India has formally requested Pakistan to extradite Hafiz Saeed, suspected of involvement in the 2008 attacks on Mumbai, for trial in India, foreign ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi told reporters in a briefing on Friday. “We have conveyed a request along with relevant supporting documents to the government of Pakistan,” Bagchi told reporters. Reached out for […]
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Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told his U.S. counterpart, Antony Blinken, in a call on Dec. 27 that Türkiye expects the United States to keep its promises on the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Ankara. The phone call came after the Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs commission voted to ratify Sweden’s bid for NATO membership a […]
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Romania and Bulgaria have struck an agreement with Austria to partially join Europe’s borderless Schengen travel zone by March 2024, Bucharest and Sofia have confirmed. The political agreement will allow Romania and Bulgaria to join the Schengen zone by air and sea only, with further negotiations to follow on land borders, the Romanian interior ministry […]
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ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Friday questioned the caretaker government’s neutrality as Pakistan moves towards crucial general elections scheduled for February next year. IHC’s Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb reprimanded the interim government, calling it out for running a “terrible system” in the country. “A terrible state of affairs is prevailing under the caretaker setup […]
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IRAN: Iran executed on Friday four people, including a woman, whom it accused of being “saboteurs” with links to Israel’s Mossad intelligence service, the Mizan news agency affiliated to the judiciary said. The executions took to five the number of people put to death this month in a decades-long shadow war that has seen Iran […]
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Israeli air strikes hit southern Syria, the Syrian defence ministry said, with state media reporting attacks near the capital Damascus. “At approximately 23:05 (20:05 GMT) today, the Israeli enemy carried out air strikes from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting some points in the southern region,” the defence ministry said in a statement, […]
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TEHRAN-Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned Israel on Wednesday that it or its allied groups would take ‘direct’ action to avenge the killing of senior commander Razi Moussavi. The general was killed on Monday in an Israeli missile strike near the Syrian capital, according to state media, at a time of heightened regional tensions […]
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A court in Qatar has commuted the death sentences of eight former Indian naval officers, India’s foreign ministry has said. A ministry statement said the “sentences have been reduced” but did not specify what new penalty they would face. Neither Qatar nor India have revealed the specific charges against the men. FT and Reuters have […]
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Pakistan’s foreign policy record in 2023 will be marked by the security establishment’s failure to effectively use their leverage over the Afghan Taliban to rein in the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan. One of the most damning failures of Pakistan’s foreign policy in the year 2023 is the utter helplessness of the security establishment to compel the Afghan […]
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Ukraine has welcomed the latest arms package from the United States to aid its fight against Russia as the war approaches the two-year mark. The package, valued at $250m and announced on Wednesday night, will include air defence system components, ammunition for HIMARS, 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds, stinger antiaircraft missiles, and medical equipment. “We […]
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