The US expects Pakistan will take actions against the perpetrators of the terror attack on IAF base in Pathankot, a top American official said, hours after Islamabad said it is working on the “leads” provided […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s apparently impromptu visit to Lahore on Christmas day is readily explained by the need to contain the Taliban and ensure regional stability and connectivity in the ‘Heart of Asia’ after the US-led […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): Pakistan’s leader, speaking beneath portraits of children killed by Taliban bullets, called Dec 16 for vengeance as the country marked the first anniversary of a school massacre that killed 151 people in its […]
The Heart of Asia Conference (HOAC) in Islamabad last week was bookended by two devastating attacks in Kandahar and Kabul. As Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was being honoured with a 21-gun salute in Islamabad, the […]
As the governments of India and Pakistan work towards normalizing ties between the two countries, anti-humanity groups (JuD) start with their rants in hopes of destabilizing future talks. Hafiz Saeed questions India on 26/11, says no concrete proof in 26/11 attacks […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): As External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj walked past the Pakistani media waiting in the Foreign Office corridor on Dec 9 evening, she was asked, “Ma’am, koi breakthrough hai.” Standing behind a lectern, she didn’t […]
The lessons learnt from the Indo-Pak joint statement at Ufa finally produced a breakthrough in Islamabad. The clincher was the hush-hush meeting in Bangkok. It produced a joint statement clearly spelling out all issues both sides […]
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj may travel to Islamabad next week to attend a multilateral conclave on Afghanistan. Though the government has not yet officially announced Swaraj’s visit to Islamabad, sources said she herself might […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least two people were killed and three injured in a bomb attack on a convoy of a federal minister in northwest Pakistan on Thursday evening, local media reported. The incident took place […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The most popular man in public office in Pakistan does not give speeches on television, rarely appears in public and rejects news interviews. He is Gen. Raheel Sharif, the Pakistani army chief, who […]
LAHORE: Pakistan’s Punjab province government has enhanced the security of Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed following a home department alert that a “foreign intelligence agency” may make an attempt on JuD chief’s life. “We have […]
We should be treating the visits of Pakistani leaders abroad as part of normal diplomacy that all countries engage in. By paying too much attention to them we boost Pakistan’s political importance and diminish our own […]
The Pakistan Army and the Government must be in a state of shock by the way their country’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was snubbed by the US. Successive heads of state of Pakistan loved to […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Pakistan Prime Minister must be a disappointed man. His bilateral with US President Barack Obama is being viewed as a diplomatic failure. India has watched the Sharif-Obama summit in Washington keenly, and while […]
NEW DELHI / KARACHI(TIP): Pakistan’s refusal to rule out use of nuclear weapons in a conventional conflict with India and the military’s belief that a nuclear deterrent allows it to pursue terrorism against India sharply […]
If a report in a US newspaper is to be believed, a US-Pakistan nuclear deal might be on the cards. The report says that such a deal is being considered around Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India on October 8 voiced concern over reports of the US mulling a nuclear deal with Pakistan on the lines of Indo-US pact and cited Pakistan’s nuclear proliferation record to oppose it. […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Obama administration is exploring a possible civilian nuclear deal with Pakistan ahead of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to Washington later this month, a Washington Post columnist has reported, citing a sole […]
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is exploring a possible civilian nuclear deal with Pakistan ahead of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to Washington later this month, if media reports are to be believed. One of Washington’s well-briefed columnists, David […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): India on October 1 countered Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ’s four-point peace initiative with a one-point offer. “We don’t need four points, just one — give up terrorism and let’s sit down […]
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday, Sep 30, raked up the Kashmir issue in his UN general assembly speech. In a bid to show to the world that Pakistan is willing to take peace […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Officials accompanying Prime Minister Narendra Modi have ruled out the possibility of Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif though both leaders are staying in the same hotel […]
On both sides of the India-Pakistan border, columns were written after the aborted National Security Advisers’ meeting. Most retired Indian diplomats and analysts argued that flip-flops on Pakistan betrayed the absence of coherence and strategy. Journalist-apologists […]
Islamabad: Pakistan is ready for a short or long conflict and will inflict heavy losses on India in case “war hysteria” overcomes Indian leadership, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said. His remarks came in reaction to the […]
The proposed talks between the National Security Advisors of India and Pakistan this Sunday, which were decided at a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Ufa, have come under […]
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