Posts tagged as: Afghanistan

Yousaf Raza Gilani highlights trust deficit between Pakistan and US

Yousaf Raza Gilani highlights trust deficit between Pakistan and US Pakistan Prime Minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, while speaking at the Davos forum criticised the resumption of drone strikes by the US in his country and insisted that there was critical trust deficit between the two countries. “Drones are counter-productive. We have very ably isolated militants […]

Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) comes under rocket attack

Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) comes under rocket attack On Friday, January 27, 2012 alleged terrorists in an unprecedented move, launched a rocket attack on Pakistan’s top military academy, PMA Kakul in the town of Abbottabad. According to sources, the attack did not claim any life and only damaged the outer wall of the academy in […]

PFF looking to schedule friendly foreign tie on FIFA match day

The Pakistan Football Federation is reportedly looking to entice another foreign team to play the Green-Shirts at home on the 29th of February. Under Zavisa Milosavljevic’s management skills, Pakistan were able to put up a decent performance in the SAFF Cup in December. The Serbian tactician masterminded three draws but the results are seen as […]

Pakistan sticks on Iran gas pipeline project

Pakistan sticks on Iran gas pipeline project Despite the threat of sanctions from the United States, Pakistan refused to abandon the multibillion-dollar Iran gas pipeline project, saying the project between the neighboring states was beyond the scope of US sanctions imposed against Tehran. “Pakistan is committed to the Pak-Iran gas pipeline and sanctions do not […]

Supreme Court directs FIA to arrest PM’s former media adviser

Supreme Court directs FIA to arrest PM’s former media adviser Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary informed Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) director General Tehseen Javed of contempt of court proceedings, if he failed to arrest Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s former media adviser. PM’s former adviser is purportedly accused of being involved in the fraud case […]

Islamabad looks forward to build ties with Afghanistan: Salman Bashir

Islamabad looks forward to build ties with Afghanistan: Salman Bashir Islamabad: (Wednesday, January 25, 2012) Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said today that Pakistan was enthusiastic about building ties with Afghanistan. Talking to the reporters after attending the meeting convened by National Assembly Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Bashir said Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar will […]

American special representative for Af-Pak region dismisses speculation of talks with the Taliban

No peace talks with the Taliban this week: That was the short message on Sunday from the American envoy charged with starting those negotiations. Stopping here in Kabul this weekend on his way to Qatar, where the insurgents are in the process of opening an office, the envoy, Marc Grossman, implicitly rejected reports that he […]

Hina Rabbani Khar all set to visit Moscow as Pakistan seek a shift in decades-old foreign policy

Hina Rabbani Khar all set to visit Moscow as Pakistan seek a shift in decades-old foreign policy Pakistan’s foreign minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, is expected to visit Russia in the first half of February to formally invite the Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to visit Pakistan. Pakistan is extending a hand of renewed relations with Moscow […]

Senior Al-Qaida leader was killed in the recent Drone strikes in Pakistan – US officials

Senior Al-Qaida leader was killed in the recent Drone strikes in Pakistan – US officials According to US officials Al-Qaida’s senior operations organizer, Aslam Awan, a Pakistani national from Abbottabad was targeted and killed in one of two US drone strikes last week in Pakistan. Awan was from the same town where US Special Forces […]

France suspends joint operations in Afghanistan; contemplates withdrawal

France suspends joint operations in Afghanistan; contemplates withdrawal Paris: (Friday, January 20, 2012) French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said that after the death of four of its troops in the hands of an Afghan soldier, France has decided to suspend all its training and joint operations in Afghanistan and has started to contemplate on an […]

NATO supply-line blockade increases cost six times

After Pakistan closed the two key border crossings used to supply NATO troops in Afghanistan, the U.S. is bearing six times more expenditures for sending war supplies to allied forces battling in the region. Almost a couple of months ago, Pakistan took stern action, closing the supply line, after a NATO airstrike killed at least 24 […]

Prime Minister Gilani rejects chances of dictatorship

Embattled Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has asserted that there were not chances for dictatorship in the country, once again. Despite ruling the country for decades, he said dictators could not eliminate corruption. “They still say that the nation is missing them and they want to come back. We want to tell them that […]

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