Section: Pakistan Today (Pakistan)
Iran and seven-month extension of nuclear talks
They didn’t agree, but agreed to continue talking, which is a victory in itself The breathtaking marathon of Iran’s nuclear talks [with the P5+1 group] stopped in the Austrian capital, Vienna, but not as a finishing line before going back to the past situation. It is, however, more similar to a short rest taken before negotiations...
On Turkey trip, Pope to reach out to Islamic world
Pope Francis heads to Turkey on Friday with a brief to use his populist touch to rebuild bridges with the Islamic world that were damaged by his predecessor Benedict XVI. It will be the first papal visit to Turkey since the now-retired Benedict went there in 2006 against a backdrop of anger in much of the Muslim world over comments which appeared...
Passengers get out and push frozen plane
MOSCOW- Siberian air passengers had to get out and push their plane in temperatures of minus 52 degrees Celsius after its chassis froze, Russian prosecutors said Wednesday. The extraordinary story emerged after a passenger posted a video on YouTube showing a group of cheery travellers pushing the Tupolev plane along the snow-covered runway in...
Behind Hagel’s ouster, tensions over Syria and Obama’s team
From the moment he was appointed last year, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel had a troubled relationship with President Barack Obama’s tight-knit White House national security team. As the bombing intensified in Iraq and Syria, so did his problems. US officials with knowledge of Hagel’s relationship with the Obama administration...
Putin says Russia not isolated over Ukraine, blames West for frosty ties
President Vladimir Putin blamed the West for worsening relations with Russia since the Ukraine crisis and said Moscow would not allow itself to become internationally isolated behind another ‘Iron Curtain’. In an interview published by state news agency TASS on Sunday, Putin also said Western sanctions against Moscow, combined with the...
Lavrov accuses West of seeking ‘regime change’ in Russia
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the West on Saturday of trying to use sanctions imposed on Moscow in the Ukraine crisis to seek “regime change” in Russia. His comments stepped up Moscow’s war of words with the United States and the European Union in their worst diplomatic standoff since the Cold War ended. “As for the concept behind...
Doing business with Russia
Especially military cooperation The ‘milestone’ military cooperation pact signed with Russia signals the maturing of a very important relationship at a very crucial time. Traditionally India’s largest arms supplier, Russia has been moving close to Pakistan for some months now. In June, Moscow lifted its arms embargo on Pakistan, and...
First victim from Tharparkar succumbs to deadly Congo virus
A 50-year-old man hailing from Sindh, and the first from the drought-affected district of Tharparkar, died at Aga Khan Hospital on Friday after suffering from the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever creating panic among the entire population of the drought-affected region. According to details, Mohammad Sakhi Nohri of Taluka Chhachharo was taken to...
Russia back to old ways
Although nowhere near the Cold War, the Ukraine crisis has put the demarcation of East and West in effect again In the wake of the Ukraine crisis, the dynamics of the world are also shifting, though slightly, back to the bloc system. The West and Russia have once against ended up in opposing camps. Time may have reduced power Russia’s might...
Putin says US will never ‘subdue’ Russia
The United States wants to subdue Moscow, but will never succeed, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. “They do not want to humiliate us, they want to subdue us, solve their problems at our expense,” Putin said at the end of a four-hour meeting with his core support group, the People’s Front. “No one in history ever managed to...
