Tag: Strategic

India, Afghanistan kick start strategic partnership pact

India Tuesday assured that its assistance was neither ‘transitory’ nor in ‘transition’ to Afghanistan, which said it was looking forward to increasing training and...

Strategic capabilities to be strengthened: Mukhtar

Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar has said the government would strengthen the conventional and strategic capabilities of the armed forces to make the defence...

US Marines set to arrive in Australia next month

US Marines are set to arrive in Australia's tropical north next month as Washington increases its military presence as part of a renewed emphasis...

Pasha to head Strategic Plans Division?

Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha is likely to head the body that controls the country’s nuclear arsenal after the...

Transforming US-Afghan ‘Strategic Partnership Agreement’ into reality

As expected, President Hamid Karzai achieved what he wanted out of the recently held four-day loya jirga, a political approval to enter into a...

MFN status to India key strategic shift in army policy

Pakistan’s decision to grant the status of Most Favored Nation (MFN) to India reflects the change of the army top brass’s mindset, which believes...

Shifting alliance: Karzai signs strategic alliance with India

Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed a partnership deal with India on Tuesday in a move bound to raise suspicion in Pakistan at a time...

US rules out strategic talks with Pakistan

US State Department has said there is no possibility of strategic talks with Pakistan. The issue of US diplomatic staff’s movement in Pakistan would...

Pizza Hut and PSO deepen strategic partnership

Pizza Hut Pakistan and Pakistan State Oil have deepened their strategic partnership by signing an MoU that gives Pizza Hut Pakistan visibility at over...

Clinton to visit India in July for strategic talks

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to visit India next month for strategic talks with Indian leaders, a spokesman for the Indian foreign...

China may cut spending on strategic industries

China may rein in plans to invest heavily in seven new strategic industries, including high speed rail and wind power, scaling back cutting-edge projects...

UBL and Voicetrust announce strategic partnership

United Bank Limited (UBL) and VoiceTrust Holding have signed a comprehensive Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding their strategic relationship covering a Joint Venture (JV)...

Strategic tolerance: Cultivate it to survive and grow

The executive at General Motors who, with the authority of GM’s top management behind her, brought Cadillac back to top-ranked quality ratings for luxury...

Clinton’s deputy to resume strategic dialogue

Resuming the stalled strategic dialogue with Pakistan, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s deputy Thomas Nides will take up the entire range of issues...

Zardari, Erdogan pledge to strengthen strategic partnership

ANKARA - President Asif Ali Zardari and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday made a renewed pledge to build a strategic partnership focusing on achieving economic prosperity and strengthening political ties.
President Asif Zardari held a meeting with the Turkish prime minister at a luncheon at his official residence. Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar, Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar were present on

US’ strategic partnership with India to remain its priority

LAHORE - US Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Assistant Secretary Robert O Blake, Jr told the House Foreign Affairs Committee in a testimony on Wednesday that US' global strategic partnership with India would remain among its "top foreign policy priorities."
Blake told the Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia that US President Barack Obama had told the Indian parliament last November that with India assuming "its rightful place in the world, we have an historic

British PM holds strategic talks with Pakistani counterpart

ISLAMABAD - British Prime Minister David Cameron held strategic talks with his Pakistani counterpart Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday and discussed ways to further boost economic and anti-terror cooperation.
Cameron first held one-to-one meeting with Gilani and later officials of the two sides joined the leaders in strategic talks.
Cameron visited the landmark Faisal Mosque and a girls' school shortly after his arrival in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Tuesday