Tag: Talks

BERLIN - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday voiced understanding for talks with the Taliban, as she mourned late diplomat Richard Holbrooke, an avid proponent of reconciliation in Afghanistan.
At a memorial service, Clinton credited Holbrooke - who died unexpectedly at the age of 69 in December - with setting the troubled US relationships with Pakistan and Afghanistan on the right track as special envoy to the countries. "Those who found negotiations with the Taliban

Lawyers for the studio behind 'Two and a Half Men' are rejecting Charlie Sheen's claim that he's in talks to return to the hit CBS sitcom. A letter Thursday from attorneys for Warner Bros. Television to Sheen's lawyer dismisses as "false" Sheen's comments that discussions are underway to reinstate him. Details of the letter were confirmed by a person close to the situation who requested anonymity because they lacked authority to speak publicly.
Sheen told a Boston radio station

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani will visit Afghanistan for weekend talks with President Hamid Karzai, Islamabad said on Thursday. Gilani will fly to Kabul on Saturday at the invitation of Karzai, Foreign Office spokeswoman Tehmina Janjua told a weekly news briefing.

ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will visit Afghanistan for weekend talks with President Hamid Karzai, Islamabad said Thursday.
The visit comes ahead of the main fighting season in neighbouring Afghanistan, where 130,000 US-led troops are battling Taliban insurgents whose leaders are widely believed to be based in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
Relations have been strained over insecurity, with both accusing each other of destablising their countries,

SEOUL - South and North Korea held more talks Tuesday about a potential volcanic threat from the peninsula's highest mountain, in a rare example of cooperation after months of confrontation. Four South Korean experts met their North Korean counterparts at the North's border town of Kaesong for a second round of talks on ways to deal with any eruption at Mount Paektu, the South's unification ministry said.
After a day of discussions they agreed to hold an experts' meeting next

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari will leave for Turkey today (Monday) on a four-day official visit to discuss with Turkish leaders the US-backed Afghan reconciliation process that will involve fresh round of peace talks between the Karzai government and the Taliban on Turkish soil next month.
Islamabad and Ankara are working as main facilitators along with Saudi Arabia, UAE and other international players for the success of peace talks between Kabul and the Taliban backed

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and all other stakeholders involved in track-II dialogue on Afghanistan will hold their crucial meeting in Abu Dhabi next month and with that meeting, the 'Abu Dhabi Peace Process' will enter into the crucial stage to end militancy and bring peace to the war-shattered neighbouring country Pakistan.
A source told Pakistan Today on Sunday that chief of Afghan High Peace Council Burhanuddin Rabbani has agreed to attend the crucial moot while PPP-Sherpao

Finally, 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' will be exposed before the entire world. According to sources, Ben Stiller is set to make the long-gestating film, based on the classic 1939 James Thurber short story, his next film. Stiller will star as the suburban man who daydreams himself into tales of heroism and adventure.
One of Thurber's best short stories, it was made into a 1947 film starring Danny Kaye. A number of stars, including Jim Carrey and Will Ferrell, have been

Lindsay Lohan is on the verge of a major big-screen comeback amid rumours she is in negotiations to join John Travolta in a movie about the infamous Gotti family. The Grease star has been linked to the lead role of real life mafia boss John Gotti ever since he was spotted meeting with the gangster's son John Gotti, Jr., in January. The actor is now officially signed up and Lohan is rumoured to be joining the project as his onscreen daughter. Lohan is in "final talks" to take on the

ISLAMABAD - PPP-S chief Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, who is part of Track-II peace initiative in Afghanistan, on Thursday asked the federal and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governments to revisit the policy vis-a-vis terrorism and launch a dialogue process with militants as military operation alone would not yield the desired results.
In an exclusive interview with Pakistan Today, Sherpao said that the security forces conducted three successive military operations in the past few years in

ISLAMABAD - ISI chief Lt General Ahmed Shuja Pasha will reach Washington on April 15 as part of a high-level Pakistani defence delegation that will hold talks with US authorities on anti-terrorism cooperation and bilateral security and defense relations.
General Pasha is visiting the US along with other security officials on an invitation by Washington to discuss the various aspects of cooperation between Islamabad and Washington against terrorism. He will also apprise the

RIYADH - US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates was holding talks in Riyadh on Wednesday with Saudi King Abdullah, with both sides concerned by Iranian intentions in the region and spiralling unrest in Yemen.
"Iran will be a major focus of their conversations, both in terms of the regional threat they pose but also lately in the role they've been playing in trying to exploit the unrest in the region to their advantage," Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said ahead of the meeting.

LOS ANGELES - Actress Ashley Judd says in a new memoir that she had a lonely, painful childhood that included sexual abuse and thoughts of suicide while her mother Naomi Judd and sister Wynonna sought to build a career as country music stars.
In excerpts of "All That Is Bitter and Sweet," and in a TV interview on the "Today" show on Tuesday, Judd spoke of feeling neglected and emotionally abused while constantly moving homes with the Judd country legends.

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

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday expressed satisfaction on the outcome of the recent meeting between Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh and hoped that joint efforts would pave the way for resolution of all outstanding issues between the two archrivals. The prime minister called on the president and briefed him on his one-day visit to Mohali for the Cricket World Cup semi-final between Pakistan and India, on the sidelines of

SANAA - Yemenis on Thursday commemorated dozens of people killed in weeks of street protests demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh resign, as efforts continued to negotiate his exit from power within the next year. Weeks of protests in Sanaa and elsewhere have brought Saleh's 32-year-old rule to the brink of collapse but the United States and Saudi Arabia, an important financial backer of its poverty-stricken neighbour, are worried over who might succeed their ally.
A senior

LAHORE - A thaw has been finally created in the ongoing conflict between PCS officers and the District Management Group (DMG) after Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah met a delegation of PCS officers on Wednesday.
The PCS Officers' Association has been on a strike for nearly 10 days, with several provincial service officers abstaining from work not only in the secretariat but in the districts as well. The Punjab government had initially refused to budge, claiming that all the