Tag: Diplomacy

Recent findings that Indian trade authorities might be deliberately delaying Pakistan’s EU concessions, especially after the win-win fanfare, is symptomatic of regressive tendencies in...

Sources in the WTO have revealed that India is using delaying tactics for the time-bound European Union unilateral trade concession to Pakistan. While the...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanded on Thursday that Pakistan dismantle Taliban safe havens in a major push for Islamabad to take action...

Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said that there is no quiet diplomacy underway with the United States. She was talking to journalists here...

Pakistan’s trade delegation to India, led by Commerce Minister Amin Fahim, has been successful in getting India to de-link Pakistan’s EU trade deal with...

The trade ministers of India and Pakistan meet in New Delhi on Wednesday to discuss measures to overhaul ragged commercial ties which should help...

If the remarks attributed to Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar in reports coming from Washington are correct, she is dangerously out of step...

The PML-N is hinting at the army-pushed backchannel diplomacy as the best solution to restore peace in Karachi, rebuffing options including Prime Minister Yousaf...

The Obama administration’s ties with Afghan President Hamid Karzai remain solid despite an unusual public rebuke from the US envoy to Kabul this weekend,...

Finland’s foreign ministry on Monday won the Steam Spirit Prize for promoting sauna culture abroad, organisers said, hailing Finnish diplomats for using saunas to...

, April 27(): Preparations are being made to hold a Tennis match on Wahga Border to carryon with the diplomacy that took start with...

LAHORE - A seminar was organised by the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) on Wednesday where high-profile speakers discussed "If cricketing could act as a diplomatic effort to build ties with India?" The seminar was led by the speakers Hasan Askari, IA Rehman, and Khaled Ahmed who each voiced their view on the role of sports, especially cricket, in the relations of the two countries and discussed how it could act positively.
IA Rehman said there was a common saying that

ISLAMABAD - Kashmir Council EU Chairman Ali Raza Syed on Monday said that cricket diplomacy was not enough to improve the relations between Pakistan and India and Kashmir issue would have to be resolved on priority basis according to the will of Kashmiris.
Addressing a news conference here at National Press Club (NPC), Ali Raza said that failure of numerous agreements between India and Pakistan including Tashkant and Shimla, revealed that conflicts between both the countries

WASHINGTON - The United States on Thursday praised the "cricket diplomacy" between India and Pakistan after their leaders met for a game, saying that better ties between the rivals were in the world's interest. "The expansion of dialogue between India and Pakistan is a welcome and encouraging development for both countries, for the region and for the world," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement. But while the US voiced support for the dialogue, it said that future

LAHORE - Terming the Mohali World Cup semi final between India and Pakistan as fixed in favour of India, a petition was filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday requesting the court to hold an inquiry by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as to whether the 'cricket diplomacy' was a conspiracy prepared by bookmakers to cover their crime.
The petition was filed by Irfan Mukhtar, through his counsel Azhar Siddique, requesting

MOHALI - The only positive fallout of the Cricket World Cup semi-final between Pakistan and India in Mohali on Wednesday was Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh's pledge to rebuild ties shattered after the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
The two prime ministers watched the match together from the stands. Before the game, they stood side by side for the national anthems before heading on to the pitch at the stadium to shake hands with players from

ISLAMABAD - Former president Pervez Musharraf has warned against any undue optimism over Pakistan-India cricket diplomacy, but nonetheless praised Gilani-Manmohan meeting over the Mohali match.
Talking to an Indian TV channel, he said cricket diplomacy did not mean that all issues could or would automatically be resolved. "However, things can take turn for better," he said. He declared Manmohan Singh's invitation a step in the right direction.
The former president declared