ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s ambassador designate to Zimbabwe, Asif Khan, and ambassador designate to Ukraine, Maj Gen (Retd) Wajahat Ali Muftee called on President Asif Ali Zardari at Aiwan-e-Sadr Friday and discussed matters relating to their new assignments.The President felicitated the newly ...

BEIJING - Xinhua - During his first international trip as a government head, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is on an official visit to India, Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany till May 27."Li's visit is an important diplomatic activity of the new Chinese government toward neighboring countries and ...

islamabad - Harvest Tradings CEO Ahmad Jawad said country trade missions may compel to use mango diplomacy in letter & spirit to tap the high values market of mango in bulk volumes. He said it is unfortunate that being the world’s largest producer and exporter of mangoes, India beats ...

London - Backdoor diplomacy has been started to save ex-president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf from the cases against him in Pakistan.A senior US official contacted the high-ups concerned in Islamabad and expressed his reservations in this regard. A London-based Western diplomat confirmed that concern ...

NEW DELHI - Cricket legend Kapil Dev remembers what it was like playing for his country against India's bitter rival, Pakistan, when he made his international debut in 1978: a bowler was expected to aim at the batsman's body."When I played my first series against Pakistan, it did look like a war," ...

Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has called for dealing the major challenge confronting the world today to achieve international peace and security on the basis of equity and UN Charter principles.“We all know peace and development are mutually reinforcing and without peace we cannot even ...

President George W. Bush warned that the United States was in the middle of a serious financial crisis that could push the economy into a long-term recession if the government did not act. In a televised address aimed at persuading the public to support a $700 billion financial bailout being ...