Islamabad – Pakistani and Iranian leaders on Monday vowed to strengthen relations and enhance bilateral trade to $10 billion a year, leaving behind recent airstrikes against each other and ignoring possible new sanctions against the Persian republic. “We have agreed to enhance our bilateral trade volume to $10 billion (a year),” Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said at a presser with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad. Raisi, who arrived in Pakistan on three-day visit, called fo
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, who was sworn in as the 14th President of Pakistan on Sunday, will declare his daughter, Aseefa Bhutto, as the First Lady of the country, as per local media reports
Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was sworn in as the country’s 14th president on Sunday. Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa administered the oath in a ceremony at the presidential palace in Islamabad attended by civil and military leaders. Zardari, the co-chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), is the first civilian to be re-elected as president for a second five-year term. Zardari, 68, led the PPP after his wife was assassinated in a bomb and gun atta
Earlier on Wednesday, BK Hariprasad, in his speech in the legislative council, claimed that Pakistan may be an enemy country for the BJP, but the Congress considers it as only a neighbouring country.
The 2024 Pakistan general election has been a test for jailed former PM Imran Khan and his party Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI). An electoral success might not come as a clear victory for the Islamabad-based group. Their near future remains unclear. However, their founder - a cricket World Cup winner - believes the PTI will be able to form a government by backing independent candidates. , World News, Times Now