Showing posts with label Foreign Affairs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foreign Affairs. Show all posts

Sunday, 19 June 2011

Satable Afghanishtan not worth abandoning strategic interests

Army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has told a visiting European delegation that "Pakistan wants a stable Afghanistan but not at the cost of Pakistan," suggesting that Islamabad wants to remain relevant in any peace initiative and is unlikely to accept a solution that would undermine its strategic interests.
This revelation was made by German Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Dirk Niebel, who is currently visiting Pakistan alongside his European Union counterpart.
"We have to find a solution (to this problem) and Pakistan's cooperation with German and the EUcan be come the basis for the stability of the region," said Neibel.
Neibel did not clarify what  sort of endgame German or the EU had in mind for Afhanistan, where several European nations, inculding German, have thousands of ttoops stationed.


New Dehli blames Islamabad

New Dehli blames Islamabad for jeopardizing safety of Indian navy ship.

In a classic tit-for-tat movies that has come to define their volatile relationship, New Delhi on Saturday lodged protest with Islamabad over Pakistan naval relevant regulations on navigational safety by its "risky" manoeuvers, and jeopardizing the safety of Indian naval ship (INS) Godavari and its crew the times of  India reported on Saturday.
On Friday, the Pakistan Foreign office had lodged an identical complaint with the Indian government over the "dangerous manoeuvre" of INS Godavari as it escorted Egyptian merchant vessel (MV) suez, recently released by Somali pirated, to port Salalah in Oman.