ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan reached a tentative accord early on Friday to extend a ceasefire along their volatile border, a breakthrough engineered by Turkish and Qatari mediators after days of deadlock in negotiations.
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Pakistan keeps Taliban talks alive after Turkey calls to give peace “another chance”
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan agreed on Thursday to extend high-stakes talks with the Afghan Taliban, heeding Turkey’s plea to give peace “another chance”, but only if Kabul delivers “clear, verifiable and effective action” against militants staging deadly attacks on Pakistan from its soil, security officials said.
Trump says he stopped India-Pakistan war by threatening 250 percent tariffs on both nations
ISLAMABAD: President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he ended a perilous four-day war this spring between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, in which seven warplanes were shot down, by threatening to slap 250 percent tariffs on exports from both countries unless they halted the fighting within 48 hours.
Six soldiers, including a captain, martyred in clash with militants in northwest Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Six soldiers from the Pakistani Army, including a captain, were martyred during an intense gun battle with militants in the rugged hills of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, the military said on Wednesday, in the latest flare-up of violence along the country’s volatile border with Afghanistan.
Pakistan condemns renewed Israeli strikes that killed over 100 in Gaza
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday demanded an immediate halt to violations of a fragile Gaza ceasefire, after airstrikes by Israel killed more than 100 Palestinians in the enclave, most of them civilians, including dozens of children.
Pakistan warns of deep strikes into Afghanistan if Taliban fails to curb militants
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s defence minister warned on Wednesday that the country would strike “deep into Afghanistan” if the Taliban regime allowed its territory to be used for terrorist attacks against Pakistan, escalating tensions after the collapse of mediated peace talks in Istanbul.
Pakistan bars 290 from banned Islamist group from leaving country
ISLAMABAD: The Interior Ministry has added 290 leaders, financiers and activists from the banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan to the Provisional National Identification List, barring them from foreign travel, officials said Tuesday.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa CM denied jail access to Imran Khan for third time
RAWALPINDI: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s political impasse deepened on Tuesday when Chief Minister Sohail Afridi was again denied access to Adiala Jail to consult the imprisoned founder of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, Imran Khan, despite court orders permitting the meeting.
Pakistan to join regional diplomats in Turkey to advance Gaza peace plan
ISLAMABAD: As a fragile ceasefire holds in Gaza after two years of devastating war, Pakistan said on Tuesday that it would send its top diplomat to Turkey next week for a pivotal meeting of foreign ministers from eight Arab and Muslim-majority nations, aimed at fleshing out the next phases of a United States-backed peace plan.
Pakistan-Afghanistan talks collapse in Istanbul, Islamabad vows ‘all possible measures’ against cross-border terror
ISLAMABAD: Negotiations between Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban aimed at curbing cross-border terrorism unravelled in Istanbul after four days of fitful discussions, with Pakistani officials declaring the latest round a failure and pledging to take “all possible measures” to shield their citizens from terror attacks.