ARIFWALAPakpattan District and Sessions Judge Abid Hussain Qureshi has said that the Bench and Bar are two wheels of the judicial system and a cordial relations between the two lay the foundation for the supremacy of law which is inevitable for the existence of society. He was addressing the ...

Islamabad - Indian-Pakistani relations, for years fraught with tension, appear on the surface to have received a boost from the stunning electoral comeback by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.Since Sharif's decisive victory in the May 11 national elections, he and Manmohan Singh, prime ...

Even before the new government assumes office, a great deal is already being said on bilateral relations going forward between Pakistan and India, and how normalising relations and liberalising trade with India holds the key to Pakistan’s economic revival. We have, by now, heard about the ...

Pakistan Muslim League-N President Mian Nawaz Sharif has said that Pakistan attaches high importance to its relations with China‚ which has always cooperated with it.He was talking to Chinese ambassador to Pakistan Liu Jian who called on him in Lahore.Mian Nawaz Sharif said that Pakistan and ...

Prime Minister Justice (R) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has reiterated that the care taker government will support and do all what it takes to hold free, fair and transparent elections in the country. The care taker government, he said, was extending all possible assistance to Election Commission of ...

islamabad - Pakistan and Turkey have historic brotherly relations, therefore Turkish Airline being global airlines wants to further enhance mutual relationship and deep love held between Pakistani people and the Turkish people.Alp Yavuzeser, General Manager, Turkish Airlines North & Central ...

MQM has acknowledged that former military ruler Pervez Musharraf is their ideological ally but there is no electoral alliance or seat adjustment with his All Pakistan Muslim League.In an interview‚ Deputy Convener of the party Dr. Farooq Sattar said Musharraf might be a dictator but he has a ...

KARACHI (PR) - The reopening of the Romanian Honorary Consulate in Karachi will generate important contributions towards fulfilling Pakistan and Romania’s economic missions. Addressing a flag-hoisting ceremony of the Honorary Consulate of Romania in Karachi, and appointment of Tariq Saud as ...

ISLAMABAD - Chairman Senate Nayyer Hussain Bokhari has said that Pakistan gives great importance to its relations with Thailand and wants to further strengthen them in various spheres including enhancing parliamentary as well as people to people contacts, trade and economic ties, tourism and ...

Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan has said Pakistan and India are neighbours and relations between the two countries are necessary for maintaining peace in the region. “Bilateral ties can be improved with the help of promotion of’ sports and culture,” he told the media on ...

 The United States, while cautiously refraining from commenting on the appointment of the new DG ISI, said that it “wants the relationship with Pakistan to be on an upward trajectory.”The spokesperson of the US State Department, Victoria Nuland late Friday said that the ...

Earlier this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an elaborate statement on US national security and foreign policy priorities before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee. She highlighted five priorities. One of which related to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. She asked for funds to ...

LAHORE - US Consul General in Lahore Ms Nina Maria Fite has expressed the wish that she wants fostering relations between the two strategic partners through close people-to-people contacts.Talking to APP on Sunday, she said “With the melting of snows on the advent of spring season in ...

Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said that Pakistan wants long term and better economic relations with Russia. Talking to media along with Russian counterpart here in Moscow on Wednesday, FM Khar said Pakistan needed Russian cooperation in energy sector. She said that she had discussed ...

The United States wants its relations with Pakistan to remain positive, but their interests sometimes differed as Pakistan considered India as an existential threat, according to Washington's intelligence chief.Testifying before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, Director of ...

 Claiming that the people of Pakistan need a viable alternative in this hour of crisis, former President  Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that he is "prepared to take risk" of his life to return home from a self-imposed exile."Well, yes, I am prepared for the risk. I have to be prepared for ...

ISLAMABAD - The economic experts have underlined the need for making decisions keeping in view Pakistan’s best interests vis-à-vis its geo-political and economic relations with global players and international financial institutions.They were commenting on the statement of the Finance ...

RAWALPINDI - Fatigued by a series of diplomatic crises over the past year, the United States and Pakistan are redefining their troubled relationship, stepping back from the assumption that common goals and shared interests can trump mutual suspicion, reports Washington Post on Monday.It said for ...

Referring to year 2011 as a difficult and complex phase in US-Pakistan relationship, which would qualify as the understatement of the year, State Department’s spokesperson, Victoria Nuland had this to add “Obviously, what we want to do is turn the page, redouble our efforts to cooperate ...

Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani has said there are challenges faced in Pak-US relations and issues are being addressed via silent diplomacy. "The aspect of national interest could not be neglected in the Pak-US relations," Husain Haqqani reiterated, adding that Pakistan's ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, marking the 10th anniversary of the US military campaign in Afghanistan, has said Qaeda was on the ropes but enormous challenges remain to rebuild the country. In delivering justice to Osama bin Laden and many other Qaeda leaders, we are closer than ...

The world owes a debt of thanks to that anonymous diplomat who leaked the long-delayed UN report on the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident - the ill-fated Israeli commando raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla that resulted in the deaths of nine Turks - to the New York Times, thus single-handedly ending months ...

LAHORE - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Sunday said that Pakistan wanted to maintain friendly relations with the United States, but on the basis of mutual respect and interest, without compromising on each others national interests. If you are answerable to the Congress, we are equally ...

Police in Birmingham were struggling to contain swelling anger within the Asian community after a hit-and-run by suspected rioters killed three Pakistani young men, two of them brothers. Despite appeals for calm from senior officers, young Asian men vowed to defend their streets once more following ...

Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on the advice of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday promulgated Industrial Relations Ordinance 2011 to fill the void created by the devolution of the subject to provinces under the 18th Constitutional Amendment. The ...

QINDAO (China) (APP) - Deputy Director General of Standing Committee Qindao Peoples Congress, Mr Xu Hang has said that China and Pakistan enjoy cordial friendship, saying Sino-Pak economic and diplomatic relations would be taken to new height with the passage of time. He was talking to a delegation ...

Pakistans ambassador to USA, Hussain Haqqani has discounted media characterization of a breakdown in relations, between Pakistan and USA as clearly an exaggerated, hyperbole and soundbites. Talking to CNN, Pakistani ambassador has said that media sources were misconstruing the baseless notions ...

WASHINGTON - The United States on Wednesday acknowledged 'challenges in relations with Pakistan after a report that Pakistan security agencies have arrested CIA informants who fed information to the US spy agency in the months leading upto the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden. But the ...

The relationship between the United States and Pakistan has long been one of grudging interdependency. The US needs Pakistan to help in the fight against the militants and to serve as a supply transit route for military operations in Afghanistan. Pakistan needs the US for financial aid, and access ...

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday said that the strained relations between Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and CIA eased and improved, adding that intelligence sharing and cooperation with US will continue. While talking to senior journalists here , Gilani said that Pakistan had ...