The writer is a staff member Pakistan and India have reached a new low in their relations after Thursday’s attacks across the Line of Control. Pakistan lost 2 soldiers in the unprovoked firing on the LoC and gave a befitting response to the Indian army. According to Indian DGMO Lt Gen Ranbir Singh “The Indian Army conducted surgical strikes on terror Launchpad’s along the LoC, resulting in significant casualties, it had launched surgical strikes on the…
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LAHORE: Senior politicians and ex-diplomats believe Pakistan has limited options to respond to the Indian offensive on the LOC and the diplomatic front. Speaking in the context of postponement of SAARC Summit, former Foreign Minister Sardar Aseff Ahmed Ali said that Pakistan had limited options to respond to Indian moves on the diplomatic front. “There is nothing much we can do”, he said. He termed the development a diplomatic negligence and bad policy decisions by…
LAHORE – Senior politicians and former diplomats believe Pakistan has limited options to respond to the Indian offensive on the LoC and the diplomatic front. Speaking on the postponement of Saarc Summit, former foreign minister Sardar Aseff Ahmed Ali said that Pakistan had limited options to respond to Indian moves on the diplomatic front. “There is nothing much we can do,” he said. He termed the development a ‘diplomatic negligence’ and ‘bad policy decisions’ by…
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Water and Power was told on Thursday that the World Bank (WB) was not a guarantor of the Indus Water Treaty, but according to Article 9 of the agreement, Pakistan could move the court in case the accord was breached. A special meeting of the committee was held at the Parliament House – with Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan in the chair – in which Indus Water Commission Additional Commissioner…
ISLAMABAD: While India has threatened to abrogate the Indus Waters Treaty, a senator of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf said that if New Delhi does so, then Pakistani security forces should carry out surgical strikes against water installations of India. Pakistan Air Force’s 400 fighter jets can easily target India’s water installations within minutes,” Senator Nauman Wazir Khattak said while speaking in a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Water and Power which was convened in the…