Tag: Envoy
Bashir is new envoy to India
Former foreign secretary Salman Bashir will be Pakistan’s new high commissioner to India. Bashir’s nomination, cleared by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, has formally...
PHNP members call on Holy See envoy
A five-member delegation of the Peace and Harmony Network Pakistan (PHNP) called on ambassador to Vatican Edgar Pena Parra at the Embassy of the...
World must not abandon Afghanistan after combat mission ends: UK envoy
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Sir William Patey, 58, who finishes his posting as Britain’s ambassador in Kabul at the end of...
Kofi Annan named envoy as pressure mounts on Syria
The UN named its former leader Kofi Annan as special envoy for Syria on the eve of an international conference Friday aimed at pressuring...
Chinese envoy says Syrian sovereignty must be respected
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhai Jun said the international community must respect Syria's sovereignty after Damascus talks late on Friday with his counterpart Faisal...
UN envoy urges Iraqi bloc to ‘fight in parliament’
Iraq’s main Sunni-backed bloc should help resolve the country’s political crisis within parliament rather than stage a boycott, the UN’s envoy to Baghdad told...
Spanish envoy watches Gandhara exhibition at RAC
Spanish Ambassador Gonzalo Maria Saravia on Friday visited Rawalpindi Arts Council (RAC) and took keen inertest in the ongoing Gandhara art exhibition. Saravia applauded...
Gilani did not speak to UK envoy for seeking help: Spokesman
Government on Friday denied a media report that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani had called the British envoy and sought his support to prevent...
Polish envoy upbeat about trade prospects
Ambassador of Poland in Pakistan, Dr Andrzej Ananicz, has said trade between Pakistan and Poland would get a new boost in coming months as...
Argentinean envoy calls on Shahbaz
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that transparency, high standards and the expeditious completion of development projects is a hallmark of the Punjab...
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Our envoy in Washington
“Our country! …may she always be right; but right or wrong, our country!” is how an American naval officer Stephen Decatur...
Parties agree to transition plan, says UN Yemen envoy
The UN’s Yemen envoy said on Tuesday a Gulf sponsored power-transfer deal aimed at ending months of political deadlock has been approved both by...
Talks with N Korea very positive: US envoy
The United States’ lead envoy expressed confidence Tuesday about the prospects of restarting long-stalled nuclear negotiations after two days of “very positive” talks with...
Iran plotted to kill Saudi envoy, alleges US
The US on Tuesday said it had broken up a “chilling” plot planned high up in the Iranian government to assassinate the Saudi envoy...
Clinton outraged as Syrians target US envoy
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanded that Syria "take every possible step" to protect American diplomats after supporters of President Bashar al-Assad tried...
US envoy attacked as Syrian regime slams Washington
Pro-regime demonstrators on Thursday tried to attack the US ambassador to Syria, an opposition leader said, as Damascus accused Washington of inciting “armed groups”...
Canadian envoy calls on Wynne
Canada’s High Commissioner to Pakistan, HE. Col Ross Hynes, called on Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) Chairman General Khalid Shameem Wynne and discussed...
