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  After Imran, Pakistan election commission disqualifies Qureshi from contesting polls for 5 years

  World | February 04, 2024 11:30 IST

  The development came with little more than a week left to Pakistan's February 8 elections, where Imran's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is contesting amid a state crackdown and without an electoral symbol.

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  Pakistan: Former minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi manhandled during rearrest from Adiala Jail I VIDEO

  World | December 27, 2023 15:15 IST

  Qureshi could be seen in a cardigan and a shalwar kameez, attempting to speak to police personnel gathered outside the jail while he remained inside its premises. However, an official refused to listen and proceeded to shove the senior leader out the gate and toward an armoured vehicle.

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  No relief for Imran as court extends his judicial remand for allegedly disclosing Pakistan's secrets

  World | September 13, 2023 18:45 IST

  Judge Abul Hasnat Zulqarnain, who has been hearing the cases related to the Official Secrets Act, 1923, conducted the proceedings inside the high security Attock Jail where the 70-year-old former prime minister is currently lodged.

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  Imran Khan's life under threat in Attock Jail, kept in 9X11 feet room, given B-class facilities: PTI

  World | August 07, 2023 13:39 IST

  Under the B-Class, the Khan is entitled to books, newspapers of choice, a table, a chair, a 21-inch television, a mattress, clothing and jail food, in addition to a bathroom facility in the barrack he has been kept in.

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  Pakistan govt will not resign on Jan 31: Foreign Minister Qureshi

  World | January 02, 2021 16:55 IST

  The incumbent Imran Khan-led government of Pakistan will not resign on January 31 as demanded by the 11-party PDM opposition alliance, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi confirmed on Saturday.

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  After Pak Foreign Minister Qureshi's threat to split OIC, Islamabad cosies up to Saudi, Turkey

  World | August 17, 2020 22:22 IST

  Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, recently, threatened that if the OIC headed by Saudi Arabia did not convene a foreign ministers' meeting on Kashmir, Prime Minister Imran Khan would hold it on his own with his allies among the Islamic nations.

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  Govt prepared 8 bills with view to move Pak from FATF's 'grey list' to 'white list': Qureshi

  World | July 25, 2020 23:37 IST

  Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Saturday that the government has prepared eight bills for legislation on anti-money laundering and terror financing with a view for Islamabad to move from the Financial Action Task Force's grey list to the white list.

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  Pakistan FM Shah Mehmood Qureshi recovers from COVID-19

  World | July 17, 2020 19:38 IST

  Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday said he has recovered from COVID-19 and resumed official activities, two weeks after testing positive for the deadly disease.

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  Pakistan Foreign Minister Qureshi tests positive for COVID-19

  World | July 03, 2020 23:26 IST

  Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday announced that he has tested positive for the coronavirus disease and quarantined himself.

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  US-Taliban deal 'historic' opportunity to bring peace in Afghanistan: Qureshi

  World | April 20, 2020 22:04 IST

    Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday discussed the latest situation in the Afghan peace process with his Afghanistan counterpart Hanif Atmar and said that the US-Taliban deal provides a "historic" opportunity to bring peace and stability in the war-torn country.

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  Pakistan against India's security role in Afghanistan

  World | March 06, 2020 8:52 IST

  Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Wednesday told the Senate that Pakistan neither desires "any security role of India in Afghanistan" nor wants presence of militant organisations - Al-Qaeda and ISIS - in the landlocked country, a media report said.  

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  Pakistan Foreign Minister Qureshi to be present at US-Taliban peace deal signing: Report

  World | February 28, 2020 17:56 IST

  Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi will attend the signing of a landmark peace deal between the US and the Taliban in Doha on Saturday aimed at ending the brutal war in Afghanistan, a top official said on Friday.

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  US-Taliban peace talks were impossible without Pakistan: Qureshi

  World | February 22, 2020 23:44 IST

  Taking credit for the imminent peace deal between the US and Afghan Taliban, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday said that his country has fulfilled all its promises made to America by playing its role in the successful negotiations.

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  World will take Pakistan seriously once it is economically stable: Pakistan Foreign Minister

  World | February 10, 2020 20:13 IST

  Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday said the world will take his country seriously once it is economically stable. He made this comment while lamenting that the world was not taking the Kashmir issue seriously though Pakistan was raking it up at international meetings.

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  Pakistan FM Shah Qureshi visiting Washington for 'US-Iran diplomacy': Sources

  World | January 15, 2020 7:24 IST

  Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi is coming to the US on Wednesday for his "US-Iran diplomatic efforts," according to sources. He plans to first stop in New York and Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said a meeting between them was likely.

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  Qureshi rejects bifurcation of J&K in letter to top UN officials

  World | November 19, 2019 7:50 IST

  India maintains that the UNMOGIP, established in January 1949, has outlived its utility and is irrelevant after the Simla Agreement and the consequent establishment of the Line of Control (LoC).

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  If Berlin Wall can go, so could LoC: Pakistan Foreign Minister

  World | November 09, 2019 18:39 IST

  Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Quershi politicised the inauguration of the Kartarpur Corridor, saying if the Berlin Wall can be demolished, the temporary boundary of the Line of Control (LoC) can also be ended.

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  Manmohan Singh to attend Kartarpur Corridor inauguration: Qureshi

  World | October 20, 2019 12:56 IST

  Qureshi told reporters in his home town Multan on Saturday that Singh has accepted his invitation and would attend the scheduled opening as a common man rather than as a special guest, Dawn newspaper reported.  

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  Pakistan claims India is trying to push it on FATF blacklist

  World | October 07, 2019 23:26 IST

  Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday claimed that India was trying to push his country on the blacklist of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

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  Pak FM boycotts Jaishankar's opening statement at SAARC meeting

  World | September 26, 2019 23:52 IST

  Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Thursday boycotted External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's opening statement at the meeting of the SAARC Council of Foreign Ministers, saying his country will not engage with India "until and unless" it lifts the "siege" in Kashmir.