A Conversation With Shahid Khaqan Abbasi SANGER: Good afternoon, and welcome to today’s Council on Foreign Relations meeting. It’s wonderful to see all of you here, and particularly to welcome the prime minister—still new Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. I can’t think you enough for coming. People often say that United Nations week […]
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A Conversation With Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
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Political Tehsildar among five dead in Bajaur IED blast: Political Administration
BAJAUR, Sept 17 (APP): A roadside IED blast targeting a vehicle of Levies personnel in Tangi area tehsil Mamond Sunday left at-least five levy personnel including Political Tehsildar dead and one injured, the political authorities told APP. The driver injured in the blast. Political tehsildar Fawad alongwith levy personnel was on routine patrolling of the […]
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Parliamentarians asked to submit yearly assets’ statements
ISLAMABAD, Sep 17 (APP): Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has directed the members of the parliament and provincial assemblies to submit yearly statements of assets and liabilities of their own, spouses and dependents by September 30. According to an ECP statement, defaulters would be suspended from respective seats of assemblies as it was a mandatory […]
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North Korea seeks military ‘equilibrium’ with US
SEOUL, Sept 16, (APP/AFP) – North Korea said Saturday it was bent on nothing less than military “equilibrium” with arch-enemy the United States with a full nuclear arsenal, forcing UN powers into fresh crisis talks. Kim Jong-Un successfully fired a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan on Friday, responding to the latest round of UN […]
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Britain aims for new security treaty with EU
LONDON, Sept 17 (APP/AFP) – Britain wants to negotiate a new security treaty with the European Union to ensure there are no “operational gaps” after Britain leaves the bloc, the government said on Sunday. “We already have a deep level of collaboration with the EU on security matters and it is in both our interests […]
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22 injured in London Underground bomb attack
LONDON, Sept 15, (APP/AFP) – At least 22 people were injured after a bomb detonated on a packed London Underground train on Friday, setting off a “wall of fire” that burned commuters in Britain’s fifth terror attack in six months. Witnesses saw passengers with facial burns and hair coming off at the Parsons Green station […]