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Trump hails recovery of Canadian-American family as ‘positive moment’ in Pak-US relations

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United States President Donald Trump on Thursday said the recovery of the Canadian-American couple from Taliban captivity by Pakistan’s was a “positive moment” for US relations with Pakistan. The Pakistan government’s cooperation is a sign that “it is honouring America’s wishes for it to do more to provide security in the region”, Trump said in a White House statement. Earlier, the army had announced that it had recovered “safe and sound” a family of foreign hostages — an American woman, her Canadian husband and their three children — from the Taliban captivity…

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Trump hails Kuwait mediation on Qatar; Arab states react

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President Donald Trump on Thursday hailed efforts by the leader of Kuwait, a staunch American ally, to mediate a festering diplomatic crisis involving Qatar and its Arab neighbours that could have implications for the US military presence in the region. However, the quartet of Arab nations now boycotting Doha issued a strongly worded statement early on Friday morning dismissing some of Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah’s comments, signalling the diplomatic crisis roiling the Gulf is far from over. At a White House news conference with Sheikh Sabah, Trump said he appreciated…

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پاکستان کو اربوں ڈالر دیتے ہیں مگر وہ دہشت گردوں کو پناہ دیتا ہے، ٹرمپ

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امریکی صدر ڈونلڈ ٹرمپ کا کہنا ہے کہ پاکستان کو اربوں ڈالر دیتے ہیں، مگر وہ دہشت گردوں کو پناہ دیتا ہے۔ افغانستان میں ہمارا ساتھ دینے سے پاکستان کو فائدہ، دوسری صورت میں نقصان ہوگا۔ آرلینگٹن کےفوجی اڈے سے خطاب کرتے ہوئے امریکی صدر نے افغانستان اور پاکستان سمیت جنوبی ایشیا کے بارے میں نئی امریکی پالیسی کا اعلان کیا اور کہا کہ پاکستان میں دہشت گردوں کی پناہ گاہوں پر خاموش نہیں رہیں گے۔ امریکی صدر کا کہنا تھا کہ ہماری نئی پالیسی میں افغانستان اور پاکستان خاص…

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Trump to address nation on new Afghan strategy tonight

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President Donald Trump will announce his decision on America’s strategy in Afghanistan in an address to US troops and the nation Monday night, almost 16 years after the war began. The US leader will “provide an update on the path forward for America’s engagement in Afghanistan and South Asia” in an address to be delivered at 9pm (0100 GMT Tuesday) from the military base at Fort Myer southwest of the capital, the White House said in a statement. The US president, fresh from a nearly three-week-long working vacation at his New…

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Bannon out as Trump’s chief strategist

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United States President Donald Trump on Friday finally parted ways with controversial far-right chief strategist Steve Bannon, after weeks of speculation and as the administration reels from the fallout over Trump’s response to a violent white supremacist rally. Seen as the driving force behind Trump’s nationalist-populist agenda — making him a hero of the so-called “alt-right” and a bete noire for centrists — Bannon’s presence at the White House has been contested from the start. He was the latest in a series of high-profile casualties in Trump’s inner circle, including…

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شمالی کوریا اتحادیوں کے خلاف اقدام سے باز رہے، ٹرمپ

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امریکی صدر ڈونلڈ ٹرمپ کا کہنا ہے کہ شمالی کوریا امریکی علاقوں یا اتحادیوں کےخلاف اقدام سے باز رہےورنہ اسے پچھتانا پڑے گا۔ امریکی صدر نے کہا کہ شمالی کوریاکےخلاف فوجی آپشن کا بغور جائزہ لے رہے ہیں، ان کا کہنا تھا کہ امریکی فوجی کسی بھی آپریشن کے لیے مستعد اور تیار ہیں۔ ٹرمپ کا کہنا تھا کہ شمالی کوریا کے معاملے پر چینی صدر سے آج بات کروں گا اور امید ہے کہ شمالی کوریا کے تنازع کا بہتر حل نکال لیں گے۔ امریکی صدر ٹرمپ نے کہا…

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Trump grudgingly signs Russia sanctions

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United States President Donald Trump reluctantly signed off on new sanctions against Russia on Wednesday, bowing to domestic pressure and putting efforts to improve ties with the Kremlin in peril. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that the sanctions amounted to “full-fledged economic war on Russia” and demonstrates Trump’s “total weakness… in the most humiliating way.” “It ends hopes for improving our relations with the new US administration,” Medvedev boldly declared on his Facebook page. Trump signed the legislation behind closed doors, after failed White House efforts to scupper or…

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