PALM BEACH (Florida): “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” US President-elect Donald J. Trump told a roaring crowd of supporters as he delivered his victory speech early on Wednesday. The 78-year-old clinched the White House with 291 electoral college votes against Kamala Harris’ 223, becoming only the second man in the country’s history — after Grover Cleveland …
WASHINGTON: The United States has reiterated its non-involvement in Pakistan’s internal politics, dismissing suggestions that former prime minister Imran Khan’s legal troubles are linked to American influence. Responding to a journalist’s inquiry about claims from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Latif Khosa, who suggested that former US President Donald Trump’s return to office could lead to Khan’s release, State Department Spokesperson …
WASHINGTON: An Islamabad-based national security think tank has engaged a new lobbying firm in the US, the official list of registered foreign agents reveals. The US Foreign Agents Registration Act requires the public listing of all lobbyists or lobbying firms working for a foreign entity, including governments and private corporations. The posting on the US Justice Department’s site identifies the …
ISLAMABAD: Around 60 Democratic lawmakers from the US House of Representatives have written to President Joe Biden urging him to pressure Pakistan into releasing of Imran Khan, the jailed founding chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). “We write today to urge you to use the United States’ substantial leverage with Pakistan’s government to secure the release of political prisoners including …
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has requested that US President Joe Biden pardon and release jailed Pakistani Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who was awarded an 86-year sentence for allegedly attacking US personnel in Afghanistan, it emerged on Friday. In a letter dated October 13, which has been seen by Dawn.com, the PM expressed his concerns about Dr Siddiqui’s “fragile mental and …
NEW YORK: US Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu has hailed and expressed hope for a further improvement of the United States’ “strong relation” with the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif-led government. Lu is the diplomat whose supposed warning to former Pakistan ambassador to the US Asad Majeed was the subject of a cipher sent by the envoy to Islamabad. It …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan sought to upgrade the bilateral mechanisms with the US, particularly in the economic and defence fields after talks between the two sides during the visit of a Biden administration official to Islamabad on Monday. John Bass, the US acting under secretary for political affairs, travelled to Islamabad as part of his two-nation trip. As President Joe Biden’s term …
China’s top diplomat Wang Yi met with U.S. Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy John Podesta here on Friday. Wang, Chinese foreign minister and also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, noted that this year marks the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and …
WASHINGTON: American Federal and State agencies are allegedly investigating two Pakistani American businessmen and their associates over suspected money-laundering, wire fraud and tax evasion for setting up dodgy company structures to launder the proceeds of purported black money, according to the investigators involved in the case. Federal investigating authorities in the US have reportedly confirmed that two companies, Riceland Investment …
ISLAMABAD: United States Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Blome has appreciated Pakistan’s decision to extend the stay of registered Afghan refugees by a year, a statement from the US embassy in Pakistan said on Friday. A large number of Afghan immigrants, with an estimated 1.7m undocumented as of October 2023, reside in Pakistan. Last October, the caretaker government had announced the repatriation of …