ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top military commander said on Wednesday a lasting peace with Afghanistan is impossible unless the Taliban regime severs its support for terrorist organisations operating from its soil.
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Sharif briefs parties on US-Israeli strikes that killed Khamenei and Pakistan’s war against Afghan Taliban
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif convened an in-camera briefing for parliamentary party leaders on Wednesday to address the rapidly deteriorating security situation across Pakistan’s western frontiers and the wider Middle East, where US and Israeli attacks have killed Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and triggered wider instability.
Turkey offers to broker new Pakistan-Afghanistan ceasefire as border operation enters second week
ISLAMABAD: Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered to help re-establish a ceasefire between Pakistan and Afghanistan, as security forces inflicted heavy losses on Afghan Taliban positions in a sustained cross-border campaign, officials said on Tuesday.
Defence minister Asif says century-old Zionist control of global economy lies behind war on Iran
ISLAMABAD: Defence minister Khawaja Asif has accused Israel of orchestrating a wider “Zionist agenda” through the conflict with Iran, saying its true aim is to extend Israeli influence as far as Pakistan’s borders and surround the nuclear-armed nation with hostile forces.
Pakistan to hold closed-door parliamentary briefing on Middle East crisis
ISLAMABAD: The government has summoned parliamentary leaders to an in-camera briefing on Wednesday to address the rapidly deteriorating situation across the Middle East, as it attempts to build cross-party consensus on a response that balances sensitive diplomatic relationships and national security concerns.
Pakistan offers to host US-Iran talks as Dar condemns ‘sudden’ strikes on Tehran
ISLAMABAD: Deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Ishaq Dar, told the Senate on Tuesday that Islamabad stood ready to mediate directly between Washington and Tehran, even as he expressed deep concern over a US-Israeli military strike on Iran that came despite what he described as promising diplomatic progress.
Why Pakistan Is Collateral Damage in the Hormuz Shock
The Strait of Hormuz never had to be formally blockaded. Risk aversion did the job anyway. In the 48 hours since US and Israeli attacks escalated against Iran, global oil markets have lurched higher by as much as 13%, Brent crude has traded near $78-$79 a barrel, and tanker traffic at the world’s most critical energy chokepoint has simply frozen in place.
Pakistan dismisses US-Israeli strike fears as ‘devoid of facts’
ISLAMABAD: A senior Pakistani security official has dismissed as baseless any suggestion that Islamabad could become the next target of US-Israeli military action in the wake of fresh strikes on Iran, describing the speculation as “devoid of facts” and the work of “agents of chaos”, Dawn Newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Pakistan strikes Taliban drone depot and ammunition site in Afghanistan as cross-border offensive intensifies
ISLAMABAD: Security forces destroyed a drone storage facility and an ammunition depot operated by the Afghan Taliban in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, an official said on Monday, part of an escalating military campaign that has triggered the most serious clashes between the two countries in years.
Pakistan offers to mediate as it calls for de-escalation after assassination of Iran’s supreme leader
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is engaged in intensive diplomatic efforts to calm the crisis in the Middle East after US and Israeli strikes on Iran killed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s foreign minister and deputy prime minister, Ishaq Dar, said on Monday.