Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Sep 1 (APP): Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday once again reminded the world to realize serious threats posed to the regional peace by the supremacist Hindu group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which had taken over the nuclear armed country India with a ‘mad ideology’.

Addressing the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) in Houston via video call, the prime minister said the whole India was under the control of that extremist ideology, threatening the very fabric of Indian society, as all minorities were being systematically targeted.

Islamabad, Sep 1 (PTI) The Pakistan government has launched its own mineral water brand to cut costs as part of its austerity drive to solve the cash-strapped nation's financial woes, according to a media report.

Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry said the bottled water called Safe Drinking Water would be a cheaper alternative to other mineral water brands in the market.

LAHORE, Aug 31 (APP): Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad on Saturday said the resolution of Kashmir issue through dialogue was not only better for India itself and the region, but also for the entire world.

Addressing a press conference here at the Railways Headquarters, the minister said Indian Prime Minister Modi made a wrong move by scrapping the special status of occupied Kashmir and warned the Indian leadership that Pakistan could use smart bombs in case of its aggression.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 31 (APP): Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday said reports in Indian and international media about Narendra Modi government’s ethnic cleansing of Muslims should send alarm bells ringing across the world.

The illegal annexation of Kashmir was part of a wider policy to target Muslims, the prime minister in a tweet said.

The prime minister tagged a story of NDTV with his tweet about the Modi government’s move putting nationality of about four million people in Assam region at stake.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 30 (APP): Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday categorically announced that any false flag operation by India in Azad Jammu and Kashmir would be dealt with a stronger blow as Pakistan Army was fully ready to thwart any aggression.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 30 (APP): Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday said innocent Kashmiris
were facing unprecedented abuse under illegal Indian occupation and called upon the world to hold India accountable for gruesome torture on civilians.

The foreign minister in a tweet said protection from torture was a ‘jus cogens’ (compelling law) international norm, prohibited in absolute terms by Convention Against Torture, Common Article 3 of Geneva Conventions and customary international humanitarian law.

Islamabad, Aug 30 (PTI) Pakistan observed the "Kashmir Hour" on Friday to express "solidarity" with the Kashmiri people as many rallies were held across the country, weeks after India revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.

The nationwide, half an hour protest began as the clock struck noon. It was followed by the blaring of sirens across Pakistan, with traffic grinding to a halt for few minutes in many Pakistani cities.

ISLAMABAD,Aug 29 (APP): Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry on Thursday said while hailing the Prime Minister Imran Khan decision to observe Kashmir Hour on Friday under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan government is taking all necessary steps for resolving the decade-long dispute of Kashmir.

Talking to a private news channel he said all the world is witnessing the cruel face of Modi, Pakistan will never leave the Kashmir alone at this crucial time and will take every possible step till the solution of the dispute.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 29 (APP): Prime Minister Imran Khan has asked all Pakistanis to come out on Friday – at 12 to 12.30 Hrs – to show solidarity with the Kashmiri people.

This gesture will send the Kashmiris in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) a clear message that the entire Pakistani nation stands in solidarity with them.

Islamabad, Aug 29, IRNA -- Pakistan army says it has test fired a 290 km range nuclear-capable ballistic missile to maintain a minimum deterrence level in the subcontinent.

Earlier a report published by a US think-tank had warned that the specter of nuclear war haunts tensions between India and Pakistan, and the disputed territory of Kashmir could provide the spark that lights South Asia’s nuclear fuse.