Days after the meeting between President Donald Trump and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, the Pentagon notified the Congress on Friday of its decision to approve military sales worth USD 125 million that would result in 24×7 end-use monitoring of the F-16 fighter jets of Pakistan. “The State Department has made a determination approving a […]
At least seven people were reportedly killed and three injured in separate rain-related incidents as torrential rain continue across Pakistan. According to rescue sources, one woman along her one-year-old boy lost their lives as rainwater flooded their house’s basement in Rawalpindi. Another young boy drowned while swimming near the Sehala Bridge, Express Tribune reported. Separately, […]
Islamabad: Pakistan on Wednesday summoned India’s Deputy High Commissioner and condemned the alleged “unprovoked ceasefire violations” by Indian troops across the Line of Control which resulted in the death of two Pakistani civilians. Director General (South Asia and SAARC) Mohammad Faisal, who is also the foreign ministry spokesman, summoned Gaurav Ahluwalia and “condemned the unprovoked ceasefire […]
Washington: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan said Tuesday he would meet with the Taliban after returning to his country, as part of efforts to end 18 years of war in Afghanistan. Khan spoke in Washington on his first official trip to the United States, where President Donald Trump hosted him at the White House a day […]
Srinagar: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said that he was surprised by the reaction of India to US President Donald Trump’s offer of mediation to bring his country and India to the dialogue table for resolving Kashmir conflict. Trump in a joint presser with Khan expressed willingness to mediate between India and Pakistan for […]
Islamabad:Nine people, including six policemen, were killed in a double attack in in Pakistan’s northwestern town of Dera Ismail Khan on Sunday. Unidentified gunmen on four motorcycles first attacked the Kotla Saidan checkpost in a residential area, killing two policemen and fled the scene. Later, a suicide blast took place at the hospital where the […]
Islamabad: A day after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) suspended Kulbhushan Jadhav’s death sentence and granted consular access to him, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in his first reaction appreciated the ICJ decision of “not to acquit, release and return him”. “Appreciate ICJ’s decision not to acquit, release & return Commander Kulbhushan Jadhav to […]
New Delhi: Pakistan opened its airspace for all civilian traffic on Tuesday morning, sources said, effectively removing the ban on Indian flights that were not allowed to use majority of its airspace since the Balakot air strikes in February. The move is expected to give a major relief to Air India, which suffered a huge financial […]
Islamabad: Pakistan and Afghanistan have resumed talks to iron out differences in the way of transit treaty after a three-year hiatus. A Dawn report said the talks between the two neighbours had collapsed in September 2015 after Kabul insisted on including India in transit treaty negotiations and the trilateral trade agreement involving Pakistan, Afghanistan and […]
Pakistan has declined a request to open its airspace until India de-escalates, Aviation Secretary Shahrukh Nusrat told a parliamentary committee, Dawn reported. “The Indian government approached asking us to open the airspace. We conveyed our concerns that first India must withdraw its fighter planes placed forward,” Nusrat told the Senate Standing Committee on Aviation. The […]
