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President Asif Ali Zardari Thursday urged the United States to revisit its drone attack policy in Pakistani tribal areas. Talking to a delegation of US Senate Foreign Relations Committee headed by its Chairman Senator Robert Menendez in Islamabad, President Zardari termed drone attack as counterproductive that are causing great damage at popular level and […]
Pakistan on Thursday demanded Afghan Government to hand over a senior Pakistani Taliban leader who was arrested by the Afghan authorities this week. Afghan intelligence officials have confirmed to the media the arrest of Maulvi Faqir Muhammad, former deputy of Pakistani Taliban, in eastern Afghanistan. Faqir, who had been chief of Taliban in […]
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf Tuesday announced support for intra-Afghan dialogue in meeting with a senior visiting Afghan leader, a clear message to the Taliban to join the peace process. Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq, Member Afghan Parliament and Head of the Shiite ‘Hizb-e-Wahadat Mardam-e-Afghan Party’ is visiting Islamabad at the invitation of the Pakistani government […]
The Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) will boycott the proposed Afghan Ulema Conference scheduled to be held in Kabul in March, Chairman PUC, member Islamic Ideological Council Hafiz Mohammad Tahir Ashrafi said Wednesday. Addressing a news conference, he said various parties including Wafaq ul Maradis Arabia,Tahafuz e Madaris e Deenia, Jamiat Ulema e Islam Fazal, […]
Interior Minister Rehman Malik Saturday said that Taliban are neither serious nor sincere in talks with the government. The remarks came days after the Taliban offered conditional talks with the government, who also sought guarantee of three senior Pakistani religious and political leaders. The Taliban spokesman, Ehsanullah Ehsan, had also called for the […]
Kainat Riaz, who was injured in the Taliban attack on Malala Yousafzai in Swat, says that she now leads a restricted life as she cannot go to school and visit close relatives without police guards. “I used to go freely to meet my grandmother and to learn Quran in madrassa after school time but […]
Pakistan has reiterated its stand that strikes by U.S. spy aircraft in the country’s tribal regions are violation of international laws, Washington has justified the CIA-controlled operation. The issue of U.S drone strikes in Pakistan has been a major irritant in bilateral relationship for years and the latest different stance shows the problem remains […]
British Prime Minister, David Cameron, President Asif Ali Zardari and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai on Monday supported Taliban office in Qatar for talks with the Afghan authorities. Cameron hosted the Pakistani and Afghan leaders at Chequers for the two-day summit, who affirmed that they supported the opening of an office in Doha for […]
President Asif Ali Zardari Friday left for London on Friday to attend a trilateral summit, to be hosted by British Prime Minister David Cameron, and will be attended by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, official said. The summit will discuss cooperation of the three countries for peace and security in the war-torn Afghanistan, they said. […]
A Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls’ education is to return to a specialist hospital in Britain for surgery to reconstruct her skull, Reuters news agency reported on Wednesday. Fifteen-year-old Malala Yousufzai, who was shot in October 2102 and brought to Britain for treatment, was discharged from the […]
Italy honored Malala Yousafzai, the girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban in the terror-struck valley Swat back in 2012, with the honorary citizenship, say media reports. The Italian government decided to honor her in a special meeting of Metropolitan. According to the Metropolitan, the honorary citizenship was given to Malala […]
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has said that the demands put forward by the Minhajul Quran International (MQI) head, Dr Tahirul Qadri, were the collective voice of the people of Pakistan. In a press release issued on Monday, Altaf said that the demands of Dr Qadri should be accepted immediately, and no […]
