Tag: Talks

Taliban must give up arms before talks

Pakistan will only hold peace talks with Taliban insurgents if they lay down their arms first, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Tuesday. "The minimum...

No need for third-party in Indo-Pak talks: Indian VP

Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari on Sunday said there was no need for mediations by a third-party over issues between India and Pakistan. “We...

Pakistan, US increase interaction to normalize ties

Expressing intentions to continue cooperation, Pakistan and US reaffirmed resolve to work together for normalization of ties estranged of late. The commitment to stay as...

India, Afghanistan ink strategic partnership deal

India and Afghanistan have signed a strategic partnership agreement deepening their economic and security ties, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday. Singh reached...

Pak-India bilateral trade to improve after dialogue

The visit of Pakistan’s biggest ever trade delegation and bilateral talks between Pakistan and India have been declared as historic and would result in...

Amin Fahim with 60-member business delegation leaves for India

After a lapse of over 30 years, Pakistan’s Minister for Commerce Makhdoom Amin Fahim, is leading a 60-member business delegation to India, left for...

Military top brass talks tough to United States

Amid rising tensions with the United States, Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani convened a special meeting of corps commanders on Sunday,...

CJCSC, CENTCOM Commander discuss matters of mutual interests

General Khalid Shameem Wynne Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) was called on by General James N. Mattis Commander US CENTCOM. According to a...

Kayani demands end to US allegations

Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, conveying concerns over allegations leveled by the US against Pakistan with regard to the Haqqani network,...

Dr Sheikh meets leaders of major institutions, countries

Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh met with leaders of major financial institutions and countries and discussed cooperation for Pakistan’s development on the sidelines...

Korean nuclear talks see no breakthrough

The chief nuclear envoys for North and South Korea said Wednesday they had failed to reach agreement on reviving international nuclear disarmament talks at...

‘Islamabad is not blocking talks on FMCT’

While Pakistan is being accused in the western media as the only obstructionist country in the initiation of negotiation on the Fissile Material Cut-off...

Yemen’s Saleh authorises power transfer talks

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has authorised his deputy to negotiate a transfer of power with the opposition to put an end to a...

Israel in talks with Egypt for return of ambassador

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that his government was consulting with Egypt on arrangements to return Israel's ambassador to Cairo after...

Taliban must face ‘more pain’ for talks: US envoy

The Taliban must feel “more pain” for peace talks to progress, the US ambassador to Kabul said, as Afghans Friday marked a decade since...

Yemen ruling party wants Saleh to allow power-transfer talks

A delegation from Yemen’s ruling party headed Thursday to Riyadh to seek permission from convalescing President Ali Abdullah Saleh for his deputy to negotiate...

Pakistan to hold talks with IMF from 23rd to 25th

Pakistan will hold talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the future line of action on the sidelines of the upcoming annul general...