Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday unveiled a three-pronged “preventive and action-oriented” strategy to deal with religious intolerance and hatred leading to violence, noting that people of every faith had been victims of these scourges. The minister delivered the keynote address to the inaugural session of the 8th meeting of the Istanbul Process, on the theme of the “10th...
Thousands of people drove towards Paris on Friday in convoys from across France, with many hoping to blockade the capital to protest against Covid vaccination rules and other restrictions despite police warnings to back off. Inspired by Canadian truckers paralysing border traffic with the United States, the French protesters set off from Bayonne, Perpignan, Lyon, Lille, Strasbourg and elsewhere with...
Russian President Vladimir Putin told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron Saturday that accusations Moscow plans to attack Ukraine were "provocative speculation" and could lead to a conflict in the ex-Soviet country. Putin and Macron discussed what Moscow called "provocative speculation related to an allegedly planned Russian 'invasion' of Ukraine," the Kremlin said after phone talks. In a statement, the Kremlin accused...
Clearing Pakistan’s principled position on the frozen Afghan central bank’s assets in the US, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday said that these are owned by the Afghan nation and should be released. Responding to media questions, the Foreign Office spokesperson said, “The utilisation of Afghan funds should be the sovereign decision of Afghanistan.” He maintained that they have seen...
Pakistan reported 3,019 new coronavirus infections Saturday morning as the country continues to battle a fifth wave of the pandemic. According to the latest statistics from the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), COVID-19 claimed 44 more lives during the last 24 hours, taking the nationwide death tally from the virus to 29,731. As many as 3,019 people tested positive for...
In a day-long visit to Panjgur, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa emphsasised that it is “imperative” to break the “nexus between terrorists and their sympathisers and support base” to rid the country from terrorism, said the military’s media wing on Saturday. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the army chief passed the remarks while interacting...
