NEW DELHI: India's top foreign ministry official will meet her Pakistani counterpart in Islamabad next Thursday as the two nations look to build on a recent thaw in relations. “Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao will visit Pakistan at the invitation of the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, Mr Salman Bashir,” said ...

BEIJING: China said on Thursday its civilian nuclear cooperation with Pakistan was for peaceful purposes, after the United States said it was seeking clarification from China on a deal to build two new reactors. “I want to stress that the civilian nuclear cooperation between China and Pakistan is in line with ...

GENEVA: Muslim states said on Wednesday that what they call ‘Islamophobia’ is sweeping the West and its media and demanded that the United Nations take tougher action against it. Delegates from Muslim countries, including Pakistan and Egypt, told the United Nations Human Rights Council that treatment of ...

KABUL: Five Nato troops including one American died Tuesday, continuing a grim trend that could make June among the deadliest months of the nearly 9-year-old Afghan war. Five Afghan policemen and a district governor were also killed Tuesday in separate fighting across the country, which has seen ...

OSH: A group of ex-Soviet states on Monday proposed sending helicopters and equipment to help Kyrgyzstan’s government stop ethnic violence that has killed at least 124 people, and suggested troops could follow. The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) met in Moscow to discuss how to halt rioting and clashes ...

PESHAWAR: The United Nations is providing 140 million dollars as aid for infrastructure revival in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. The amount will be allocated for the rehabilitation of infrastructure destroyed due to the settling of millions of Afghan refugees. Speaking to media representatives, senior provincial minister from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Rahim Dad ...

GAZA CITY: The Arab world’s top diplomat declared support Sunday for the people of blockaded Gaza in his first visit to the Palestinian territory since Hamas violently seized control of it three years ago. The visit was latest sign that Israel’s deadly raid on a flotilla trying to ...

KABUL: Pakistani military intelligence not only funds and trains Taliban fighters in Afghanistan but is officially represented on the movement's leadership council, giving in significant influence over operations, a report said. The report, published by the London School of Economics, a leading British institution, on Sunday, said ...

ISLAMABAD: Indian authorities arrested Kashmiri Hurriyat leader in Syed Ali Gilani in Srinagar and shifted him to Humhama police station on Saturday. According to Kashmir Media Service, the move was made following the killing of an 11th grade student, Tufail Ahmed Matoo by the Indian police. Tufail was killed while ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday said it favoured a negotiated settlement of the dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme, but avoided denouncing the fourth round of UN sanctions against Tehran. At his weekly press briefing on Thursday, Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said the UN sanctions would not affect the $7.6 billion Iran-Pakistan ...