Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh, are set to meet in New York Sunday evening to discuss ways to revive the stalled composite dialogue process. Pakistan is hopeful of useful results however India does not expect any breakthrough. Nawaz Sharif says arms race should be stopped and it is upto the […]
An American spy aircraft on Sunday fired missiles into a Pakistan’s tribal region and killed at least four people, security officials said. The unmanned drone fired two missiles on a house near Miranshah, headquarters of North Waziristan tribal region. Identities of the killed are not immediately known. Tribesmen said that the house […]
Prime Minister’s Balochistan Earthquake Relief Fund for the rehabilitation and relief of earthquake affectees of Balochistan has been established in all scheduled banks and people can make donations in this account. Prime Minister’s Balochistan Earthquake Relief Fund 2013 has been established immediately through Finance Division notification. Donations can be deposited in the State […]
Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, used his speech at the UN General Assembly to call for a halt to the attacks by American unnamed spy aircraft in the country’s tribal regions. “The use of armed drones in the border areas of Pakistan is a continued violation of our territorial integrity,” he said. Nawaz Sharif said drone […]
Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, would soon announce a special package for relief and rehabilitation of the quake-hit people of Balochistan, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif Friday said after visiting the earthquake-hit areas in Awaran district. He said the package would take care of immediate and long term needs of the quake affected areas. He announced […]
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 […]
U.S. President Barrack Obama will meet Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the White House on October 23, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday. The US Secretary of State John Kerry called on the Prime Minister in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly and extended the invitation. This high level […]
Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, has said he looked forward to meeting his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh to resume peace efforts between the two countries. He said this in a brief comment following Indian Prime Minister’s statement in which he stated that he would meet the Pakistani leader on the sidelines of UN General Assembly session […]
Suspected militants dressed in army fatigues Thursday killed Indian occupation troops and policemen in a police station and an Army cantonment in occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian media has reported. Over a dozen are injured and more casualties are feared, NDTV reported. The police said four heavily armed terrorists first attacked a police station in […]
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has confirmed his meeting with Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Before his departure for the United States to attend the UN General Assembly session in New York‚ Manmohan Singh said in New Delhi Wednesday that he looks forward to […]
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 […]
Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, has arrived in New York to lead Pakistan’s delegation at the UN General Assembly’s annual session beginning Tuesday, Pakistani officials said. He will address the session on Friday and highlight Pakistan’s foreign policy guidelines and its view point on various regional and international issues. He will inform the UN General Assembly […]