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The United States has said that it has an ongoing dialogue with the Pakistan on drone strikes. This has been stated by the State Department spokesperson during a briefing in Washington. Referring to firing across the Line of Control in Kashmir as well as Indian fighter jets' violation of...

The country’s gems and jewellery exports have swelled from approximately $47 million to $ 1.2 billion since the establishment of Pakistan Gems and Jewellery Development Company (PGJDC). Pakistan International Gems and Jewellery Exhibition (PIGJE)-2013 would help enhance the country’s exports...

No free lunch this time, IMF tells Pakistan The visiting IMF mission, headed by Jeffery Franks, on Wednesday communicated to Pakistan in plain words that no free lunch would be offered this time. In talks with Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, the IMF officials clearly said soft terms for the...

AFP/Reuters- US President Barack Obama on Wednesday called on Russia to agree strategic nuclear weapons cuts of up to a third and to also rein in strategic atomic arms. In a keynote speech in Berlin, Obama also said he would lead two new Nuclear Security summits in his second term. “These...

Best Defense: Do you think Pakistan turned against the United States in Afghanistan in 2005? What makes you think that? Richard Armitage: "When I was deputy secretary [of state], from 2001 to February 2005, I looked constantly for information that the Pakistanis were aiding the Taliban.... I...

Pakistan likely played a crucial role in persuading a reluctant Taliban to enter into tentative peace talks with its American and Afghan government foes, experts said here. For more than two years, the United States has been promoting the idea of negotiations free of preconditions with little...

Armed forces ready to thwart any aggression: Army Chief Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has said that Pakistan army is ready to thwart any aggression. Addressing the concluding session of Azm-e-Nau-IV war-games which commenced at the National Defence University...

QUETTA, June 13: The MCC Resources Development Limited (MRDL) working on the Saindak Cooper and Gold mining project said on Thursday it had paid $39.8m to the Balochistan government on account of royalty over the past 10 years from the Saindak project. A spokesman for the MRDL owned by the...

Businesses and shops in Karachi and other cities of Sindh were shut on Friday, after the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) announced a day of mourning following the murder of one of its activists. The body of Mohammad Asif, 40, with a single bullet wound in his head, was found near the ‘Sukhan...

PESHAWAR, June 13: With the official deadline for the withdrawal of refugee status from Afghan refugees nearing an end on June 30, officials privy to the matter believe the newly-elected federal government will have little choice other than extending the stay of more than 1.6 million Afghans in...

Pakistan Air Chief gets honorary badge Air Chief Tahir Rafique Butt got an honorary pilot badge from his Thai counterpart, a press release issued here on Thursday said. During his visit to Bangkok, Butt called on Thai Air Chief Prajin Juntong. Both the officials remained together for some...

Punjab Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that modern technology will be fully utilised for curbing crime and rooting out criminal elements as a number of countries of the world have controlled crime in this manner. He said that there is a need for Punjab Police to devise an...

The Foreign Office has said that Pakistan is awaiting the US response over the matter of stealing cellular and Internet data by the National Security Agency as the country took up the matter with the US authorities. During the weekly press briefing on Thursday, Foreign Office Spokesperson Aizaz...

India vs Pakistan is never a dead rubber: Gavaskar India and Pakistan are set to renew their historic rivalry at Edgbaston, Birmingham on Saturday. The edge may have been taken away from the game with India already in the semifinals of the ICC Champions Trophy with two facile wins against South...

Iran reformists hopeful on eve of presidential vote With Iran’s conservative camp divided, reformists were confident of a good showing by the moderate cleric they back in Friday’s presidential vote as they seek to avenge the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad four years...

Speaking at his first cabinet meeting, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said "the dual policy of issuing public statements against drone attacks while [secretly] giving the go ahead to the US to carry on with the strikes will not be allowed under our rule. The US government will have to...

Google on Wednesday downplayed its role in a secret government surveillance program, detailing for the first time how it typically hands over data to federal officials. When faced with a court order, the tech giant said, it uses surprisingly simple and low-tech methods, including the delivery...

Several Kuwaiti supermarket chains have begun boycotting products from Iran for its support of the Syrian regime, while activists staged a demonstration against the involvement of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement in the conflict. At least nine cooperative consumer societies out of 50 in the...

Several thousand people marched through Moscow on Wednesday to support detained or jailed anti-Kremlin protesters, a day after President Vladimir Putin accused Washington of supporting a protest movement against him. Led by anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny, the protest dubbed the "March...

A member of the Ahmedi community was shot dead while his son and another companion were injured in a targeted attack in Soldier Bazaar on Tuesday evening. The victims were identified as Hamid Sami, 45, his son, Osama, 18, and a companion, Salman Zaman, 48. They were shot multiple times by...