Islamabad: Nawaz Sharif, who was on Sunday poised to return to power in Pakistan after a 14-year hiatus, said a new round of talks will be resumed with India on the Kashmir issue, a media report said.
Addressing media persons after his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) emerged as the leading party in the general election, Sharif said he will also hold talks with the US on a number of issues, including drone attacks in Pakistan's northwest tribal region, Dunya News reported.
Sharif said a new round of talks will be resumed with India on the issue of Kashmir, and that ties with neighbouring countries will also be strengthened.
The last meetings at the top leadership level were held between Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at New Delhi and Tehran in April and August 2012....
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08:39 PM, May 12, 2013
Jammu: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on Tuesday underlined the need to evolve a national consensus to solve the Kashmir problem "through democratic means". Addressing a public gathering in Inshan, a mountainous area in Kishtwar district about 250 km from here, Mufti said dialogue was the only way to solve all problems peacefully. "Political parties of the country, including the...
02:59 AM, Jul 18, 2012
Washington: Ruling out any solution from "outside" to the issue of Jammu and Kashmir, US President Barack Obama on Sunday underlined that disputes between India and Pakistan can only be resolved by the two countries themselves. Welcoming the Indo-Pak dialogue process, he said, "It is not the place of any nation, including the United States, to try to impose solutions from the outside." "That said, nations must meet their responsibilities...
03:15 PM, Jul 15, 2012
Hiranagar: Opposition People's Democratic Party on Sunday said any solution to the vexed issue of Kashmir should be found within the framework of the Indian Constitution and called for stronger Cente-State relations. "Today the people will demand self-rule and tomorrow they will ask for 'aazadi', this way we cannot find a solution to our problem. The real solution of Kashmir issue lies within the Constitution of India," PDP patron Mufti...
06:39 PM, May 27, 2012
Lahore: Separatist leader Yasin Malik has said his Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front will make efforts to get the Kashmir issue resolved "without the help of Pakistan". "We will step up our efforts to resolve the Kashmir issue if Pakistan, India and other international stakeholders continue with their irresponsible behaviour towards it," he told reporters after meeting Jamaat-e-Islami chief Munawar Hasan at the party's headquarters in Mansoora on Sunday. "We...
03:13 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: Hurriyat Conference (G) leader Syed Geelani on Saturday called for a bandh in Kashmir against the two-year jail term handed down to fellow separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai by a US court. Fai was charged with lobbying in the US government to affect American policy on Kashmir. He has also been accused of accepting money from the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI, for the lobby work. ...
09:41 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Islamabad: Talks between India and Pakistan have reduced the trust deficit and the two sides should step up efforts to create a solid foundation for taking the peace process forward, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Wednesday. The resolution of differences between the two countries will usher in an era of peace, progress and prosperity for the people of the subcontinent, Gilani said during a meeting with a group...
03:17 AM, Jan 19, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan will continue to raise the Kashmir issue at international fora till its resolution, said Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. Gilani on Thursday said that the Kashmir cause was close to his heart and vowed that the Pakistan Peoples Party's government would raise the issue at international fora till its resolution, reported the Associated Press of Pakistan. The prime minister was addressing a gathering at Dadyal after inaugurating a...
12:18 PM, Oct 14, 2011
United Nations: Underlining that the Kashmir issue needs to be resolved peacefully through talks, United Nation Chief Ban ki Moon has said that he would discuss with leaders of India and Pakistan on how he can help in the process. Following his election as Secretary General of the UN for a second term, Ban indicated he was willing to help India and Pakistan find a solution to the Kashmir issue....
04:54 PM, Jun 23, 2011
Islamabad: India and Pakistan begin peace talks on Thursday, an important safety valve between two nuclear-armed countries which the United States hopes will help stabilise the region as it prepares to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. But after many false starts, hopes were being kept deliberately low for the two days of talks between Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her Pakistani counterpart, Salman Bashir. "We have realistic expectations," an Indian...
01:38 PM, Jun 22, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday said regional peace cannot be guaranteed until the "core" Kashmir issue with India is resolved. "Unless this core issue (Kashmir) is resolved, the dream of peace and harmony in the region cannot come true," Gilani said after inaugurating a two-day conference on Kashmir in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Gilani asked peace-loving nations to come forward to help resolve the...
03:12 PM, May 23, 2011
Contemporary journalists Neelesh Misra and Rahul Pandita, one fine day, decided to pursue the rigorous quest of reality. Travelled into the hearts of India's battle zones, and dug out the vulnerability that stopped the revenue collectors from frequenting those places since, wait, Akbar's reign. The remote corners of the country which yearn for some form of authority, official surveillance, or at least a frame of management are given lemons in...
05:40 PM, May 19, 2011
Beijing: Describing the Kashmir issue as a left over from history, China on Tuesday hoped it could be resolved by India and Pakistan through "dialogue and consultations." Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu stated this during a media briefing while responding to questions on Premier Wen Jiabao's recent visit to India and Pakistan. Wen's visit to India and Pakistan was "rich in content and fruitful in results" and would contribute...
05:01 PM, Dec 21, 2010
Srinagar: Rejecting a solution within the present framework, moderate Hurriyat Conference on Thursday called for a comprehensive dialogue between the three parties to the Kashmir issue to arrive at a negotiated settlement. "Time has come for India, Pakistan and representatives of Jammu and Kashmir to thrash out a negotiated settlement to Kashmir issue," Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq told reporters here. He, however, said a solution to Kashmir issue within...
04:53 PM, Dec 16, 2010
The former ambassador called for policy dialogues between US, India. ...
06:31 PM, May 05, 2009
London: Former England cricket captain Ian Botham has said he was shocked to hear of his former team mate Graham Dilley's passing away. Dilley, who shared a 117-run eighth-wicket stand in a famous Ashes victory at Headingles in 1981, died on Wednesday after battling cancer. "We only heard a few days ago how ill Graham was. They were saying it was very serious and they were talking maybe two weeks...
12:15 AM, Mar 07, 2008
Pakistan’s foreign office issues a statement saying the country never laid claim on the state in the first place. ...
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