Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has included Mishaal Hussain Malik, wife of jailed terrorist and Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik, in his cabinet.
Pakistan summoned a senior US diplomat here and lodged a strong protest over America's alleged "interference" in its internal affairs, according to media reports on Friday.
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The cable was reportedly sent on March 7, a day before the Opposition submitted the no-confidence motion and requisitioned a National Assembly session for voting on it.
Pakistan's powerful Army has contradicted Prime Minister Imran Khan's remarks accusing America of hatching a conspiracy to topple his government, saying there was no evidence of interference in the country's internal matters, according to a media report.
The Pak PM reiterated his government's firm resolve to extend its fullest moral, diplomatic and political support to the indigenous freedom struggle of Kashmiri people.
Masood Khan, Pakistan's Ambassador to China, said that a feasibility study of the railway had been conducted but there was still no time-table for starting the construction.
Sudhir Kumar Ojha from Muzaffarpur, an advocate known for his penchant to file cases against the high and mighty, has fired a legal salvo at the irrepressible cricketer-turned-politician.
Pakistan expects China to play a 'bigger role' in persuading India to hold a sustainable dialogue with it to resolve Kashmir and other issues, the country's top envoy to Bejing has said.
Rejecting as 'fabricated' reports of presence of up to 11,000 Chinese troops in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir's Gilgit-Baltistan area, Pakistan's envoy in Beijing has claimed that only a 'humanitarian team' from China was in the region to assist the flood victims.
Both countries have always supported the peaceful use of civil nuclear energy and an agreement in this connection is expected to be signed during the President's visit to China which began Tuesday, Ambassador Masood Khan said. The two countries will ink several agreements in the fields of technology, agriculture and minerals. They will also sign an investment protocol to their existing free trade agreement to boost investments in Pakistan, he told Geo News channel.
Sidhu, who returned from Pakistan on Sunday, was the only Indian, who attended Khan's swearing-in ceremony.
The Indian prime minister had earlier said that India will actively pursue talks with Pakistan and is sincere about discussing and resolving all issues, including Kashmir.
The US Embassy has cancelled its Independence Day reception after it received a security threat while the British High Commission temporarily closed for the same reason, Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesman Masood Khan told reporters.
The 20-minute evening call was the first top-level contact between the two countries since Singh was sworn in as Indian prime minister on Saturday. \n\n
The Hurriyat leaders are the real representatives of the Kashmiri people and India will have to accede to this fact, the foreign office spokesman said.
Pakistan has offered to India to host technical-level talks on the Khokhrapar-Munabao bus service on March 8 to 9 and Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus service in March 29 and 30.
India has proposed direct communication between the coast guards of both countries to address issues relating to fishermen and operational difficulties.
"It is a good news and talks between two countries should start," Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Masood Khan told Voice of America radio.
Pakistan on Monday said that it was ready to provide international guarantees afresh to India to lay the gas pipeline from Iran to Gujarat via its territory provided there were no "extraneous conditionalities" attached to it.
India should stop its 'chants of cross-border terrorism' and come to the negotiating table, the foreign office said.
The Pakistani foreign minister will also visit five other SAARC nations.
At Imran's oath-taking ceremony, Sidhu was seated next to Masood Khan, the president of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
'A six month extension, if not extended further, would make General Bajwa a lame duck chief, altering the balance of his equations with the senior peer group of lieutenant generals,' says Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency.
In the first case registered under the beef ban law in Maharashtra, two persons have been arrested by police in Malegoan for allegedly slaughtering calves.
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