India, Pakistan take a similar diplomatic path on Russia-U...
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan was in Moscow for talks with President Putin on a major gas pipeline deal and regional issues, including Afghan...
Pakistan allows first shipment of Indian wheat to Afghanis...
February 23, 2022
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By: Asad Hashim
Foreign Secretary of India Harsh Vardhan Shringla, right, and Afghan ambassador to India Farid Mamundzay flag off trucks loaded with wheat bags dona...
Pakistan, Iran to form joint working group on border issue...
February 16, 2022
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By: Asad Hashim
Pakistan and Iran share a border of roughly 750km (466 miles) located in Pakistan’s southwest and Iran’s southeast [Naseer Ahmed/Reuters...
Pakistan faces ‘hard choices’ for export growth: Commerce...
February 3, 2022
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By: Asad Hashim
Textiles make up the majority of Pakistan's exports but the government wants to diversify to other sectors [File: Akhtar Soomro /Reuters]
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Pakistan sets up committee to investigate Murree tourists...
January 10, 2022
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By: Asad Hashim
At least 21 people died overnight when they were unable to receive food or medical attention. [Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR)/Handout via...
Pakistan rejects India defence minister’s ‘provocative’ st...
November 23, 2021
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By: Asad Hashim
India's Defence Minister Rajnath Singh [File: Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
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India, Pakistan should not change Kashmir status: UNGA pre...
May 29, 2021
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By: Asad Hashim
Volkan Bozkir completed a three-day visit to Pakistan on Thursday [File: Jussi Nukari/Lehtikuva/Reuters]
India and Pakistan should “refrain...
UAE extends term for $2bn interest-free loan to Pakistan
April 21, 2021
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By: Asad Hashim
Pakistan has announced that the United Arab Emirates has extended the term for a $2bn interest-free loan made in January 2019, as Foreign Minister Sha...
Pakistan PM calls for West to criminalise blasphemy agains...
April 20, 2021
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By: Asad Hashim
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has called for Muslim-majority countries to band together to lobby Western governments to criminalise the insultin...
Pakistan ‘to ban’ far-right religious party after violent...
April 15, 2021
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By: Asad Hashim
A supporter of the Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) party hurls stones towards police (not pictured) during a protest [File: Reuters]
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India, Pakistan agree to stop cross-border firing in Kashm...
Indian army soldiers patrol along the border fence at India-Pakistan Line of Control (LoC) on the forward post of Poonch district [File: Jaipal Sing...
Pakistan accuses India of stoking conflict in Indian Ocean
February 17, 2021
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By: Asad Hashim
Aircraft carriers and warships participate in the second phase of Malabar naval exercise, a joint exercise comprising of India, US, Japan and Austra...
Pakistan: UN report ‘vindicates’ stance on cross-border ‘t...
February 9, 2021
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By: Asad Hashim
Pakistan’s foreign ministry has hailed a counterterrorism report by the UN Security Council’s sanctions monitoring team that identifies a...
We would give Kashmiris ‘right to independence’: Pakistan...
February 6, 2021
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By: Asad Hashim
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has pledged to allow the people of Kashmir the right to independence if residents of the disputed Himalayan territ...
Pakistan receives first COVID vaccine shipment from China
February 2, 2021
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By: Asad Hashim
Pakistan has received its first doses of the coronavirus vaccine, with China donating half a million doses of the Sinopharm vaccine to the country, th...
Pakistan to ‘review’ controversial internet censorship rul...
January 27, 2021
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By: Asad Hashim
Pakistan’s government says it will review new internet regulations that rights groups have decried as a draconian measure to limit freedom of sp...
Pakistan Taliban ‘commanders’ killed in northwest: Pakista...
January 26, 2021
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By: Asad Hashim
Pakistan’s military says it has killed five members of the Pakistan Taliban group in two separate security operations in the northwestern North...
Pakistan says ‘onus on India’ to restart dialogue
Pakistani soldier stands guard at a hilltop post during a trip organised by the army, near the Line of Control (LoC), in Charikot Sector, Kashmir [F...
Pakistan FM says expects UAE visa ban issue to be ‘resolve...
December 19, 2020
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By: Asad Hashim
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, with Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood...
India, Pakistan repeat war of words over ‘cross-border ter...
December 15, 2020
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By: Asad Hashim
Pakistani Rangers (wearing black uniforms) and Indian forces lower their national flags during a parade on Pakistan's 72nd Independence Day, at the...
Pakistan court dismisses challenges to Hindu temple constr...
July 9, 2020
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By: Asad Hashim
A Pakistani court has dismissed a set of petitions seeking a halt to the construction of a Hindu temple in the capital Islamabad, with the matter now...
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