Tag: Ties

China on Tuesday said it hopes to boost military cooperation with India as the two Asian powerhouses resume defence ties that were frozen for...

Sudanese Ambassador in Pakistan Mohammad Omer Musa has invited Pakistani businessmen to consider investment in Sudan to reap the fruit of business opportunities as...

The US-Pakistan security relationship has dipped to its lowest point since the September 11, 2001 attacks, threatening counterterrorism programs, The Washington Post reported Thursday. US...

President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday urged frequent exchange of parliamentary delegations between Pakistan and Afghanistan and forging stronger links between female parliamentarians of...

On the third day of a visit by a major Pakistani business delegation to Tajikistan, five Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) have been signed between...

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday that relations with China were at "a pretty good place" but declined to take a view...

Belgium has strong diplomatic and trade relations with Pakistan and the existing level of mutual interest can be further strengthened in coming years through...

The United States wanted “long-term” security ties with Pakistan, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday, as she was set to arrive...

Safe havens for terrorists inside Pakistan were the main hurdle in normalising bilateral relations with the neighbouring country, India said on Friday. Talking to...

The administration of US President Barack Obama is divided over the future of its relationship with Pakistan following the killing of al Qaeda founder...

President Asif Ali Zardari arrived in Moscow on Wednesday to strengthen Pakistan’s relationship with Russia on his first major foreign visit since the killing...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Pakistan scheduled for May was cancelled on Tuesday as key American leaders urged Washington and Islamabad...

WASHINGTON - Islamabad on Monday called for a sustained Pak-US strategic partnership, with Finance Minister Hafeez Shaikh arguing that the past periods of estrangement due to non-economic considerations signified that a relationship based on strong mutual economic interests would help build long-term ties.
At an interaction with American intellectuals at Woodrow Wilson Center, Shaikh said the economic relations between the two nations had survived vicissitudes of the world and

MOSCOW - World number three Vera Zvonareva put Russia into a Fed Cup final meeting with the Czech Republic by beating Italy's Roberta Vinci 6-4, 6-2 here on Sunday. That gave the Russians an unassailable 3-0 lead over the defending champions having won both the opening singles on Saturday. And they promptly wrapped things up as Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova outlasted Sara Errani 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (7/4) in the second return singles before Pavlyuchenkova teamed with Ekaterina Makarova to

NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would consider his job "well done" if relations with Pakistan were normalised, Indian media quoted him as saying on Sunday. The South Asian neighbours are working to revive diplomatic ties that were broken off after the Mumbai attacks in 2008.
"If I can succeed in normalising relations between India and Pakistan as they should prevail between two normal states, I will consider my job well done," Singh told reporters on board his

ISLAMABAD - Gul cargo train, traversing 6500 kilometers from Islamabad, Tehran to Istanbul, will become a symbol of strength in the Pak-Turk ties in the coming years. The project got a final shape in the recent four day official visit of President Asif Ali Zardari to Ankara, the Turkish capital, from April 11-14.
With the strong encouragement of leaders of the two countries, Turkish Union of Chambers (TOBB) has announced to immediately start a company to run the project. The

NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would consider his job "well done" if ties with Pakistan return to normal before he leaves office, local media quoted him as saying on Sunday, weeks after Singh's diplomatic push at the cricket World Cup.
The nuclear-armed neighbours have slowly tried to rebuild a fragile trust shattered by the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which Singh's government blamed on Pakistan-based militants in collusion with the country's spy agency.