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Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that a decision on shutting down its airspace for India will be taken after due consideration and looking into every aspect of the move through consultation with Prime Minister Imran Khan. (Representational Image)

After consultation, Imran Khan will take decision on shutting down airspace for India: Pak FM

Qureshi's response comes amid reports that Pakistan is planning to shut down its airspace for India.

29 Aug 2019 12:52 PM

Imran Khan rose to power with the promise to improve the economic situation of the country. (Photo: File)

As Imran completes a yr in power, Pak's fiscal deficit on 3-decade high

The deficit increased to 8.9 per cent of Pakistan's gross domestic product in the year that ended in June.

28 Aug 2019 10:50 AM

Pak PM Imran Khan considering complete closure of airspace to India

A Pak minister tweeted, 'complete ban on use of Pak land routes for Indian trade to Afghanistan was also suggested in cabinet.'

27 Aug 2019 8:00 PM

Bhutto also criticised Khan government's ineffective policies for the current state of affairs. (Photo: @BBhuttoZardari)

Watch: 'Now Pakistan can barely save PoK,' says Bilawal Bhutto

Muzaffarabad is the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir or Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

27 Aug 2019 7:21 PM

Khan spoke to the Crown Prince on Monday about the situation in the Valley after India revoked the special status given to Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcated it into two union territories. (Photo: File)

Pak PM calls Saudi Prince for 2nd time; discusses Kashmir

Khan, during an address to the nation on Monday, also said that he will raise Kashmir issue at every international forum, including at UNGA.

27 Aug 2019 2:55 PM

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan (Photo:AP)

Imran Khan: Will help Kashmiris till our last breath

The Prime Minister said both Pakistan and India were nuclear powers, and if the situation heads toward war, the entire world will get affected.

27 Aug 2019 2:49 AM

'Superpowers of the world have a huge responsibility, whether they support us or not Pakistan will go to every extent,' Imran Khan said. (Photo: ANI)

Kashmir: ‘If conflict moves to war...’ Imran reminds superpowers of ‘huge responsibility'

'I will speak at the UN General Assembly on September 27 and highlight the Kashmir issue on world stage,' Khan said.

26 Aug 2019 7:19 PM

Pakistan has been rattled by the Indian government's move to strip the special status to Jammu and Kashmir and has found itself completely isolated. (Photo: File)

Pakistan PM Imran Khan to address nation on Kashmir issue today

This was announced by Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan.

26 Aug 2019 3:36 PM

Mahindra was referring to the geographical blunder done by cricketer turned politician during his visit to Tehran earlier this year. (Photo: AP)

Thank God, he wasn’t my geography teacher: Anand Mahindra on Pak PM’s gaffe

While speaking at an event in Tehran, during his two-day official visit to Iran, Khan claimed that Japan and Germany shares border.

26 Aug 2019 1:48 PM

Calling Kashmir a 'complicated situation', Trump said, 'A lot has to do with religion. You have the Hindus, and you have the Muslims. This has been going on for decades.'(Photo: File)

Trump to discuss Kashmir, human rights with Modi at G7 Summit in France

A senior US administration official said the Kashmir issue between India and Pakistan is expected to come up.

23 Aug 2019 8:54 AM

'There is no point in talking to them (India). I mean, I have done all the talking. Unfortunately, now when I look back, all the overtures that I was making for peace and dialogue, I think they took it for appeasement,' he said. (Photo: File)

'No point in talking to India,' says Pak PM Imran Khan

India has said that its decision on Jammu and Kashmir was an internal affair aimed at ensuring overall welfare of the region.

22 Aug 2019 7:44 PM

Tensions between India and Pakistan spiked after New Delhi abrogated provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution to withdraw Jammu and Kashmir's special status and bifurcated it into two Union Territories. (Photo: ANI)

Pak says many offers of mediation on Kashmir, but progress possible only if India accepts

India maintains that Kashmir is a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan and there was no role for a third party.

22 Aug 2019 6:27 PM

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan (Photo: File)

Imran and Army: How, in a year, Pak PM has learnt to be ‘flexible’

These were arguments based on sound democratic and governance principles.

22 Aug 2019 1:35 AM

The offer came a day after Trump had a telephonic conversation with both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. (Photo: File)

Very complicated, will do my best: Trump offers to mediate Kashmir issue

US President indicated that he would raise the matter over the weekend with PM Modi on the sidelines of G7 summit.

21 Aug 2019 8:44 AM

President Donald Trump has said the US' ties with Pakistan have improved after he cut USD 1.3 billion in security assistance to Islamabad for not doing enough to rein in terror groups operating in the country. (Photo: File)

After 'cutting back' USD 1.3 billion aid relations with Pak improved: Trump

Earlier, Trump administration cancelled USD 300 million in military aid to Islamabad for not doing enough against terror groups active.

20 Aug 2019 9:22 AM

US President Donald Trump urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan PM Imran Khan to work towards reducing tension in the region over Kashmir, describing the situation as 'tough'. (Photo: File)

'Tough situation,' says Trump after calls with Modi, Imran Khan

However, Michael Kugelman, from the Widrow Wilson Center think-tank, said the presidential tweet makes a good optics for Pakistan.

20 Aug 2019 8:32 AM

Trump spoke by telephone with Khan to discuss 'the need to reduce tensions and moderate rhetoric with India over the situation in Jammu and Kashmir'. (Photo: AP)

'Moderate rhetoric with India': Trump tells Imran Khan after phone call with Modi

Trump's call with Khan - the second in less than a week - came soon after a 30-minute conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

20 Aug 2019 8:13 AM

The quickness with which Indian right-wingers and Pakistan’s hardliners bring in the nuclear option into the barbed exchanges between the two countries reveals that the leaders of these two countries behave like leaders of banana republics. (Representational Image/ Pixabay)

India-Pak wrangling on N-weapons dangerous

It is true that the Indian missile — air, land and water — programme has the aim of nuclear-tipped weaponry. But it is not the sole strategy.

20 Aug 2019 8:12 AM

Imran Khan gives Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa extension for 3 years

In November 2016, Gen. Bajwa had been appointed as the new Army Chief. He was previously commander of the Rawalpindi Corps.

20 Aug 2019 7:08 AM

Before taking over as the army chief, Bajwa was widely perceived to be a dark horse. (Photo: AFP)

Pak Army Chief Gen Bajwa gets 3-year extension amid security concern

Bajwa's extensive affairs of Kashmir was said to have gone in favour of the career infantry officer.

19 Aug 2019 6:21 PM

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