Saturday, June 15, 2013
Mariana Baabar
ISLAMABAD: Working against time, the Nawaz-led government is looking seriously towards India to bail it out of the worst energy crisis facing the country. As promised during the election campaign, attempts are also being made to ...

Saturday, June 15, 2013
Mariana Baabar
Islamabad Pakistan has told the Pakistani and Indian Chambers of Commerce that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has accorded priority to having good neighbourly and mutually beneficial relations with India. “The roadmap charted by ...

Friday, June 14, 2013
Mariana Baabar
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has taken up with the US, both in Islamabad and Washington, the issue of billion of Pakistani intelligence reports allegedly stolen by the US National Security Agency. “Additional secretary Naghmana A. Hashmi ...

Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Mariana Baabar
ISLAMABAD: Director General South Asia, Riffat Masood, in a telephone call to the Deputy High Commissioner of India, Gopal Baglay, expressed ‘serious concern’ over the airspace violation by two Indian high speed (fighter) aircraft ...

Monday, June 10, 2013
Mariana Baabar
ISLAMABAD: Welcoming Pakistan’s first ever transition from one civilian government to another, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, in his congratulatory message to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, expressed his confidence that under his ...

Sunday, June 09, 2013
Mariana Baabar
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday lodged a ‘strong protest’ with the US against yet another drone strike in North Waziristan on Friday in which nine people were killed. According to unofficial reports, some of those killed were ...

Friday, June 07, 2013
Mariana Baabar
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, in his first foreign policy guidance to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its missions abroad, made it clear that national interest would drive Pakistan’s foreign policy. So far Sharif ...

Friday, June 07, 2013
Mariana Baabar
ISLAMABAD: Barely waiting for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to announce his cabinet and settle down, India appears to be in a hurry to express ‘bad neighbourly behaviour’ by accusing Pakistan and implicating one of its government ...

Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Mariana Baabar
ISLAMABAD: India on Tuesday regretted at the highest level Monday’s incident in which a Pakistani diplomat and his driver were ‘physically abused’ in New Delhi. Delhi police have arrested two of the culprits involved in the road ...

Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Mariana Baabar
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has strongly condemned and lodged a protest with the Indian government regarding an ‘unfortunate’ incident in which the First Secretary of Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi Zargham Raza and his driver were ...