ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told leaders of a major Asian security bloc on Tuesday that water “must never be weaponised,” using a summit stage to press neighbouring India on a decades-old river-sharing treaty just a day after an international tribunal ruled that India could not unilaterally suspend it.
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PM Sharif meets Iranian Pezeshkian in Kyrgyzstan as Tehran-Washington conflict reignites
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met on Monday with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of a regional summit in Bishkek, pressing the case for diplomatic restraint just hours after the United States and Iran exchanged their first direct strikes in more than a month, reigniting a war that has simmered since February.
Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia open first defence talks under new mutual-security pact
ISLAMABAD: Senior Pakistani officials arrived in Turkey for the first formal meeting of a strategic committee established under a new trilateral defence pact with Turkey and Saudi Arabia, which commits each nation to treat an attack on any one of them as an attack on all three.
Eight officials suspended, face criminal charges over deadly Islamabad hospital fire
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered the suspension of eight hospital and government officials on Saturday and directed that criminal charges be filed against them, after an official inquiry into a nursery fire that killed 14 newborns found the hospital lacked basic fire alarms, a workable evacuation plan, and had ignored warnings from a nearly identical fire just weeks earlier.
Azad Kashmir swears in new premier after contested nomination, narrow party revolt
MUZAFFARABAD: Barrister Syed Iftikhar Ali Gillani, a 46-year-old lawyer whose political career has been defined as much by sudden reversals as by steady ambition, was sworn in on Friday as prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, capping a 15-year rise that included an unlikely by-election upset, a cabinet post, an electoral defeat, and finally a phone call from the top of his party that few had seen coming.
Pakistan says army chief Munir went to Iran as mediator, not Trump envoy
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Thursday pushed back hard against reports that the country’s top military officer travelled to Iran last week on behalf of US President Donald Trump, insisting that Field Marshal Asim Munir went to Tehran as a mediator acting for Pakistan, not as an emissary of the United States.
Pakistan seeks to revive Iran-US truce, but Pentagon keeps strikes ‘on the Table’
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Tuesday it had made “significant progress” toward reviving a fractured peace framework between Iran and the United States, following a day-long visit by the country’s top military and security officials to Tehran, even as US officials signalled they had not ruled out further military action against Iran.
Pakistan’s army chief Munir returns to Tehran as peace track stalls, US ramps up economic pressure
Pakistan’s top military officer arrived in the Iranian capital on Monday for another round of talks aimed at salvaging a peace process that has largely stalled in recent weeks, even as the Trump administration unveiled a sweeping new sanctions campaign designed to further isolate Tehran from the global economy.
Pakistan’s military chief returns to Tehran as US prepares toughest sanctions yet on Iran
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top military officer arrived in the Iranian capital on Monday for his fourth visit since the outbreak of the war between Iran and the United States, meeting with Iran’s interior minister just hours before Washington was set to unveil what US officials have billed as the harshest round of sanctions ever imposed on the Islamic Republic.
Pakistan’s army chief heads to Tehran in new push to revive US-Iran peace talks
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, will travel to Tehran on Monday for talks with senior Iranian officials, according to a statement from Iran’s foreign ministry, in the latest sign that Islamabad is trying to keep alive a fragile diplomatic channel between Washington and Tehran even as the two governments show little appetite for direct talks.