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
Washington: The visit of the Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar to Kabul was good and well timed, the United States has said even as it awaited the details of the trip from the two countries. "We look forward to a debrief from both Afghans and Pakistanis on the visit, but from what we can tell so far, it seems to have been a very good and well-timed visit," the...
08:34 AM, Feb 03, 2012
Kabul: Afghanistan will press Pakistan for access to Taliban leaders during a one-day visit to Kabul by Pakistan's foreign minister, with Afghan officials hoping to ease cross-border strains and lay the ground for peace negotiations with the insurgents. Hina Rabbani Khar will visit Kabul on February 1 to discuss reconciliation and nascent plans for peace talks ahead of a meeting between representatives of the Afghan government and the Taliban in...
02:23 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Davos: Describing Pakistani Parliament as the "new kid on the block", Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Thursday said a "little bit of elbowing" was taking place in Pakistan but things would "very soon fall in place". "It is not such that as it may appear to the outside world. It is a new kid on the block called the Parliament in Pakistan. People are still to get used to...
01:43 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Davos: Describing Pakistani Parliament as the "new kid on the block", Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Thursday said a "little bit of elbowing" was taking place in Pakistan but things would "very soon fall in place". "It is not such that as it may appear to the outside world. It is a new kid on the block called the Parliament in Pakistan. People are still to get used to...
11:04 PM, Jan 26, 2012
Islamabad: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Tuesday called for continuing the India-Pakistan dialogue process in a "sustained, time-bound and result-oriented manner" to decrease "mistrust" between the two neighbours. Khar made the remarks during a meeting with Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal, who called on her to discuss bilateral relations and the dialogue process that was resumed by the two sides last year after a gap of over two years...
10:58 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Islamabad:: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said he meant no disrespect for the Supreme Court as he defended himself and his government in a contempt case. Gilani also sought immunity for President Asif Ali Zardari against opening of corruption cases. Gilani, who accompanied by his Cabinet appeared in the Supreme Court to defend himself against contempt charges, completed his defence submission and according to reports has not given an...
07:07 AM, Jan 19, 2012
Islamabad: A visiting Indian parliamentary delegation met Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar after concluding a dialogue with their counterparts on Wednesday. The 15-member multi-party Indian delegation arrived in Islamabad on Monday as part of a dialogue initiative between parliamentarians of the two countries. The visitors met their Pakistani counterparts on Tuesday and discussed ways to boost trade and economic relations between the two...
12:54 AM, Jan 19, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Tuesday expressed hope that the positive trends seen in Indo-Pak relations in 2011 would continue this year to boost the agenda of development and prosperity in the region. Khar made the remarks when Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal paid a courtesy call on her. She said "2011 had been a positive year for Pakistan-India bilateral relations". She expressed the hope that "this...
09:31 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Islamabad: China's on Friday assured Pakistan of its continued support and cooperation in economic and defence issues amid severe strain in US-Pak ties following a NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. State Councillor Dai Bingguo, China's top foreign policy official arrived in Islamabad on Friday for a visit that Chinese officials said was aimed at taking the "all-weather" relationship between the two countries to "a new high". During...
09:37 PM, Dec 23, 2011
Islamabad: The US would be held responsible if Pakistan failed in the war against terror, Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said on Thursday. Khar told the Parliamentary Committee on National Security that relations with the US were "on hold" and would proceed further if parliament allowed this, Geo TV reported. Bilateral relations were affected after a NATO air strike on two Pakistani army check-posts killed 24 soldiers in November....
01:32 AM, Dec 16, 2011
Islamabad: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Thursday warned that the US would be responsible if Pakistan failed in the war on terrorism, a remark that comes in the backdrop of a move by American lawmakers to freeze aid worth USD 700 million to Islamabad. The US would be responsible if Pakistan failed in the war on terrorism or if there were problems, Khar was quoted as saying by TV...
04:05 PM, Dec 15, 2011
Washington: The US has said it is working hard to keep open channels and get back to work with Pakistan, as Islamabad continued to block the crucial NATO supply routes and announced to strengthen its air defence system on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. "This relationship is complicated. But it's also essential to both the United States and Pakistan. We are working very hard to keep open channels and to get back...
05:22 AM, Dec 10, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan is reassessing its relations with the US and NATO to redefine the terms for cooperation with them after a cross-border NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Friday. "There had been a lot of ups and downs in the relationship with the US and we really want to improve our relationship," Gilani told reporters on the sidelines of an official...
11:55 PM, Dec 09, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Friday apprised British Foreign Secretary William Hague about the NATO air strikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. Khar received a phone call from Hague in which she informed the British foreign secretary about Pakistan's decision not to participate in the Bonn conference on Afghanistan, the Online news agency reported. Hague said Britain understood Pakistan's position in the matter, the report said. Earlier,...
09:48 AM, Dec 03, 2011
Berlin: Pakistan has officially withdrawn from an international conference on Afghanistan, Germany's foreign ministry said on Friday, saying that it regretted the boycott. Pakistan said on Tuesday it planned to pull out of the meeting in reaction to a cross-border attack by NATO that killed 24 of its soldiers and plunged US-Pakistani relations deeper into crisis. Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar told her German counterpart Guido Westerwelle in a...
01:50 AM, Dec 03, 2011
Peshawar: Hundreds of trucks carrying supplies to US-led troops in Afghanistan backed up at Pakistani border crossings on Sunday, leaving them vulnerable to militant attack a day after Islamabad closed the frontier in retaliation for coalition airstrikes that allegedly killed 24 Pakistani troops. As Pakistan army chief Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani attended the funerals of the victims, including a major, the US sought to minimize the fallout from the crisis,...
06:58 PM, Nov 27, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan on Sunday conveyed to the US the "deep sense of rage" felt by its people over the killing of at least 24 soldiers in a cross-border air strike by NATO aircraft from Afghanistan, saying the incident had forced it to revisit the terms of its engagement with Washington. Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar conveyed Pakistan's stand on the latest issue to bedevil Pakistan-US relations during an early morning...
01:09 PM, Nov 27, 2011
Islamabad: Admitting that the 'memogate' scandal has raised questions on the strength of Pakistan's civilian government and the influence wielded by the powerful military, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said it was "ridiculous" to link President Asif Ali Zardari to the controversial note. "Sadly it does. I cannot deny that, and that's an unfortunate part that something as ludicrous as this could raise more questions. "It doesn't take much to...
08:49 PM, Nov 26, 2011
