LAHORE: Top government representatives have told the committee investigating the publication of a news report in Dawn that all issues are discussed openly in national security meetings to design future line of action, The News has learnt. Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Syed Tariq Fatemi, Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, former Information Minister Senator Pervaiz Rashid, Punjab chief minister’s adviser Muhammad Malick, PIO Rao Tehsin etc have submitted their statements to…
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ISLAMABAD: Succumbing to the pressure of political parties, the government is considering for the fifth time an extension in the stay of Afghan refugees in two phases till 2018. As the voluntary repatriations came to a halt on Friday for a routine winter break, the government is likely to formally announce another extension in plans for the return of refugees. According to the population profile of the Ministry of States and Frontier Regions (Safron), there…
ISLAMABAD: Afghan Taliban on Saturday said they publicly hanged a university student for ‘spying on one of their intelligence officials’. Faiz ur Rehamn was a 4th year engineering student of the Kabul Polytechnic University, who a Taliban spokesperson claimed had killed Intelligence chief Dr Mirwais and another Taliban man in Maidan Wardak province. Interior Ministry spokesperson Sediq Sediqqi confirmed the incident and said on his official Twitter account, “Taliban’s continued brutality and heinous crimes against…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has decided to maintain its ties with the United States on the cardinal principle of mutual respect while addressing each other’s concerns in a dignified manner once the new administration of Donald Trump is at the helm of affairs in Washington. The standpoint of Pakistan in this regard would be conveyed to think-tanks in the United States this week when Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Foreign Affairs Syed Tariq Fatemi would…
WASHINGTON: The Haqqani Network continues to pose the greatest threat to US troops in Afghanistan, a top US commander based in the war torn country said in Washington underlining the terror outfit uses Pakistan as a safe haven and remains America’s principal concern. “The Haqqanis still pose greatest threat to Americans and to our coalition partners and to the Afghans,” General John Nicholson, Commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, told reporters during a…
As the international media is abuzz about the US President-elect Donald Trump and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s telephonic call, it has emerged that Republican Party’s Pakistani-American Sajid Tarar, founder of Muslims for Trump made possible telephonic contact between US President-elect Donald Trump and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Tarar, in an interview with US media, said that the Pakistani government reached out to Trump’s transition team through him. He said that since the election of Trump…
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, a long-time friend of Chinese President Xi Jinping, is the frontrunner for the crucial post of US ambassador to China. A decision may follow meetings between Branstad and members of president-elect Donald Trump’s transition team in New York in the coming week, said three people with knowledge of the matter. The potential move to name Branstad comes at a time of heightened tensions with China after Trump abandoned almost four decades…
Being able to hold one’s liquor used to be a celebrated skill for China’s Communist Party cadres, but local governments are now moving to stop the tradition of heavy drinking at official functions, according to state media. Many local governments have banned alcohol such as the strong spirit baijiu and expensive drinks at official lunches, Xinhua reported. The new rules, which go a step further than a national guideline issued in 2013 to tame extravagant…
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for a smaller army with better combat capability and optimized structure as the military reform deepens. Xi, who is also chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and head of a leading group for deepening reform on national defense and the armed forces, made the remarks at a two-day conference on military reform, which ended Saturday. “This is a major, inevitable change,” Xi told the meeting. “We must seize…
Usman Ali Khan is a graduate in Defence and Strategic Studies from Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabadus consequences not only for both states but also for the entire region Recently, the distribution of water between two Indian states Tamil Nadu and Karnataka has become a source of conflict over water divide, sweltering both into flames. This issue is India’s internal matter regarding water distribution from the river Cauvery. Riots also erupted when Supreme Court of India ordered…
The writer is a Lahore-based journalist. Fascism was a system of government that flourished in Europe in times between two World Wars, and has since been appearing and reappearing in several parts of the world. The current rise of Narendra Modi, a staunch Hindu nationalist in India, is the latest version of fascism which was applied by Adolf Hitler in Germany, Mussolini in Italy and Franco in Spain. Fascism is right-wing political philosophy which opposes…