lahore - Japanese Ambassador to Pakistan Hiroshi OE called on PML-N Senator and would-be Finance Minister of the incoming PML-N Government, Ishaq Dar here on Friday. Hiroshi greeted Dar over the success of the PML-N in the elections besides exchanging views on the matters of mutual interest. Dar ...

Multan - Canadian High Commissioner Greg Giokas has said Pakistan has a fabulous agriculture sector.“Pakistan has a fabulous agri sector which is perhaps spending 20 per cent of their GDP in it whereas we spend 3 per cent of our GDP. We have highly paying jobs in the sector for which we need ...

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon   When Amb James Dobbins arrives at the ground-floor offices of the State Department’s Special Representative forAfghanistanandPakistanhe will find a depleted staff, a moribund peace process and a mandate riddled with colossal diplomatic challenges. Secretary ...

Islamabad - Centuries-old historical and cultural links between the brotherly people of Pakistan and Tajikistan provide a strong basis for further enhancing their economic, commercial and trade relations.These remarks were made by Gononov S.Sherali, Ambassador of Tajikistan in Pakistan while ...

KARACHI  - President Asif Ali Zardari has conferred Hilal-e-Quaid-e-Azam Award on the Chinese Ambassador Liu Jian in recognition of his services for strengthening Pak-China relations.The award was given at a special ceremony in Karachi on Friday. Staff Reporter adds: Sindh Caretaker Chief ...

WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday named James Dobbins, an experienced diplomat with a history of difficult assignments from Kosovo to Somalia, as his special representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan.“This is a pivotal moment for both Afghanistan and Pakistan, with ...

ISLAMABAD - The Foreign Office on Thursday summoned the Afghan charge d’affaires to lodge Pakistan’s strong protest on unprovoked firing by Afghan troops at Gursal post on Wednesday in which two Pakistani paramilitary men were injured.“Two Frontier Constabulary (FC) soldiers got ...

KANDAHAR - A roadside bomb planted by the Taliban killed a senior member of Afghanistan’s peace council on Wednesday, officials said, the latest setback to efforts to end more than 11 years of war.Shah Wali Khan, the head of the High Peace Council (HPC) in the key southern province of ...

LAHORE :-Iranian Ambassador to Pakistan Ali Raza Haqeeqna called on PML-N Nawaz Sharif at Raiwind on Saturday and discussed regional matters with him. Nawaz Sharif expressed sorrow over the loss of lives due to earth quake that took place on the Iran-Afghanistan border. On Friday, the Saudi ...

ISLAMABAD : Pakistan and Egypt have trustworthy political relations and enjoying excellent diplomatic relations, therefore both the countries should also consider to improve economic ties and bilateral trade relations.These remarks were made by Said Mohamed El-Said Hindam, Ambassador of Egypt in ...

ISLAMABAD : Great potential exists for expansion in trade and economic relations between Pakistan and the Philippine and the two countries could be successfully tapped through increased contacts between the business sectors. These remarks were made by Domingo Lucenario, Ambassador of Philippine in ...

Turkey’s envoy to Pakistan Babur Hizlan on Wednesday called on Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif.Sources said that matters pertaining to Pak-Turkey relation were came under discussion during the meeting, adding that Nawaz Sharif applaud and thanked the envoy over the ...

RIYADH - Saudi Arabia has recalled its ambassador from Colombo in a tit-for-tat move amid tensions after a Sri Lankan nanny convicted of murder was beheaded in the kingdom, the official SPA news agency reported. “Based on the decision by the Sri Lankan government to withdraw its ambassador ...

UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations and the Arab League  Thursday night announced the appointment of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as their Joint Special Envoy on the Syrian crisis with a mandate to bring an end to the violence and promote a peaceful political solution.In a joint ...

US charge d`affaires Richard Hoagland was summoned by the Foreign Office on Monday and a protest was lodged with the US regarding the resolution presented in the congress about Balochistan.According to the Foreign Office spokesperson, the resolution is a violation of the UN charter and it would ...

The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned Azerbaijan’s ambassador on Sunday, accusing the country of colluding with the Israeli intelligence in the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist last month, the state news agency IRNA reported.The ministry handed a protest note to Azeri envoy Javanshir ...

Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani has said that neither Talibans leader Mullah Omer nor al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri were living in Balochistan. Talking to US Ambassador Cameron Munter who met him at the Chief Minister House, Raisani said that there was no Quetta Shura in the ...

Retired diplomat and former ambassador to Turkey Marc Grossman will replace the late Richard Holbrooke as US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, The Washington Post reported Monday. It said months of disagreements between the White House and the State Department over the parameters of the ...

Deputy U.S. Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Frank Ruggiero, has been appointed as the acting US Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan following the death of Richard Holbrooke. "He (Ruggiero) will lead the SRAP (Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan) structure that ...

Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, is in the intensive care unit at a hospital in Washington, according to a media reports, citing a hospital official. Holbrooke, 69, felt ill while working on at the State Department headquarters, Philip Crowley, the department ...

Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General, Rauf Engin Soysal called on President Asif Ali Zardari here at the Aiwan-e-Sadr on Friday. The President congratulated Ambassador Soysal on his appointment as Special Envoy for Assistance to Pakistan. The President assured the Governments full support and ...

Chief Representative of India to the UN Hardeep Singh Puri has handed over a Cheque of Rs 90 crore to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as India's contribution towards the 'Pakistan Emergency Response Plan.'The cheque was handed over to the UN Secretary General yesterday at the UN headquarters in ...

An envoy of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is being sent to Islamabad to help step up UN relief operations in Pakistan where an estimated 1,400 people have died in the worst flooding in living memory, officials said Tuesday. Jean-Maurice Ripert, who is UN chiefs Special Envoy for Assistance to ...

The UN envoy for Afghanistan has said he feels 'extremely comfortable' working with General David Petraeus, the new US commander in that country. Petraeus was confirmed by the US Senate to replace US General Stanley McChrystal, who was removed from the post by President Barack Obama after the ...

U.S. Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke offered Pakistan both carrot and stick pledging an increased civil and military assistance, but warning the nuclear-armed country against consolidating its ties with neighboring Iran. During his two-day visit over the weekend, ...

A bitter argument over secret talks with the Taliban broke out last night when a former UN official said claims that the arrest of militants by Pakistan had wrecked progress towards peace in Afghanistan were nonsense. Peter Galbraith told media that Kai Eide, who claims to have negotiated with ...

The departing U.N. envoy to Afghanistan said Thursday that the nation's leaders must "clean up their own house" and warned that U.S.-led military operations must not jeopardize political efforts toward reconciliation with the Taliban. At a news conference marking the end of his 18-month term, Kai ...

A conservative American newspaper has criticized President Barack Obama's choice for U.S. ambassador to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), suggesting that he is a voice of radical Islam. Rashad Hussain, an American of Indian origin who is Deputy Associate Counsel at the White House, ...

A veteran Iranian diplomat based in Norway has resigned his post, denounced his government and urged colleagues around the world to do the same after the regimes brutal suppression of huge opposition demonstrations last month. Mohammed-Reza Heydari, Irans consul in Oslo, is the first Iranian ...

The planned departure of Kai Eide from his position as the top U.N. envoy to Afghanistan was involuntary, said his former deputy, Peter Galbraith. Eide last week called on U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to start looking for someone to take over his post in Kabul. Eide insists he did not intend ...