Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Oct 24 (APP): As the international community celebrated United Nations Day Sunday, Pakistan reiterated its call for the world to work towards the implementation of relevant UN Security Council resolutions on the Jammu and Kashmir dispute.

“It is deplorable that these universal ideals still continue to be defied with impunity across many parts of the world – nowhere more egregiously than in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK),” Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said in his message on the 76th Anniversary of the founding of the United Nations.

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Thousands of supporters of a banned radical Islamist party Saturday departed the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore, clashing for a second straight day with police who lobbed tear gas into the crowd, a party spokesman and witnesses said.

The group began their journey Friday with the goal of reaching the capital Islamabad to pressure the government to release Saad Rizvi, the head of the Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan party. Rizvi was arrested last year amid demonstrations against France over the publication of caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

ISLAMABAD, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- The Afghan Taliban have assured that no terrorist organization will be allowed to use the Afghan soil for carrying out terror activities against Pakistan, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said here on Thursday.

Addressing a press conference following his day-long visit to Kabul, Qureshi said that the Taliban responded with clarity that "neither the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan nor outlawed Balochistan Liberation Army" will be allowed to use the Afghan soil to harm Pakistan.

ISLAMABAD, Oct 20 (NNN-APP) – The U.S. lies about China’s Wuhan lab are motivated not by science but geopolitics, with a clear purpose to demonise China and the Chinese people, said Pakistan’s English-language daily, The Express Tribune.

The U.S. lies have a clear motive to scapegoat the Chinese people for the COVID-19 pandemic, the paper quoted an article, published by the World Socialist Web Site.

MULTAN, Oct 19 (APP): Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, on Tuesday said that Allah Almighty sent the Holy Prophet (PBUH) as a mercy for not only human beings but for all creations.

In his message on the occasion of Eid Milad-un-Nabi (PBUH), FM Qureshi said “I heartily congratulate the Pakistani nation and the entire Muslim Ummah on the auspicious occasion of the Eid Milad-un-Nabi (PBUH)”.

“Today is the day of prostration and thanksgiving to Allah. Allah has given us the honour of being a follower of the Prophet (PBUH)”, remarked Qureshi.

ISLAMABAD, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Devaluation of the Pakistani rupee against the U.S. dollar continued as the greenback touched a historic high of 173.2 rupees in interbank trading on Monday.

The U.S. dollar closed at 171.18 rupees on Friday, and on Monday opened higher at 173.2 rupees, after the local currency nose-dived by 2.02 rupees, or about 1.2 percent, web-based financial data and analytics portals reported.

The Pakistani rupee has suffered depreciation by 13.75 percent against the greenback since May this year when it started surging from 152.27 rupees.

ISLAMABAD, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- A soldier was killed as terrorists attacked a military check post in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a Pakistani army statement said on Monday.

The terrorists opened fire at the post located in the Spinwam area of North Waziristan district of the province, the military's media wing Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in the statement.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.S. has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghanistan on the brink of an economic disaster, while refusing to give political recognition to the country’s new Taliban rulers, the Taliban said Sunday.

The statement came at the end of the first direct talks between the former foes since the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops at the end of August.

The U.S. statement was less definitive, saying only that the two sides “discussed the United States’ provision of robust humanitarian assistance, directly to the Afghan people.”

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Abdul Qadeer Khan, a controversial figure known as the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, died Sunday of COVID-19 following a lengthy illness, his family said. He was 85.

Khan, who launched Pakistan on the path to becoming a nuclear weapons power in the early 1970s, died in a hospital in the capital Islamabad, Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad said.

RAWALPINDI, Oct 09 (APP): The closing Ceremony of Exercise Druzhba-VI was held at Molkino Training Area, Krasnodar, Russia, where senior officials from Russia and Pakistan were present on the occasion.

The two weeks long exercise (28 September to 9 October) was aimed at learning from mutual experience in Counter Terrorism domain with a view to learn and adopt best practices, said an Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) media release here received.