ISLAMABAD — Global money laundering and terror financing watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), on Friday removed Pakistan from a list of countries under “increased monitoring”, also known as the “grey list”, media reports said. Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari made the announcement prior to an FATF press conference, congratulating the country on the […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan stunned everyone with his party re-claiming six out of eight seats of the National Assembly (NA) in by-elections. The competition was very much seen as a direct political battle between Khan and the coalition government. Khan lost only one contest in Karachi, […]
ISLAMABAD — After almost 52 months, Pakistan is expected to exit the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) grey list during a plenary slated to take place this week, the Paris-based global terror financing watchdog announced. In a statement, the watchdog said: “The first FATF Plenary under the two-year Singapore Presidency of T. Raja Kumar will […]
KARACHI — Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Saturday that Pakistan has summoned US Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Blome for an official demarche following US President Joe Biden’s remarks about the country’s nuclear assets, media reports said. Addressing a press conference in Karachi, he said: “I have discussed it with the Prime Minister […]
ISLAMABAD — The Pakistan government will hang former Prime Minister Imran Khan upside down if he launches his long march in Islamabad, warned Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan. ‘Imran Khan doesn’t know what the government is planning to do with him this time around,’ Geo News quoted the Interior Minister as saying. Hestressed that the […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan on Tuesday summoned the Indian Charge d’ Affaires and lodged its strong protest over the alleged custodial death of separatist Hurriyat leader Altaf Ahmad Shah, the son-in-law of late pro-Pakistan Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani. Shah, popularly known as ‘Altaf Fantoosh’, died of cancer at the AIIMS in New Delhi on […]
LAHORE — Pakistan’s Railways and Aviation Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique said on Tuesday that no proposal is under consideration to resume air and rail link between Pakistan and India. The air and land link between the two countries were suspended following India’s move to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir in 2019. The […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan on Tuesday rejected Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks about Kashmir during a public rally in Gujarat, saying his contention that he has, somehow, “resolved the Kashmir issue”, is not only false and misleading but also reflects how oblivious the Indian leadership has become of the ground realities. Addressing a rally in Anand […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Foreign Office on Sunday rejected the External Affairs Ministry spokesperson’s remarks regarding Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s joint press conference with his German counterpart in Berlin, describing his comments as “unwarranted” and “gratuitous.” At the press conference in Berlin on Friday, Bilawal said peace inside South Asia would not be possible without […]
KABUL — At least 46 girls and young women were among the 53 people killed in Friday’s blast at the education centre in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, the United Nations said on Monday. “Further rise in casualties from Friday’s classroom bombing in Hazara quarter of Kabul: 53 killed, at least 46 girls & young women 110 […]