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  Pakistan appoints Abdul Basit as envoy to India

  World | February 17, 2014 21:02 IST

  Islamabad: Pakistan today appointed career diplomat Abdul Basit as its new High Commissioner to India, replacing former Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir.  According to sources, Basit is expected to take over the assignment early next month.

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  Pakistan appoints Abdul Basit as its new High Commissioner to India

  World | December 19, 2013 19:39 IST

  Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday appointed career diplomat Abdul Basit as its new High Commissioner to India.Basit, 55, was earlier tipped to take over as Foreign Secretary but the government recently made several changes in proposed

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  Pak pitches for "full spectrum engagement" with India

  India | November 22, 2013 22:41 IST

  New Delhi: Pitching for a “full spectrum engagement”, Pakistan today said it was committed to improving bilateral relations with India and hoped that ties will witness an “upward trajectory”. Outgoing Pakistan High Commissiner to India

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  Pak HC meets NSA

  World | September 11, 2013 10:34 IST

  New Delhi: Pakistan High Commissioner Salman Bashir yesterday met National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon in the backdrop of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's keenness to meet his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh in New York

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  Salman Bashir visits Sanaullah in hospital

  India | May 06, 2013 19:52 IST

  Chandigarh, May 6: Pakistan High Commissioner Salman Bashir on Monday visited prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay, injured in a scuffle with another inmate in a Jammu jail, at PGIMER here and said his chances of survival seemed

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  Salman Bashir to continue as Pakistan's envoy to India

  World | April 05, 2013 6:55 IST

  Islamabad, Apr 5:  Former Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir will continue as Pakistan's envoy to India as caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has allowed all "non-career and contractual ambassadors" to remain in their positions

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  Bashir New Pak Envoy To India

  World | April 14, 2012 19:18 IST

  Islamabad, Apr 14: Pakistan's former Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir, who has been part of the post-26/11 Indo-Pak dialogue process, is the country's new High Commissioner to India.60-year-old Bashir has been appointed as the new envoy

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  India, Pak Foreign Secys Discuss Kashmir

  World | June 24, 2011 14:14 IST

  Islamabad, Jun 24: India and Pakistan today discussed Jammu and Kashmir during the crucial Foreign Secretary-level talks here, a day after Islamabad insisted that it remained the “core” issue for it. Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao,

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  Pakistan Calls For Release Of Fateh Ali Khan

  World | February 14, 2011 17:17 IST

  New Delhi, Feb 14:  Pakistan's foreign ministry called on Monday for the release of  popular Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan detained at Delhi airport for carrying $124,000, a much larger amount than is permissible

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  India, Pak Foreign Secretaries meet in NY

  World | September 27, 2009 1:55 IST

  With India insisting on concrete steps against the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks, Pakistan on Saturday said New Delhi should not hold the relationship back on a single issue as it has done what was