Islamabad: Pakistan's Ambassador-designate to the US Sherry Rehman on Thursday said she would earnestly work to augment bilateral relations and endeavour to defend Islamabad's interests at all international forums, especially in Washington. Rehman made the remarks on working on the frayed Pak-US relations during a meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari a day after her appointment. She was named to the post after the former envoy, Husain Haqqani, was forced...
07:43 PM, Nov 24, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan has no "hidden agenda" in Afghanistan and only desires a "peaceful and stable disposition" in Kabul that is established through an Afghan-led process, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said on Friday. Khar made the remarks while addressing a joint news conference with her German counterpart Guido Westerwelle after bilateral talks at the Foreign Office. Westerwelle visited Pakistan for consultations ahead of the Bonn Conference on Afghanistan on December...
08:59 AM, Nov 19, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan has no 'hidden agenda' in Afghanistan and only desires a 'peaceful and stable disposition' in Kabul that is established through an Afghan-led process, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said on Friday. Khar made the remarks while addressing a joint news conference with her German counterpart Guido Westerwelle after bilateral talks at the Foreign Office. Westerwelle visited Pakistan for consultations ahead of the Bonn Conference on Afghanistan on December...
09:13 PM, Nov 18, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Sunday struck a positive note on the future of Indo-Pak relations, saying the "trust deficit is zero or it has shrunk to a large extent" after the meeting between two Prime Ministers in Maldives. When Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh met in the Bhutanese capital of Thimpu in April 2010, they set the goals of reducing...
08:41 PM, Nov 13, 2011
Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said that the relationship between India and Pakistan is more positive than it has been in years. ...
09:09 PM, Nov 09, 2011
Addu: India and Pakistan on Wednesday acknowledged that the trust deficit between them was "shrinking" and termed terrorism as a threat to both countries. The common acknowledgement came as External Affairs Minister SM Krishna met his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar, a day before the meeting of the prime ministers of the two countries on the sidelines of the SAARC summit. During the meeting, both leaders discussed issues of bilateral...
12:53 PM, Nov 09, 2011
Bangalore: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Wednesday left on a three-day visit to Maldives for the SAARC summit during which he is likely to hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts from other member countries including Pakistan's Hina Rabbani Khar. Krishna, who will fly to Maldives' Addu city, will attend the SAARC Foreign Minister's meeting on Wednesday where the focus is likely to be on connectivity between the member states...
08:13 AM, Nov 09, 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
Islamabad: Pakistan's most troubled foreign relationships have improved in recent months, its top diplomat said on Saturday, pointing to upcoming trade talks with New Delhi and broad agreement on regional security goals with Washington as evidence. Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, in an interview with Reuters, said negotiations to normalise trade with India would allow progress on other issues between the two nuclear-armed South Asian rivals. "I think it's broadly...
08:37 AM, Nov 06, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan has not backtracked on the issue of giving India Most Favoured Nation-status and officials of the two countries will work out modalities for normalising bilateral trade relations, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said on Saturday. "There is an impression in the media that Pakistan made a decision (on MFN) and then backtracked. This is totally wrong. I want to tell you that we are consistent," Khar told reporters...
10:25 PM, Nov 05, 2011
Islamabad: Against the backdrop of Pakistan's flip-flop on the issue of granting the MFN status to India, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Friday held consultations with the top civil and military officials in Islamabad on the dialogue process with New Delhi. Khar "consulted all stakeholders on foreign policy issues, including the resumed dialogue process with India" during a meeting held at the Foreign Ministry, an official statement said. The...
05:13 PM, Nov 04, 2011
Islamabad: In a blunt message to Pakistan, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday demanded greater cooperation from the country to "squeeze" the Haqqani network responsible for attacks in Afghanistan, saying Islamabad could not keep "snakes" in its backyard to strike its neighbours. "It's like that old story - you can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbours. Eventually those snakes are going...
02:13 PM, Oct 21, 2011
Islamabad: US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says militants have operated from Pakistani soil for too long and should not be tolerated or protected. Clinton spoke on Friday during a press conference with Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar in Islamabad. The US has stepped up pressure on Pakistan to take military action against the Haqqani militant network, which operates from the country's tribal region. It is considered the...
12:41 PM, Oct 21, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan has decided in principle to grant the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said, citing a number of achievements in bilateral ties. Khar made the remarks while speaking during question hour in the National Assembly or lower house of parliament on Wednesday evening. She did not provide details as to when the matter would be finalised. India bestowed MFN status on...
12:13 PM, Oct 13, 2011
Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar held the US responsible for creating the 'Frankenstein' of terrorism. ...
09:51 AM, Oct 03, 2011
Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said the country fights terrorism on the ground on a daily basis. ...
07:59 AM, Oct 01, 2011
New Delhi: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will convene an all-party meeting on Thursday to discuss the worsening US-Pakistan relations. Under fire, ISI Chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha, is also expected to brief the political leadership. A rally was staged by schoolchildren in Karachi against the US, who is considered to be the enemy after differences arose between both nations on the relations between the ISI and the Haqqani network....
07:21 AM, Sep 29, 2011
United Nations: Pakistan is willing to resolve all outstanding issues, including Kashmir with India, with which it is engaged in a 'substantive dialouge' process that it hopes should be 'uninterrupted', Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said. She was addressing the 193-member UN body on behalf of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani who could not attend the 66th session due to floods in Pakistan. The 34-year old Foreign Minister said...
10:13 AM, Sep 28, 2011
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar in her address to the UN also defended her ISI saying it had contributed in eliminating al Qaeda. ...
08:57 AM, Sep 28, 2011
United Nations: India and Pakistan are engaged in a "substantive dialogue process" that Islamabad hopes will be "uninterrupted and uninterruptable" as it looks forward to resolve all outstanding issues like the Kashmir dispute, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said on Tuesday. "I am happy to note that both Pakistan and India are now engaged in a substantive dialogue process. A dialogue process that we in Pakistan hope will be uninterrupted...
08:19 AM, Sep 28, 2011
