ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly on Monday expressed serious reservations over the increasing number of executions of Pakistanis in foreign countries...
During a meeting at the Parliament House, the committee recommended the Foreign Office (FO) to ensure the right to fair trial for all Pakistani citizens facing legal proceedings in overseas courts of law...
RIYADH: EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini held talks in Saudi Arabia on Monday to explain the agreement she helped broker on Iran’s nuclear programme, and to push for an end to Yemen’s war...
Mogherini met Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir in the latest visit by a top Western official aimed at easing Saudi concerns over the deal with its regional rival...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan-Afghanistan Joint Committee on Thursday met with Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs and National Security Adviser (NSA) retired Lt Gen Nasser Khan Janjua, and both sides agreed to begin action on lists of wanted terrorists that were to be exchanged this month...
According to an official statement, Mr Aziz said during the meeting that he was convinced that peace in Afghanistan was critical to peace...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday appointed Syed Tariq Fatemi, a close aide of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, as his special assistant on foreign affairs...
1A of Schedule V-A of the said rules, has been pleased to appoint Syed Tariq Fatemi, as special assistant to the prime minister on foreign affairs, with immediate effect...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday withdrew the foreign affairs portfolio from Tariq Fatemi a day after appointing him as his special assistant on foreign affairs...
Fatemi had served as the SAPM on foreign affairs during the previous PML-N government under Nawaz but was removed in 2017 for his alleged role in 'Dawn leaks' — a story published in Dawn that reported the details of a high-level civil-military meeting discussing...
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly session was prorogued on Friday without taking up any agenda item on the last day, as Deputy Speaker Zahid Akram Durrani provided full opportunity to Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Mufti Abdul Shakoor to deliver a speech during the question hour to justify his recent visits to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia in the wake of criticism in some circles...
Previously, he said, the...
ISLAMABAD: Government spending on running 54 trade offices in more than 30 countries jumped by more than a quarter in the previous fiscal year...
Official documents available with Dawn show that government spending on overseas trade offices rose 27...
ISLAMABAD: Former Foreign Office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam on Thursday introduced her successor Qazi Khalilullah at a media briefing in Islamabad, where he said that Pakistan has always asked India to refrain from interfering in Pakistan's internal matters, and maintained that in the future they would continue to remind India to do so...
Radio Pakistan reported the FO spokesperson as saying that the government has provided proof of...
NEW DELHI: Terming it as an interference in India's internal affairs, India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Monday said Pakistan should refrain from issuing statements on the recent unrest in India-held Kashmir"We have seen statements from Pakistan on the situation in Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir...
They reflect Pakistan's continued attachment to terrorism & its usage as an instrument of state policy," reads the statement...
THE Pakistan Cricket Board mostly remains under a plethora of criticism on various counts, mostly owing to the performance of national team(s)...
A dispassionate look at the cricketing affairs however makes it abundantly clear that an organisation that has coped with so much adversity with such aplomb cannot be that poorly run...
WASHINGTON: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent statement violates all United Nations and international charters against non-interference in internal affairs of other countries, Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry said in an interview with Dawn on Saturday...
And Jalil Abbas Jilani, Pakistan’s Ambassador to Washington, believes that Mr Modi’s statement shows India’s nervousness with the situation in held Kashmir...
The Ministry of Religious Affairs on Friday issued a statement of clarification regarding an exemption from additional tax for Pakistanis performing more than one Umrah within two years, saying that a reply from the Saudi government in this regard was still awaited...
The spokesperson said that the Minister for Religious Affairs Noorul Haq Qadri had also raised the issue before the Saudi information minister and Saudi ambassador to...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s external environment will remain challenging throughout 2020 which will have serious implications for its economy, security and internal stability, says a report published by a local think tank...
The think tank, Islamabad Policy Institute, believes that tense relations with India would continue to consume much of Pakistan’s strategic and diplomatic bandwidth...
India on Saturday took exception to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's unequivocal support for the people of Indian occupied Kashmir (IoK) and told Turkey to "not interfere in India's internal affairs...
"According to ANI news agency, Indian Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar responded to President Erdogan's statement by saying: “India rejects all references to Jammu and Kashmir, which is an integral and...
Pakistan has said that Hong Kong's affairs are an internal matter of China, underscoring the importance of not interfering in the domestic affairs of sovereign states...
Pakistan made the comments while speaking on behalf of 55 countries at a UN panel, in response to a statement by Germany urging China to respect the rights of Uighur Muslims and expressing concern about the political situation in Hong Kong...