*ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday felicitated Emmanuel Macron over his re-election as French president.* In a Twitter message, the prime minister said, “Felicitations to President Emmanuel Macron on re-election as President of the French Republic.” “I look forward to ...

France has ordered judicial inquiry into the deal to sell Rafale fighter jets to India. According to a report published by French journal, a French judge has been appointed to head the probe into 590 billion rupees Rafale deal with India for thirty-six fighter jets. The Rafale fighter jets deal ...

Croatia has agreed to buy a batch of used fighter jets from France, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Friday, in a deal worth one billion euros ($1.2 billion). The twelve Rafale planes will replace Croatia’s Russian-made MiGs in the country’s biggest arms purchase since its 1990s war of ...

The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned a member of Pakistan’s diplomatic staff following a statement by the President of Pakistan, Dr. Arif Alvi, that had urged the political leadership of France to refrain from embedding their bias against Muslims into their laws and had warned that ...

PARIS/ISLAMABAD: Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs has summoned Pakistan’s envoy to protest remarks link by President Arif Alvi that a French bill cracking down on ‘radical Islam’ stigmatises Muslims. Addressing a conference on religion on Saturday, Alvi said: “When you see that laws ...

President Arif Alvi urged France, on Saturday to desist from entrenching "discriminatory attitudes" against Muslims into laws aimed at fighting so-called extremism. Paris needs to bring people together instead of stamping Islam in a certain manner to create "disharmony and bias," said Alvi, ...

ANTWERP - A Belgian court convicted an Iranian diplomat Thursday for plotting a thwarted 2018 bombing of an opposition rally outside Paris and ordered him jailed for 20 years. The trial was conducted under tight security in the Belgian port of Antwerp and has further poisoned already tense ...

Greece and France signed a 2.5-billion-euro ($3 billion) warplane deal on Monday as part of a plans to upgrade Greece’s armed force in response to Turkish challenges in the eastern Mediterranean. The deal will see Greece buying 18 Rafale jets link, 12 of them used, made by French firm Dassault ...

India and France will start a five-day joint air exercise on Wednesday, the Indian government announced on Tuesday. The Indian Air Force and the French Air and Space Force will conduct the Ex Desert Knight-21 drill at the Jodhpur air force station in Rajasthan, northern India from Jan. 20 to 24, ...

*Last week, Indian officials visited Bordeaux to check the progress of the second batch of Rafale jet fighters.* According to a report from *National Interest*, Indian Air Force officials visited the Dassault Aviation plant near Bordeaux, to check the progress of the second batch of jet fighters, ...