Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has asked Pakistan to further increase transparency in the visa issuance process. Abdul Qahar Balkhi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman, wrote on his Twitter page on Tuesday that Pakistani Embassy Chargé…
Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has asked his Pakistani counterpart to release the remaining Afghan prisoners held in Pakistani jails ahead of Eidul-Fitr. Hafiz Zia Ahmad Takal, Ministry of Foreign Affairs deputy spokesman, wrote on his Twitter…
The Federal Minister for Religious Affairs of Pakistan Maulana Abdul Shakoor on Saturday evening died in a road accident when a vehicle rammed into his car near Secretariat Chowk, in Islamabad. police said. The Police spokesperson said Maulana…
Pakistan has reiterated its strong commitment to a stable, peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan. Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari renewed Pakistan’s pledge in a telephonic conversation with his Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi on Saturday. In a brief statement,…
About 117 Afghan families, who lacked legal stay documents, returned from Pakistan via Torkham crossing point last week, officials in eastern Nangarhar province said on Saturday. According to officials, the returning families comprised nearly 650 individuals. Sidiqullah Quraishi,…
ATLANTA (Pajhwok) Pakistan Federal Minister for Law and Justice Senator Azam Nazeer Tarar on Thursday demanded that elections should be held in the entire country at the same time. Speaking to international media, the law minister maintained that political parties…
Insurgent attacks in Pakistan fell in March, compared to February, but fatalities remained almost the same, says a new report. With a 36 per cent decline, 37 militant attacks occurred in the country last month, an Islamabad-based think…
Foreign airlines could stop operations to Pakistan over sustained blockage of cash payments, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has warned. In a statement on Wednesday, the trade association of global airlines said Pakistan owed foreign airlines some…
China and Pakistan are attending the annual meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) security council secretaries in New Delhi today (Wednesday). The two allies are taking part in the event, where the current situation in Afghanistan would also…
The Minister for Defence of Pakistan Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Friday said the government was ready to hold a comprehensive dialogue with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). The government would not oblige by entering into any transactional dialogue with…
About 190 Afghan nationals have been released from jails in Pakistan’s Sindh province and sent to their homeland, the Afghan Embassy in Islamabad says. The Embassy of Afghanistan wrote on its Twitter page that 190 Afghan prisoners were…
Pakistan has welcomed the normalisation of diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Iran, facilitated by China. The Pakistan embassy in Kabul said Islamabad firmly believed the important diplomatic breakthrough would contribute to peace and stability…
Seventy-four more Afghan nationals have been released from jails in Pakistan’s Sindh province and sent to their homeland, the Afghan Embassy in Islamabad says. The Embassy of Afghanistan wrote on its Twitter page that 74 Afghan prisoners were…
Nearly 2500 Afghan refugees returned to the country from Iran and Pakistan yesterday, tweeted the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation. The majority 2189 of the total 2,487 Afghan refugees returned from Iran via Islam Qala border in western…
Afghanistan’s exports to Pakistan surpassed one billion dollars mark during the past 10 months while imports from the neighboring country hit $940 million, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) said on Wednesday. While the State Bank of…
Hundreds of Afghan refugees facing extreme delays in the approval of U.S. visas protested in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Sunday. The U.S. government’s Priority 1 and Priority 2, known as P1 and P2 refugee programs were meant to…
Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar met a high-level Pakistani delegation that arrived in Kabul on Wednesday. Led by Pakistan defense minister Khwaja Asif, the delegation arrived in Kabul to meet Afghan officials for…
Pakistan’s Ministry of Interior has introduced its special envoy to the Afghan embassy in Islamabad for coordination on refugees’ problems. The embassy tweeted that Ambassador Maulvi Sardar Ahmad Shakib met deputy minister of interior of Pakistan, Yousaf Nasim…
Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves slipped to the alarming level of below $3 billion for the first time in nine years on Thursday, a media report said. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said in its latest weekly update…
Pakistan skipped a regional security conference on Afghanistan in Russia to protest India’s participation, the country’s Foreign Office (FO) says. The Wednesday’s meeting in Moscow was attended by national security advisors from Russia, Iran, India and central Asian…
Pakistan will send delegations to Afghanistan and Iran for talks with top officials on ensuring their soil is not used against the country after a suicide bombing killed scores of police in a mosque in Peshawar. Special assistant…
Pakistani police arrested dozens of Afghan nationals in Islamabad during a nighttime raid and mishandled women last night. The Afghans were asleep when police raided the Sharjah Plaza in Barakahu area and arrested many Afghans who were later…
Referring to recent statements by Pakistani officials, analysts say Pakistan now regrets creating the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Daesh group and seems to be hired again by the United States for its interests in the new cold war.…
Nearly 50,000 patients were allowed to enter Pakistan through the Torkham crossing for treatment without passport and visa during the past six months, an official said on Wednesday. These patients travelled to Pakistan without visa and passport under…
