In a meeting held in Islamabad on Wednesday, Iran’s top diplomat, Mohammad Javad Zarif, and Pakistani Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa conferred on important issues, including the fight against terrorism and strengthening border security cooperation, as well as the expansion of military relations between the two neighboring countries.

The BJP leaders have failed to make development an electoral plank in the recently held Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. The Hindutva leaders, instead, have invoked Muslims, terrorism, and Pakistan in their electoral speeches. Last week the elections for the second (94 seats) and the third phase (78 seats) were held for 243-member Bihar Legislative Assembly. During this period, the top […]

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has congratulated U.S. President-elect Joe Biden for winning the November 3 presidential election. “Congratulations @JoeBiden & @KamalaHarris. Look forward to President-Elect Biden’s Global Summit on Democracy & working with him to end illegal tax havens & stealth of the nation’s wealth by corrupt leaders [leaders]. We will also continue to work with the US for […]

In a joint declaration issued by the European Union and Pakistan on Wednesday evening, the EU and Pakistan said both sides should make earnest efforts to achieve lasting peace and stability in Afghanistan and rid the country of illicit activities.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has said his government would give provisional provincial status to Gilgit-Baltistan, the northern part of the larger Kashmir region.

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on Friday announced it would keep Pakistan on the grey list until at least February next year. Speaking at a virtual press conference in Paris on Friday the anti-money laundering/terror financing watchdog’s president Marcus Pleyer said there were still conditions Pakistan needs to comply with before they can be removed from the grey list.

Pakistan’s National Assembly will host a Pakistan-Afghanistan trade and economic forum next week to enhance bilateral relations and find ways to overcome transit and trade challenges.

At least 15 Afghans, many of them elderly women, were killed and more than a dozen injured in a stampede in Jalalabad in Nangarhar province while waiting for visas from the Pakistan consulate, officials said Wednesday.

According to official statistics, at least 3,595 incidents of violation of the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) by the Pakistan Army have been recorded along the Line of Control (LoC) and the International Border (IB) in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in the current year, 2020, till October 6. There were 367 incidents in January, 366 in February, […]

At least 14 persons, including seven Frontier Corps (FC) personnel and an equal number of private security guards, were killed on October 15, 2020, when Baloch militants attacked an Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDCL) convoy on the Coastal Highway near the Ormara area of Gwadar District in Balochistan. The OGDCL convoy, escorted by the Security Forces, was moving from […]