Islamabad 08 June 2017 (APP) India is promoting state-sponsored terrorism in Afghanistan to sabotage Pak-Afghan bilateral relations, the Foreign Office spokesperson Thursday said. “Pakistan and Afghanistan need to closely coordinate with each for overcoming the scourge of terrorism,” he remarked during the weekly media briefing of the foreign office. The spokesperson said Afghanistan has been...

Doha 08 June 2017 (Birce Bora/AlJazeera Online) Only two days after Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain severed diplomatic relations with Qatar for its alleged support of "terrorist organisations", Turkey's parliament has ratified military deals allowing its troops to be deployed to a Turkish military base in Qatar. Turkish analysts talking to...

Islamabad 07 June 2014 (APP) National Security Committee (NSC) said today, Wednesday that it was fully aware of the “institutional collaboration by elements hostile to Pakistan” and vowed to defend itself resolutely against “manifest and future threats.” The special meeting of the NSC of the Cabinet made it evident following a review of the issues...

Ankara Anadolou News 06 June 2017 Turkey's President Tuesday voiced disapproval of the sanctions on Qatar in the wake of several Arab countries severing diplomatic relations with Doha. "I want to clearly say that we disapprove of the sanctions on Qatar," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. "These developments, coming at a time when we need solidarity...

Doha Anadolou Agency By Ahmed al-Masri 06 June 2017 The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has threatened anyone showing sympathy with Qatar with up to 15 years in prison. State-run Albayan daily quoted Attorney General Hamad al-Shamsi saying that expressing sympathy to Qatar or opposing the decision to cut ties with Doha via social media or...

Doha 06 June 2017 (Daily Gulf Times/QNA) Dr Ali bin Smaikh al-Marri, Chairman, National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) said this evening that decisions by some countries to sever relations with Qatar turned into violations of international human rights conventions and charters. In a press conference, Dr al-Marri reviewed the negative and humanitarian impact on Qatar’s...

Tehran 07 June 2017 (IRNA) Health Minister Advisor confirmed that two of the total 38 people wounded in Tehran terror attacks died at hospital. The total number of the wounded reached 38, including the two who died at hospitals, Abbass Zarenejad told IRNA. The injured people are being treated at four hospitals in Tehran, according...

Beijing 05 June 2017 (APP) Pakistan and India will be officially accepted as members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) during a meeting to be attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping in Astana, Kazakhstan, later this week, a senior diplomat said on Monday. The two countries will go through procedures in line with SCO rules...

Doha 'AlJazeera News' 05 June 2017 In a series of statements released on Monday, the governments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Yemen - along with Egypt, Libya and the Maldives - announced they were severing ties with Qatar. The move came at the end of a few weeks of rising...

Doha 'AlJazeera News' 05 June 2017 6:30pm - Israel praises anti-Qatar moves Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's defence minister, has praised the measures against Qatar, saying "there is no doubt that this opens very many possibilities of cooperation in the struggle against terror". 6:25pm - Saudi shuts Al Jazeera office Saudi Arabia has shut down Al Jazeera...