Daily Dawn, 18 Feb. 2019 The Taliban have postponed an unscheduled round of peace talks with the United States set for Monday in Pakistan saying “most” members of their negotiating team are unable to travel because they're on the US and United Nations' blacklists. The statement on Sunday offered no other details. It did not...

Islamabad, 17 Feb. 2019 (APP) Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Sunday said with the signing of $20 billion memorandums of understanding (MoUs) between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in the first phase, the bilateral cooperation between the two brotherly countries would further grow in the coming months and years. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on Sunday...

Sri Nagar, 14 Feb. 2019 (BBC) At least 40 Indian paramilitary police have been killed in a bomb attack by militants on their convoy in Indian-administered Kashmir. Police told the BBC that a car filled with explosives had rammed a bus carrying the troops to Srinagar. Pakistan-based Islamist group Jaish-e-Mohammad said it was behind the attack. It...

Doha, 14 Feb. 2019 (Amiri Diwan) Amir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received separately in his office at Al Bahr Palace on Thursday morning Nuran Niyazaliyev, Ambassador of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan  and Carlos Velasco Mendiola, Ambassador of the Republic of Peru to the State of Qatar , who called on Amir...

Warsaw, Poland, 13 Feb 2019 (AlJazeera News) By Jan Smolenski & Virginia Pietromarchi A United States -led two-day conference on "peace and security" in the Middle East started on Wednesday - a gathering denounced by uninvited Iran as "dead on arrival". The meeting was first announced last month by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after...

Doha, 11 Feb. 2019 Ministry of Interior of Qatar has announced record decline of 59.2 % in traffic related violations and casualties from 2008 to 2018. Brig. Ibrahim Saad Al-Sulaiti, Head of the Statistical Analysis Office at the Ministry of Interior was addressing at a press conference, present on the occasion were Maj. Gen. Muhammad Sa'ad...

Doha, 07 Feb. 2019 (QP) Qatar Petroleum and its partners, led by Total, announced a significant gas condensate discovery in the Brulpadda prospects, located in Block 11B/12B in the Outeniqua Basin, 175 kilometers off the southern coast of South Africa. The Brulpadda well encountered a gas condensate pay in Lower Cretaceous reservoirs. Following the success...

Washington, 06 Feb. 2019 (QNA) Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs  of Qatar has announced that the State of Qatar intends to host this year a high-level regional meeting to address the brutal crimes committed by the ISIS group, in cooperation with the Special Advisor and Head of...

Doha, 06 Feb. 2019 (QNA) Qatar Charity (QC) has won the Social Responsibility Award in the category of the best national initiative titled 'Future's Writers' program. The QC received the award during the 6th Social Responsibility Awards organized by Dar Al Sharq, in the presence of Minister of Administrative Development, Labor and Social Affairs Yousef...

Doha, 06 Feb. 2019 (QP) Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, Minister of State for Energy Affairs, President and CEO of Qatar Petroleum held talks in Washington D.C. with Rick Perry, U.S. Secretary of Energy. The talks centered on cooperation between the State of Qatar and the United States in the field of energy and particularly in the...