Tag: Sovereignty

PML-N govt weakened parliament, says Shah

ISLAMABAD: Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Khursheed Shah said on Thursday that the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government has never given importance...

China indifferent to Indian reservations over CPEC, says FM

--Kong says China does not think it is important whether India accepts Belt and Road infrastructure project   BEIJING: China will not stress on India joining China's Key Belt and Road Infrastructure project, Chinese...

Speakers suggest resilient foreign policy to ensure independence, sovereignty

‘US ‘do more’ policy should be dealt with constitutional vision guided by national interest’ LAHORE: Pakistan desperately needs a resilient foreign policy to ensure its...

Pakistan not content with temporary halt to drones

Pakistan on Thursday said it wanted complete halt of US drone attacks in the future. In her weekly briefing, Foreign Office spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam...

Nisar says drone attacks violation of national sovereignty

    PML-N leader Nisar Ali Khan has said his party had decided to devise a national policy on drone attacks which were violation of national...

Pakistan reiterates drone ‘violative of sovereignty’

  The Pakistani government on Friday reiterated its principled stance on drone attacks by the US forces on its soil, with a Foreign Office spokesman...

The truth about sovereignty

In the French parliament’s recent debate on Europe’s new fiscal treaty, the country’s Socialist government vehemently denied that ratification of the treaty would undermine...

China reiterates support for Pakistani sovereignty

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Tuesday called on his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao, who reiterated the stance of his government of supporting the...

West to grant Kosovo full sovereignty

Kosovo was to be granted full sovereignty by the West on Monday, over four years since its hotly contested declaration of independence, in a...

Army vows to uphold sovereignty at all costs

Expressing profound concern over the repeated terrorist attacks from Afghanistan on Pakistani border posts, the top military brass on Friday resolved to protect the...

Who is sovereign in Pakistan?

Depends on who you ask… Sovereignty is an imprecise concept because its operationalisation in the form of institutions and processes is a complex affair. It...

Split loyalties

No political party, including members of parliament, have a license to compromise state sovereignty just to keep their numbers intact by allowing individuals who...

PML-N to oppose point against country’s sovereignty: Nisar

Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Kahn said on Friday that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) was not hurdling in foreign policy rather it was against...

No compromise on national sovereignty: Sherry

Pakistan's envoy to US Sherry Rehman Thursday said no compromise would be made on country’s sovereignty. Sherry was talking to media at Islamabad airport upon...

Chinese envoy says Syrian sovereignty must be respected

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhai Jun said the international community must respect Syria's sovereignty after Damascus talks late on Friday with his counterpart Faisal...

Mending fences

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...

Terms of engagement

Priority to Pakistan’s interests In an article, that appeared last Wednesday in this very space, it was observed that with the opening of the Taliban...