President Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on Qatar to stop what he calls a “high level” of financial support of terrorism, even as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tries to calm the worst diplomatic crisis in the Persian Gulf in years...
He said families were being separated, children removed from school and Qataris forced to deal with food shortages...
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has called for a negotiated end to the Afghan war, claiming that neither side could “impose a military solution” on the other...
“Neither the coalition and Kabul nor the Afghan Taliban can impose a military solution on each other,” said Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi while speaking at a debate in the UN General Assembly on the situation in Afghanistan...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan called on Thursday for regional cooperation against the threat posed by the self-styled Islamic State...
Ms Aslam said Daesh was “a concern for all countries in the region”, including Iran, Afghanistan, Russia and Pakistan...
PAKISTAN has asked the developed economies to adopt accommodative monetary policies to revive global economic growth...
Representing the country at the 48th annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank’s board of directors, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar pledged on Monday that Pakistan would continue fighting terrorism without any discrimination...
KARACHI: While confusion and frustration keep rising at the White House over the Afghan war, another vessel carrying military cargo and vehicles for US troops in Afghanistan called at Port Qasim on Wednesday...
This is the third vessel in a short period of two months that called at the country’s port for unloading military hardware and trucks
KABUL: The United States is counting on Pakistan’s support to eliminate militancy, in particular the Haqqani network, Senator John McCain said during a visit to the Afghan capital on Tuesday...
“We have made it very clear that we expect they (Pakistan) will cooperate with us, particularly against the Haqqani network and against terrorist organisations,” said McCain, chairman of the US Senate Armed Services Committee, in Kabul...
India launched a communications satellite on Friday for its smaller neighbours to share, part of its efforts to build goodwill in the region and counter Chinese influence, but arch-rival Pakistan said it would stay away from the project...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who came to office promising to strengthen ties with neighbours such as Sri Lanka, Nepal and even Pakistan, has called the satellite a gift to south Asia...
Yu Zhengsheng, during a meeting with Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) Gen Zubair Mahmood Hayat in Beijing, appreciated the role that Pakistan had played in the fight against terrorism...
"CJCSC Hayat in return assured Zhengsheng that Pakistan also "intends to increase cooperation between the two militaries"...
A nine-member delegation from the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) called on Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz on Wednesday...
Aziz, during the meeting, reiterated that Jammu and Kashmir remains the core dispute between India and Pakistan...
UNITED NATIONS: Decrying the rise of Islamophobia worldwide, Pakistan called on Thursday for action to combat the forces of xenophobia and warned that if timely steps were not taken to check this disturbing trend, it could threaten regional and global peace and security...
Speaking at an event organised at the UN by Pakistan Mission and the OIC on “Countering Xenophobia through Interfaith Cooperation”, Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi said...
ISLAMABAD: On his 42nd visit to Pakistan in 12 years, Indian activist Chanchal Manohar Singh called upon ordinary citizens from both India and Pakistan not to pay heed to propaganda that stops them from coming closer...
“This clearly shows that we have good seeds and improved know-how, while the farmers in Pakistan were following the traditional modes of farming,” he said, adding that “this is one of the areas where we both can...
SUKKUR: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has called for making Pakistan a true Islamic welfare state and introducing the Islamic system in the country...
He claimed that Pakistan was created in the name of Islam and solution of country’s all problems lied in following the guidelines provided in the Quran and Sunnah...
KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, in a sombre speech to the Afghan parliament on Monday, called on Pakistan to battle some factions of the Taliban rather than try to bring them into peace talks...
Although President Ashraf Ghani said Afghanistan faced a terrorist enemy led by Taliban "slaves" in Pakistan, his statement appeared to leave the door open to resuming peace talks with some factions of the Taliban as he suggested there...
Pakistan’s permanent representative also said that the post-2015 agenda of the UN seeks to end extreme poverty, promote prosperity and well-being for the people, besides protecting environment for ourselves and future generations...
WASHINGTON: The United States has urged India and Pakistan to start a dialogue for a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute...
Tension between India and Pakistan has increased since last week when Indian security forces killed a Kashmiri leader, Burhan Wani...