By Tarique Siyal

ISLAMABAD: Lieutenant General (R) Abdul Qadir Baloch, Federal Minister for States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) on Monday reiterated that further extension of Afghan refugee’s voluntary repatriation is under consideration and final decision will be taken by federal cabinet shortly. He was exclusively talking with Daily Times here on Monday. “Pakistan and Afghanistan are discussing the […]

ISLAMABAD: After hanging of Motiur Rahman Nizami, leader of Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bangladesh have entered into a diplomatic tussle and both the countries have summoned the top diplomats of either country to protest. Pakistan strongly condemned the hanging Motiur Rahman Nizami and termed judicially flawed trial. Bangladesh summoned Pakistani High Commissioner and lodged […]

  ISLAMABAD: Maulana Fazl ur Rehman, Chairman Parliamentary Kashmir Committee has said General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf was responsible for weakening Pakistan’s position on Kashmir. He was addressing in a seminar on “Human Rights, Youth and the Issue of Jammu and Kashmir”, organized by Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad (ISSI) on Wednesday. Fazl said that Modi […]

ISLAMABAD: Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal, Ambassador of Afghanistan to Pakistan has said that both countries relations are not limited and have relations, from family to family; cultural, tribal, historic, linguistic and no other two neighboring countries in the world have such relations. Talking exclusively to the Daily Times at the Afghan Embassy, he said for trade […]

ISLAMABAD: Vibeke Jensen, Representative of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on Monday said that Pakistan Government, civil society and local community needed to take steps for the conservation of endangered heritage. She was talking to Daily Times on the first day of the three day exhibition “Ancient Pakistan” held here at auditorium […]

ISLAMABAD: Former Foreign Minister Sardar Asif Ahmad Ali said that the people of Pakistan were upset and worried over American demands for doing more and he is personally in favour of a right of appeal to Dr. Shakil Afridi but Donald Trump didn’t not have the right to talk on Pakistan’s internal affairs. The US […]

ISLAMABAD: Emilian Ion, Ambassador of Romania and Dean of European Diplomatic Corps said on Wednesday that currently trade between Romania and Pakistan was $3,00 million with the balance in favour of Romania. There is more potential of further enhancing the trade between both the countries. He was speaking at a “Meet the Press” function at […]

ISLAMABAD: Deputy Chairman National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has said if anybody is paying for the electricity, while other community members are not paying, under the NEPRA rules his connection cannot be disconnected. Senate Panel on delegated legislation met here in parliament house under the Chairmanship of Senator Taj Haider of PPP. The Committee […]

ISLAMABAD: Dr Nedim Makarevic, Ambassador of Bosnia Herzegovina has said the good films are fusion of diverse emotions and expression of heart. He was speaking at opening ceremony of two days film festival organised by Foundation of Arts, Culture and Education (FACE), with the support of Bosnian and French embassies at Pakistan National Council of […]

ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Panel on Planning, Development and Reforms on Thursday recommended that sea intrusion into the coastal areas of Sindh and Balochistan areas should be included in the Vision 2025 programme and also requested the Prime Minister that the issue should be in the agenda of the next meeting of the Council of Common […]