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Living up to his reputation of being outspoken, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif told the US to quit playing to the galleries and blaming his country for its own failures.
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif has dismissed as “hollow allegations” claims by a number of US officials about his country’s collusion with terrorist groups wreaking havoc in neighboring Afghanistan.
In response to US senator’s remarks on links between Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) and a number of terrorist groups in the region, the Pakistani military argued that it is the job of intelligence agencies to maintain such connections.
The dreamers won. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons is still so green that, when the call came from the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the group initially thought it was a prank. But, in the middle of two brewing crises over nuclear weapons, the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to a global coalition of young activists who defied the United States and the eight other nuclear powers this summer to win support at the United Nations for the first treaty to ban the world’s deadliest weapon.
For more than a decade, Kathy Martinez has been at the forefront of the fight for workplace diversity and inclusion, shattering ceilings in both government and corporate America. In her current role at Wells Fargo, she oversees the development and execution of business and marketing strategies supporting people with disabilities and their families. She is focused on delivering an experience that recognizes disability as a natural part of the human condition and helping people with disabilities fully engage with the bank to succeed financially.
Friends and family often ask, “So why a PhD?” It is a common question for doctoral students in any field, one posed by earnest relatives over the holidays, concerned parents fretting financial futures, and forlorn friends lamenting the loss of buddies to fieldwork. Yet the question takes on a special importance for those pursuing a PhD in international relations at policy-oriented programs.
Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Thursday said Pakistan and the United States together had degraded al-Qaeda in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and need to continue work together and cooperate in defeating the newer and more toxic form of terrorism.
Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif on Thursday stressed that the "strategic logic" behind working with the US against terrorism remains intact. Speaking at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, the foreign minister said that US and Pakistan had remained "long-standing friends". He added that both countries have much to gain by working together.
Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif said on Thursday that Pakistan feels there is trust deficit in its relations with the United States. "Yes, there is a trust deficit," he said while speaking at the United States Institute of Peace during his three-day tour of US.