ISLAMABAD, Aug 22 (DNA): Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Senator Pervaiz Rashid Saturday said that Pakistan was ready for talks with India including core issue of Kashmir. However, if India wanted to avoid talks on different pretexts or raising non issues then all the responsibility would rest on the neighbouring country, he said while reacting to the news conference of the Indian External Affairs Minister.The minister said that it was naive to put pre-conditions by a host country for dialogues. “Nowhere in the world there is such precedentRead More

Pakistan has carefully analyzed the contents of the Press Conference of the Indian Minister for External Affairs, Mrs. Sushma Sawaraj this afternoon. We have come to the conclusion that the proposed NSA level talks between the two countries would not serve any purpose, if conducted on the basis of the two conditions laid down by the Minister.While the Indian Minister accepts that, to ensure durable peace between the two countries, there is a need to discuss all outstanding issues through a sustained dialogue process, started in 1998 as Composite DialogueRead More

ISLAMABAD: The election tribunal on Saturday de-seated speaker national assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq and asked the election commission to hold fresh elections in this constituency. Imran Khan had challenged results of this constituency and alleged that election in this constituency was rigged. Sardar Ayaz Sadiq sources say they will challenge the decision in the Supreme Court. The tribunal has ordered fresh elections in the provincial assembly constituency also. Ayaz Sadiq lawyers claim the tribunal has not said that there was rigging in the elections. They have said that there were someRead More

I am very disappointed that India has virtually cancelled the first ever official talks between the National Security Advisers scheduled for 24 August. On 17 August last year, India had unilaterally cancelled the talks between the two Foreign Secretaries scheduled for 25 August 2014, in Islamabad. The reason for this regretful second cancellation if it is happening, would be the same: Why did the Pakistan High Commission invite 3 or 4 leaders from the Indian Occupied Kashmir to a reception organized in New Delhi on 23 August to enable meRead More