LAHORE - Military leadership long ago concluded the insurgency in mineral-rich Balochistan province could end through a negotiated settlement with the Baloch dissident groups, and not an army victory. Now the army commanders and civilian officials say even this hope is not viable. Instead, they are ...

QUETTA - Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Maalik said that efforts are being made to persuade civil and military leadership to resolve issues being faced by the province. He expressed these views while talking to media Friday after visiting missing person’s hunger strike camp set up by the ...

MULTANNazim-e-Ala of Wifaqul Madaris Pakistan Maulana Hanif Jalandhri has suggested the government form an independent foreign policy and detach itself from others’ war for restoring peace in the country.Talking to the journalists here on Wednesday, he added that the former government did not ...

KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has urged the law enforcement agencies to maintain peace in Karachi.  In a statement issued here on Sunday, he said the victory of MQM candidate from PS-128 was the fruit of workers' round-the-clock hard work.The MQM chief said that ...

KABUL- Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday visitedQatarfor talks with officials in the wealthy Gulf state that could host future peace negotiations between the Afghan government and Taliban insurgents. With US-led NATO combat troops due to withdraw fromAfghanistanby the end of 2014, Karzai ...

Karachi - Kharlzada Kasrat Rai, who twice staged the longest peace walks in the world, has announced to march from Karachi Press Club to Makkah, Saudi Arabia on foot for promotion of global peace from Friday (today).Addressing a press conference at Karachi Press Club on Thursday, Kharlzada Kasrat ...

Kaneez Fatima Literary Society held an exhibition titled as “Peace Through Literature” in collaboration with Lahore Museum at City Heritage Museum (Old Tollinton Market) on Thursday. British Council Acting Head of Programmes RukhsanaAsam inaugurated the exhibition. A large number of ...

ISLAMABADPR After first two episodes, the third episode of a reality show titled “Young Ambassadors of Peace” based on speech competitions between youth of 24 districts of Pakistan was aired on a private television channel. According to a press release issued here on Wednesday, the ...

ISLAMABAD : JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman has said that after withdrawal of Taliban's talks offer and disinterest of military establishment in talks, there is no opportunity for talks with the Taliban and in such an atmosphere any role played by the JUI-F is out of question. In a statement ...

ATTOCK Tehreek Istiqlal Central President Rehmat khan Wardag has said that America and other world powers do not want peace and prosperity in Pakistan and fresh drone attack reflects this wish to halt negotiations between Pakistani government and Taliban. While talking to The Nation here, the ...

BAGHDAD : Syria's foreign minister said on Sunday that his government will take part in a peace conference in Geneva, terming it a "good opportunity for a political solution" to the civil war in Syria.Walid Muallem also praised an Iraqi army operation against Sunni militants near the border with ...

Islamabad - US Secretary of State John Kerry is keenly waiting to find an opportunity to undertake his overdue visit to Pakistan apparently to push forward the stalled process of peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan, diplomatic sources said on Sunday.Kerry, who sought to visit Pakistan briefly ...

KABUL - After a day of explosions and gunfire, residents of Kabul woke up on Saturday morning to be greeted by a public art project in which volunteers handed out 10,000 neon-pink “peace” balloons.Organised by Yazmany Arboleda, a 31-year-old conceptual artist from the United States, the ...

AL-SHUNAH : Peace between Israelis and Palestinians is “still possible”, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on Saturday, hailing US Secretary of State John Kerry’s efforts to revive stalled talks.In a speech to the World Economic Forum in the town of Al-Shunah on the banks of ...

BEIJING - A North Korean envoy told China's president on Friday that his reclusive country was willing to take "positive actions" to ensure peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, as China steps up diplomatic efforts to bring Pyongyang back to talks.But Choe Ryong-hae, a special envoy of North ...

MOSCOW : The Syrian regime will attend a peace conference on ending the conflict with the armed opposition, Damascus’ top ally Russia said Friday, but the rebels reacted to the pledge without enthusiasm. Diplomatic efforts to hold a conference first proposed by Russia and the United States ...

JERUSALEM  - US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday admitted there was scepticism and cynicism about his efforts to broker new talks between Israelis and Palestinians, as he made his fourth visit to Israel.Flying in from a night of diplomacy in Amman over the war in Syria, Kerry went ...

BEIJING  - A special envoy from North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un told one of China's top officials Thursday that Pyongyang wants peace and is willing to pursue dialogue with key countries, state media reported.Envoy Choe Ryong-Hae met Liu Yunshan, a member of the Chinese Communist Party's ...

AMMAN - Major powers urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday to commit to peace and step down as they gathered in neighbouring Jordan to discuss preparations for a Russian- and US-proposed peace conference.Ahead of a meeting of the Friends of Syria group in Amman, US Secretary of State ...

Nawaz Sharif's call for peace talks made to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was welcomed by the proscribed militant organisation on Thursday.Talking to a private news channel, TTP spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan said that the offer for peace talks made by Prime Minister-elect Nawaz Sharif was a ...

The US has said it is too early to comment on Pakistani Taliban’s peace talks offer to Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif.“It would be premature for us to comment on any potential negotiations,” a State Department spokesperson told PTI when asked about peace talks offered by ...

PeshawarChief Minister designate Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak on Tuesday said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) was capable to establish durable peace and setting the province on way to economic development. “A strategy has been evolved to achieve the goals,” he said this while ...

The elections have gone well and the electoral frenzy is declining fast. The turnout was high, young people voted in large numbers and the idea of democracy seems more strongly rooted than ever before. The people have given their mandate, despite the fact that accusations of rigging persist. In ...

ISLAMABADCaretaker Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Arif Nizami has said that a stable democracy and democratic institutions are vital for economic growth and peace in the country.He said the country was facing challenges like economic instability, terrorism and energy crisis and ...

Twenty youngsters from 24 districts ofPakistanwill get seven day training to further improve their communication skills. These youth were selected under the Young Ambassadors of Peace after a public speaking contest held across the country. IndividuallandPakistan, a nonprofit, research based ...

PESHAWAR The PTI-led government will ensure peace, justice, education and health facilities to the people of the province, said Pervez Khattak, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister-designate.Addressing a joint press conference with JI Vice Ameer Sirajul Haq and QWP Chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan ...

quettaPML-N Balochistan President Sardar Sanaullah Zehri has said that if his party forms the government in the province, establishing peace would be his one-point agenda.Addressing a press conference in Quetta on Wednesday, Sardar Sanaullah Zehri said that it was the desire of all parties to form ...

LAHORE - Shaheen Football Club has defeated Friend to Donbasco on penalty kicks to win the final of the Peace Football Tournament 2013 at Anach Ghar, Bael Hatta Football Railway ground. The tournament was organised by the Peace Ambassadors Society (PAS) and Caritas Pakistan Lahore in connection ...

MOSCOW/BEIRUT - Russia said on Saturday there was disagreement over who should represent the opposition in a Syrian peace process, only days after Moscow and Washington announced a joint effort to bring government and rebels to an international conference.The dispute bodes ill for a civil war in ...

BEIJING Reuters/AFPChina’s President Xi Jinping urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to restart peace talks with the Palestinians as soon as possible, days after he tried to convince Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to revive discussions.Xi’s comments to Netanyahu and Abbas ...