NEW YORK: Pakistan has told the United Nations (UN) that the opportunity for peace in Afghanistan opened up by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s offer of unconditional talks to the Taliban should not be undermined by the escalation of military force. Speaking during the UN Security Council debate on Afghanistan, Pakistan’s …

WASHINGTON: Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua has said that Pakistan will not take any decision under pressure from the US, adding that the national interest will always be kept supreme come what may. The foreign secretary during her official visit to Washington held meetings with senior US officials, including US Deputy …

WASHINGTON: The US State Department has offered a $5 million reward for information on Mullah Fazlullah, the Afghanistan-based chief of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan(TTP). The announcement came two days after Fazlullah’s son was reportedly killed along with around two dozen others in a US drone strike in Afghanistan. The US State …

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif on Friday said that the United States wanted to make Pakistan its proxy state, adding that Pakistan will, however, never become a proxy of the US. “The enemy has crossed the ocean and is fomenting conflict in Syria, Afghanistan and other states while leaders of …

LAHORE: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar Friday said that he does not care about people mocking his use of the term Baba Rahmatay. While presiding over the hearing of a suo motu case related to fee hike in medical colleges at Supreme Court’s Lahore registry, the CJP …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Friday claimed to have the required number of votes to elect its own chairman and deputy chairman in the Upper House. PPP leader Dr Qayyum Soomro, who is leading the efforts to garner maximum support from smaller parties for the Senate top slots, told …

BAHAWALPUR: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif Friday slammed the trend of ‘disrespecting the vote’ that had emerged during the past 70 years. “No stone was left unturned to destroy Pakistan in the last 70 years … I rebel against whatever has been happening during the past 70 years,” he told …

ISLAMABAD: In a highly questionable interpretation of Article 5 (loyalty to the state) the Constitution, Justice Shaukat Siddiqui of the Islamabad High Court has held that it is mandatory for every citizen of Pakistan to declare their ‘true faith’ to the State. He made this observation in his short order …

ISLAMABAD: As a last-ditch attempt, two petitions challenging the election of PML-N leaders – former finance minister Ishaq Dar and Hafiz Abdul Kareem – on Senate seats were moved in the Supreme Court on Friday. Mian Nawazish Ali Peerzada filed the petitions, requesting the apex court to declare the senators-elect …

SYDNEY: Alone at a health clinic in a small, remote seaside settlement in Australia, a 44-year-old nurse sensed he was having a heart attack and sprang into action, saving his own life, a report said Wednesday. The man, whose name was withheld for privacy reasons, experienced severe chest pain and …