Category: PAKISTAN

Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua summoned the British High Commissioner in Pakistan Thomas Drew on Friday over slogans being displayed on London cabs “that directly attack Pakistan’s territorial integrity and sovereignty.” According to a statement released by the Foreign Office, “the high commissioner was informed that Pakistan, in line with the UN Charter, rejects actions and advertisements with malicious content that impinge on our sovereignty and territorial integrity.” It said that the “issue was also being raised with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office by our High Commissioner in London.” “Pakistan is…

Top-level military officials in a Corps Commanders Conference at General Headquarters took stock of the geo-strategic security environment, with a special focus on recent interactions with Afghan and United States authorities, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Thursday. Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa presided over the 205th conference in which the internal security situation, progress on ongoing counter-terrorism operations and the army’s projections for achieving enduring peace and stability were discussed, an ISPR handout said. “The forum concluded that [the] security apparatus shall continue to perform its…

An accountability court on Thursday rejected a fresh application for Finance Minister Ishaq Dar’s exemption from court proceedings, upholding his bailable arrest warrants in a corruption reference filed against him by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for owning assets beyond his means. The court today also endorsed NAB’s move to freeze Dar’s assets and properties based in Pakistan. As soon as proceedings on the reference began, junior counsel Ayesha Hamid — who appeared in court instead of senior counsel Khawaja Haris — filed an application exempting Dar from appearing before…

Muhammad Imran Dawn: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday accepted a petition moved by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to club together three separate accountability references pending against him, ordering an accountability court which had dismissed the request earlier to consider the case again. In doing so, the IHC set aside the October 19 decision of the accountability court to turn down the petition. Sharif’s lawyer, Azam Nazir Tarar, said today that the accountability court had not provided any reasoning for the rejection of Sharif’s earlier petition; therefore, the IHC should…

Nadir Guramani Dawn A day after lawmakers slammed US President Donald Trump’s new South Asia policy, Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif assured the Senate that their concerns had been heard and Pakistan’s foreign policy would be devised keeping their guidelines in mind. Beginning his speech with an acknowledgement of Trump’s assertion that “things have started getting better” in US-Pakistan relations, and thanking the American president for the endorsement, Asif reiterated that Pakistan wishes for a regional solution to the Afghan problem. “The entire region has a role to play in the…

Tariq Naqash Dawn MUZAFFARABAD: The Pakistan Army on Friday said it had shot down an Indian ‘spy drone’ along the Line of Control (LoC) in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) as tensions continued to flare between the two countries amid unrelenting ceasefire violations at the heavily-militarised de facto border. “Indian quadcopter spying across LoC in Rakhchikri sector shot down by Pakistan Army shooters,” tweeted Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). The Rakhchikri sector falls in AJK’s Poonch and Haveli districts. The ISPR chief also…