
Washington: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has arrived in Chicago to attend the crucial NATO Summit which is expected to take important decisions with regard to the future of Afghanistan, where the stakes of Islamabad are very high. Zardari is accompanied by Foreign Minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, and the Foreign Secretary, Jalil Abbass Jilani, besides his spokesman Farhatullah Babar. His first scheduled appointment with the NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh...

05:12 PM, May 20, 2012

Islamabad: The Pakistani government has no information about the presence of al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in the country, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said on Monday, hours after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington believes he is somewhere in Pakistan. Khar made the remarks while briefing the Parliamentary Committee on National Security in Islamabad. Clinton, who was in Kolkata, had said early on Monday that US believes Zawahiri...

05:01 PM, May 07, 2012

Washington/Islamabad: The United States has said that it will continue to press Islamabad to "squeeze" the al-Qaida linked Haqqani network, as Afghanistan blamed the Pakistan-based group for the latest brazen attacks in Kabul. Declaring "there were indications of Haqqani involvement" in the weekend attacks in the Afghan capital, secretary of state Hillary Clinton said that she had pressed Pakistan to "squeeze" the Haqqani network when she visited Islamabad last October....

10:57 PM, Apr 17, 2012

Islamabad: Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Monday called her Afghan counterpart Zalmai Rassoul over phone to strongly condemn the Taliban attacks in the country that killed nearly 50 people. Khar conveyed solidarity of her government and people of Pakistan with their Afghan brethren on the terrorist attacks, reported Xinhua quoting a foreign ministry statement. On Sunday, Taliban rebels stormed Kabul with intense gunfire and rocket attacks targeting key...

04:21 AM, Apr 17, 2012

Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said that peace and stability in Afghanistan is one of the main objectives of Pakistan. ...

08:20 AM, Apr 16, 2012

Islamabad: The Pakistan government on Tuesday said there were no plans to change incumbent Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, with a spokesman describing reports in this regard as "baseless and speculative". A spokesman for the Prime Minister's House contradicted reports regarding the change of the Foreign Minister. He said the media had "insinuated" from Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's recent statement that a change was imminent. While welcoming President Asif...

12:23 AM, Apr 11, 2012

Islamabad: Days after Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar contradicted President Asif Ali Zardari during a meeting with a visiting US diplomat, speculation is rife that her portfolio may be changed. The speculation of the change was sparked by remarks of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani four days after the meeting. Gilani took the top brass in the Foreign Ministry by surprise by saying during an interaction with reporters at his...

04:37 PM, Apr 10, 2012

New Delhi: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari arrived in New Delhi on Sunday on a personal visit to Ajmer Sharif. However, while the arrival was scheduled at about 11 am, the Pakistani President reached New Delhi about an hour late, following which he headed to the residence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for a luncheon meeting. According to sources, Zardari's arrival was delayed deliberately to avoid one-on-one meeting with the...

01:00 PM, Apr 08, 2012

New Delhi: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is headed to India this weekend on a personal visit. Zardari to be accompanied by Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The US though maintains the Hafiz Saeed move should not strain ties between India and Pakistan and called Zardari's scheduled visit 'very constructive'. Zardari will be in India on...

11:59 AM, Apr 06, 2012

Foreign Minister SM Krishna is expected to make a visit to Pakistan soon. ...

03:43 PM, Mar 27, 2012

Islamabad: After having invested "great deals" of energy and money in generating hostility against each other, India and Pakistan should now build trust to a level that allows them to resolve disputes and the "core issue" of Kashmir, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said on Wednesday. "We invested great deals of energy, time, effort and money to build hostility against each other. Instead if we adopt a road whereby, through...

12:20 AM, Mar 22, 2012

Singapore: Noting that India and Pakistan have made "major strides" in reducing their trust deficit, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Friday said he will visit Islamabad this summer. "Over the past two years, we have made major strides in reducing the 'trust deficit' between India and Pakistan. I hosted the Foreign Minister of Pakistan Hina Rabbani Khar in New Delhi in July last year, and plan to visit Islamabad...

04:54 AM, Mar 10, 2012

Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday said its decision to normalise trade ties with India reflects a desire to move away from the policies of the past 40 years but should not be taken as any dilution of its stand on "core issues" like Kashmir. "We believe that the establishment of normal trade relations with India will be mutually beneficial for both countries. Significantly it also illustrates the priority that we attach...

10:34 PM, Mar 01, 2012

Washington: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would meet her Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar in London on Thursday, on the margins of the international conference on Somalia. While the two leaders are expected to discuss a lot of issues, the focus of the meeting would be to bring the relations back on track, the State Department spokesman Mark Toner, told reporters in Washington. "Obviously we've got a lot of...

08:21 AM, Feb 23, 2012

Islamabad: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Friday said Mullah Mohammad Omar, the supreme commander of the Afghan Taliban, was not in Pakistan and it was "preposterous" to think that Islamabad could ensure his participation in peace talks with the Afghan government. Khar made the remarks during an interaction with reporters at the conclusion of a joint news conference in Islamabad by the Presidents of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. She...

08:57 AM, Feb 18, 2012