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, [...]
China on Tuesday gave its firmest government confirmation yet of plans to build two new nuclear reactors for Pakistan, but a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said she did not know about talks over a bigger reactor deal. The spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, said China planned to help Pakistan expand the Chashma nuclear energy complex by building two [...]
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 [...]
Pakistan Army has rescued 1296 flood affected people near Mancher Lake and provided cooked food to 18913 people in Sindh. Army has distributed 13 tons rations and treated 160954 people in flood affected areas of Sindh in last 24 hours. According to ISPR, Army Engineers are busy in plugging the breaches at Ghouspur bund in [...]
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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