Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, the three-time elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, has played a critical role in attempting to ease hostilities and promote people-to-people contact between India and Pakistan. The history of India-Pakistan relations is fraught with wars, mistrust, and border tensions that have persisted since the traumatic partition of British India in 1947. Against…
Islamabad (Sabahuddin Qazi): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ten years ago on December 25, 2015, made global headlines by paying a surprise visit to Pakistan, a gesture that defied years of tension between the two nuclear-armed neighbors. Landing in Lahore to wish his Pakistani counterpart, Mian Nawaz Sharif, a happy birthday and to attend a…
Islamabad (PNP Opinion): Dr. Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, a prominent Pakistani politician and minority leader, has penned an op-ed titled “Modi-Sharif peace accord?” published in the widely-circulated Urdu-language daily Jang newspaper on May 01, 2025 and English daily The News on May 03, 2025. The article is written in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in…
Islamabad (PNP Special Report): In a significant escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan, four Indian Rafale fighter jets were detected and forced to retreat by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) near the Line of Control (LoC) late on the night of April 29, 2025. The incident occurred over Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir…
Karachi (PNP): Dr. Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, Patron-in-Chief of the Pakistan Hindu Council, has termed the recent Pakistan-India border tensions as a serious challenge to peace in the region. In a video message addressed to people of Pakistan and India, prominent Hindu parliamentary leader proposed a bilateral peace agreement between the Prime Ministers of both neighboring…
The IndoPak border remains one of the most volatile flashpoints in global geopolitics. In April 2025, tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors flared anew following a brutal militant attack in the Indian-administered region of Jammu and Kashmir. With 28 civilians killed and over 20 injured in the tourist hotspot of Pahalgam, the incident has sparked…
ISLAMABAD (PNP Special): Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan’s then-Foreign Minister, had played a crucial role in shaping the country’s diplomatic strategy during the 1965 war, a significant incident in the history of Pakistan and India. In the war, Pakistan came in to a direct confrontation with India, a country with three times more military power and…
File photo The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed one more human case of bird flu in India. WHO said in its statement that the case of human infection with bird flu occurred in the Indian state of West Bengal, where the H9N2 virus was confirmed in a four-year-old child. According to the WHO, the…
At least 16 people are reported to have been killed as the region was hit by Cyclone Remal on Sunday evening, local time, bringing gales of over 110 kilometres per hour (about 70 miles per hour), torrential rain and storm surges that inundated low-lying areas. Classified as a “severe” cyclonic storm, Remal is the first…
In a statement, Tor Wennesland reminded that all Israeli settlements the Occupied Palestinian Territory are illegal under international law. Permits for the new dwellings were approved by Israeli authorities on Wednesday, the first since the war in Gaza erupted on 7 October. According to news reports, the permits mean that more than 20,000 housing units…
