ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office of Pakistan has issued a strong response to US President Donald Trump’s remarks regarding Gaza, calling them unjust and unacceptable. During the weekly media briefing, Foreign Office spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan reaffirmed Pakistan’s firm stance on Palestine, stating that its policy has remained unchanged since 1947. “Any statement suggesting the forced removal of Palestinians from their …

ISLAMABAD: An anti-corruption court on Thursday acquitted Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shehbaz in the Ramzan Sugar Mill case after the defence and prosecution concluded their arguments. In 2018, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had filed a reference against PM Shehbaz — who was the chief minister at the time — and his son Hamza, alleging that …

ISLAMABAD: Effects of the suspension of all US foreign aid programmes have started to appear in Pakistan as over 60 health facilities will be closed down, leaving 1.7 million people, including 1.2m Afghan refugees, cut off from life-saving reproductive health services. These health facilities in Pakistan were being administered by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The UNFPA’s Regional Director …

BEIJING: President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday held a bilateral meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing, with the two sides vowing to strengthen the Pakistan-China strategic cooperative partnership, according to a statement from the President’s House. The development comes during President Zardari’s ongoing visit to China along with a delegation comprising senior ministers. A day prior, he met …

ISLAMABAD: After talks between the government and the opposition collapsed last week, the PTI made another push to establish a joint front against the federal government and roped in former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to become part of its anti-government movement. The meeting with the former PML-N lawmaker from Murree came after PTI founder Imran Khan wrote a letter …

PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Information Advisor, Barrister Dr. Muhammad Ali Saif, met with Afghanistan’s Acting Ambassador to Pakistan, Molvi Sardar Ahmad Shakeeb. The meeting also saw the participation of senior politicians Muhammad Ali Durrani and Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil, Express News reported. During the meeting, Barrister Dr. Saif handed over a special message from the founding leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran …

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League -Nawaz (PML-N) President and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif expressed optimism about Pakistan’s economic recovery during a meeting with Punjab Assembly members from Gujranwala, Narowal, and Sialkot. Nawaz Sharif highlighted the ongoing positive changes in the country’s economy, particularly pointing to a slowdown in inflation and a rise in the stock market, which he said demonstrated …

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have urged the international community to put pressure on India to allow the Kashmiri people to freely determine their own future for lasting peace in the region, state-run Radio Pakistan reported. In his message on Kashmir Solidarity Day being observed today (Wednesday), PM Shehbaz highlighted that a lasting peace could …

ISLAMABAD: As the PTI doubled down on purported ‘remedial measures’ proposed by party founder Imran Khan in a letter to the army chief, the security sources on Tuesday claimed that the chief of army staff had not received any sort of letter from the incarcerated former prime minister. As per the letter, which has not been shared with the media, …

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday restrained the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) from arresting two Pakistan Peoples Party leaders, former chief minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah and senior Sindh minister Sharjeel Memon, in the Bahria Town Karachi land grab reference. Mr Shah and Mr Memon filed petitions before the SHC and challenged the jurisdiction and summons issued by an …