Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Sep 9 (APP): After 9/11, Pakistan had proposed an intervention by the United Nations in the conflict-hit Afghanistan instead of a military initiative to save the region from chaos, the former chief of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has said.

“We proposed to the US administration at the highest level — the President, the Secretary of State, the director of the CIA and other US leaders — that there should be a UN intervention in Afghanistan,” General (retd) Ehsan ul Haq said in an interview with Arab News published at its website on Thursday.

ISLAMABAD, Sep 08 (APP): Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said on Wednesday that it would be premature to give reaction on the caretaker setup announced by the Taliban in Afghanistan.

“We should wait a while, it is not appropriate to comment at this time,” the minister said in an interview with BBC.

To a question, he said it was learned through the media that the CIA chief visited Kabul.

He said that according to media reports, Turkish and Qatari intelligence chiefs were also present in Kabul.

ISLAMABAD, September 8. /TASS/: Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is to discuss the situation in Afghanistan with his counterparts from the states bordering the crisis-hit country on Wednesday. The statement was published on the website of the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The meeting will be held online. The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of China, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan are to participate in the meeting alongside the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan.

Islamabad, Sep 6 (PTI) Pakistan President Arif Alvi on Monday said that his country was fully cognisant of the developments in its neighbourhood and prepared to thwart any plot hatched to hamper peace in the region

Alvi, in his message to the country on the occasion of Defence Day, pledged to continue supporting the people of Kashmir.

ISLAMABAD, Sept 6 (APP): Prime Minister Imran Khan Monday stressed that the international community must stand in solidarity with the Afghan people, undertake positive engagement and create incentives for ensuring sustainable peace, stability and economic development in Afghanistan.

The prime minister said Pakistan had suffered enormously due to protracted conflict and instability in Afghanistan.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Misbah-ul-Haq and Waqar Younis have quit their coaching roles with Pakistan, a month before the Twenty20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates.

The Pakistan Cricket Board said on Monday that it had appointed former test players Saqlain Mushtaq and Abdul Razzaq as interim coaches for the home limited-overs series against New Zealand that starts this month, and for the two T20s against England in October.

“Team management for the T20 World Cup will be appointed in due course,” the PCB said in a statement.

ISLAMABAD, Sept 5 (NNN-APP) – At least three people were killed and 20 others injured when a suicide bomber ripped himself off at a vehicle of paramilitary troops in Quetta, the capital city of Pakistan’s south-west Balochistan province this morning, rescue teams said.

The incident happened at about 7:30 a.m. local time when the bomber hit his explosive-laden motorbike into one of the vehicles of the Frontier Corps (FC) convoy, on the outskirts of the city, Muhammad Zeeshan, manager operations at the rescue department of Edhi Foundation Quetta, said.

ISLAMABAD, Sep 3 (APP): Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday welcoming the Air Arabia Group to the country wished them success in their partnership with local investors to establish a new Pakistani airline – Fly Jinnah.

“My government is committed to attracting investment in Pakistan’s burgeoning travel and & tourism sector which offers immense opportunities,” Imran Khan said in a twitter post.

ISLAMABAD, Sep 4 (APP): The theft of over 200 kilograms of nuclear material over the last two decades in India poses a serious threat of nuclear terrorism, necessitating action by the global powers to address poor safety standards in the country.

China and Pakistan, the countries neighbouring India, have been calling for strengthening regulations following repeated incidents of theft of nuclear material in India.

Islamabad, Sep 3 (PTI) Pakistan's coronavirus death toll crossed the grim figure of 26,000 on Friday, even as the country reported 3,787 new cases during the last 24 hours.

So far the country has recorded 1,171,578 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 26,035 total deaths since the first patient was diagnosed on February 26, 2020, the Ministry of National Health Services reported.