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The Express Tribune
April 24, 2018
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and chief ministers of the four provinces inked the first ever Water Policy and Pakistan Water Charter on Tuesday. A special signing ceremony was held at the Prime Minister's Office in this regard during the Council of Common Interests (CCI) meeting,Ãâà...
DAWN.com
April 24, 2018
The Council of Common Interest (CCI) in its 37th meeting held at the PM Office on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in chair, unanimously approved the first-ever National Water Policy (NWP) of Pakistan. The chief ministers of the four provinces and senior officials attended the meeting inÃâà...
Business Standard
April 24, 2018
Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan on Tuesday met visiting Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif here, vowing to promote bilateral ties to a new high. Wang said building a community with a shared future for humanity confirms to the trend of the times and Pakistan is China's all-weatherÃâà...
Daily Times
April 24, 2018
LAHORE: British-Pakistani boxer Amir Khan on Tuesday said that he would “love” to knock “corrupt” politicians out in Pakistan. The boxer, who recently knocked Canadian counterpart Phil Lo Greco out in 40 seconds, was offered by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman to come to Pakistan and KOÃâà...
Arab News
April 24, 2018
ISLAMABAD: Sitting in a small, crowded courtroom, Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif made a show of defiance as he vowed to resist the “undemocratic ... “In Pakistan, politicians move with the direction of the wind,” he told Arab News, “and the wind is currently blowing against the Sharif family.
Geo News, Pakistan
April 24, 2018
A fraud and forgery case has been registered against Pakistan's former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar and her father Noor Rabbani. The case, filed by the former minister's step-brother Abdul Khaliq against 29 people including Khar and her father, alleges that the accused illegally transferred familyÃâà...
Xinhua
April 23, 2018
ISLAMABAD, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Monday that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has become a reality and provided Pakistan with a platform to achieve development, prosperity and poverty alleviation. Abbasi made the remarks at theÃâà...
The New Indian Express
April 23, 2018
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif today dashed back home from London to appear in court for his trial in corruption cases. Three cases were launched against him last September following a verdict by the Supreme Court in the Panama Papers case on July 28 that disqualifiedÃâà...
Geo News, Pakistan
April 23, 2018
BEIJING: Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif met with Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on Monday, both sides agreed to enhance cooperation for regional stability. Asif said that Pakistan believes that the informal meetings between theÃâà...
Geo News, Pakistan
April 23, 2018
LONDON: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Monday that he will leave all corrupt politicians inside the boxing ring with Amir Khan, the Pakistani-origin British boxer. Addressing an event here, Imran wondered what the point of such a government is when people do not trust stateÃâà...
Express.co.uk
April 23, 2018
INDIAN Home Minister Rajnath Singh has declared Pakistan is aiming to “break up” India by aiding militants to cross the volatile India-Pakistan border into the ... The politician also used his speech to praise the Indian armed forced for giving a proportionate and “befitting reply” to aggressions from Pakistan.
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
April 23, 2018
In order to set up this special meeting, Javed reached out to Cornell alumnus Ali Jehangir Siddiqui, who is a Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Pakistan and was recently appointed as an ambassador to the U.S., through his Cornell email address. After agreeing to meet with the students, Siddiqui putÃâà...
Sunday Leader
April 23, 2018
Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Monday said that Pakistan and Sri Lanka want peace in the region, the Associated Press of Pakistan ... Speaking on the occasion, the Sri Lankan army chief said that appreciated the huge sacrifices of the Pakistani nation and armed forces in the fightÃâà...
The Express Tribune
April 22, 2018
Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said that Pakistan is trying to break up India by helping militants sneak across the border into the ... Singh's remarks come almost a week after the Indian Army resorted to unprovoked aggression against Pakistani troops on the Line of Control (LoC), killing andÃâà...
NPR
April 13, 2018
Pakistan's Supreme Court effectively ended the political career of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday, voting unanimously to ban him for life from ... Sharif has been a fixture in Pakistani politics for nearly three decades, parlaying a stint as chief minister of Punjab state into a role on the nationalÃâà...
Newsweek
March 28, 2018
Pakistani media has reacted angrily to reports that Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi underwent routine security checks at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport despite his status as a high-level diplomat, the Times of India has reported. The reports come amid a difficult period in U.S.-Pakistani relations.
Geo News, Pakistan
March 9, 2018
KARAK: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Thursday that Pakistan is producing surplus electricity, adding that it was the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's vision which is now being fulfilled. PM Khaqan Abbasi arrived in the Karak district and inaugurated Neshpa Oil & Gas and LPG project.
ARY NEWS
March 9, 2018
During the talks with Pakistani leadership, they said that the two sides would also discuss the possibilities of cooperation in connectivity projects under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. The Iranian foreign minister is also scheduled to give a lecture on “70 Years of Pakistan-Iran Relations and FutureÃâà...
The Hindu
March 9, 2018
The appointment of a new chief of the PML-N was necessitated last month when the Supreme Court of Pakistan ordered former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's removal as party chief. Irrespective of the question of judicial overreach, perhaps, with the benefit of hindsight, Nawaz Sharif should have effectedÃâà...
DAWN.com
March 9, 2018
PESHAWAR: Interior minister Ahsan Iqbal on Thursday said the federal government was considering a proposal to upgrade the Frontier Constabulary (FC) to Pakistan Constabulary to bring the force and incentives for its personnel on a par with those of other civilian law-enforcement agencies. Talking toÃâà...
Geo News, Pakistan
March 9, 2018
"Pakistan is being targeted specifically since it enjoys a leadership status in the Muslim World," he explained further. Talking about the presence of Daesh in Afghanistan, Asif said the terrorist outfit has not been wiped out but has only changed its address. The foreign minister said Pakistan did not take partÃâà...
Geo News, Pakistan
March 8, 2018
The federal government has appointed investment banking expert and special assistant to the prime minister Ali Jahangir Siddiqui as Pakistan's ambassador to the ... Former foreign secretary Ambassador Aizaz Chaudhry was serving as Pakistan's envoy to the US earlier before his retirement last month.
The Quint
March 8, 2018
Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi paid a two-day official visit to Nepal from 4-5 March to congratulate his counterpart KP Sharma Oli for his recent appointment as the new PM of Nepal after the historic provincial and state elections. This was the first official visit by a Pakistani PM to Nepal afterÃâà...
Business Insider
March 6, 2018
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif at the State Department in Washington, October 4, 2017. ... ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - As US influence in Islamabad wanes, Pakistan's former adversary Russia is building military, diplomatic and economic ties that couldÃâà...
DAWN.com
February 24, 2018
Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Saturday — a day after Pakistan avoided ending up on a terror watch list by a global task force — said that the government will expedite steps to curb terror financing and money laundering. Pakistan's performance in the war against terrorism was better than others', but it stillÃâà...
Xinhua
December 31, 1999
KATHMANDU, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi arrived here on Monday for a two-day official visit to Nepal. ... Diplomatic sources said that the two prime ministers will discuss about holding the 19th Summit of the South Asian Association for Regional CooperationÃâà...
