakur Singh made the remarks at the second ministerial meeting of the ‘Group of Friends of Victims of […]

Islamabad: A virtual meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) plenary scheduled for October 21-23 will decide if Pakistan should be excluded from its ‘grey list, based on a review of Islamabads actions against money laundering and terror financing, it was reported on Monday. The FATF plenary was initially slated to take place, but […]