Tag: Talks

Pakistan and India resumed two-day talks on Sir Creek maritime boundary on Friday after a gap of four years as part of the bilateral...

Pakistan’s talks with the International Monetary Fund over the release of a tranche in an $11 billion loan are going smoothly and have been...

Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani reached Islamabad early on Saturday after he was called for consultation on mounting tensions with the...

No headway was made on Thursday during the secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan on the controversial Wullar barrage on Jehlum River in Indian-held...

Pakistan on Wednesday began talks with the International Monetary Fund - meetings moved to Dubai after Osama bin Laden’s death - aimed at getting...

Iran on Tuesday said it has formally agreed to resume talks on its controversial nuclear programme with six major powers which have been stalled...

The possibility of talks between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas should not be entirely ruled out, Israeli President Shimon Peres told Ynet news...

The United States and China will begin two days of high-level talks Monday on a gamut of political and economic issues, including thorny areas...

While Osama bin Laden’s death may have little immediate impact on the Afghanistan war, it can bring a political solution by opening the door...

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Friday the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid leadership was negotiating a power-sharing deal directly with President Asif Ali Zardari,...

Pakistan and India on Wednesday began their first trade talks since the 2008 Mumbai attacks, opening a two-day session designed to boost business between...

SANAA - Yemen's opposition called for mass protests Wednesday after deadly clashes with police, while talks seemed stalled between Gulf mediators and representatives of embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Members of the UN Security Council also failed to come up with a joint statement on Yemen after adding the Arabian Peninsula country's crisis to their agenda for the first time. Youth groups called for nationwide marches by millions of people in protest at the killing of

SANAA - Yemeni police killed one man and wounded several other people on Tuesday when they opened fire on anti-regime demonstrators ahead of a government delegation meeting with Gulf foreign ministers in Abu Dhabi. Police fired "indiscriminately" on protesters demanding the departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the Wadi al-Qadi district of Taez, the second most-populated city of Yemen, south of Sanaa, according to witnesses. Several people suffered gunshot wounds, including a

ISLAMABAD - Women shall be given sufficient representation in decision-making processes on climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies as no national or international policy framework on climate change addresses gender issue. The experts on environment and other speakers stressed this while discussing absence of gender perspective in policy framework on climate change in Pakistan here a seminar "Climate Change and Gender: Prospects and Challenges" that was organized by

WASHINGTON - The first round of talks between Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over the release of the next instalment of monetary aid had come to a close, a private TV channel reported on Sunday.
According to the TV channel's sources, the Pakistani delegation, headed by Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Sheikh discussed the release of the next tranche with the IMF. During the first round of talks, Pakistan had faced difficult questions because of a bad economic

ISLAMABAD - Just a week before the World Trade Organisation's General Council in Geneva decides the implementation of European Union's trade concessions to Pakistan, Islamabad will try to address Indian concerns over the unilateral package when the two commerce secretaries hold two-day bilateral talks on April 27.
An official source said Indian Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar was coming to discuss bilateral trade issues that had been on the halt since the suspension of the

ISLAMABAD - In a major development in the Afghan peace process, Pakistan's top political and military leadership will hold an important meeting with President Hamid Karzai and other Afghan leaders in Kabul today (Saturday) to pave the way for a conclusive dialogue between the Karzai government and the Taliban, with Islamabad also playing the central role of facilitator.
In an unprecedented move, Pakistan's top political and military leadership will be present in Kabul today with