Source: The News

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that it is in the interests of the West to stand by Pakistan as it has played an important role in making Western countries more secure by battling al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
In an interview with British media on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Qureshi said Pakistan stands […]

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Source: Reuters
By Krittivas Mukherjee
Trade and cultural similarities are the best ways to improve relations between uneasy neighbours Pakistan and India, Pakistan’s foreign minister said on Friday.
India blames Pakistan for a ceasefire breach in disputed Kashmir and accuses its spy agency of involvement in last month’s bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul, in which […]

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Source: Al Jazeera.net

Pakistan’s foreign minister has ruled out allowing military personnel from the United States, or any other foreign country, in Pakistan to hunt for Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda.
Mahmoud Qureshi said on Saturday that the country’s new government had not permitted any such operation in the regions bordering Afghanistan and never would.
Bin […]

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Source: Yahoo Malaysia
Japan’s foreign minister offered assistance Saturday to Pakistan’s newly elected government in its fight against terrorism, the Pakistani prime minister’s office said
Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura, who is on a two-day visit to Pakistan, made the offer during talks with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in the capital, Islamabad, Gilani’s office said in a […]

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Source: AFP
Pakistan will purchase equipment from China to fight terrorist activity, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said.
China is one of the closest allies and largest arms supplier of Pakistan, which has been hit by a wave of suicide bombings in which more than 1,000 people have died in the past year.
“Pakistan has expressed the desire […]

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Source: DAWN
NEW DELHI, April 17: Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday described the prolonged incarceration of Indian prisoners in Pakistani jails as a matter of grave concern and urged Islamabad to free the more than 700 inmates, including 74 defence personnel, languishing there.
Mr Mukherjee told Rajya Sabha that a total of 641 Indians, including […]

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Source: Dawn
ISLAMABAD, April 12: Pakistan’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Dr Maleeha Lodhi said on Saturday that the Commonwealth was working out modalities for the restoration of Pakistan’s membership in the organisation.
A meeting of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) would be held soon in this regard, she told DawnNews television.
“The Commonwealth itself is […]

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Source: The Hindu
ISLAMABAD: Shah Mahmood Qureshi, a respected leader of the Pakistan People’s Party from southern Punjab, is expected to be named Pakistan’s Foreign Minister in a 24-member federal Cabinet that will be sworn in on Monday.
Mr. Qureshi was in the running for Prime Minister and once he was out of that, the Cambridge-educated politician […]

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Source: China View
ISLAMABAD, March 11 (Xinhua) — Pakistan Caretaker Foreign Minister Inaam-ul-Haq had gone to Senegal to attend the upcoming Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) summit, said the ministry spokesman Mohammad Sadiq on Tuesday.
Sadiq told Xinhua that Inaam-ul-Haq went to attend the 11th OIC summit, due on March 13-14 in Senegal’s capital Dakar, on behalf […]

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