'US, Pakistan developing true friendship': Hegseth hails Islamabad's role in US-Iran negotiations

United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Saturday said Washington and Islamabad were developing a “true friendship” as he lauded Pakistan’s role in the ongoing US-Iran peace negotiations.

With Pakistan acting as the official interlocutor between Washington and Tehran in the ongoing peace negotiations that resulted in the April 8 US-Iran ceasefire, Trump and his top officials have…

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India will be ‘relegated to history’ if it attempts misadventure against Pakistan: Khawaja Asif

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Monday said that India would be “relegated to history” and its geography “changed” if it attempted any future misadventure against Pakistan.

In an interview on the _Geo News_ programme ‘Capital Talk’, Asif said, “As a nation, India thinks that its esteem has been damaged.”

The defence minister was referring to last year’s confrontation with India, beginning with…

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India will be ‘relegated to history’ if it attempts misadventure against Pakistan

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Monday said that India would be “relegated to history” and its geography “changed” if it attempted any future misadventure against Pakistan.

In an interview on the _Geo News_ programme ‘Capital Talk’, Asif said, “As a nation, India thinks that its esteem has been damaged.”

The defence minister was referring to last year’s confrontation with India, beginning with…

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US delegation expected in Islamabad but uncertainty prevails over talks amid mixed signals from Iran

Key developments

  • Trump says JD Vance and an American delegation en route to Islamabad for talks

  • Iran says it has yet to decide whether it will attend next round of talks with US; parliament speaker highlights lack of trust in Washington

  • Tight security in Islamabad for arrival of foreign delegations; Red Zone sealed and public transport in twin cities suspended

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Uncertainty prevails over talks amid mixed signals from Iran; Trump says US delegation en route to Islamabad

Key developments

  • Trump says JD Vance and an American delegation en route to Islamabad for talks

  • Iran says it has yet to decide whether it will attend next round of talks with US; parliament speaker highlights lack of trust in Washington

  • Tight security in Islamabad for arrival of foreign delegations; Red Zone sealed and public transport in twin cities suspended

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Uncertainty prevails over Islamabad talks amid mixed signals from Iran

Uncertainty prevailed on Monday over whether the United States and Iran would hold a second round of direct talks, as mixed signals emerged from Tehran amid intensifying tensions with Washington, even as Islamabad prepared to host the two sides.

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said Tehran has yet to decide on whether to attend the next round of talks with the US.

His…

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After Trump’s blockade announcement, IRGC says will view military vessels approaching Hormuz as ceasefire breach

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Sunday that any military vessels attempting to approach the Strait of Hormuz would be considered a violation of the two-week ceasefire with the US, and warned that it would be dealt with harshly and decisively.

“The strait is under the control and smart management of Iran’s Navy,” the Guards said in a statement reported by Iranian state…

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After Trump’s Hormuz blockade announcement, IRGC says will view military vessels approaching strait as ceasefire breach

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Sunday that any military vessels attempting to approach the Strait of Hormuz would be considered a violation of the two-week ceasefire with the US, and warned that it would be dealt with harshly and decisively.

“The strait is under the control and smart management of Iran’s Navy,” the Guards said in a statement reported by Iranian state…

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Trump says Iranians ‘haven’t left the bargaining table’

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday — the day when talks between Washington and Tehran ended without any agreement — that the Iranians “haven’t left the bargaining table”.

“I predict they [will] come back, and they give us everything we want — and I told my people, I want everything. I don’t want 90 per cent, I don’t want 95pc. I told them, I want everything. They have no cards,” he during…

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Human Rights Organizations Call on Congress: Do Not Send Cubans Fleeing Impacts of the U.S. Fuel Blockade to Guantánamo

Eighty-six organizations that work on migrant rights, human rights, and humanitarian aid sent a letter to Congress today as the U.S. military threatens to detain Cubans in Guantánamo should they begin fleeing deteriorating conditions in their country — conditions caused by the United States’ sanctions and fuel blockade. The authors call on Congress to bring an end to the sanctions, the fuel…

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Shame of the Americas

The Trump administration’s Shield of the Americas summit in Miami convened leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean’s emboldened reactionary bloc. True to form, the president ensured the summit was a ritual of humiliation and debasement.


At the "Shield of Americas" summit, Donald Trump made ominous threats of impending interventions in Latin America and Caribbean, including…

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Netflix CEO to Visit White House as Republican AGs Turn Against Him

Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos will go to the White House Thursday as he looks to push through a merger that even Republicans say presents antitrust concerns.

The proposed deal would see Netflix acquire Warner Bros. Discovery at the cost of $70 billion. Though it’s not clear if Sarandos will be meeting directly with President Donald Trump, he will try to curry favor with his administration, whose…

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Pakistan, 13 other nations condemn US envoy’s remarks supporting Israeli expansion in Middle East

Pakistan, along with 13 other nations, has condemned the remarks made by US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, where he suggested that he would not be opposed to Tel Aviv taking over large swathes of the Middle East, the Foreign Office said on Sunday.

Huckabee made the remarks in an interview with former _Fox News_ host Tucker Carlson on Friday, where the envoy asserted that Israel’s borders…

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Christian Nationalists Are All in on Trump—and Vice Versa

President Donald Trump is on the fence about whether he will be accepted into heaven. At the National Prayer Breakfast earlier this month, he said that he may not “qualify,” before clarifying that he was joking and he “probably should make it.”

Despite this uncertainty about his spiritual future, Trump does understand that white evangelical Christians have always been key to his political…

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