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KARACHI, PakistanPakistan on Thursday clarified that there is no backdoor diplomacy with arch-rival India at the moment.State Minister for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar told the upper house – the Senate – that there has been no backchannel diplomacy between the two nuclear-armed neighbors “untold to the rest of ...

KARACHI, PakistanThe speaker of Pakistan's lower house accepted the resignations of another 43 lawmakers from the key opposition party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday, officials and local media reported.The move came just days after Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf accepted the resignations of 69 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ...

KARACHI, Pakistan Former Pakistani army officers do not foresee any change in the military's current approach towards the country's future "political and constitutional course" despite huge crowds spilling out in support of former Prime Minister Imran Khan following his ouster. Khan, whose Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) came into power after the ...

KABUL, AfghanistanThe Afghan interim government has arrested over 670 militants of Daesh/ISIS, also known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP or ISIS-K), during the last three months, the Taliban spokesman said, adding that there is no place for these terrorists in Afghanistan.During an exclusive interview with Anadolu ...

KARACHI, Pakistan A Pakistani think tank claims to have debunked reports by several international and domestic NGOs that girls from the minority Hindu community are being forced to convert to Islam in the country, mainly in the southern Sindh province.“There is no evidence suggesting that non-Muslims, including underage girls, have ...

By Aamir LatifKARACHI, PakistanThere are no longer backdoor contacts with India to resume the long-stalled talks between the two nuclear neighbors, Pakistan's national security advisor said Saturday.The contacts, according to Moeed Yusuf, have been abandoned because New Delhi failed to take any confidence building measures, mainly the reversal of ...

By Aamir LatifKARACHI, PakistanThere are no longer backdoor contacts with India to resume the long-stalled talks between the two nuclear neighbors, Pakistan's national security advisor said Saturday.The contacts, according to Moeed Yusuf, have been abandoned because New Delhi failed to take any confidence building measures, mainly the reversal of ...

KARACHI, PakistanPakistan said on Monday that the country has not yet reported a new “Indian strain” of the coronavirus – a “double-mutant” variant – considered to be responsible for a recent spike in infections in India.Syed Sajid Shah, a spokesman for the Health Ministry, told reporters on Monday that ...

KARACHI, PakistanPakistan said on Monday that the country has not yet reported a new “Indian strain” of the coronavirus – a “double-mutant” variant – considered to be responsible for a recent spike in infections in India.Syed Sajid Shah, a spokesman for the Health Ministry, told reporters on Monday that ...

KARACHI, PakistanA report released by a Pakistani think-tank has debunked claims of several international and domestic NGOs that the minority community in the country was being forced to convert to Islam. Titled Forced Conversations or Faith Conversations: Rhetoric and Reality, the study published by the Institute of Policy Studies ...