Source: Telegraph
Pakistan has made unprecedented moves towards resolving outstanding disputes with India.
President Asif Ali Zardari has risked incurring the wrath of Pakistan’s establishment by announcing his willingness to commit to a policy of no-first-use of nuclear weapons, and suggested a pact between the countries.
Senior officials from both countries have discussed co-operation in efforts to fight […]

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Source: BBC News
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that the controversial “political wing” of the top secret service agency has been disbanded.
A senior security official used the term “made inactive” when asked about the Inter-Services Intelligence wing.
The political wing is widely believed to have been engineering domestic politics to safeguard what it considers […]

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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: Press TV
A senior Pakistani official has warned that the US military operations in the country are hampering government’s effort to curb terrorism.
Criticizing recent US missile attack at a house in northwestern Pakistan Tuesday, Foreign Minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi decried that his country was being made a ’scapegoat’ for the US-led international failure to […]

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Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Australia will renew its offer of counter-terrorism assistance to Pakistan after the suicide truck bombing of an Islamabad hotel which killed at least 60 people.
Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, in New York for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, says he will hold formal bilateral talks with Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah […]

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Source: Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Turkey discussed defence co-production and decided to initiate a “strategic dialogue” to boost mutual ties, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Saturday.
He was addressing a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart Ali Babacan after a formal meeting. Babacan arrived in Pakistan on Friday on a two-day official visit.
“We […]

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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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