Tag: Government of Pakistan

ANKARA Pakistan responded Sunday to the Afghan interim administration's strong official protest over the killings of at least eight refugees in an airstrike and artillery shelling on its territory.A statement issued by a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad did not categorically accept responsibility for the airstrike ...

Pakistan Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa while addressing the Islamabad Security Dialogue has called for dialogue to resolve all disputes with India. Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurated the dialogue on Friday. The conference brought together Pakistani and international policy experts to discuss ...

Amid the looming no-confidence motion against his government, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan met Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa on Friday. The meeting is being speculated to have revolved around the recent political developments in the country, with the local media reporting that the agenda ...

KARACHI, Pakistan Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan will head to Russia for a two-day visit on Feb. 23 at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the government confirmed on Monday. This will be Khan’s maiden trip to Russia and the first by a Pakistani prime minister since 1999.He will ...

KARACHI, Pakistan Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan will head to Russia for a two-day visit on Feb. 23 at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the government confirmed on Monday. This will be Khan’s maiden trip to Russia and the first by a Pakistani prime minister since 1999.He will ...

KARACHI, PakistanAnti-narcotics teams in Pakistan on Sunday seized a huge cache of drugs worth billions on international markets.The drugs, which included 304 kilograms of heroin and 500 kg of hashish, were seized during a raid in the port city of Karachi, said Mukesh Kumar Chawla, Sindh province minister, in ...

KARACHI, Pakistan Pakistan on Sunday released 20 Indian fishermen who were imprisoned for unlawfully entering its territorial waters, the Interior Ministry said.The fishermen were released from a jail in the port city of Karachi and transported to the northeastern Lahore city, where they will be handed over to Indian authorities ...

KARACHI, PakistanA Pakistani court on Wednesday convicted four people for their involvement in a bombing in the northeastern city of Lahore last year, handing them the death penalty on nine counts, a court record and local media reported.The verdict was announced by a single-judge Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in a ...

KARACHI, PakistanA Pakistani court on Wednesday convicted four people for their involvement in a bombing in the northeastern city of Lahore last year, handing them the death penalty on nine counts, a court record and local media reported.The verdict was announced by a single-judge Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in a ...

Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif's application for visa extension has been turned down by the UK Home Office with the right to appeal, according to media reports on Friday. Sharif, 71, convicted in two corruption cases in Pakistan, has been living in London, UK, ...