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Pakistan, India need to continue engagement on terror and other issues as the only option: Abdul Basit

  • ISLAMABABD, June 21 (APP): Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India reiterating Pakistan’s position that talks and preconditions cannot go together, hoped that bilateral talks between the two countries would resume in the near future. As he ends his stint, he talks about need for a structured initiative on the ‘front channel’. He calls for keeping the […]

  • Islamic militants take hostages at Philippine school: army

    MARAWI, Philippines, June 21, (APP/AFP) Islamic militants occupied a primary school and took hostages in a southern Philippine village on Wednesday, a few hours drive from a city where other jihadists were fighting a month-long war, authorities said. Hundreds of gunmen initially attacked a lightly guarded military outpost at dawn, with about 30 then taking […]

  • Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists claim responsibility for Mali resort attack

    BAMAKO, June 19, (APP/AFP) – An Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist alliance claimed responsibility Monday for an attack on a tourist resort near Mali’s capital that left five people dead, including members of a European Union mission to the country. The Group to Support Islam and Muslims, a fusion of jihadist groups with previous Al-Qaeda links, said in […]

  • Commemoration for the Grenfell Fire Victims

    LONDON, June 20 (APP/AA): People gather for the commemoration ceremony of the Grenfell Tower fire victims at Parliament Square in London, United Kingdom. The death toll from the Grenfell Tower block fire in west London has reached 79, the Metropolitan Police confirmed Monday. The 24 storey residential Grenfell Tower blockwas engulfed in flames in the […]

  • Pakistan’s cricket victory enthusiastically celebrated in Brooklyn (New York) and Chicago

    NEW YORK/CHICAGO, June 20 (APP): Scores of Pakistanis celebrated Pakistan’s big victory against India in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy Finals on Sunday in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City. Cricket fans, who had gathered at Pakistani restaurants along the Coney Island Avenue to watch the encounter on giant screens, erupted into […]

  • Beijing and Islamabad to ensure security of the CPEC

    ISLAMABAD, June 20 (APP): Pakistan and China agreed to ensure security of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) that connects China with a Pakistani port of Gwadar for which Pakistan has already allocated 10 thousand military personnel. According to Nezavisimaya Gazeta, a meeting between Chief of Joint Staff of Chinese Army, Fang Fenghui and Chairman […]