Tag: Regional

Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (JCSC) Chairman General Khalid Shameem Wynne on Tuesday presided an important meeting of the committee at the Joint Staff...

Pakistan and China agreed on increasing regional cooperation to ensure peace, harmony and equitable development in the region during a meeting between Pakistan People’s...

President Asif Ali Zardari proposed a four-point strategy on Friday to boost economic cooperation among Pakistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Russia. Addressing the third quadrilateral...

The third quadrilateral summit of Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Russian Federation that took place in Dushanbe on Friday resulted in the signing of...

President Asif Ali Zardari and Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday reiterated to continue the ongoing fight against terrorism and extremism till the restoration...

Pakistan will work with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member states to maintain regional peace, spread shared prosperity and defeat terrorism, President Asif Ali...

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan vide its SRO No. 599(I)/2011 dated June 13, placed on its website, amended the Companies (Registration Offices)...

The need of the hour for Pakistan is now to rethink how we should plan for the immediate future given the remarkable changes being...

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday said Pakistan-China friendship and strategic cooperative partnership was an indispensable and critical factor in ensuring regional and...

The National Assembly Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Wednesday rejected a bill to grant regional languages the status of national languages...

Terming Pakistan-China friendship as an anchor of peace and stability in this part of the world, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Sunday...

ABU DHABI - Iran should reconsider its policies in the region and respect the unity of Gulf countries, the UAE foreign minister said Wednesday in Abu Dhabi, amid heightened regional tension. "Iran should reconsider its policies in the region," Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the Gulf Cooperation Council, told a news conference after an annual GCC and European Union ministerial meeting.
And it "should respect the unity and

Islamabad - British Prime Minister David Cameron called Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani over telephone on Friday to follow up on the very useful discussions on bilateral and regional issues, held during his visit to Islamabad on April 5th.
According to a Press Release, David Cameron apprised the Prime Minister that his Government was proactively pursuing Pakistan's case with EU for greater market access, as well as for dispatch of EU's Fisheries' delegation to Pakistan.

PESHAWAR - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain has urged the need to make the regional law and order atmosphere conducive and rehabilitate the affected socio-economic infrastructure which can ensure settlement of the Afghan refugees' issue.
"We endorse the decision of allowing the registered Afghan refugees to stay here till December 2012, but permitting them permanent settlement is possible," remarked Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian

TEHRAN - Tensions between Iran and the Gulf Arab countries are the result of a "Western and Zionist conspiracy", the foreign ministry in Tehran said on Sunday.
"Sowing discord between Islamic countries, especially between Iran and the countries of the region, is a Western and Zionist conspiracy," Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparst was quoted as saying on the website of state television.
"We advise regional governments to heed the demands of their people in

ISLAMABAD - The modern world of today is continuously transforming and we are living in a changing world. Traditionally, majority of threats to maritime security emanated from inter-state territorial disputes and political instabilities.
However, in the new millennium, the concept of maritime security has been redefined. Unlike the past, the world's nations are confronted with the threats of transnational terrorism emanating from non-state actors. These new security challenges

ISLAMABAD - National Assembly Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs on Monday unanimously rejected Constitutional Amendment Bill 2008 that sought the national language status for regional languages. Member National Assembly Begum Nasim Akhtar chaired the committee meeting at the Parliament House.
The Constitutional Amendment Bill 2008 (Article 251) to give regional languages status of National language moved by MNA Marvi Memon was unanimously rejected by