Pakistan, India Exchange List of Nuclear Assets
Pakistan, India Exchange List of Nuclear Assets
Started in 1992, the annual handover is conducted at the commencement of every new year
Pakistan and India on Friday exchanged lists of their respective nuclear installations and facilities, according to a statement issued by the Foreign Office.
Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said a list of Pakistan’s nuclear installations and facilities had been officially handed over to a representative of the Indian High Commission at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Likewise, he said, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi had handed over the list of Indian nuclear installations and facilities to a representative of the Pakistan High Commission.
Pakistan Rejects ‘False Indian Allegations’ of Terrorism
Pakistan Rejects ‘False Indian Allegations’ of Terrorism
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In statement, Foreign Office says BJP regime cannot divert global attention from Delhi’s internal failings
Pakistan on Sunday categorically rejected insinuations of terrorism against it by India’s external affairs minister, adding that merely “regurgitating baseless allegations” did not make them true.
In a statement issued by the Foreign Office, Islamabad said no amount of Indian statements could erase the “fact of India’s state sponsorship of terrorism against Pakistan and masterminding of anti-Pakistan propaganda globally.” Pointing to the EU DisinfoLab’s investigative report about a massive Indian network seeking to undermine Pakistan globally, as well as a dossier presented to global bodies, it said that these reports spoke for themselves.
Pakistan Rejects U.S. ‘Particular Concern’ Designation on Religious Freedom
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Islamabad granted presidential waiver to avoid sanctions that are usually applied under American International Religious Freedom Act
Pakistan on Wednesday rejected the United States’ “arbitrary and selective assessment” of declaring Islamabad a “country of particular concern” under its International Religious Freedom Act, according to a Foreign Office statement.
On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State announced that Pakistan, China, Burma, Eritrea, Iran, Nigeria, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan were being designated “for engaging in or tolerating systematic, ongoing, egregious violations of religious freedom.”
In its response, the Foreign Office said the designation was “completely against the realities on the ground and raises serious doubts about the credibility of the exercise.” It said that such “subjective designations” do not help the cause of