Thursday, October 20th, 2016
Pakistan lodges protest with India over killing of civilians
The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday summoned Deputy High Commissioner of India JP Singh to lodge a protest over the killing of civilians due to cross-border firing across the Line of Control (LoC) a day earlier. A senior FO official handed over a demarche to the Indian deputy high commissioner containing details regarding losses due to Indian firing and shelling in the Karela sector on Wednesday, sources told DawnNews. ‘Pakistan ready to assist in Afghan peace process’ The FO during a weekly briefing in Islamabad also welcomed a peace agreementRead More
SC issues notice to Nawaz, others in Panama case
ISLAMABAD (DNA) -The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday issued notices to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz, Hasan Nawaz, Hussain Nawaz, Capt (R) Safdar, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, director general Federal Investigation Agency, chairman Federal Board of Revenue, and the attorney general in the Panama case. A three-judge SC bench, consisting of Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Justice Ijazul Ahsan and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, had taken up the petitions seeking disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The hearing was adjourned for two weeks. Following the hearing, PTI chief ImranRead More
Mushahid says year 2017 ‘Year of Decisions’ for Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, OCT 20 (DNA) – ‘2017 should be the Year of Decisions for Pakistan’, said Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed, while speaking at a one-day workshop on ‘Potential of Pakistan’s Soft Power and Public Diplomacy’ organized by the Islamabad Policy Research Institute here in Islamabad. Discussing his recent trip to Washington, as Special Envoy of the Prime Minister on Jammu & Kashmir, Senator Hussain highlighted how the trip included extensive meetings with think tanks, officials of the US State Department and exclusive media interactions with both American and Indian mediaRead More
Cuba’s report on commercial and financial blockade
On Resolution 70/5 of the United Nations General Assembly entitled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba” INTRODUCTION In the period between April of 2015 and April of 2016 some results have been achieved in the bilateral relations between the United States and Cuba.It can particularly be indicated the re-establishing of diplomatic relations and the re-opening of embassies that were preceded by the just action of taking Cuba off the spurious list of States sponsoring terrorism, aRead More