Tag: Welcomes

India on Monday welcomed the US decision to suspend $800 million worth of military aid to its arch-rival Pakistan. “With reference to the special...

PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif on Saturday welcomed the MQM’s decision to join the opposition in the National and Sindh assemblies as well as the...

As PML-Q chief Shujaat Hussain is making hectic efforts to woo the MQM back in the government, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman welcomed...

US President Barrack Obama’s announcement regarding the troop pullout from Afghanistan led to wide ranging uncertainty amongst the Afghans, as a majority of them...

Natalie Portman and her fiancé Benjamin Millepied are celebrating the arrival of a baby boy. People magazine broke the news of the birth, but...

Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Asma Jehangir has termed the public representatives’ demand for military’s accountability a welcome development. Addressing a seminar organised by...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Chief Minister Ameer Haidar Khan Hoti has welcomed the new housing schemes in his province and has said that public-private sector...

Sri Lanka captain Tillakaratne Dilshan welcomed his cricket board’s decision to reject an offer to tour Pakistan this year due to security fears and...

The Pakistan Cricket Board finds the visit of Afghanistan cricket team against Pakistan A as a healthy sign for the revival of cricket in...

President Asif Ali Zardari, on Friday, appreciated the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s (ICBC) initiative to open branches in Pakistan. This proposal, he...

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board has welcomed the 'positive' comments by the Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao. "A Pakistan-India series is a huge event in cricket and we are happy over this development," a PCB spokesman said.
"PCB has been working on reviving the bilateral series between Pakistan and India with the BCCI and we hope to achieve positive results soon," he said. Pakistan and India have not competed in a bilateral series since 2007, when Shoaib Malik led the

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has welcomed Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's invitation to President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to watch the cricket World Cup semi final in Mohali on March 30. "We welcome the invitation," Presidential spokesperson Farhatullah Babar said on Saturday. Babar said that any decision in this regard would be taken after Gilani's return from Tashkent. According to official sources, the invitation might be discussed at the Foreign

WASHINGTON The United States welcomed an announcement by Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday that Afghan forces will begin taking responsibility for security in several provinces this summer. "As we have long said, the Afghans themselves must take responsibility for their own future - for providing security, for strengthening governance, and for reaching a political solution to the conflict," US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. Karzai said Afghan forces will take

LAHORE - Mobilink, Pakistan's market leader in cellular services and a part of Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH) welcomes the positive vote expressed by the majority of VimpelCom shareholders in today's Special General Meeting.
Following this favourable outcome, the management teams of VimpelCom and Wind Telecom will proceed in satisfying the conditions precedent for the completion of the Transaction, which is expected to take place in the first half of 2011.
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LAHORE - The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry welcomed the Federal Government decision to allow import of rice bran edible oil extraction machinery from India and termed it a step towards right direction that is bound to expedite business activities in the country.
In a statement issued here on Thursday, the LCCI President Shahzad Ali Malik said that the Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani, Federal Minister for Commerce Makhdoom Amin Fahim and Federal Secretary Zafar

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Foreign Ministry on Thursday welcomed the United States (US) Senate report on "Avoiding water wars in South and Central Asia", which acknowledged that the dams, India was building in Occupied Kashmir, would limit the water supply to Pakistan.
Foreign Office Spokesperson Tehmina Janjua said, "The report substantiates Pakistan's concerns at the building of dams by India on the western rivers in violation of the Indus Waters Treaty." The report released by US

TRIPOLI - The son of Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi said on Thursday foreign journalists were welcome to enter the country, a day after a senior official said those who entered without permission would be considered outlaws. "We say to the world that we have opened the country to journalists from all over the world," Seif al-Islam said in remarks on his Allibiya television channel reported by state news agency Jana.
He said journalists and diplomats were welcome to verify for