Pakistan recalled its ambassador from India and appealed Tuesday for U.N. help to de-escalate and defuse tensions with New Delhi after last week's attack in India's sector of disputed Kashmir that killed at least 40 Indian troops.
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The man who carried out a suicide bombing which killed 27 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards near the border with Pakistan last week was Pakistani, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander said on Tuesday, according to the Tasnim news (...)
The Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expressed on Sunday his country's desire to have good relations with all Muslim peoples in the Middle East. He also criticised the recent cooperation between the Middle Eastern countries with Israel and the US, (...)
Indian security forces on Monday killed two suspected organisers of a deadly suicide bombing in the disputed region of Kashmir that has fuelled tension between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, police said.
The suicide bomb attack on a paramilitary (...)
بالتزامن مع زيارة الأمير محمد بن سلمان ولى العهد السعودى إلى باكستان، تصدر هاشتاج "ولى العهد فى باكستان"، وكذلك هشتاج "مرحبا الأمير محمد بن سلمان"، الأكثر تداولا على "تويتر باكستان"، للترحيب بزيارة الأمير السعودى.
وحرص المشاركون فى الهاشتاج على (...)
نشرت قناة "PTV" الباكستانية مقطع فيديو لترحيب باكستان بدخول طائرة الأمير محمد بن سلمان ولي العهد السعودي، المجال الجوي للبلاد.
وظهر في الفيديو، الطائرة الملكية للأمير محمد بن سلمان تحوطها المروحيات الباكستانية للترحيب بقدومه.
وقالت القناة إنه بمجرد (...)
Egypt condemned on Sunday a terrorist attack that targeted a security convoy in the disputed region of Kashmir, killing 44 policemen and injuring others.
In an official statement, Egypt's foreign ministry spokesman Ahmed Hafez expressed his (...)
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Sunday said Saudi Arabia has signed investment agreements worth $20 billion during his high-profile visit to Pakistan, where tensions were flaring up with nuclear-armed rival India.
Kicking off his tour of South (...)
The Taliban has postponed an unscheduled round of peace talks with the United States set for Monday in Pakistan saying ``most'' members of their negotiating team are unable to travel because they're on the US and United Nations' blacklists.
The (...)
Egypt condemned on Saturday a suicide bomb attack in Iran which killed 27 Revolutionary Guards earlier this week.
In an official statement, the Egyptian foreign ministry denounced the terror attack which took place in Sistan and Baluchistan province (...)
The United States has told India it supports its right to defend itself against cross-border attacks, the government said on Saturday, as New Delhi considers retaliation against a car bombing in disputed Kashmir claimed by Pakistan-based (...)
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is likely to meet Afghan Taliban representatives during his visit to Pakistan starting on Sunday, Pakistani government sources said, part of efforts to broker an end to Afghanistan's 17-year-old civil (...)
Iran urged neighbouring Pakistan on Saturday to crack down on militants who killed 27 of its Revolutionary Guards in an attack near the border or expect military action by Tehran “to punish the terrorists”, state media reported.
Revolutionary Guards (...)
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday promised a strong response to a car bombing in Kashmir that killed 44 paramilitary that his government blamed on Pakistan, ratcheting up tensions with the nuclear-rival.
The attack on a military convoy (...)
We have previously spoken, in this column, of the fissures that are cleaving Europe and the Western camp in general. It would take too long to explain them all, especially given that they are multiplying and deepening and, moreover, spreading from (...)
The leaders of the Arab League and the European Union (EU) will hold their first summit on 24 and 25 February in Sharm El-Sheikh to bring their positions together on a wide range of regional and international issues, ranging from the conflicts in (...)
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday offered the Taliban the possibility of opening an office in Afghanistan but the proposal was swiftly spurned by the group that is determined to keep his government out of accelerating peace talks.
Ghani has (...)
Iran celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution last Friday, 1 February. Four decades ago, Ayatollah Khomeini had arrived in Tehran, coming from Paris, to lead the post-Shah Iran and establish a revolutionary theocratic regime, the (...)
U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad arrived in Kabul on Sunday to try to secure cooperation from Afghanistan's president after breakthroughs in peace negotiations with Taliban leaders in Qatar.
With Khalilzad and his boss U.S. Secretary of State (...)
A co-founder of the Taliban was appointed as the leader of its political office in Qatar on Thursday to strengthen its hand in peace talks with the United States as they try to establish a mechanism to end the 17-year Afghan war.
Mullah Abdul Ghani (...)
Although the Tunisian “revolution” that erupted in December 2010 was the first of the series of “revolutions” that followed in various Arab countries, the uprising of 25 January 2011 in Egypt was probably the greater event in view of its huge impact (...)
Growth in the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (MENAP) region is expected to remain subdued at 2.4% in 2019 before recovering to about 3% in 2020, according to the World Economic Outlook (WEO) update report, released by the (...)
A recent report issued by HC Securities said that the Juhayna stock is expected to remain attractive for investors despite an earnings cut.
The report noted that in spite of the latest fiscal consolidation, soaring inflation, a delayed monetary (...)
At least five people were killed when an avalanche hit the truck they were traveling in Kashmir on Friday, and five more people were missing, officials said.
After the avalanche in the Ladakh area of the heavily militarized Himalayan region, the (...)
Washington's peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad arrived in Pakistan on the last leg of his regional tour aimed at finding a negotiated end to Afghanistan's 17-year war, which will allow American troops to go home, ending Washington's longest military (...)
