Tag: Pakistan

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Tuesday said the strong relationship and cooperation will continue with China in various fields. Abbasi was talking to Chinese Ambassador Yao Jing who called on him at the Prime Minister’s Office, the office said in a statement. “Deepening the strong bonds of friendship and multi-sector cooperation between Pakistan […]

New Delhi: Amid heightened tensions between India and Pakistan, a publisher from across the neighbouring country is likely to participate in the upcoming 45th New Delhi World Book Fair 2018 to be held here from Saturday. The fair, organised by the National Book Trust (NBT) in association with the ITPO, would be held at the […]

Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday released a video of alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav who says he has not been tortured in custody and that he saw an Indian diplomat “yelling” at his mother and wife after they met him last month. Sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage and terrorism […]

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi chaired a meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC) on Tuesday to discuss US President Donald Trump’s move to cut all further aid to Islamabad on charges of harbouring terrorists. The high-level meeting, which was originally scheduled for Wednesday, was attended by the country’s civilian and military leadership. Pakistan […]

Islamabad: The Pakistan Foreign Office summoned US Ambassador to Pakistan David Hale on Monday night and lodged its protest against US President Donald Trump’s tweet wherein he accused Pakistan of “lies and deceit”, the media reported. The US Embassy confirmed that Ambassador Hale was summoned by the Foreign Office at 9 p.m., The Express Tribune […]

Washington: President Donald Trump began the New Year on Monday with a stinging attack on long-standing ally Pakistan, saying it will get no more US aid as it was giving “safe haven to terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan”. “The US has foolishly given Pakistan more than $33 billion in aid over the last 15 years, […]

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Thursday said the meeting between alleged Indian spy Kulbushan Jadhav and his mother and wife lacked “humanity” and “goodwill” accusing Pakistan of conducting it as a “propaganda exercise” and “an opportunity to exploit the situation”. Sushma Swaraj was making a statement in the Rajya Sabha on the December […]

New Delhi: Condemning Pakistani authorities for inflicting insult on Kulbhushan Jadhav’s mother and wife by making them remove their mangalsutra, bangles, footwear and bindi and getting their dress changed, the Congress on Tuesday said India should give them “an appropriate reply”. The party said the Indian government should immediately come up with a clear policy […]

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 […]

Jammu: Pakistani troops opened fire on an Indian Army patrol, killing a Major and three soldiers, along the Line of Control (LoC) in Keri sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district today, officials said. The latest violation of the ceasefire agreement took place at a time when Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti was camping in Rajouri […]

Islamabad: Expressing love for the word Hindustan, a Pakistani youth was arrested by police in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Seeing “Hindustan Zindabad” written on the wall of a house in the Nara Amazai area of Haripur infuriated the local community, the daily Express news reported on Monday. According to police, Sajid Shah had been booked for treason under […]

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 […]

New Delhi: On the release of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed from Pakistan’s jail, the Congress took a dig at Narendra Modi government on Wednesday, asking “where is the 56-inch chest and strong diplomacy now”. The party said Pakistan was a principal conspirator in 2008 Mumbai terror attack, so it would not punish the “co-conspirator”. […]