Read more about Pakistan FM calls on global community to address structural discrimination on Business Standard. Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Thursday urged the international community to address the drivers of structural discrimination, including those rooted in the history of colonialism
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TUESDAY, FEB. 16 KYIV – Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Ivan Korcok will pay a working visit to Ukraine CAIRO – Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi visits Egypt (to Feb. 17). BRUSSELS – EU Council head Charles Michel to hold video conference on Sahel summit – 0800 GMT
VENICE, Italy – Venice Carnival 2021 (final day).
N’DJAMENA – G5 Sahel countries and allies hold summit over security in the Sahel region, Leaders of a group of five West African Sahel nations and allies will meet for a summit in the Chadian capital to take stock of the security situation as France prepares to “adjust” the operations of its troops in the region. (final day)
Cross border instability in South Asia and the need for accountability
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On February 5, the Iranian security forces conducted a surgical operation across the Pakistan border and rescue two of its soldiers from a terror camp.
In fact, in October 2018, the Jaish ul-Adl, a Salafi jihadist militant organization, kidnapped 12 Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).
This organisation is carrying on an armed struggle against Iran and it is considered a terrorist group by Tehran itself.
The group is also mentioned in the Pakistan’s National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) list, in which the organisations considered to be terrorist by Islamabad are inserted and many of them are used to operate near the Iran-Pakistan border.
Blinken calls Pakistan FM Qureshi, seeks accountability in Daniel Pearl murder case
Blinken calls Pakistan FM Qureshi, seeks accountability in Daniel Pearl murder case
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken urged Pakistan to explore all legal options to ensure that the killers of Pearl are brought to justice.
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Washington: US Secretary of State Tony Blinken has spoken over phone with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and discussed the accountability of convicted terrorists responsible for the murder of Daniel Pearl, according to the State Department.
Pearl, the 38-year-old South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, was abducted and beheaded while he was in Pakistan investigating a story in 2002 on the links between the country’s powerful spy agency ISI and al-Qaeda.