Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi too called an emergency meeting in Islamabad to discuss security situation with former secretaries and senior ambassadors, Radio Pakistan said
February 26, 2019The Pakistan foreign minister had called a high-level emergency meeting earlier on Tuesday for consultation with former foreign secretaries and senior diplomats hours after the IAF carried out air strikes across the LoC.
February 26, 2019Soon after Qureshi spoke to the Mirwaiz, India reacted strongly by describing the development as “duplicity” of the Pakistani leadership.
January 30, 2019Diplomat Shubham Singh, left the meeting to register India's protest over the presence of PoK 'minister' Chaudhary Muhammad Saeed at the SAARC Chambers of Commerce and Industry meeting on the SAARC Charter Day in Islamabad on Sunday.
December 10, 2018‘’It is unfortunate that Pakistan has attempted to politicise a religious issue relating to the sentiments of the Sikh community,’’ External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said at a media briefing.
December 6, 2018Sushma Swaraj had on Saturday slammed her Pakistani counterpart for his 'googly' remark and said that his comments 'exposed' him and that Pakistan has no respect for Sikh sentiments.
December 3, 2018Pak FM Qureshi said that PM Khan bowled a "googly" in a bid to ensure Indian government's presence at the ceremony of the landmark Kartarpur Corridor.
December 2, 2018Qureshi's remarks came a day after Sushma Swaraj categorically ruled out the possibility of resumption of bilateral talks with Pakistan unless Islamabad stops terrorism.
November 30, 2018India has highlighted how Pakistan created the conditions for cancellation of the meeting in New York.
October 4, 2018There was speculation in media circles that the two ministers would at least exchange pleasantries when they come face-to-face at the meeting but India refused to budge from its position that there would be no interaction with Islamabad until it took steps to check cross-border terrorism.
September 28, 2018United States also welcomed the exchange of messages between Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
September 21, 2018Imran Khan has proposed a meeting between Foreign Ministers Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Sushma Swaraj on the sidelines of UNGA in New York later this month.
September 20, 2018"Pakistan has not agreed to consider Afghanistan-India trade through our land," the Foreign Office said on Sunday, quoting Qureshi.
September 17, 2018Rather than hi-falutin platitudes, as is the wont of those at the helm of governance, Imran Khan’s signal of intent, as articulated 24 hours after being sworn in as Pakistan’s Prime Minister, is a critical presentation on austerity in a stuttering economy. He has moved on to bread-and-butter issues in the immediate aftermath of Saturday’s …
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August 22, 2018On his first day in office on Monday, Pakistan’s new Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi courted a controversy by misquoting the contents of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s congratulatory message to his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan. At a press conference soon after he was administered the oath of office, Qureshi said Modi had written a letter …
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August 20, 2018Qureshi happened to be in India when Pakistan-based terrorists carried out audacious terror attacks in Mumbai and he was asked to leave the country
August 19, 2018