Pakistan

Islamabad, Aug 19 (PTI) Pakistan on Monday summoned India's Deputy High Commissioner Gaurav Ahluwalia for the fourth time over alleged ceasefire violations by the Indian troops along the Line of Control (LoC).

Pakistan Foreign Office said that Director General (South Asia and SAARC) Mohammad Faisal "condemned the unprovoked ceasefire violations on August 18 in Hot Spring and Chirikot Sectors".

It claimed that two elderly civilians were killed and a seven-year-old boy was seriously injured in the firing.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 18 (APP): Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi Sunday said the Indian defence minister’s comments were reflective of the predicament in which his country found itself after its illegal and unilateral actions, imperiling peace and security in the region and beyond.

The foreign minister, in a press statement, responded to the comments made by the Indian defence minister in which he had hinted at a possible change in his country’s position on ‘no first use’ of nuclear weapons.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 18 (APP): Pakistan on Sunday strongly condemned the heinous bomb attack targeting civilians during a marriage function in Kabul on Saturday.

More than 60 innocent people had reportedly lost their lives in the dastardly inhuman act. “Pakistan condemns terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. Terrorism is a common threat for the entire region and must be defeated together,” the Foreign office in a press release said.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 18 (APP): Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan Sunday urged both the print and electronic media to collectively project the national narrative on the Kashmir issue for countering Indian propaganda.

Addressing the one-year performance ceremony of the PTI government here at the Prime Minister Secretariat, Dr Firdous said raising the voice for the oppressed people of Indian occupied Kashmir ((IoK) was the government’s priority and the same was expected from the newspapers and news channels.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 18 (APP): Prime Minister Imran Khan Sunday urged the world to seriously consider the safety and security of India’s nuclear arsenal which was in the control of the fascist, racist Hindu supremacist Modi’s government.

“This is an issue that impacts not just the region but the world,” the prime minister said in series of tweets.

He further said the Hindu supremacist Modi’s government posed a threat to Pakistan as well as to the minorities in India and in fact to the very fabric of Nehru and Gandhi’s India.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 17 (APP): The occupation authorities continued strict curfew and other restrictions across the Indian occupied Kashmir (IoK) on the 13th consecutive day Saturday to prevent the people from holding demonstrations against India’s move of ending special status of the IoK.

Hundreds of people took to the streets in Srinagar after Friday prayers yesterday to express their resentment against New Delhi’s move of repealing Article 370 of the Indian Constitution that granted autonomous status to the territory.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 17 (APP): A team of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Lahore Region Saturday launched a crackdown against cable networks airing illegal Indian channels and contents.

During the raid, the PEMRA team confiscated transmitters, illegal Indian DTH (Direct To Home) receivers, computers and other equipment of New Star Cable Network, Magic Cable Network, Inn Cable Network, Malik Cable Network, Sameer Cable Network and Vision Multimedia for airing the banned channels and contents, a press release said here.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 17 (APP): Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan Saturday said the statement of Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was reflective of the extremist thinking of RSS that they could endanger peace of the world to achieve their nefarious designs.

In a tweet on social media platform Twitter, she said the statement of Rajnath Singh was a threat to the whole world.

LAHORE, Aug 17 (APP): Punjab Governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar on Saturday said Pakistan would respond befittingly if India attempted any misadventure.

He expressed these views while talking to the media after visiting the residence of martyred Lance Naik Taimoor Aslam to condole with his family.

He said that Taimoor Aslam sacrificed his life to protect the country and his sacrifice would not go waste. The whole nation was standing with the family of the martyred soldier and we would never leave them alone, assured the Governor.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 17 (APP): Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi Saturday termed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) deliberations on the grave situation in Indian Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IoJ&K) as a huge development in the last five decades which vindicated Pakistan’s stance over the Kashmir issue.