KARACHI: Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif must raise the issue of Dr Aafia Siddiqui in his address to the General Assembly of United Nations, demanded the participants of a demo here on Tuesday. The demo was arranged jointly by Aafia Movement and civil society organizations in front of the Karachi Press Club (KPC) to...
NEW YORK: President Barack Obama on Monday agreed with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that Kashmir is a bilateral issue to be resolved between India and Pakistan as they held talks here. “There was a broad acknowledgement that this is a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan and people were happy for India and Pakistan...
UNITED NATIONS: Amid a chill in bilateral relations, waving at each other was all that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif did on Monday as they attended the UN peacekeeping summit. Assembling for the Leaders’ Summit on Peacekeeping hosted by US president Barack Obama, Modi walked into the conference hall first....
UNITED NATIONS: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday announced Pakistan’s resolve to continue contributing peacekeeping personnel and infantry to international missions. “We are pledging an infantry battalion, transport, engineering and signals companies, additional utility helicopters, a level-II and level-III hospital, and a canine platoon for deployment to future UN peacekeeping missions,” Nawaz said while addressing...
NEW YORK: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has described his meetings with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and heads of state and government on the fringes of 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly as positive and productive. Talking to newsmen in New York, he said these meetings provided an opportunity to exchange views...
NEW YORK: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met Korean President Ms. Park Geun-hye and President of Senegal Macky Sall on the sidelines of the 70th UNGA Session in New York on Sunday. During meeting with ROK President, the two leaders expressed satisfaction at the positive trajectory of bilateral relations. Pakistan proposed to establish a mechanism for Strategic Dialogue...
NEW YORK: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not have a bilateral meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif during his current visit to the US, officials said. “As of now there is nothing, no bilateral meeting on the schedule,” Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Vikas Swarup told reporters here. Modi and Sharif are staying in...
NEW YORK: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi will stay at the same hotel here, as speculation grows on whether the two leaders will meet when they arrive in the city for the landmark 70th UN General Assembly session this week. Modi, who arrives on Wednesday evening, will stay at the...
Speaking at the Lahore Airport to the media, former federal senior minister Mushahid Ullah Khan said he is happy over his resignation. He has returned the Prime Minister’s favor in selecting him minister. He explained his early statements made during the infamous BBC interview, as a result of which the PML-N unleashed harsh criticism against...
India has removed the mask of peace and acting like befuddle elephant. India accused of Pakistan baseless and violated the ceasefire. On Eid Indian organization Shiv Sena attacked on “Dosti Bus” in Dehli and harassed the passengers and shouted slogans against Pakistan. A few days ago, Indian forces resorted to unprovoked firing and motor shelling...