Tag: Peace

ISLAMABAD - It is "imperative" for the world to support Pakistan's efforts to reach out to Afghanistan and India to create an environment that will usher peace, stability and development in the South Asian region, the Foreign Office said on Sunday.
In a reaction to US secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent remarks, Foreign Office spokeswoman Tehmina Janjua said, "Pakistan has reached out to both Afghanistan and India to promote an environment conducive to stability and

NESBRU - The Philippine government and communist rebels resumed peace talks near Oslo on Tuesday, more than six years after the last round broke down, but prospects for progress remained uncertain after the arrest hours earlier of a top guerilla leader. "Dialogue is not a sign of weakness. It is a strategy of the brave. It opens doors," Norway's deputy foreign minister Espen Barth Eide declared in opening remarks at a Nesbru hotel overlooking the icy Oslo fjord.
The two sides

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and India on Thursday announced that they will resume the peace talks stalled after the Mumbai attacks in November 2008 on all bilateral disputes, including the core issue of Jammu and Kashmir.
The agreement to this effect was announced by the two foreign ministries simultaneously following the talks on Sunday between the Indo-Pak foreign secretaries in Bhutanese capital, Thimphu, where the prime ministers of neighboring states had also met back in April

KUALA LUMPUR - The Philippine government and the nation's main Islamic separatist group agreed on Thursday to push ahead with a faltering peace process after meeting for the first time in two years. The government hailed the meeting as a success, saying it yielded agreements on substantive issues and that the two sides agreed to "fast track the peace process" with another round of talks scheduled for the next month.
The meeting in Kuala Lumpur also covered concerns over the

ISLAMABAD - The trust developed through small barter trade taking place between Indian held Kashmir and Azad Kashmir has provided some former militants peaceful, non-violent role and alternative vision for change and conflict transformation despite considerable obstacles being faced by traders living on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC).
"The cross border relationships of trust developed through trade have proved to have resilience to political turmoil and have begun to

OSLO - A Norwegian member of the parliament on Wednesday said he had nominated WikiLeaks for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, saying the whistleblower website was a gauge of transparency in the world, including in democratic societies.
Jailed Chinese dissident "Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year for his struggle for human rights, democracy and freedom of speech in China," Snorre Valen, a member of the Socialist Left Party that is part of the ruling left-leaning

KARACHI - The All Parties Conference (APC) on peace in Karachi to be held on January 31 has been postponed until further notice, Chief Minister's House spokesman said on Friday. The notification came after the MQM, earlier in the day, asked the PPP to convene an APC in the Punjab province, as it was more needed there due to the rapidly deteriorating law and order situation.
The demand was made by MQM's Wasay Jalil while talking to reporters, after a PPP delegation led by ND Khan

KARACHI - Former Lyari-based international players and referees hailed Pakistan Football Federation's President Faisal Saleh Hayat for taking steps in boosting football in rural and urban areas of Pakistan.
They called Lyari Football League 2011 another milestone in Faisal's tenure.
People's Peace Committee Chairman Sardar Uzair Jan Baloch called the event a milestone and said that such events would play a positive role in keeping peace not only in Lyari but throughout

CAIRO - Leaked documents that show Palestinians had made major concessions to Israel on occupied East Jerusalem have infuriated many Arabs who fear their rights to the holy city are being sold too cheaply.
Some Arab analysts said the documents, published by Al Jazeera television, did not differ markedly from offers discussed in previous peace talks over the years and showed the kind of concessions needed for any settlement. But ordinary Arabs, many of them angered by their

KARACHI - PML-Q leaders Chaudhry Shujaat and Mushahid Hussain continued their meetings with different parties on Saturday for restoring
peace in Karachi. They called on leaders of the ANP, the Sunni Tehreek (ST) and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP) separately and discussed matters pertaining to the law and order situation in the city.
According to Mushahid Hussain, they would also meet the provincial government representatives in this regard. They are on a three-day visit

LAHORE - The Punjab University (PU) Islami Jamiat-e-Talba (IJT) tried to organise an illegal function at the varsity's New Campus without permission of the university administration, which expressed concern over participation of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) leaders Hafiz Salman Butt and Farid Paracha in the function, Pakistan Today has learnt. PU IJT nazim Zubair Safdar said that the varsity administration tried to stop their constructive activity and also thrashed their workers. He said that

Lahore - The inauguration of National Campaign for Peace was held yesterday by two non-government organisations; South Asian Partnership Pakistan (SAP-PK) and Oxfam Novib, at Ali Institute of Education, Lahore. Federal Minister for Human Rights said international cooperation was required to achieve peace.
"The real power rests not with the elected representatives but with the civil and military bureaucracy. Peace is not bureaucracy's priority, as it has never experienced the

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Sunday stepped up efforts to engage Afghan leadership in initiating reconciliatory process in the war-torn neighbouring country, assuring the leadership in Kabul that it would take all possible steps for the success of ongoing peace and reconciliation process between the Karzai administration and the Taliban.
Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir extended the assurance during his meetings with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other senior officials on the first

RAMALLAH - Israel is destroying any chance of a return to peace talks by carrying out demolitions in annexed east Jerusalem, a spokesman for Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Sunday.
"By doing this, Israel has destroyed all the US efforts and ended any possibility of a return to negotiations," Nabil Abu Rudeina said in a statement after Israeli forces demolished part of a former hotel in east Jerusalem. The Hotel Shepherd is being partially demolished to make way for 20 new

ISLAMABAD - In a significant development on Thursday, the visiting delegation of Afghan High Council for Peace met the representatives of the Hizb-e-Islami, one of the major insurgent groups in the Afghanistan.
"Hizb-e-Islami, which is led by former Afghan prime minister and now one of the main insurgent leaders, Gulbadin Hekmatyar, presented its 15-point peace formula to the Afghan delegation," said a diplomatic source, wishing not to be named.
The Afghan delegation was

ISLAMABAD - People from various walks of life participated in Aman Ittehad's peace rally and marched from the National Press Club to the Parliament House to express solidarity with those suffering from violence and repression.
The participants of the rally demanded that the government must take strict action against state and non-state actors that break the law and propagate or encourage militancy and extremism by their words or actions.
Addressing the participants, Ali

QUETTA - Aman Etahad organised a walk on Saturday to promote peace in the province and demanded of the government to provide security to the citizens against terrorism and crimes in the country.
The walk started from Assembly Chowk and ended in front of the Quetta Press Club. The participants were carrying placards and chanted slogans for peace, recovery of missing persons, curbing abduction like arrests of Balochis and against the military operation in the province, besides