Interior Minister, Chaudhry Nisar’s love for the camera is a blessing upon journalists, and Thursday’s press conference proved no exception; where the Minister set out to explain his outrage and defend his decision to add to the population of the Exit Control List, one Mr Cyril Almeida, Dawn journalist. The conference started with a round of self-congratulation, as Chaudhry Nisar expounded on the improvements made to the CNIC and passport issuing system.Turning to the issue…
Posts published in “Day: October 15, 2016”
ISLAMABAD: The corps commanders on Friday expressed serious concern over the feeding of a “false and fabricated” story about an important security meeting held at the PM House and termed it a ‘breach of national security’, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. The commanders met here at the General Headquarters (GHQ) with Chief of the Army Staff General Raheel Sharif in the chair.The top brass held a comprehensive review of internal and external security situation…
In the aftermath of the Uri attack, the accusations from India have been incessant. Non-state actors are the stick India, and even the US, use to beat Pakistan with.The attack on Uri has been widely equated with Indian atrocities in Kashmir.It is not likely that the attack was engineered in Pakistan at all.Yet, the very existence of elements in Pakistan who hold the desire to orchestrate such events, is a problem.Hafiz Muhammad Saeed of the…
The Chinese can be blunt when it comes to diplomatic language, leaving no room for ambiguity. Thus it is that we should not be surprised that China has been critical of the Indian decision to seal the western border with Pakistan, using the very un-diplomatic phrase ‘very irrational.’ A Chinese think-tank is the origin of this gem of disambiguity and as it is circulated widely it may be inferred that this is not out of…
ISLAMABAD: India’s continuing opposition against Pakistan at various international forums has claimed another victim after it torpedoed a $35 million Pakistani proposal to protect communities in the northern areas of the country which are vulnerable to floods from overflowing glacial lakes, officials said on Friday. The Ministry of Climate Change (MoCC) had submitted a $35 million project in the Green Climate Fund (GCF), a United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) mechanism to assist…
Islamabad: Pakistan is quietly scrambling to form a greater economic alliance of South Asian nations with other Asian allies to outmanoeuvre the eight-member South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Pakistan Today has learnt reliably. “Yes, using Pakistan’s strategic geographic location and its clout on other Asian states, Pakistan is working to form a new alliance of Asian nations for greater economic connectivity between South Asian, Central Asian, West Asian and East Asian states,” a…