Tuesday, September 28th, 2021
Qureshi for Pak-UK joint working groups on Kashmir
Qureshi said that he shared a “well-researched dossier” with his UK counterpart on behalf of the Pakistani government LONDON: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Tuesday suggested the United Kingdom form “joint working groups” with Pakistan to address the human rights violations in India-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Qureshi’s comments came during a press conference at the Pakistan High Commission in London after he concluded a meeting with the United Kingdom’s Secretary of the State for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Women and Equality Elizabeth Truss at the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office inRead More
No-confidence vote threatens Romanian government
Bucharest, Sept 28: Romania’s largest opposition party on Tuesday filed a no-confidence motion against the government as the country with one of Europe’s lowest vaccination rates sees a spike in coronavirus cases. The motion, to be voted on in parliament next Tuesday, threatens to overthrow Florin Citu’s liberal government with his former junior coalition partner USR-PLUS and another party already announcing they would support it. “We filed a censure motion today so that we cand send home this government”, Sorin Grindeanu, first vice-president of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), toldRead More
Turkey to send humanitarian aid to Afghanistan via Pakistan
ANKARA, SEPT 28: Turkey will send humanitarian aid to Afghanistan by land via Pakistan, the country’s foreign minister said. “We will send humanitarian aid (to Afghanistan). We will take it mostly from Pakistan and send it by land. It is both faster and less costly. We will increase the amount of humanitarian aid in the coming days,” Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said after a nearly three-hour Cabinet meeting at the presidential complex in the capital Ankara on Monday. Responding to a question whether Turkey has contacted the interim Taliban government in Afghanistan,Read More
10 terrorists killed in South Waziristan Operation: ISPR
ISLAMABAD, SEPT 28 (DNA) – Security Forces conducted Intelligence Based Operation in South Waziristan District on reported presence of a Terrorists’ concentration, present inside a hide out. Security forces cordoned the hide out. During intense exchange of fire, 10 terrorists including 4 terrorist commanders were killed. Weapons and large quantity of ammunition was also recovered from the hideout. All the killed terrorists remained actively involved in planting IEDs, conducting fire raids and target killing of innocent civilians. These terrorists were planning to conduct more acts of terrorism inside South Waziristan District. PakRead More
Qureshi again urges world to engage with ‘new reality’ in Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD, SEPT 28: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has once again urged the international community to engage with the “new reality” in Afghanistan and unfreeze the country’s assets so that things do not fall apart. In an interview with Al Jazeera, Qureshi said Pakistan has been urging the international community to engage with the new reality in Afghanistan so that things do not fall apart and a semblance of order is established. Expressing his views regarding the freezing of about $10 billion in Afghan assets, he pointed out that Afghanistan needs an economicRead More
Pak-Russia joint military exercise DRUZHBA-2021 Begins in Krasnodar
MOSCOW, SEPT 28 (DNA) – A solemn opening ceremony of the joint Russian-Pakistani military exercise Druzhba-2021 was held at the Molkino training ground in the Krasnodar territory. More than 130 servicemen of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan took part in it.During the solemn opening of the exercise, demonstration performances of special forces units and engineering assault units were held at the training ground. There was also a demonstration of modern equipment and weapons of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, duringRead More