Pakistan Navy ships Shamsheer, Quwwat, Jalalat and submarine Khalid arrived in Muscat on an official visit. The three ships and the submarine will stay in Muscat for exercises in partnership with the Royal Navy of Oman till January 15, informed the mission commander, Commodore Farrokh Ahmad SI (M) in a press conference at Port Sultan [...]
“It’s not Muslims, but Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activists who planned and executed the bomb blasts at Malegaon in 2006, on the Samjhauta Express in 2007, in Ajmer Sharif in 2007 and Mecca Masjid in 2007,” confessed Swami Aseemanand, the main accused of 2007 Samjhauta Express blast in front of a magistrate at a Central [...]
Bitter memories of the 1965 and 1971 wars with India were revisited in the Senate on Tuesday when Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi made a shocking disclosure in writing that 18 personnel of the Pakistan Army captured in the two wars had gone missing in Indian jails. Talking to our sources after the Senate session, [...]
The civil nuclear power cooperation between Pakistan and China is in line with the international obligation and totally for peaceful purpose and meets International Automatic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguard and inspection. The Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu in a regular press briefing here Tuesday said this while responding to questions on China’s cooperation for Chashma [...]
Turkish Prime Minister Racep Tayyip Erdogan will undertake a visit to Pakistan soon “as an expression of solidarity” with the flood-affected people, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi Monday. Davutoglu said that the people of Turkey, like always, stand solidly behind their Pakistan brothers and sisters at this difficult moment. [...]
Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday underlined importance of Kashmir issue and condemned human rights violations in India held-Kashmir. “We condemn violations of human rights in held Kashmir. It is an important issue and Monday’s resolution has sensitized international community on these violations,” he said in National Assembly in response to a point raised [...]
Major General Malek Salameh Habashneh, Commander Royal Jordanian Air Force called on Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, General Tariq Majid at Joint Staff Headquarters and discussed professional matters related to progress in bilateral defence cooperation and recent regional security developments especially in the Middle East and Afghanistan. According to ISPR General Tariq Majid also [...]
Foreign Minister, Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi met Foreign Minister of Turkey, Mr. Ahmet Davutoglu on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, says a press release received here today from New York. Foreign Minister Qureshi thanked his counterpart for substantive relief assistance provided by the people and Government of Turkey to flood [...]
Foreign Office told the senate that approximately 920 Pakistanis were jailed in India, whereas 203 Indian prisoners were in Pakistan’s jails. During Question Hour, State Minister for Foreign affairs Malik Ammad Khan informed the House that 920 Pakistanis have been reported to be jailed in Indian jail among whom 770 were civilians, 132 fishermen and [...]
China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) is in discussions to build a 1-gigawatt scale nuclear power plant in Pakistan, after having built two there and signed agreements for two other smaller ones, a CNNC executive said on Monday. “After the successful, safe operation of the first 300- megawatt reactor in Chashma…the second reactor is now under [...]
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