ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Former ambassador to United States Abida Hussain on Saturday said Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatemi’s recent visit ended in a fiasco. Talking to Daily Times, she regretted that Fatemi failed to hold a single meeting with any senior official of the upcoming Trump administration. Abida, who remained Pakistan’s ambassador to the US from November 1991 to March 1993, said that Fatemi’s visit was premature and it was…
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ISLAMABAD – Russia, Pakistan and China will hold the next round of three-way counterterrorism talks in Moscow December 27, primarily focusing on turmoil-hit Afghanistan. Russian Ambassador to Islamabad Alexey Dedov disclosed the details in an interview with state-run Radio Pakistan. This will be the third meeting of the “trilateral working group on Afghanistan”, he said, following meetings in Beijing and Islamabad. “What we see in Afghanistan, unfortunately, is worrisome because it does not bring us…
ISLAMABAD: Construction activities on the western route of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) have already commenced. An official source told the media on Saturday that the total length of Western route is around 2500 km, out of which 790 km is common route from Khunjrab to Hakla while road length from Hakla to Gwadar is 1710 km. The road from Hakla to Dera Ismail (DI) Khan agreed in All Party Conference (APC) held on May 18…
China said it would return a US navy drone seized in international waters in the South China Sea “in an appropriate manner” as both countries accused the other of ratcheting up tensions in the region. In a statement issued on Saturday night, the Chinese defence ministry said it had taken the drone for verification and accused the United States of “making a fuss” over the incident. According to the Pentagon, the US lodged a formal…
While the unprecedented seizure of a US underwater drone by the Chinese navy has escalated Sino-US tensions in the South China Sea, it is not the first high-profile military incident in the region. On April 1, 2001, a US Navy EP-3E Aries II signals intelligence aircraft and a Chinese J-8 fighter jet collided 110km off the coast of Hainan. The US plane issued a Mayday distress call before making an emergency landing on the island,…
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Saturday reached Saudi Arabia on a three-day official visit. According to the ISPR, the COAS was warmly received by Assistant Defence Minister Muhammad bin Abdullah al Ayesh. During his visit, the COAS would meet senior civil and military leadership of Saudi Arabia.https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/172717-COAS-in-Saudi-Arabia-on-three-day-visit