Tag: Relations

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton telephoned Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani late on Thursday and held extensive discussions on the Pakistan-US relations. She...

Former British foreign secretary David Wright Miliband on Friday called on President Asif Ali Zardari at the Presidency to discuss the Pak-UK bilateral relations...

Contrary to the perception that Pakistan is poised to adopt a pragmatic and realistic policy towards the United States, relations between the two countries,...

joint “in-camera” session of parliament on Friday unanimously passed a resolution condemning the US’ unilateral action in Abbottabad in violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty,...

Revealing the gravity of the differences between Pakistan and the United States, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has disclosed that cooperation between the Inter-Services...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif termed the Abbottabad operation an attack on the sovereignty of Pakistan and called for a review of...

Strained US- Pakistan ties following the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden are being seen in India as an opportunity to ramp up...

ISLAMABAD - A serious deadlock persisted between the United States (US) and Pakistan, as in response to Islamabad's strong demands for drone attacks to be stopped, the US military's Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen on Wednesday ruled out an end to attacks by CIA's pilot-less drones in the tribal areas and also urged Islamabad to stop supporting the most influential Taliban group, the Haqqani network, allegedly based in North Waziristan.
Admiral Mullen, who held

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Thursday said that the US drone attacks in its Tribal Areas had become a core irritant in its relations with the US and top leaders from Pakistan had clearly conveyed this stance to the American authorities.
"Drone attacks have become a core irritant in the counter-terrorism campaign," said Foreign Office spokeswoman Tehmina Janjua while addressing her weekly press briefing. "Pakistan has repeatedly taken up the matter with the US at all levels. Prime

LONDON - Bitter disputes over covert CIA activities and drone attacks inside Pakistan, lack of progress over peace talks in Afghanistan, and rising Islamist-led opposition to the presence of foreign forces in the region are fuelling the biggest crisis in US-Pakistan relations since the 9/11 attacks, reports "The Guardian" quoting Pakistani politicians and other security related officials.
Pakistan is seen by Washington and London as a vital ally in the "war on terror", while the

ISLAMABAD - The Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution to condemn the Swabi Interchange blast in which several innocent people lost their life. The resolution moved by Senator Azam Khan Swati demanded the government hold an immediate investigation into the incident, identify the culprits and bring them to justice.
Speaking on the occasion, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Senator Ismail Buledi condemned the incident, saying the government had failed to provide

KARACHI - Veteran Indian journalist Kuldip Nayar has said that the mistrust between the people of India and Pakistan was the main hurdle in developing peace and friendly relations, and re-writing the history based on facts was needed for developing trust. He expressed these views while addressing a reception hosted by the Karachi Press Club in his honour on Friday. "Integrity and prosperity of India depends on integrity and prosperity of Pakistan," he said. "Strengthening democracy in

KARACHI - Had Benazir Bhutto been alive, India and Pakistan would have had better relations, Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah said on Friday at the CM House where a 15-member Indian peace delegation of intellectuals, writers, parliamentarians, educationists and social activists called on the CM. Speaking on the occasion, the CM said that the need of the hour is to make efforts for resolving issues between India and Pakistan. Feelings of hatred should be removed from the hearts of

LAHORE - Dr Marvin G Weinbaum delivered a lecture titled "Pak-US relations with special reference to Afghanistan" at the National School of Public Policy (NSPP) of the National Management College on Tuesday.
Weinbaum served as an analyst for Pakistan and Afghanistan affairs in the US State Department from 1999 to 2003. Currently he has been undertaking numerous consultancies with government agencies as well as the private sector.
In his hour-long lecture, Weinbaum analysed

KARACHI - Pakistan and Central Asian States (CAs), especially Tajikistan, will open a new chapter of trade relations by implementing various proposed options to boost bilateral trade. Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon, with other related ministries/officials, will visit Pakistan on March 10, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Visit of the Tajik president was followed by visits of both President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to Dushanbe in the last two years.

ISLAMABAD - The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has sought details of Raymond Davis-like CIA agents operating in its territory from the US as a major condition to move ahead leaving behind the Lahore incident, in which two Pakistanis were killed by the detained American spy.
US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Leon Panetta made a telephone call to ISI chief General Ahmad Shuja Pasha on Saturday to discuss the contentious issue of Davis that has generated a grave

WASHINGTON - Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Leon Panetta has said that the United States has a very complicated relationship with Pakistan and both the countries often have conflicting view points on various issues.
"I have to tell you that it (US-Pakistan) is very complicated and it does involve oftentimes conflicting viewpoints of how we deal with issues," Panetta told lawmakers at a Congressional hearing of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The