Juba: South Sudan accused Sudan on Tuesday of mounting bombing raids on the newly independent country's oil-producing border region and President Salva Kiir said the latest hostilities amounted to a declaration of a war by his northern neighbour. Weeks of cross-border fighting between the former civil war foes have threatened to escalate into a full blown conflict in a region that holds one of Africa's most significant oil reserves. Although...
05:03 AM, Apr 25, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's former Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir, who has been part of the post-26/11 Indo-Pak dialogue process, is the country's new High Commissioner to India. Sixty-year-old Bashir has been appointed as the new envoy to India in place of Shahid Malik, Foreign Office spokesman Moazzam Ahmed Khan announced on Saturday. Bashir had served as Foreign Secretary from 2008 to March this year, when Jalil Abbas Jillani took over from him....
05:57 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Srinagar: Striking for the second time in a fortnight, militants today shot dead a ruling National Conference worker here. Bashir Ahmad Bhat, a shopkeeper by profession and National Conference worker, was shot in the head by the militants at Batamaloo while he was leaving home for work, police said. Bhat was rushed to SMHS hospital where the doctors declared him brought dead. The assailants fled from the scene after the...
12:00 PM, Dec 24, 2011
Islamabad: Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir is set to become Pakistan's High Commissioner in India as part of the biggest reshuffle of envoys approved by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. According to a media report, Bashir, 59, who is due to retire next year, will replace High Commissioner Shahid Malik, whose current contract is valid till the second quarter of 2012. Malik retired some time ago and his contract had been...
01:08 PM, Dec 06, 2011
Maldives: Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir on Tuesday said there was no confusion over granting the most favoured nation (MFN) status to India and informed that Commerce Secretaries of the two countries will meet this month. "In principle MFN has been issued, but bureaucracy needs to work to implement it. We are moving in right directions," said Bashir. "We need to have mutually beneficial trade relations," he said. Earlier, Pakistan...
05:02 PM, Nov 08, 2011
Beijing: Launching a fast attack craft being built by China, Pakistan's navy chief Admiral Noman Bashir on Tuesday said the induction of the vessel equipped with advanced weaponry and sensors will supplement his country's combat potential. "The environment around us warrants Pakistan navy to be prepared to counter the forces challenging our sovereignty as well as regional peace and security," he said at the launch of the missile-armed vessel at...
03:09 PM, Sep 20, 2011
New Delhi: India and Pakistan on Wednesday made a fresh push for peace announcing new Kashmir-centric confidence building measures (CBMs) and politically affirming that relations were on the right track. But irritants - such as the Mumbai trial, Hafiz Saeed and Hina Rabanni Khar's meeting with the Hurriyat - also figured prominently in the talks. Behind closed doors, India protested against Islamabad for allowing Hafiz Saeed to spew venom, its...
11:55 PM, Jul 27, 2011
New Delhi: The Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan met on Tuesday to finalise the agenda for Wednesday's talks between both the countries' foreign ministers. Foreign Secretary of India Nirupama Rao and Foreign Secretary of Pakistan Salman Bashir reviewed the resumed dialogue last month in Islamabad and will firm up deliverables for the political leadership to announce on Wednesday, including new confidence building measures for Kashmir. "Our meeting today is...
11:55 AM, Jul 26, 2011
New Delhi: Crossing over the Attari-Wagah border, Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir Bashir will meet Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao on Tuesday in Delhi. Bashir said the effort on both the sides was to deepen understanding. Striking a positive note ahead of the Indo-Pak talks, Bashir on Monday said Islamabad would extend all required cooperation to India on the terror issue and share related information. The two Foreign Secretaries are expected...
09:40 AM, Jul 26, 2011
New Delhi: An official level meeting between India and Pakistan is likely to be held in Delhi on Monday to chart out confidence building measures along the Line of Control (LoC) which includes travel and trade between the two parts of Kashmir. The meeting between officials of the External Affairs and Home Ministries and Pakistan foreign ministry which will be represented by an officer of the rank of Director General...
05:45 PM, Jul 17, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan and India agreed on Friday to try to ease fears about their nuclear arsenals, in unexpectedly positive talks between the two countries' top diplomats. Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir agreed to expand confidence-building measures in both their nuclear and conventional weapons. A meeting of experts would be asked to "consider additional measures ... to build trust and confidence and promote peace and...
02:44 AM, Jun 25, 2011
New Delhi: The Indo-Pak talks at the Foreign Secretary level in Islamabad concluded on Friday with Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir releasing a joint statement. Both parties reiterated they needed to tackle terror jointly, with Nirupama Rao saying there was no place for military conflict in the 21st century. "Ideology of military conflict should not have any place in the paradigm of our relationship...
06:43 PM, Jun 24, 2011
Islamabad: India and Pakistan on Friday discussed Jammu and Kashmir during the crucial Foreign Secretary-level talks here, a day after Islamabad insisted that it remained the "core" issue for it. Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, who arrived in Islamabad on Thursday on a two-day visit, began talks with her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir on Kashmir. The two-day talks have been divided in three segments under which the issue of peace and...
01:46 PM, Jun 24, 2011
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of the ongoing talks with Pakistan, BJP on Thursday said India appears to have diluted its earlier demand that the neighbouring country take 'speedy and credible' action against 26/11 culprits and instead reconciled to 'satisfactory closure' of the case. Speaking at a party rally, senior BJP leader L K Advani alleged that Pakistan has not taken 'a single credible step' to show that it is...
10:33 PM, Jun 23, 2011
Islamabad: India's concerns over terror and slow pace of Mumbai trial were discussed in the first round of Indo-Pak Foreign Secretary-level talks during which the Samjhauta bombing case also came up with both sides holding 'substantive' deliberations in a "forward looking" approach. Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, who arrived in Islamabad on Thursday morning, and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir began the first round of talks, which have been divided in...
09:39 PM, Jun 23, 2011
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