A DAY after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif went to the Foreign Office and urged a policy of peace with neighbours and paying heed to international concerns about Pakistan, Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan sparred with his Indian counterpart at the Saarc interior ministers’ meeting in Islamabad on Thursday. Hosting the meeting was always going to be a challenge, with bilateral Pak-India tensions at a peak and given the interior minister’s penchant for dabbling in foreign…
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WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD: The US and India on Friday teamed up against Pakistan, with the former acknowledging its efforts in the war against terror but blaming it for ‘adopting a selective approach’ and the latter terming it ‘the biggest violator of human rights’. A day after the Pentagon announced that it was withholding $300 million in the Coalition Support Fund (CSF) to Pakistan, the State Department official praised Pakistan’s efforts but maintained that it needs to close…
ISLAMABAD – The whirlwind visit of Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh to Pakistan only resulted in worsening the Pakistan-India tension instead of providing a respite amid the bloodshed in Kashmir. At the onset, the visit looked far from friendly as India had ruled out bilateral talks on the sidelines of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation moot for the interior and home ministers here. The two countries had differed on the agenda of such…
KARACHI: A 56-year-old doctor from the Hindu community was shot dead outside his clinic by unidentified men in Pak Colony at around 11pm on Thursday. The police have yet to determine the motive behind the incident. The deceased, identified as Dr Pritam Lakhwani, was a general physician who ran a clinic near Bara Board in Pak Colony for the last 15 years. “He was returning home after shutting down his clinic as per routine when…
BEIJING — Chinese lawyers and rights activists appeared in televised trials throughout this week in what seemed to be a new, more public phase of President Xi Jinping’s campaign to cleanse the country of liberal ideas and activism. Legal experts and supporters of four defendants denounced the hearings, held on consecutive days in Tianjin, a port city near Beijing, as grotesque show trials. All four men were shown meekly renouncing their activist pasts and urging…