ISLAMABAD – Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar has said that no back channel diplomacy is presently taking place with India. Speaking during a question hour session in the Senate on Thursday, Khar said hostility coming in from the neighbouring country is of unique ...

ISLAMABAD – The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday ruled out any backdoor diplomacy brokered by the United Arab Emirates between Pakistan and India. At a weekly news briefing in Islamabad, Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch dismissed any such development taking place. “At this ...

Pakistan successes in the regional and global diplomatic maneuvers in recent years are now being recognized and acknowledged by the world’s powers and states. Pakistan’s spirit of promoting interdependent regional as well as global development and prosperity which led the nation to host the ...

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said economic diplomacy and promotion of regional connectivity and peace are the priorities that Pakistan is pursuing in the light of vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan. He was chairing a meeting of Board of Governors of Institute of Regional Studies in ...

UNITED NATIONS - Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi held wide-ranging talks with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that focused on the decades-old Kashmir dispute and the evolving situation in Afghanistan. According to an official press release issued by the Pakistan Mission to the UN on ...

ANKARA - Foreign Minister (FM) Shah Mehmood Qureshi is in Turkey to participate in the Antalya Diplomacy Forum at the invitation of his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavusoglu. He will also participate in a panel discussion on ‘Regional Cooperation in Asia’ along with other Foreign Ministers ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Friday welcomed the adoption of Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC)-led resolution by the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in response to grave violations of international law and human rights by Israel. “Pakistan stands in solidarity with the Palestinian ...

ISLAMABAD - Foreign Office has said that its diplomacy index remained successful in achieving foreign policy objectives despite many confronting challenges including shortage of resources and human resources. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhry told The Nation yesterday that the most ...

*Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called remarks by the country's foreign minister as a "big mistake", a week after audio emerged of the minister criticised the military's influence on diplomacy.* Iran's Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, a long-standing member of President ...

The US said Friday it has agreed to participate in indirect nuclear talks starting next week with Iran in a potential major breakthrough that could end a months-long impasse. State Department spokesman Ned Price said that for now there would not be any direct talks with Iran, and the US would ...