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World Economic Forum Annual Meeting at Davos after the Asian nation conducted strikes in Iran, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. In a recent escalation of tensions between Pakistan and Iran, both countries have conducted military strikes on each other's territories, leading to civilian casualties and a diplomatic standoff. Pakistan carried out strikes in the Siestan-o-Baluchistan province of Iran, targeting alleged «terrorist hideouts» and claiming the elimination of a number of terrorists.

Pakistan Air Force has conducted airstrikes on Baluch separatist camps inside Iranian territory. Pakistan has recalled its ambassador from Iran and blocked Tehran's envoy from returning to Islamabad after attack on the "anti-Iranian terrorist groups" in Balochistan. While US has condemned the airstrikes that "violated the sovereign borders" of neighbouring country, India launched a veiled attack on Pakistan over terrorism.

Iran's attack on a terrorist group's headquarters within Pakistan, the conflict takes a significant turn as Pakistan retaliates. The strikes focus on Baloch separatist factions, namely the Balochistan Liberation Front and the Balochistan Liberation Army, intensifying hostilities. Expressing strong disapproval, Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs deemed the violation of sovereignty «completely unacceptable,» emphasizing the existence of communication channels between the nations.

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Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) as «highly objectionable», India has registered a 'strong protest' with the British High Commissioner in India. This comes after British envoy Jane Marriott visited Mirpur city in the PoK region along with an official of the UK Foreign Office. «India has taken a serious note of the highly objectionable visit of the British High Commissioner in Islamabad, along with a UK Foreign Office official, to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on 10 January 2024,» the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement on Saturday. «Such infringement of India's sovereignty and territorial integrity is unacceptable,» it added. Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra has lodged a strong protest with the British High Commissioner in India on this 'infringement'. The Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh «have been and shall always remain an integral part of India,» MEA added. In October last year, the US envoy to Pakistan, Donald Blome, visited the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir region. New Delhi conveyed to Washington its 'strong objection' to the visit and urged the international community to respect its «sovereignty and territorial integrity».

In his upcoming book, Bisaria, who was serving as Indian High Commissioner to Islamabad in that period, also writes that India was willing to send an aircraft of the Indian Air Force to Pakistan to bring back Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, but the Pakistani government refused permission. Varthaman (now Group Captain) downed a Pakistani jet on February 27, 2019, before his MiG 21 Bison jet was hit in a dogfight. Pakistan had launched the retaliation for the Balakot airstrikes a day before.

Taliban-appointed prime minister met on Monday with one of Pakistan's most senior politicians in an attempt to reduce lingering tensions between the two countries, a spokesman for the Taliban government said. Fazlur Rehman, whose Jamiat Ulema Islam party is known for backing the Afghan Taliban, is the first senior Pakistani politician to visit Kabul since the Taliban seized power in neighbouring Afghanistan in August 2021 as US and NATO troops withdrew from the country after 20 years of war. The Pakistani delegation met with Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund in Kabul, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement.

ISLAMABAD : Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday scrapped lifetime bans from contesting elections for people with past convictions, Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa said, giving Nawaz Sharif the chance to become prime minister for a fourth time. Sharif's party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), is considered a frontrunner to win the election, scheduled for February 8, with his main rival, former prime minister Imran Khan, in jail and barred from contesting the polls for five years.

Supreme Court that nomination papers of 76 per cent of candidates of jailed former premier Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party were accepted for the February 8 general elections. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) submitted the data in response to a contempt petition filed by the PTI party that the electoral body had not followed a direction by the apex court to address its concerns about the lack of a level playing field in the run-up to polls. The ECP stated that 598 out of a total of 843 nomination papers of PTI candidates for the National Assembly were accepted, while another 1,398 out of 1,777 candidatures for provincial assemblies were approved.

India-made ammunition reaching Ukraine through Europe in the third quarter of last year. ET has learnt that the matter was raised by Moscow recently.

Pakistan on Monday exchanged a list of their nuclear installations under a bilateral pact signed in 1988 and came into force in 1991 that prohibits the two countries from attacking each other's atomic facilities. The list of nuclear installations and facilities, covered under the provisions of the Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack Against Nuclear Installations and Facilities, were simultaneously exchanged in New Delhi and Islamabad through diplomatic channels, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.

DELHI: Continuing with an over three-decade practice, India and Pakistan on Monday exchanged a list of their nuclear installations under a bilateral pact that prohibits the two sides from attacking each other's atomic facilities. The exchange of the list took place under the provisions of an agreement on the prohibition of attack against nuclear installations and facilities, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) said. It was done simultaneously through diplomatic channels in New Delhi and Islamabad. «India and Pakistan today exchanged, through diplomatic channels simultaneously at New Delhi and Islamabad, the list of nuclear installations and facilities, covered under the agreement on the prohibition of attack against nuclear installations and facilities between India and Pakistan,» the MEA said. The agreement was signed on December 31, 1988 and entered into force on January 27, 1991.

Pakistan (ECP) have rejected Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan's nomination papers for two national assembly seats — Lahore (NA 122) and Mianwali (NA-89)," the office of the Returning Officer, Lahore, said here. Besides the main reason that Khan was convicted in the Toshakhana case, objections were raised against his nomination papers as the proposer and seconder for the PTI's founder did not belong to the respective constituencies.

former PM has alleged that the powerful people behind the cipher case are being protected. “I ordered to initiate an inquiry into the matter when I was the prime minister," Imran Khan said in a court during the bail hearing. Pakistan prosecutors claim that former PM Imran Khan and his foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi mishandled a diplomatic cable dispatched by the Pakistani ambassador to the United States.

Nawaz Sharif has praised India and acknowledged that while neighboring countries have made great strides, Pakistan has lagged behind. Speaking to PML-N cadres in Islamabad, Sharif highlighted the dire economic situation in Pakistan. The 73-year-old PML-N leader, who returned to the country from London in October ending a four-year-long self-imposed exile, who is running for Prime Minister a fourth time. He is the only Pakistani politician who became the prime minister of the coup-prone country for a record three times. «Our neighbours have reached the moon but we haven't even risen from the ground so far. It can't keep going on like this,» Sharif said. «We have been responsible for our own downfall, otherwise this nation would have reached a different place. We shot ourselves in our foot,» he added.

Islamabad: An earthquake of magnitude 4.0 on the Richter Scale jolted Pakistan on Monday morning, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. According to the NCS, the earthquake occurred around 11:38:03 (IST) at a depth of 10 kilometres.

Supreme Court of India’s verdict has affirmed the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir. And, it has irked one of India’s neighbours. Pakistan's response came swiftly.

Pakistan surged 34 per cent in November, with 63 militant attacks recorded in the country during the month, a think-tank report said on Sunday. The 63 militant attacks in November resulted in 83 deaths, including that of 37 security forces personnel and 33 civilians, the Dawn newspaper reported, citing data by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) think tank. Additionally, 89 individuals, including 53 civilians and 36 security forces personnel, sustained injuries, according to the Islamabad-based think tank.

A Pakistani court has acquitted former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a graft case, removing a major obstacle for him to run in parliamentary elections in February

Nawaz Sharif in a corruption case, removing one of the major obstacles for him to run in general elections in February. The three-times prime minister, who returned to Pakistan in October from four years of self-imposed exile in London, is eyeing prime ministerial post for the fourth time but he needs acquittal in 1999 steel mills case (has appealed against his conviction) in which he was sentenced for seven-year and the removal of a lifelong ban on holding any public office. Pakistani law bans those convicted from holding or running for public office.