The writer is the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran. After having come to power the 11th government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, it is my first official visit to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The cultural, historical, political, economical ties and the security concerns are the major factors which bring the nations and governments closer to each other. The two great nations, Iran and Pakistan, have all these components for mutual cooperation,…
Posts published in “Day: March 25, 2016”
Teheran: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called for strong multilateral economic, trade and political relations with Pakistan in a ‘sanctions-free environment’. Dr Hassan Rouhani is scheduled to arrive in Islamabad on Friday on a two-day state visit after sanctions on the Islamic republic were lifted in January. In a message to the people of Pakistan, Rouhani highlighted Pakistan’s access to Iran’s rich natural resources to meet the energy requirements. “It is the immediate need of…
KUNAR: Dozens of fighters loyal to the militant Islamic State (IS) group in Afghanistan have relocated into the eastern province of Kunar following an intense campaign by US warplanes and Afghan forces, officials said on Thursday. Local IS leader Hafiz Saeed was believed to be among those who fled to Kunar from neighbouring Nangarhar province, Kunar’s police chief and an army spokesman said. A relatively new force in Afghanistan, IS has violently challenged the much…
KARACHI: A suspected militant, who was educated enough to get a job in a multinational company, has been taken into custody for his alleged involvement in the Safoora Goth bus carnage and rights activist Sabeen Mahmud murder cases, sources said on Thursday. They said that an intelligence agency arrested Ali Rehman alias Toona, an engineer by profession and an accomplice of Saad Aziz, the prime suspect in the two cases, in a raid in Punjab,…
ISLAMABAD: Abdul Aziz, a civil society member has approached the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking its intervention for the registration of a criminal case against cleric. Syed Khurram Zaki has moved the IHC requesting that the court direct the respondents to take cognisance of the offence and register an FIR against Aziz, his wife, and students of Jamia Hafsa for pledging allegiance to Daish. Zaki went to the high court after Additional District and Sessions Judge…
Islamabad: A petition has been filed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking registration of a case against Lal Masjid cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz, his wife Umm-e-Hassaan and students of Jamia Hafsa for inviting Daesh to Pakistan. Civil society activities Khurram Zaki filed the petition through his counsel Asif Mukhtar Malik taking the plea that students of the radical Jamia Hafsa madrassa through their video on social website Facebook had invited Daesh to strike Pakistan…