ISLAMABAD: External affairs minister S Jaishankar had “casual conversations’’ with both Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif and his counterpart Ishaq Dar over the past 2 days even though there was no formal bilateral meeting between the foreign ministers on the margins of the SCO heads of government summit in Islamabad, diplomatic sources said. The fact that…
NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party will not be allowed to disrupt the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Head of States’ Summit, the way they did in 2014, prompting the cancellation of the Chinese president’s visit thenSharif’s statement comes in response to Khan’s call for…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Saturday ruled out bilateral talks with Pakistan during his upcoming visit to the country for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).Speaking at the Sardar Patel lecture on Governance, Jaishankar said that while India desires good relations with Pakistan, it cannot be achieved by disregarding the issue of cross-border…
NEW DELHI: Foreign minister Jaishankar‘s visit to Pakistan later this month, although it’s for SCO summit and can’t be seen as a peace outreach, opens the possibility of a rare high-level visit from India to Islamabad at a time when ties remain downgraded since the revocation of special status of J&K in Aug 2019.The decision…
NEW DELHI: For the first time in nine years, an Indian foreign minister will travel to Pakistan with the govt confirming Friday that S Jaishankar will represent India at the SCO heads of govt meeting in Islamabad on Oct 15-16.TOI had first reported on Aug 25 that Pakistan had invited PM Modi for the meeting….
NEW DELHI: Foreign minister S Jaishankar lashed out at Pakistan for its PM Shehbaz Sharif‘s remarks against India at the UN, saying that a dysfunctional nation coveting the lands of others must be exposed and countered.Countering Sharif’s “bizarre assertions” in which he had spoken about an alleged Hindu supremacist agenda and claimed that the people…
NEW DELHI: NSA Ajit Doval stressed the need for perpetrators of cross-border terrorism to be dealt with effectively and expeditiously, as he underlined the threat from India-focused terror groups like LeT and JeM, as well as IS, Al Qaeda and its affiliates.Speaking at a meeting of the SCO in Astana, Doval took a swipe at…
NEW DELHI: Foreign minister S Jaishankar is likely to participate in both Quad and Russia and China-led SCO meetings on the margins of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly later this month, during what will be his first visit abroad after the G20 summit in Delhi.Jaishankar was scheduled to travel to Cuba later…
