DHAKA: Hundreds of Bangladeshi protesters took to the streets of Dhaka on to protest neighboring India s decision to scrap special status for Kashmir. Many of those joining the protest outside Bangladesh s national mosque were members of the Islamist political party Islami Andolan Bangladesh. Leading party member Maulana Zakaria ...
Read More »UN chief stands ready to mediate Kashmir dispute
UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Tuesday renewed his good office offer aimed at resolving the decades-old Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan, provided both sides agree. Replying to a question at a briefing about US President Donald Trump’s offer to mediate the Kashmir dispute, the Secretary-General’s Deputy Spokesman Farhan ...
Read More »UN chief urges Pakistan, India to resolve Kashmir issue
UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has suggested meetings with Indian and Pakistani leaders in order to assist dialogue between the two opponents over the Kashmir dispute. At his first press conference of this kind at the UN headquarters on Tuesday he was asked: “Are you involved in ...
Read More »India reject Erdogan comments on Kashmir
NEW DELHI: In a recent television interview, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan advocated a “multilateral” solution to the Kashmir dispute – and this is only one of his positions that may cause diplomatic tension with India. President Erdogan made the comments during an interview with India-based news channel ahead of ...
Read More »Signature move on Kashmir in Poland
WARSAW: Kashmir Council EU organized one-day camp on Wednesday in Warsaw, the capital of Poland in order to continue its one-million signature campaign on Kashmir. The similar camps have already been organized in different European countries in connection with the “One Million Signature Campaign” in Europe. The signature campaign was ...
Read More »Pakistan welcomes US offer to mediate in Kashmir dispute
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has welcomed the proposal of newly-elected US administration to mediate on Kashmir dispute. Foreign Office Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria on Tuesday while speaking to Radio Pakistan said that only the implementation of UN resolutions is the solution to the decades-long crisis in Kashmir valley, further adding that role of ...
Read More »Don’t let america shun Pakistan, Sharif tasks diplomats
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has asked his diplomatic corps to make sure the United States does not shun Pakistan after Donald Trump takes over as president in January, The Nation has learnt. Senior officials at the Foreign Ministry said that Pakistan was aiming to win enough confidence of the ...
Read More »Oppressed Kashmiris look toward OIC: Sartaj Aziz
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz said that the oppressed people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir look towards the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Muslim countries for their continued support. He was speaking at the emergency session of the OIC at Makkah Al-Mukarramah ...
Read More »Trump would deserve Nobel Prize if he helps resolve Kashmir dispute: Sartaj Aziz
ISLAMABAD: The adviser to the Prime Minister of Pakistan Sartaj Aziz has said that United States president-elect Donald Trump would deserve the Nobel Prize if he succeeds in resolving the Kashmir dispute. Responding to the offer of US president-elect Donald Trump to mediate between Pakistan and India, Aziz said: “Trump would deserve ...
Read More »Trump’s world and world’s Trump
Donald Trump’s victory has caught the world by its throat, and in all likelihood, we are in for interesting times. His victory presents an interesting case study oscillating between “democracy at its best” and democracy at its worst”. It is perhaps the biggest political upset that America has ever seen ...
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