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'Dissatisfied' Pak seeks joint probe into missile firing incident
Rediff.com12 Mar 2022Pakistan on Saturday said it was not satisfied with India's 'simplistic explanation' on the 'accidental firing' of a missile that landed in Pakistan's Punjab province and demanded a joint probe to accurately establish the facts surrounding the incident.
Pakistan inducts China-made J-10C multi-role fighter jets into PAF
Rediff.com11 Mar 2022Prime Minister Imran Khan addressed a ceremony held at Pakistan Air Force base Minhas Kamra in Attock district of Punjab province to induct the new fighter jets.
Pak summons Indian envoy, protests violation of airspace
Rediff.com11 Mar 2022"Pakistan Air Force continuously monitored the complete flight path of the flying object from its point of origin in Sirsa in India till its point of impact near Mian Channu and initiated requisite tactical actions in accordance with standard operating procedures," Pakistan Army spokesman Major General Babar Iftikhar said.
Pak remains on global terror funding watchdog's grey list: Report
Rediff.com5 Mar 2022Pakistan has been on the grey list of the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force since June 2018 for failing to check money laundering, leading to terror financing, and was given a plan of action to complete it by October 2019.
India agrees to give more data on western hydel projects to Pak: Report
Rediff.com3 Mar 2022The three-day meeting between the two commissioners of PCIW completed discussions on all agenda items on Wednesday.
Pak top cleric declares violence over blasphemy as anti-Islam
Rediff.com24 Feb 2022The Council of Islamic Ideology issued a statement after a meeting which was presided over by its chairperson, Dr Qibla Ayaz.
Mob stones man to death in Pak for desecrating religious book, 62 held
Rediff.com13 Feb 2022According to eyewitnesses, the police arrived in the village before the incident took place, but the mob seized the victim from the SHO's custody and tied him to a tree, after which he was lynched to death.
When Lata Mangeshkar found an admirer in Pak's brutal dictator
Rediff.com6 Feb 2022Zia confessed his admiration for Mangeshkar while talking with late Indian journalist Kuldip Nayar in 1982.
Imran's new national security policy puts Kashmir at core of India ties
Rediff.com14 Jan 2022Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday launched the country's first-ever national security policy, which articulates a citizen-centric framework, placing economic security at its core unlike the previous one-dimensional security policy where the focus was on the military.
Over 200 Hindu pilgrims pray at renovated Pak temple amid tight security
Rediff.com3 Jan 2022As many as 200 Hindu pilgrims, most of them from India, were overwhelmed with emotions as they prayed at the 100-year-old renovated Maharaja Paramhans Ji temple in Pakistan on Sunday amidst tight security, a year after the temple was demolished by a mob belonging to a radical Islamist party.
Pak responds to India's Rafale with China-made 25 J-10C fighter jets
Rediff.com30 Dec 2021Pakistan has acquired a full squadron of 25 multirole J-10C fighter jets from its all weather ally China in response to India's purchase of Rafale aircraft, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has said.
Pak's new ISI chief asks not to release his photos, videos to media
Rediff.com29 Dec 2021The newly-appointed Inter-Services Intelligence chief Lt Gen Nadeem Anjum has instructed Pakistani authorities not to release his images or video footage to the media, according to a media report on Wednesday.
Pak summons Indian envoy over hate speeches against minorities
Rediff.com27 Dec 2021Pakistan on Monday summoned India's Charge d'Affaires to the ministry of foreign affairs and conveyed its concern over the alleged hate speeches made at a conclave held in Haridwar recently to incite violence against the minorities.
Post Uri freeze, Pak wants to host the much-delayed SAARC Summit
Rediff.com25 Dec 2021The 2016 SAARC Summit was originally planned to be held in Islamabad on November 15-19, 2016. But after a terror attack on an Indian Army camp in Uri in Jammu and Kashmir on September 18 that year, India expressed its inability to participate in the summit due to "prevailing circumstances". The summit was called off after Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan also declined to participate in the Islamabad meet.
Pak-India ties: One step forward, two steps backward
Rediff.com23 Dec 2021So far, almost every positive development in terms of the bilateral ties has been overtaken by innate hostility that is often driven by popular sentiments.
Pak military's top brass condoles Gen Rawat's death
Rediff.com8 Dec 2021Pakistan Army's spokesman in a short statement posted on Twitter said that Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) General Nadeem Raza and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa expressed condolences.
Omicron threat: Pak bans travel from 15 countries
Rediff.com6 Dec 2021Pakistan on Monday banned travel from 15 countries, except under certain conditions, and tightened up travel restrictions on 13 other countries in wake of the threat of the new COVID-19 variant Omicorn.
Pak allows India to transport wheat, medicines to Kabul on Afghan trucks
Rediff.com3 Dec 2021Pakistan on Friday agreed to let India transport 50,000 metric tonnes of wheat and life-saving drugs as humanitarian assistance for the people of Afghanistan on Afghan trucks through the Wagah border crossing, after a row erupted between the two countries over the modalities of transportation.
Pak formally informs India of allowing wheat to Afghanistan
Rediff.com24 Nov 2021Pakistan on Wednesday said it has formally informed India about its decision to allow the transportation of an Indian humanitarian shipment of 50,000 metric tonnes of wheat and life saving drugs to neighbouring Afghanistan through its territory on an 'exceptional basis for humanitarian purposes.'
Pakistan to allow India to send wheat to Afghanistan: Imran
Rediff.com22 Nov 2021Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan announced on Monday that his government will allow India to send a humanitarian shipment of 50,000 metric tonnes of wheat to neighbouring Afghanistan through its territory after finalisation of the transit modalities.