In this March 29, 2002 file photo, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the alleged mastermind behind Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl’s kidnap-slaying, appears at the court in Karachi. — AP/File —– Anwar Iqbal January 29, 2021 In his first statement on Pakistan as the United States secretary of state, Antony Blinken said America was ready
READ MORENasir Iqbal A view of the Reko Diq hills. — Reuters/File Dawn.com December 24, 2020 The Tethyan Cooper Company (TCC) has approached the High Court of Justice in the British Virgin Islands for the enforcement of the $5.97 billion award against Pakistan by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in the Reko
READ MOREDawn.com 03 Dec 2020 Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar in an interview with Global Village Space. — GVS screengrab Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar, the chief of the military’s media wing, has said that India is engaged in a massive campaign of ‘fifth-generation warfare’ to obstruct Pakistan’s road to
READ MOREDawn.com 12 Oct 2020 Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi addresses an event in Islamabad on Monday. — DawnNewsTV Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Monday defended the government’s foreign policy performance under his watch, saying the world was no longer “blindly” buying the Indian narrative due to Islamabad’s successful efforts to counter negative perceptions.
READ MORE26 Jul 2020 The comments about the state of bilateral ties are timely as Hasina Hasina received a phone call from Prime Minister Khan on Wednesday. — Photo courtesy Reuters/File NEW DELHI: A prominent newspaper of Bangladesh has said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina did not meet India’s high commissioner despite repeated requests for a meeting
READ MOREPakistan Ulema Council announces support for construction of temple The Newspaper’s Staff Reporter Jul 11 2020 Constitution categorically defines rights of Muslims and non-Muslims living in country, says PUC chief. — Dawn/File ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) has extended support to the construction of a temple in Islamabad and criticised those who were
READ MOREMubarak Ali May 18, 2014 When the Mughal Empire was at its zenith; nobles, poets, artists, and architects from all over the Muslim world arrived in India in the hope of royal patronage at the Mughal court; and they were certainly not disappointed. They settled in the subcontinent and in recognition of their services, they
READ MOREPervez Hoodbhoy April 04, 2020 The Dawn The writer teaches physics in Lahore and Islamabad. CHARLES Darwin is a name Pakistanis are taught to hate. School teachers and university professors tasked with teaching his evolutionary theory usually skip the subject or, if they go ahead, first soften it with a ton of scorn. A commonly
READ MOREAnwar Iqbal February 18, 2020 WASHINGTON: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is unlikely to blacklist Pakistan during its annual meetings in Paris but may keep it on its watch list, says a US scholar of South Asian studies. The meetings began on Monday but the plenary session, which will decide whether to keep Pakistan
READ MOREAyub the First – Newspaper – DAWN.COM Asad Rahim Khan January 16, 2020 WRITING on how to live one’s life, American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, ‘Shallow men believe in luck… strong men believe in cause and effect’. Because empires are built on entitlement, so America never tires of hearing about the strong, silent type.
READ MOREMuhammad Asif Khan 23 December 2019 What does karate mean to the young woman from Quetta? She tells all. Nothing is impossible for the girl who lost her parents before her 10th birthday. Her resilience has taken her from strength to strength. Kulsoom Hazara was born in Quetta on September 4, 1988. The youngest of
READ MOREAFP Updated December 15, 2019 The death toll from violent protests in northeast India against a contentious citizenship law has risen to six, officials said on Sunday, as authorities maintained internet bans and curfews to quell unrest. Tensions remained high at the epicentre of the unrest in Assam state’s biggest city, Guwahati, with troops patrolling the streets in vehicles
READ MOREDAWN.COM 13 December 2019 Reuters A new Indian law that grants citizenship to persecuted Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians who fled Muslim-majority Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan prior to 2015 has led to violent demonstrations. Indian President Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to the citizenship bill late on Thursday, signing it into law, an
READ MOREAFP December 12, 2019 Dawn A married Indian couple living in Moenchengladbach were sentenced by a German court on Thursday after admitting to spying on Sikh and Kashmiri communities for the Indian secret service. The couple, who are identified only by their first name and initials according to German law, admitted to having passed on
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