Riding high on the back of a comfortable majority in the National Assembly, the would-be Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif has clarified his stance of putting an end to the war on terror through talks with the Pakistani Taliban. He believes talks are the best option to restore peaceful conditions in ...

  lahore Incoming prime minister Nawaz Sharif has said that his government is inheriting massive problems from the last government yet it is determined to complete in months the tasks that otherwise would require years. Without giving any specific deadline to overcome the energy crisis, the ...

NEW DELHI - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in India Sunday on the first stop of his maiden foreign trip, weeks after a border dispute was rekindled by alleged Chinese troop incursions in a disputed region.Li, in a statement quoted by his country's Xinhua news agency, said his choice of India as ...

ISTANBUL  - Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said on Thursday that nuclear talks with the EU'S foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton were "long and useful" and that both sides have decided to continue the discussions."Last night, as Lady Ashton said, we had long, useful talks," ...

ISLAMABAD - It’s being just a matter of days now to the coming of a more peace loving civilian regime in Pakistan, Islamabad is hoping a boost to the overall dialogue process with India and it has approached New Delhi for focused discussions on the issue of prisoners.“We hope that ...

  VIENNA: Nuclear talks betweenIranand the UN atomic agency failed yet again Wednesday, as a topUSdiplomat said she expected the IAEA to reportTehranto the UN Security Council soon. The IAEA announcement came just as EU foreign policy chief was due to meetIran’s chief nuclear negotiator ...

ZURICH : Swiss Life and Valiant are discussing a distribution partnership, which may include the insurer taking a stake in the bank. The tie-up would be a return to the banc assurance model once pursued by rivals such as Zurich Insurance and Winterthur, in which an insurer sells its products to a ...

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 ...

Aylesbury - The Group of Seven top economies kick-started fresh talks on spurring growth Friday amid US-Europe divisions over the scale of austerity and renewed market focus on “currency wars” after the yen hit new dollar lows.The two-day G7 meeting in Aylesbury, northwest of London, is ...

geneva - The World Trade Organisation is close to chosing its next leader in a final round pitting Brazil against Mexico, with the winner facing the tough task of restoring the clout of global commerce's rule-setting body.Brazil's WTO ambassador Roberto Azevedo and his rival Herminio Blanco, ...

karachi - War is nothing but destruction while table talk is the only solution to the Kashmir issue. Pakistan Muslim League (N) wants Kashmiri people to fight their legal case by their own will, said PML-N Vice President Azad Kashmir, Kashan Masood while having special talk with The Nation here on ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan will not comment on reported talks between Iran and India about reviving multi billion dollars Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project until it receives formal request from New Delhi.The Foreign Ministry officials refuse to comment on the Indo-Iran reported talks, saying ...

seoul -  South Korea on Thursday gave North Korea 24 hours to agree to formal talks to restart operations at their joint Kaesong industrial zone, warning of “significant measures” if Pyongyang declines.It was a rare ultimatum from the South, which is more used to being on the ...

Brussels - Afghan and Pakistani leaders met with US Secretary of State John F Kerry on Wednesday to try to reverse a deterioration in relations that has threatened Afghanistan’s peacemaking efforts.Invited by Kerry, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani army chief Gen Ashfaq Kayani flew ...

PULI ALAMAfghan village elders negotiated with the Taliban Tuesday to try to win the release of a group of foreign hostages, officials said, but no progress was reported so far.The insurgents seized eight Turks, a Russian, a Kyrgyz man and an Afghan after their civilian helicopter made a forced ...

VIENNA  : The UN atomic agency said Monday that it was discussing withIranpossible dates for what would be the 10th round of talks since late 2011 onTehran’s suspected nuclear bomb-making efforts. “I can confirm we are discussing possible dates of a meeting withIran,” ...

Karachi  - Keeping aside their ideology, the PPP and other parties have started a negotiation process for seat adjustment to win over the anti-MQM vote in the City.The contacts among the PPP, Jamaat-e-Islami, JUI-F and other parties yet to yield consensus for seat adjustment as all sides so ...

surabaya Japan won its bid to enter talks on a massive Pacific trade pact Saturday after winning over its last opponent, Canada, for a proposed agreement that would account for more than 40 per cent of the global economy.The decision became unanimous when Canada “successfully concluded” ...

SEOUL North Korea offered talks Thursday with South Korea and the United States, but laid out pre-conditions that Seoul dismissed as “absurd” and analysts said would do little to reduce soaring tensions.The demands laid out by the North’s main military body included the withdrawal ...

DOHA/KABUL - AMENA BAKR, HAMID SHALIZI - Taliban leaders living in Qatar have held no Afghanistan peace talks with US officials in the Gulf state for more than a year and see no prospect of any soon, Taliban sources say.A team of envoys from the insurgent group flew to Qatar in early 2012 to open ...

CAIRO :  Negotiations between Egypt and the International Monetary Fund have not failed, the president’s office said on Wednesday after an IMF delegation left Cairo without agreement on a $4.8 billion (3.1 billion pounds) loan needed to ease a severe economic crisis.“Talk that the ...

TOKYO (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry pushed a message of dialogue with North Korea at the end of an Asia tour on Monday, as Pyongyang kept the world guessing over an expected missile launch.The North has a habit of linking high-profile military tests with key dates, and expectations had ...

ISLAMABAD  - Pakistani delegation, led by Aizaz A Chaudhry, Additional Foreign Secretary (UN & EC), held seventh round of Pakistan-China bilateral consultations in Beijing on Monday. Chinese delegation was led by Qui Guohong, Director General for External Security Department of the ...

ISLAMABAD - At a time when country’s economic situation is in morass due to depleting foreign reserves and soaring budget deficit, Pakistan would hold key talks with United States of America, International Monetary Fund and World Bank from next week.Pakistan’s economic team, likely to ...

LAHORE - TheNation Editor-in-Chief Majid Nizami has stressed the need for electing patriotic people in the forthcoming general elections.“Only patriotic people can steer the country out of crisis,” he said while addressing the participants of a special sitting on “Elections and ...

ISLAMABAD - JAVAID-UR-RAHMAN - The Pakistan Muslim League (N) has almost reached the verge of collapse of seat-to-seat adjustment deal with religo-political parties including Jamaat-e-Islami and JUI-Fazl due to the demand of maximum favour from both sides.The erstwhile partner of Muttahida ...

ISTANBUL (AFP) - The United States' top diplomat warned Iran on Sunday that time is running out on nuclear negotiations between the Islamic republic and world powers."This is not an endless process. ... You can't just talk for the sake of talking," Secretary of State John Kerry told a news ...

Dmitry ZAKSTalks between world powers and Iran to find a solution to end tensions over the Iranian nuclear drive have once again hit an impasse, even if the diplomatic process is not yet seen to be at risk of collapsing.Negotiators from world powers came to the snow-peaked city of Almaty for the ...

ISLAMABAD - The talks between Jamaat-e-Islami and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on seat adjustments in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have failed. PTI stated that JI is demanding those constituencies‚ where its position is strong.JI spokesman said the talks could not succeed.

ALMATY (AFP) - Iran and world powers Saturday failed to break the deadlock in the crisis over Tehran’s nuclear drive, with the EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton saying the positions were still “far apart”.After two days of exhausting diplomacy in the Kazakh city of Almaty, ...