Tag: Region

LASHKAR GAH: The governor of the western Afghan province of Farah resigned on Thursday after months of increased fighting that have fuelled protests by...

ANKARA: Turkey says it has launched a much-awaited air and ground offensive against the Kurdish-controlled enclave of Afrin in northern Syria. After days of shelling, Turkish fighter jets...

DAKAR: Gunmen shot dead 13 people and wounded seven others on Saturday in the forest of Senegal’s southern region of Casamance, the army said. It...

WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, while rejecting negative propaganda against China Pakistan Economic Project (CPEC), has said that the...

Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar while emphasizing the importance of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) urged the need to utilize full potential of the Organization...

CNG pumps have been closed for three days in all the eight districts of Faisalabad regions, media reports said. Under gas load management plan, CNG...

New US ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olsen says Pakistan is playing important role in the region. Ambassador Olsen’s message to the people of Pakistan was...

President Asif Ali Zardari while stressing for regional cooperation has voiced three "clear and present dangers" of the region. Speaking at the Economic Cooperation Organization's...

Dr. Asim Hussain, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources has expressed the confidence that the Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (TAPI) Gas Pipeline Project...

President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday announced that Pakistan would host an international conference on narcotics and called for a full membership of the...

A US drone strike targeting a militant compound in northwestern tribal area killed 15 insurgents in a pre-dawn attack on Monday, security officials said. Two...

Muhammad Zubair Motiwala, Chairman Sindh board of Investment and president PAJCCI said that the formation of Pakistan-Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PAJCCI)...

Armed men killed 68 people on Monday in a “massacre” in the rebel central province of Homs, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights head...

Trilateral summit The Americans, one assumes, wouldn’t be all too pleased. Nor would the Saudis. The Afghan and Pakistani presidents sitting together was all well...

The major transformation underway in the Middle East has wide ranging global implications, including those for the adjacent regions. A critical inquiry from Pakistan’s...

One of the fundamental reasons why terrorism is still flourishing in the region is surely not because military offensives have been unsuccessful but a...

Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Saturday that Pakistan would not accept any country’s hegemony in the region. Talking to journalists here at...