Tag: Pak-US relations
US State Department lauds ambassador Jilani for efforts to strengthen Pak-US...
The Acting Deputy Secretary of State Ambassador Thomas Shannon and Acting Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Laurel Miller lauded the services and contribution...
Centcom chief, finance minister discuss border management, mutual cooperation
US Central Command Commander, General Joseph Votel, called on the Finance Minister Ishaq Dar here on Monday, where Dar briefed him regarding Pakistan's efforts...
US to support Pakistan in counter-terrorism efforts in 2017
An official US document on the need for continuing aid to Pakistan in the fiscal year 2017 reveals that United States’ intent to continue...
US elections not to affect Pak-US relations: Harkenrider
US Consul General to Lahore Zachary Harkenrider has said that Pak-US relations would remain important for the US government irrespective of the fact Donald...
Susan Rice to visit Pakistan tomorrow
United States National Security Adviser Susan Elizabeth Rice is expected to visit Pakistan for a day on Sunday (tomorrow).
According to reports, Rice will meet Prime Minister...
Pak-US joint chiefs quietly meet to smooth relations
First chairman-to-chairman engagement since 2007 reviews intelligence issues, however it is unclear if any of those conversations centered around a recent drone strike that...
NATO supply lines to be opened, but ties with US remain...
Pakistan looks set to reopen two key NATO supply routes to Afghanistan, following the unanimous approval recently of a proposal in Parliament for new...
DPC rejects possible restoration of NATO supply
The central leadership of the Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) on Monday strongly rejected the intended restoration of NATO supply, threatened that by doing so, the...
Four years
It wasn’t easy. it wasn’t easy at all.
I think I should say this merely to remind people that Bhutto sb’s constitutional government lasted for...
Two adversaries
Fighting fit
Foreign Minister Khar is adamant her government won’t be a pushover. For either the US or the opposition at home. Lately, a set...
On Balochistan
National integrity at stake
When the situation was starting to worsen in Balochistan and the media was almost mum, it was then that I drew...
Why you no down the drones?
Sleep tight, we are too
On no less than three separate occasions in January alone, the US drones violated the Pakistani airspace and managed to...
Aiding the Taliban
That accusation again
Old wine in an even older bottle. That was the foreign minister’s assessment of the new reports in the western media about...
On the Afghan endgame
Strategic depth vs strategic stability
Tentative signals on the opening of serious negotiations for a peaceful settlement in Afghanistan now seem to be acquiring concrete...
Method in the madness?
The mess that is civil-military relations
The prime minister of late has developed a penchant for first making statements critical of the military establishment and...
