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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.
Containers seized at Mundra used for shipping fuel for nuclear plant: Pak
Rediff.com20 Nov 2021The Pakistan Foreign Office issued a statement in response to questions from the press about reports in the media on the 'seizure of possible radioactive material' by Indian authorities at Mundra Port on a cargo ship from Karachi Port to Shanghai in China.
Pak enacts law to allow Kulbhushan challenge his conviction
Rediff.com17 Nov 2021The law allowed Jadhav to challenge his conviction in the high court through a review process which was a requirement of the ICJ verdict.
Don't want any conflict with any country, including India: Taliban
Rediff.com14 Nov 2021'Women have 100 per cent inclusion in the health sector. They are also teaching in the education sector. They are working in each and every one of those sectors where they are required'
Afghan foreign minister Muttaqi arrives in Pakistan to reset ties
Rediff.com10 Nov 2021Acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan, Amir Khan Muttaqi, on Wednesday arrived in Islamabad, his first visit to the country, as part of efforts by the two sides to reset their ties in the wake of the Taliban's takeover of Kabul.
Pak SC grills Imran in 2014 Army School massacre case
Rediff.com10 Nov 2021The apex court gave a month-long deadline to the government to determine the responsibility for security failure in the horrific attack in which 147 people, 132 of them children, were killed when Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants stormed the Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar.
Pak authorities restore land for first Hindu temple in Islamabad
Rediff.com9 Nov 2021According to the report, four kanals (0.5 acres) of land at H-9/2 in Islamabad was allotted to the community in 2016 for the construction of the first ever Hindu temple, cremation and community centre.
Modi's plane flies over Pak airspace en route to Italy
Rediff.com31 Oct 2021Prime Minister Modi's plane Boeing 777, 300ER, K7066 entered the Pakistani airspace from Bahawalpur, passed through Turbat and Panjgur and via Iran and Turkey reached Italy, The Express Tribune reported.