KABUL: A senior Pakistani politician and chairman of the Qaumi Watan Party Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao called on Pakistani officials to start a dialogue process with Afghanistan aimed at eliminating trust-deficit between the two countries. “Pakistan should start a dialogue with Afghanistan at various levels to help remove trust-deficit between them,” Sherpao expressed these views addressing a gathering in Shahpur ...

KARACHI: The official page of Jamaat-i-Islami Pakistan was removed by Facebook, reportedly for covering and highlighting Indian atrocities in held Kashmir, said a party statement issued on Wednesday evening. The statement claimed that the page had more than three million ‘likes’ and it was the second most viewed page [with respect to ‘likes’] of any local political party. Social Media ...

KABUL: Former Pakistan’s ambassador to Kabul, Rustum Shah Mohmand, said that Islamabad wants to counter Indian influence in Afghanistan through Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. In an interview with the VOA, the ex-envoy said that it would be difficult for Pakistan to see its hopes turned into reality. Mohmand said the Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA), led by Hekmatyar, has no military power but only ...

NEW DELHI: India handed Pakistan on Tuesday what it said was proof that militants who attacked the Uri army base earlier this month came from its territory, as New Delhi appeared set to reconsider favourable trading terms for its neighbour. In a demarche, foreign secretary S Jaishankar gave Pakistan high commissioner Abdul Basit the names and addresses of two “guides” ...

NEW YORK: India has called Pakistan a “terrorist state” that hosts “the Ivy League of terrorism” while responding to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s speech at the UN General Assembly that raked up the Kashmir issue and sought a fact-finding mission into alleged brutalities. The response marked the latest round in a war of words that has escalated after Sunday’s terror ...

PESHAWAR: The Awami National Party (ANP), led by a Pashtun-nationalist politician Asfandyar Wali Khan, has called for an immediate end to the harassment of Afghan refugees in different parts of Pakistan. At a meeting of ANP’s Central General Council, chaired by Asfandyar Wali Khan, the party leader stressed the need for sorting out dispute with neighbors, particularly Afghanistan, on a priority ...

PESHAWAR: Awami National Party (ANP) chief Asfandyar Wali Khan has said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif should rush back home and hold a joint session of parliament to discuss ways of defusing tension between Pakistan and India. “The recent statement issued after the corps commanders’ conference regarding readiness to give a befitting response to India’s threats shows something is cooking,” ...

NEW YORK: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, while addressing the United Nations General Assembly session on Wednesday, said Pakistan wants peace with India but maintained it is “not possible without resolving the Kashmir issue”. “Confrontation should not be our destiny in South Asia. Pakistan wants peace with India.” Nawaz asserted that peace can not be established in South Asia without resolving ...

Two powerful American lawmakers have introduced an act in the US House of Representatives to designate Pakistan a State Sponsor of terrorism, it has been reported. Congressman Ted Poe, who is Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, has reportedly said “It is time we stopped paying Pakistan for its betrayal and designate it for what it is: a state ...

KHUZDAR: Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) president Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal has said that the federal and provincial governments should remove apprehensions of Baloch people about the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. Addressing a press conference at the residence of BNP-M leader Saeed Mengal in the industrial town of Hub, he said his party would not accept any development project which ...