Pakistan resumes transit trade with Afghanistan after 10-day suspensionAfghan transit trade has resumed in Pakistan. This follows a ceasefire agreement. The trade was suspended for ten days due to clashes. Arou...
23 Oct, 2025, 04.46 PM IST
Big shift brews in India's neighbourhood: Pak, China prepare ground for an alternative to SAARCPakistan and China are planning a new South Asian organisation. This aims to boost regional cooperation. It is a response to SAARC's inacti...
30 Jun, 2025, 12.26 PM IST
Pak initiates 'emergency' steps to secure drug supplies after trade suspension with IndiaFollowing trade suspension with India, Pakistani health authorities are taking "emergency preparedness" steps to secure pharmaceutical supp...
26 Apr, 2025, 08.37 PM IST
No bilateral talks or trade with India post-August 2019, says PakistanThe ties between the two countries nosedived after India abrogated Article 370 of the Constitution, revoking the special status of Jammu an...
16 Aug, 2024, 11.28 PM IST
Taliban seeks economic self-sufficiency and foreign investment for Afghanistan, minister saysAlready facing a lack of formal recognition and sanctions hampering the country's banking sector, investors are faced with growing security...
02 Jan, 2023, 01.18 PM IST
Taliban accuse US of 'usurping' Afghanistan's frozen assetsThe new Afghan Fund, based in Geneva, will not provide humanitarian assistance but will be put in charge of core central bank functions suc...
15 Sep, 2022, 07.20 PM IST
Afghanistan could face severe food crisis in harsh winterThe Taliban, whose financial reserves came from illegal activities, are proving completely incapable of funding social services and food as...
13 Nov, 2021, 09.04 AM IST
Commandos deployed as Afghan forces battle Taliban for control of citiesFighting raged in Helmand's provincial capital Lashkar Gah, where the Taliban launched coordinated attacks on the city centre and its priso...
02 Aug, 2021, 01.35 PM IST
United States-Pakistan ties are unlikely to be back to good old days: Experts“If the Taliban does become ascendant in Afghanistan, which seems to be the direction we are headed, that there will be blowback in Pakista...
02 Jul, 2021, 11.30 AM IST
Cash-starved mills begin exporting sugarA cooperative mill operator from Maharashtra has sent a letter to the food ministry, claiming that it had already started shipments and see...
23 Nov, 2020, 10.49 AM IST
Trade halt between India and Pakistan worries traders in Punjab and Jammu and KashmirA recently published book assessing the impact of ongoing India-Pakistan faceoff on border economies—Unilateral Decisions Bilateral Losses-...
24 Jan, 2020, 05.28 PM IST
Pakistan asks Indian envoy to return homePakistan has asked the Indian high commissioner to return from Islamabad and said it would also not be sending an envoy to India.
08 Aug, 2019, 02.59 PM IST
'US to press Imran to take irreversible action against terrorists & facilitate Taliban talks'Khan, the 66-year-old cricketer-turned politician, is scheduled to meet Trump at his Oval Office on Monday, the first by a Pakistani leader...
20 Jul, 2019, 10.26 AM IST
Much stronger US action against Pakistan neededIndia is a factor in both cases, especially in view of improved India-US understandings on these two principal issues on which the US has u...
08 Jan, 2018, 07.45 AM IST
Trade with India on track despite 'suspension' of dialogue: PakistanPakistan's trade with India is on track despite "suspension" of bilateral dialogue, Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir has said.
08 Apr, 2016, 04.58 PM IST
Poke Me: PM is wrong in putting Pak peace process on holdA likely explanation for PM’s action is that he has succumbed to pressure from the hawks in Cong, jingoistic media and an opposition baying...
17 Jan, 2013, 04.44 PM IST
- Musharraf calls for SAARC joint strategy on terrorism
The Pakistan President has appealed to all SAARC countries to develop a comprehensive strategy to eliminate terrorism and extremism across ...
01 Feb, 2008, 11.51 AM IST