Tag: Pakistan
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US cancels $300 mn aid to Pakistan over terror groups
Washington : The US military has announced that it was cancelling $300 million in aid to Pakistan over what it calls Islamabad’s failure to take action against militant groups, a new blow to worsening bilateral ties between the two countries. “Due to a lack of Pakistani decisive actions in support of the South Asia Strategy,…
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Pakistan, Bahrain agree to boost up bilateral trade exchange
Islamabad : Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and his Bahraini counterpart Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa on Tuesday agreed to reinvigorate economic and investment relations between their countries to boost the current bilateral trade volume of $310 million. The two sides expressed the commitment as Sheikh Khalid telephoned Shah Qureshi to congratulate him…
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Global effort on girls’ education defeating Taliban’s purpose: Malala
By Hardev Sanotra, Las Vegas : Taliban’s efforts to keep girls away from education in Pakistan was defeated by their very action of shooting her, says Malala Yousafzai, the world’s youngest Nobel laureate. “The result is that today millions of people all over the world are speaking out” and taking action against keeping young girls…
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Imran Khan elected Pakistan’s 22nd Prime Minister
Islamabad : Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan was elected Pakistan’s 22nd Prime Minister by the country’s National Assembly on Friday, three weeks after his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party won the highest number of seats in the general election. Khan, 65, secured 176 votes out of the total 272 cast in polling in the lower house, while his…
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Hindu migrants from Pakistan living a life of homeless wanderers, courtesy Indian red-tapism
By Archana Sharma, Jodhpur : At a time when the world is battling one of its biggest refugee crises, India has its own share of the problem — thousands of Hindu migrants from Pakistan remain stranded at this Rajasthan transit hub. They have been awaiting their citizenship papers for years, despite submitting their passports, documents…
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US cuts military training programme for Pakistan
Washington : US military institutions are struggling to fill the 66 slots they had kept aside for officers from Pakistan for the next academic year, as President Donald Trump’s administration refused to provide funds for their training, official sources said. The fund for training Pakistani officers came from the US government’s International Military Education and…
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Imran Khan will have to tread on thin ice to form government in Pakistan
By Vishnu Makhijani, It would seem rather presumptuous on the part of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan to declare that he would take oath as the Prime Minister on August 11, after addressing the nation and sort of laying down his policies for the next five years — because he is still short of…
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Afghanistan, not India, will be Imran Khan’s priority until 2019
By Saeed Naqvi, Even before elections in Pakistan had taken place, the media which articulates the Western establishment point of view, like the Economist, had already declared it a “flawed election”; it even screamed “foul play” which the “khaki umpire” (read the Army) had rigged. If you will stand for a mixed metaphor, the “khaki…
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After taking over reins in Pakistan, Imran may not remain army’s poodle
By Amulya Ganguli, Even the best laid plans of mice and men can go awry. If the Pakistan army wanted Imran Khan to score a runaway victory in the elections, it will be disappointed. If an inability to reach the halfway mark forces the former cricketer and international playboy to constitute a coalition, the already…
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Peace in Kashmir impossible without Pakistan: Farooq Abdullah
New Delhi : Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Friday said peace in Jammu and Kashmir was impossible without involving Pakistan, asking the BJP government to give up its rigid stance and be flexible in solving problems in the terror-ravaged state. “You may not like what I am going to say. We…