ISLAMABAD – The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) has approved a compensation package worth around $11.6mn for the affected Chinese nationals of the Dasu Hydropower Project attack. Reports in local media suggest that the meeting virtually presided over by Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin ...

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that the present government has given a new direction to the country’s foreign policy from geo-politics to geo-economics for the welfare of people. Speaking in the National Assembly on Friday, he said the country’s economy is now touching 5.37 ...

ISLAMABAD – Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Sunday left for an official visit to Romania and Spain from 9-12 January 2022. During the first leg of the visit, Foreign Minister Qureshi will visit Bucharest at the invitation of Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu from 9-10 January 2022. He ...

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan has once again warned of the severe humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan saying that the Asian country could potentially become the biggest man-made crisis in the world if it did not act now. Addressing the Extraordinary Session of the Council of Foreign ...

ISLAMABAD – Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mr. Hissein Brahim Taha, hailed Pakistan’s efforts for holding the extraordinary meeting to discuss Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis. Addressing the session, Hissein Brahim Taha heaped praise on the ...

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan emphasized that Pakistan and the US needed to deepen engagement for peace, stability, and economic development in neighboring Afghanistan. The premier also underscored the urgent need to financially assist the Afghan residents to avert a humanitarian crisis ...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has invited Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to attend the Troika Plus meeting. The meeting is scheduled to be held in Islamabad on November 11. Consultations between Islamabad and Kabul are continuing in this regard and officials say it would be ...

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan will take the nation into confidence over the masked agreement that the government and outlawed Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) have recently reached, local media said Tuesday. Reports in media quoting sources said Khan will also address the ...

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has left for Tehran to attend a ministerial meeting of Afghanistan's close neighbours to be held on Wednesday. The Foreign Minister will present Pakistan's viewpoint at the meeting on the current Afghan situation. Shah Mahmood Qureshi will also hold talks ...

ISLAMABAD/TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi Monday received an invitation from his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian to participate in the meeting on the Afghan situation in Tehran. A statement issued by the Foreign Office said Iranian FM invited Shah Mahmood Qureshi to ...