Pakistan's foreign secretary on Tuesday told a United States envoy his country has the “credentials” to join a club of nuclear trading nations, signalling Islamabad may apply alongside India and force a showdown in the consensus-based group next month.
As senior officials from Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States are scheduled to meet in Islamabad soon to discuss prospects for the Afghan peace process, Pakistan believes political negotiation is still the best option to find a solution to the protracted problem.
Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif during a two-day official visit to Beijing met his Chinese counterpart and discussed matters pertaining to security of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on Monday, Radio Pakistan reported.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang met with visiting Pakistani Army Chief General Raheel Sharif on Monday to enhance bilateral economic and security ties.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday the opposition was not entitled to ask questions and advised his adversaries not to assume the role of a judicial commission on the question of the PanamaLeaks.
Key members of US Congress are not prepared to support military aid to Pakistan, said Elizabeth Trudeau, Director Office of Press Relations State Department, underscoring the strains in relations between the two countries.
Pakistan Wednesday said it was deeply saddened over the hanging of Ameer Jamat e Islami Bangladesh Moti ur Rehman Nizami for the alleged crimes committed before December 1971 and termed it against the spirit of democracy.
In an exclusive interview to TOI, former Pakistan envoy to the US Husain Haqqani weighs in on the neighbours' fractured ties and the vexed Kashmir question Consistent engagement or sustained isolation are the only two options between India and Pakistan, says Husain Haqqani, former Pakistan envoy to the US and Sri Lanka."These on-again-off-again talks do not yield results, nor do threats that are not carried out. That's our history," adds Haqqani, a leading South Asia expert and academic as well as a key aide to former Pakistan president Asif Zardari.
Bangladesh's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned Pakistan High Commissioner in Dhaka Shuja Alam to lodge a formal protest over the statement issued by his country on an apex court verdict that paves the way for execution of the country's largest Islamist party chief Motiur Rahman Nizami.
A top Pakistani foreign affairs adviser on Monday regretted that the United States is not duly appreciating the country's struggle against the militants.
Afghanistan plans to take Pakistan to the UN security council over its continuing support to the Taliban, which Kabul says is destabilizing their country. Hekmat Khalil Karzai, deputy foreign minister told TOI in an exclusive chat, that after the deadly Taliban attack in Kabul last week, the Ghani government is exploring the UNSC option.
After months of delay and cancellation, the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan Tuesday met in New Delhi in a bid to revive engagement.
Pakistan has showed serious concerns at the recent Indian tests of a Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile and development of a nuclear submarine fleet.
Pakistan said on Thursday that Afghanistan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah has postponed his upcoming visit to Islamabad.
Pakistan is "cooperating closely" with India on the investigations in Pathankot terror attack, Pakistan's foreign affairs advisor Sartaj Aziz said on Tuesday.
President of Mauritius Bibi Ameenah Firdaus Gurib-Fakim arrived in Pakistan on Sunday on a four-day visit for talks on bilateral matters, officials said.
Pakistan pushed the Afghan Taliban on Thursday to join peace negotiations, just two days after the group launched their annual fighting season that could further complicate efforts for the dialogue.
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