New Delhi/Islamabad : Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written to his new Pakistan counterpart Imran Khan that India desires “constructive engagement” with Islamabad but Pakistan quickly clarified that there was no offer of a bilateral dialogue. Modi wrote to Imran Khan expressing India’s commitment to build good neighbourly relations and pursue meaningful and constructive engagement […]
New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed the hope that Pakistan will work for a South Asia free of terrorism. “We hope that Pakistan would work for a safe, secure, stable and prosperous region, free from terror and violence,” Modi said in an interview to the Times of India published on Sunday. Modi […]
Washington : US military institutions are struggling to fill the 66 slots they had kept aside for officers from Pakistan for the next academic year, as President Donald Trump’s administration refused to provide funds for their training, official sources said. The fund for training Pakistani officers came from the US government’s International Military Education and […]
Islamabad : Pakistan on Thursday welcomed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s congratulatory phone call to Prime Minister in-waiting Imran Khan earlier this week and said it hopes that the gesture will pave the way for bilateral talks. Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Muhammad Faisal during a weekly briefing here said that he hoped the phone call […]
New Delhi : India on Wednesday welcomed the US designation of three Pakistani nationals as Specially Designated Global Terrorists for providing logistical and financial support to the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist group. “India welcomes the announcements made (on Tuesday) by the US Departments of State and Treasury in which three Pakistan-based (LeT) terrorists and terror […]
Beijing : China on Thursday said it stands ready to work with the new establishment in Pakistan, as Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf inched closer to victory. Beijing also said it was glad to see “smooth elections” in Pakistan and hoped the results will not affect the development of bilateral ties. China has high stakes in […]
Islamabad : At least 37 people were killed and several injured mostly in a suicide bombing in Balochistan on Wednesday as millions of voters thronged polling stations across the country to exercise their franchise in the 11th general election. Counting has begun at certain polling stations after the voting ended. The Balochistan bombing targeted the […]
Islamabad : At least 32 people were killed and several injured mostly in a suicide bombing in Balochistan on Wednesday as millions of voters queued up across Pakistan to elect a new government. The Balochistan bombing targeted the convoy of Deputy Inspector General of Police Abdul Razzaq Cheema near a polling station. It left 31 persons, […]
New Delhi : Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Friday said peace in Jammu and Kashmir was impossible without involving Pakistan, asking the BJP government to give up its rigid stance and be flexible in solving problems in the terror-ravaged state. “You may not like what I am going to say. We […]
Islamabad : Some of Pakistan’s hardline Islamic groups, who defend the blasphemy law and have been accused of playing a role in global terrorism and murders of religious minorities, are contesting the July 25 general elections, triggering concerns of further radicalization of the conservative country. These parties include Allah-o-Akbar Tehreek (AAT) with alleged links to […]
