A suicide bomber was shot dead before he manage to target the top government officials in northern Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan. According to the local security officials, the suicide bomber was looking to target the provincial governor and intelligence chief during an official visit to the city. Provincial governor’s spokesman Zabiullah Amani said the suicide bomber was shot dead seconds before he detonate his explosives. Amani further added that the suicide bomber was identified as…
Posts published in “Day: November 25, 2016”
MOSCOW : Pakistan-China-Russia will hold meeting in Moscow regarding prevailing situation in Afghanistan. There is fuelled speculation of a growing axis spurred by new ties between Moscow and Islamabad. Pakistan, Russia and China will hold consultations on Afghanistan in December to explore ways to reach reconciliation and restore peace in the war-torn country, an official here said. “We attach high importance to all initiatives aimed at bringing peace and stability in Afghanistan and the region…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Jordan will hold the inaugural round of bilateral political consultations on Tuesday, November 22 at the ministry of foreign affairs, Islamabad. The Jordanian delegation, led by Ambassador Nayaf El-Zidan, secretary general of the ministry of foreign affairs, and expatriates of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is on a two-day visit to Islamabad. Additional Secretary (Middle East) Tasawar Khan will lead the Pakistan delegation, the Foreign Office said. The two sides will review…
A month after the one-year anniversary of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement in Myanmar, the fragile peace in the country was broken abruptly by the outbreak of armed clashes in Northern Myanmar on Sunday,turning the border area between Myanmar and China into a battle field. Stray bullets were seen falling into China and a growing number of Myanmese refugees are flooding into Chinese territory. Analysts believe that this is only the beginning and there will be…
Beijing said on Monday it had allowed civilians fleeing renewed fighting in northern Myanmar near China to cross the border, even as it urged both sides of the conflict between ethnic groups and government troops to cease hostilities. Eight people were killed and 29 wounded when a coalition of rebels attacked military and police outposts and a business centre, on the weekend the Myanmese government said. Chinese authorities confirmed that a Chinese citizen living along…
BEIJING – China said Monday it was willing to consider any application from Nato-member Turkey to join a Russian and Chinese-led security bloc, after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said his country could join. China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in 2001 to fight threats posed by radical Islam and drug trafficking from neighbouring Afghanistan. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Turkey was already a “dialogue partner” of…
Donald Trump’s astonishing victory in the US presidential election, against the predictions of most analysts, was like a powerful seismic event which has sent tremors across the global geopolitical landscape. This was not only because of the importance of the US as the most powerful nation in the world with worldwide interests and power projection capabilities. The election of its president, therefore, is always a matter of deep interest for the rest of the world.…
The writer is an analyst and commentator. The most important single event in the Pakistan-US relationship in the last decade was the November 26, 2011 slaughter of over two dozen Pakistani soldiers on the border with Afghanistan by US forces. The Salala incident, as it came to be known, was characterised as a mistake by the US. The current corps commander Multan, Lt-Gen Ishfaq Nadeem, was the DGMO at the time, and in briefings with…
(This was originally published in Herald’s Annual 2016 issue as part of Herald Person of the Year section) While driving towards Kunjah, about 10 kilometres to the west of Gujrat city, it is difficult to miss the change in scale; towns and villages, roads, shops and tea stalls, everything looks smaller than it does on the Grand Trunk Road that links Gujrat with Rawalpindi, to the north, and Lahore to the south. Within Kunjah, the…
With the start of his farewell tour of the country, Army Chief Raheel Sharif confirmed he would become the first COAS in more than two decades to relinquish the office on time – in his case November 29. He had always maintained that he would depart this way but there had been intense speculation all around that things might turn out different. Sharif will leave as one of the country’s most popular army chiefs ever,…