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The National Assembly was told on Friday that a recent militant attack on Indian security forces in the Indian-held Kashmir will not affect the upcoming summit meeting of Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh. Indian officials say the militants Thursday attacked a police station near the Line of Control Pakistan and […]
A bomb blast in a bus of government employees killed 20 persons near Peshawar on Friday, police and witnesses said. Police said that over 40 more people, including employees, of the Peshawar Secretariat were also injured in the blast on Charsadda road. The bus was carrying government employees and was heading to Charsadda, a main […]
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said Pakistan is committed to peaceful use of nuclear energy and does not want an arms race in South Asia. Addressing UN Disarmament Conference in New York‚ he said the international community should do away with discriminatory nuclear policy as it has harmed the world peace. The Prime Minister said […]
Speaking at the High-level meeting of the UN Security Council, Adviser to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Mr. Sartaj Aziz, has called for an end to the use of drone strikes. The Adviser reiterated Pakistan’s stance that drone strikes violated international law, including international humanitarian law, and were also detrimental to […]
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says the Taliban will have to renounce terrorism if peace talks are to move forward. The Prime Minister said, “we evolved a consensus… on a joint strategy to put an end to terrorism in Pakistan [through peace talks].” The Prime Minister told the Wall Street Journal during his first visit to […]
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan says 348 people confirmed dead in the 7.7 intensity of powerful earthquake that struck Balochistan province on Tuesday. Nisar told the National Assembly that the death toll can further rise as some areas are still inaccessible due to lack of roads. He said that C-130 military transport will start […]
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has called for a renewed and strengthened global partnership that should be beyond official development assistance and be based on market access, transfer of new technologies, climate finance and domestic resource mobilization. In his statement to the High Level Event on reviewing the progress made in the implementation of the Millennium […]
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has proposed the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan should open their office for the peace talks with the government. Talking to reporters at Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) after visiting injured if the Church suicide bombings on Wednesday also advised the government to open for talks with the Taliban. He was […]
Death toll has risen to 328 in a major earthquake that struck Awaran District of Balochistan, Spokesperson of Balochistan government Jaan Balaidi said on Wednesday. The powerful earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale had hit Awaran and some other parts of the province on Tuesday. Officials say that nearly 95 percent houses in the […]
Pakistan on Wednesday summoned Afghan envoy to the Foreign Ministry and was lodged a formal protest over cross-border mortar fire from the Afghan side in North Waziristan tribal region which killed two Pakistanis yesterday. Security officials in the region said earlier that several rockets were fired from Afghan side of the border into Pakistan Ghulam […]
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has urged world the community to focus on trade and not aid for the economic development. Addressing a high-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in New York on Wednesday‚ he said the development agenda should not be based on aid alone. He said that he is an advocate of trade and […]
Death toll from the powerful earthquake, measuring 7.7 on Richter scale, has crossed the figure of 200 as more bodies were recovered from the rubble of destroyed buildings on Wednesday, officials said. The earthquake struck Balochistan and Sindh provinces and destroyed hundreds of houses, officials said. Awaran and Kech districts of Balochistan were the worst […]
