ISLAMABAD/LONDON - A spokesman for the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Tuesday categorically rejected a news report which appeared in a section of the media that stating that Pakistan purchased some defence equipment from Israel. The spokesman said the report was misleading and not based on ...

Pakistan Army has said that no defense equipment was purchased from Israel and such an assertion is misleading.Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Tuesday quoted a British government report as saying that Israel had exported security equipment over the past five years to Pakistan and four Arab countriesA ...

JERICHO- Israeli bulldozers demolished four homes on Tuesday in an area of the Jordan Valley just north of Jericho that is supposed to be under full Palestinian control, the family and the city's Palestinian governor said. The Israeli defence ministry confirmed the demolitions in Al-Nuweima but did ...

BAGHDAD - Baghdad has warned Israel that it would respond to any attempts by the Jewish state to use Iraqi airspace for a strike against Iran's controversial nuclear programme, a top Iraqi minister told AFP.The remarks from Hussein al-Shahristani, deputy prime minister responsible for energy ...

BRUSSELS : The European Union on Friday condemned Israel’s reported plans to build more than 1,000 new settler homes in east Jerusalem as a threat to the peace process.EU foreign affairs head Catherine Ashton said she felt “compelled to reiterate the EU’s long-standing ...

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 ...

United NationReaffirming its support to the Palestinian cause, Pakistan has asked Israel to cease all settlement activity on occupied Palestinian territories so as to promote peace in the Middle East."Settlement activity must stop, Palestinian detainees must be released, religious freedom should be ...

JERUSALEM Israeli soldiers patrolling the disputed Golan Heights along the border with Syria fired back after coming under fire overnight, an Israeli Defence Forces statement said Tuesday."Overnight, shots were fired at an IDF patrol on the border in the central Golan Heights, damaging a military ...

JERUSALEM : Israel said it called off a United Nations investigative mission to Jerusalem's Old City due to start Monday because of Palestinian efforts to politicise the visit, as the UN said it was postponed."Israel has cancelled the delegation," a foreign ministry official told AFP. "The ...

Jerusalem - Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now said on Thursday that the government wants to give retroactive approval to four West Bank settlement outposts it had previously pledged to at least partially demolish.In a written response to a petition Peace Now submitted to Israel's Supreme Court ...

KARACHI - The demonstrators vowed on the anniversary of Nakba Day on Tuesday that Pakistani nation would continue to fight for the oppressed Palestinians including their legitimate right to return their homeland. Hundreds of protestors attended the demonstration that was staged outside Karachi ...

KAREN ENGLISH - In New Guinea there is a word for a truth that everybody knows but nobody speaks: Mokita. In the official discourse surrounding Palestine—Gaza in particular—politicians, President Obama, and the media speak from a phony script full of false vocabulary, false assertions, ...

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 ...

JERUSALEM Israel has signed off on plans for nearly 300 new settler homes near Ramallah, angering the Palestinians who accused the Israeli government Thursday of trying to "sabotage" US moves to rekindle peace talks.The announcement came just days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly ...

JERUSALEM Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking has pulled out of a June conference hosted by Israel's Shimon Peres, joining an academic boycott of the Jewish state, event organisers said on Wednesday."Hawking joined the academic boycott of Israel and pulled out of the Israeli Presidential ...

jerusalemIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a freeze on tenders for new West Bank settler homes, a report said Tuesday, with a rights group confirming not a single tender has been issued in months.The decision was taken in a bid to avoid hampering US efforts to renew peace talks ...

 ANKARATurkish and Israeli officials will meet on Monday in Israel for another round of talks over compensation for a deadly 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a diplomatic source told AFP."The second round of negotiations will be held in Israel tomorrow," the source said on Sunday, ...

DAMASCUS Israeli strikes hit a military target outside Damascus on Sunday, the Jewish state's second reported raid on Syria this week, with residents saying the attack felt like an earthquake and turned the sky red.A senior Israeli source said the aerial assault hit Iranian weapons destined for the ...

  DAMASCUS   Israeli warplanes hit a weapons shipment inSyriaheaded forLebanon's Hezbollah, media quoted US officials as saying, with a diplomatic source reporting Saturday that the strikes targeted arms stored atDamascusairport. The news came as US President Barack Obama appeared to all ...

RAMALLAH :  An Israeli military appeals court on Thursday ordered the release of two Palestinian prisoners held without trial since November, who had staged a three-month hunger strike, a prisoners' rights group and Israeli authorities said. Sarahna Amani, a spokesman for the Ramallah-based ...

GAZA CITY: Israeli warplanes launched three strikes early on Sunday on the Gaza Strip, targeting Palestinian group Islamic Jihad but causing no casualties, witnesses said. Two air strikes hit the southern town of Khan Yunis, targeting positions of the Al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of Islamic ...

JERUSALEM  - An Israeli fighter plane shot down a drone from Lebanon over the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday as it was approaching the Israeli coast, the military claimed. “I view with great gravity this attempt to violate our border. We will continue to do what is necessary to defend the ...

ANKARA   Israeli and Turkish officials on Monday began talks on compensation over a deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship, a crucial step towards restoring the once-solid ties between the two countries. This first meeting is part of what Turkish officials said would be a several-step ...

TEL AVIV Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel met his Israeli counterpart Moshe Yaalon on Monday to put the finishing touches on a major arms deal and for talks on Syria’s civil war and the Iranian nuclear threat. Speaking at a joint news conference in Tel Aviv, Hagel confirmed the two had ...

TEL AVIVA major US arms deal with Israel sends Iran a "very clear signal" that military action remains an option to stop it from going nuclear, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said in Tel Aviv on Sunday.Hagel's remarks were made shortly before his arrival in the Jewish state at the start of a ...

JERUSALEM : Israeli police paraded a cuffed Palestinian teenager to protesters in what a human rights group charged Saturday was abuse of a “human shield” but an Israeli spokesman said was a move to calm violence.Defence for Children International-Palestine (DCI) posted a 76-second ...

washington The United States unveiled plans Friday to sell $10 billion worth of advanced missiles and aircraft to Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in a bid to counter the threat posed by Iran.It was highly unusual for the Pentagon to announce an arms deal covering three ...

TEHRAN - AFP - Iran's army ‘alone’ is able to destroy Israel, army commander General Ataollah Salehi said on Thursday, responding to boasts by the Jewish state that its military that could attack its archfoe on its own."Our message to this illegitimate regime (Israel) is the ...

Countless are the international laws violated by Israel; reaffirmations that there will be no peace without a free and sovereign Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. And countless are the reminders that Israel is not interested in a two-state solution with Palestine as a sovereign ...

JERUSALEM  - Israel’s Housing Minister Uri Ariel on Tuesday said that 50 new homes would be built in annexed east Jerusalem to house Holocaust survivors. “These 50 homes, which will be added to those existing homes for the elderly in east Talpiot, will be earmarked for Holocaust ...