ISLAMABAD: Amid a deepening political deadlock that has gripped Pakistan for months, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif asserted on Friday that the government was not demanding the exclusion of Imran Khan, the jailed founder of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, as a prerequisite for negotiations.
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Rivals swap nuclear site lists, but Pakistan flags concerns over Indian dam project
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India exchanged lists of their nuclear installations on Thursday, adhering to a longstanding agreement aimed at preventing attacks on such facilities, even as Islamabad raised fresh concerns over New Delhi’s plans for a hydroelectric project that it said could violate a separate water-sharing treaty.
At a funeral in Dhaka, a brief handshake signals a pause in India-Pakistan silence
ISLAMABAD: In a brief but symbolic encounter, the speaker of the National Assembly, Ayaz Sadiq, shook hands with India’s foreign minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, on Wednesday during a funeral in the Bangladeshi capital, marking the first high-level contact between officials from the two nuclear-armed neighbors since a military clash in May that brought relations to a new low.
Pakistan balances ties with Saudi Arabia and UAE as Yemen rift deepens Gulf tensions
ISLAMABAD: As rivalries between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates intensified over Yemen, Pakistan’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Ishaq Dar, held a telephone conversation on Tuesday with his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, to address the “current regional situation and recent developments,” the Foreign Office said.
Imran Khan and wife appeal 17-year Toshakhana convictions in Islamabad High Court
ISLAMABAD: Imran Khan, the imprisoned founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and the country’s former prime minister, and his wife, Bushra Bibi, filed separate appeals on Monday in the Islamabad High Court challenging their convictions in a high-profile corruption case involving state gifts, known as Toshakhana 2.
PTI says dialogue will follow only after ‘level playing field’ is won on streets
LAHORE: Leaders of Pakistan’s main opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party insisted on Sunday that they would only enter into negotiations with the government on equal terms, pledging to continue street protests until authorities recognise their demands for fairness in politics.
At mother’s memorial, Bhutto-Zardari calls for dialogue to end political polarization
GARHI KHUDA BAKHSH: In a fervent appeal for national unity amid deepening political divisions, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, the chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party, said on Saturday his father, President Asif Ali Zardari, stood as the singular figure capable of bridging the country’s bitter partisan rifts and guiding it through intertwined political and economic crises.
Pakistan, UAE reaffirm commitment to closer economic and strategic cooperation
ISLAMABAD: Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the president of the United Arab Emirates, concluded a one-day official visit to Pakistan on Friday, holding substantive talks with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif that underscored efforts to expand economic ties and cooperation in a range of sectors amid deepening fraternal relations between the two nations.
UAE’s President Sheikh Mohamed heads to Pakistan on first official visit
ISLAMABAD: Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the president of the United Arab Emirates, will arrive in Pakistan on Friday for his first official visit since taking office, a trip aimed at bolstering economic ties between the two nations amid a backdrop of longstanding alliances and mutual interests in the region.
Ten militants, including wanted ringleader, killed in twin border operations
ISLAMABAD: security forces killed 10 militants, including a wanted ringleader with a bounty on his head, in two separate operations in the country’s restive border regions, the military said on Thursday, as violence flared anew in the northwest with clashes that wounded three soldiers and at least 20 civilians.