Tag: Talks

UN-sponsored reconciliation talks to open in Somalia

Somali leaders began gathering Sunday for a three-day national reconciliation conference under UN auspices amid high security in war-shattered Mogadishu. African Union peacekeepers deployed...

Tony Blair has major role in Mideast talks

Tony Blair is playing a central but largely unheralded role in trying to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and perhaps avert a Palestinian push for...

Asfandyar’s rebuff derails ANP-PML-N talks

Awami National Party (ANP) chief Asfandyar Wali Khan’s recent snubbing of the hawks within the party has reset the ANP-PPP relations, though some second-line...

Kim tells China North Korea ready for nuclear talks

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il told China Friday he was ready to resume six-party nuclear talks without preconditions, as he travelled through the Asian...

‘No talks with Sindhudesh aspirants’

The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)-led government will not talk with those who want to breakaway from Pakistan and create a ‘Sindhudesh’, said Federal Information...

Pak-India trade talks scheduled for Sept

The Trade Policy for the current fiscal year will be announced after Eid-ul-Fitr, while the talks between the commerce ministers of Pakistan and India...

N Korea’s Kim heads to China after Russia talks

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il headed to China on Thursday after completing rare a Siberian summit with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in which he...

Gilani-Obama meeting on cards

A meeting between Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and US President Barak Obama is on the cards to sort out growing “operational difficulties” in...

No breakthrough in PM-Ebad talks

Contrary to the media’s speculation about an early return of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) to the federal and Sindh governments, Prime Minister Yousaf...

‘Is Guru hanging a Kashmir CBM?’: Mirwaiz asks Delhi

Warning India of grave consequences if 2001-Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru is hanged, Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that India’s...

PM leaves for Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani left for Saudi Arabia on a two-day visit in which he will perform Umrah and also meet the...

Hekmatyar joins Afghan peace talks

The Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) headed by Engineer Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has also joined the negotiations, brokered by the Turkish government, which aims at reconciliation amongst...

North Korea says it has agreed on more US talks

Isolated North Korea said on Monday it had agreed to further dialogue with the United States, and repeated it was willing to resume regional...

New Indian foreign secretary pushes talks with Pakistan

Indian Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai, who assumed office on Monday, said he had been mandated to pursue ‘’substantive dialogue’’ with Pakistan and underlined that...

Khar unhappy over her depiction as ‘fashion icon’

Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan's first woman Foreign Minister who returned to Pakistan last evening after a visit to India for talks with her counterpart...

Hina in Ajmer for prayers

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar offered prayers at the revered Sufi shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer Thursday before flying back home....

Neil Patrick Harris talks about ‘Smurfs’

Neil Patrick Harris may be the most versatile star in showbiz. The Emmy-award winner can sing and dance, perform voice-overs, host award shows, and...