Pakistan Diplomat

Canada has accused India and Pakistan of meddling in its federal elections - a charge unequivocally rejected by India. Canada's spy agency released an unclassified summary tabled as part of a federal inquiry examining potential foreign interference.

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has banned the use of red carpets at government events, reserving them exclusively for diplomatic receptions, as part of austerity measures to cut down unnecessary expenditures in the cash-strapped nation.

Pakistan People's Party chairman and former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday said he would not become the country's top diplomat under Nawaz Sharif if the ex-prime minister comes back to power in Thursday's election.

Former Pakistani pM Imran Khan's leaking of a secret diplomatic cable hurt Pakistan economically, politically and diplomatically, said a detailed court judgment issued on Thursday after a guilty verdict that sentenced him to 10 years in jail.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said India started the "Neighbourhood First" policy as its relations with other countries are not transactional.

Pakistan and Iran pledged Monday to improve dialogue and swap liaison officers as both nations sought to ease tensions after deadly cross-border strikes threatened diplomatic relations.

Iran has summoned a top Pakistani diplomat amid geopolitical tensions between the neighbouring countries.

Tehran's top diplomat said on Wednesday that his country's armed forces targeted an "Iranian terrorist group" in Pakistan the day before, after Islamabad said the strike killed two children.

Pakistan has recalled its top diplomat from Iran, hours after expelling that nation's representative from its territory, amid growing tension over Iranian air strikes Tuesday on the Pakistani province of Balochistan.

Two children were killed and three others injured in an "illegal" airstrike by Iran, Pakistan's foreign ministry said Wednesday, adding it had summoned Tehran's top diplomat in Islamabad to protest the "unprovoked violation of its airspace".

Former diplomat Ajay Bisaria has said New Delhi was over-reliant on diplomacy in 2008 and its responses in recent years have ensured that it now has an answer to Pakistan's sub-conventional warfare.

Pakistan's then President Pervez Musharraf's "overreach" in publicly airing his hawkish views on Kashmir, his lack of intent in containing terrorism led to the collapse of Agra Summit in 2001 and not because of LK Advani's hardline approach.

Dr Saveera Parkash, the first Hindu candidate to contest the general elections from the Buner constituency in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has said that, if elected, she would help build diplomatic bridges between Pakistan and India.

Pakistan's election commission has said that former prime minister Imran Khan is not a "prisoner of conscience" and he is jailed because he is an accused in various cases, including for the misuse of a diplomatic cable.

Several Western diplomats and the United Nations have strongly criticised Pakistan over its decision to impose hundreds of dollars in exit fees for every Afghan refugee who fled the persecution by the Taliban condemning the decision as "shocking

Canada has accused India and Pakistan of meddling in its federal elections - a charge unequivocally rejected by India. Canada's spy agency released an unclassified summary tabled as part of a federal inquiry examining potential foreign interference.

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has banned the use of red carpets at government events, reserving them exclusively for diplomatic receptions, as part of austerity measures to cut down unnecessary expenditures in the cash-strapped nation.

Pakistan People's Party chairman and former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday said he would not become the country's top diplomat under Nawaz Sharif if the ex-prime minister comes back to power in Thursday's election.

Former Pakistani pM Imran Khan's leaking of a secret diplomatic cable hurt Pakistan economically, politically and diplomatically, said a detailed court judgment issued on Thursday after a guilty verdict that sentenced him to 10 years in jail.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said India started the "Neighbourhood First" policy as its relations with other countries are not transactional.

Pakistan and Iran pledged Monday to improve dialogue and swap liaison officers as both nations sought to ease tensions after deadly cross-border strikes threatened diplomatic relations.

Iran has summoned a top Pakistani diplomat amid geopolitical tensions between the neighbouring countries.

Tehran's top diplomat said on Wednesday that his country's armed forces targeted an "Iranian terrorist group" in Pakistan the day before, after Islamabad said the strike killed two children.

Pakistan has recalled its top diplomat from Iran, hours after expelling that nation's representative from its territory, amid growing tension over Iranian air strikes Tuesday on the Pakistani province of Balochistan.

Two children were killed and three others injured in an "illegal" airstrike by Iran, Pakistan's foreign ministry said Wednesday, adding it had summoned Tehran's top diplomat in Islamabad to protest the "unprovoked violation of its airspace".

Former diplomat Ajay Bisaria has said New Delhi was over-reliant on diplomacy in 2008 and its responses in recent years have ensured that it now has an answer to Pakistan's sub-conventional warfare.

Pakistan's then President Pervez Musharraf's "overreach" in publicly airing his hawkish views on Kashmir, his lack of intent in containing terrorism led to the collapse of Agra Summit in 2001 and not because of LK Advani's hardline approach.

Dr Saveera Parkash, the first Hindu candidate to contest the general elections from the Buner constituency in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has said that, if elected, she would help build diplomatic bridges between Pakistan and India.

Pakistan's election commission has said that former prime minister Imran Khan is not a "prisoner of conscience" and he is jailed because he is an accused in various cases, including for the misuse of a diplomatic cable.

Several Western diplomats and the United Nations have strongly criticised Pakistan over its decision to impose hundreds of dollars in exit fees for every Afghan refugee who fled the persecution by the Taliban condemning the decision as "shocking