AHMEDPUR EAST - After becoming Punjab governor and joining the PPP, Makhdoom Ahmad Mehmood "reneged on his pledge" regarding restoration of Bahawalpur province and supported the proposal of Bahawalpur Janoobi Punjab province, thereby causing protests mainly led by Nawab Salahuddin Abbasi across the ...

ISLAMABAD - Amid fiery speeches from treasury and opposition benches in the National Assembly on proposed new provinces in Punjab, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Thursday introduced the ‘ National Counter-Terrorism Authority Bill-2013’. After a barrage of points of order ...

BJP leader L. K. Advani on Thursday said he would undertake a yatra across the country against corruption, a move seen as an attempt by him to get a grip over the party. I have decided to take out a yatra against corruption. The name of the yatra, its timing, point of origin and other details will ...

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley on Thursday said the serial blasts that claimed 18 lives in Mumbai on Wednesday night were a grim reminder "that India continues to be high on the terror list of terror outfits operating from Pakistan". Speaking to rediff.com on Thursday morning, the ...

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League (JKPFL), denounced Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) fanatics for their decision to hoist Indian flag at Lal Chowk Srinagar on January 26, terming it India's frustration and political defeat in Kashmir. In a statement, he said ...

The BJP on Wednesday questioned Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's remark on autonomy for J&K;and demanded an explanation from him. Raising the issue in the Rajya Sabha, the party said the very thought of autonomy is a reversal of Kashmir's integration with India, reported PTI. "We are not in ...

Seeking to reach out to Muslims, BJP President Nitin Gadkari today said his party is not against the community but was unfortunately caught in an image warp. At the same time, he said there was nothing to be apologetic about Hindutva or the core issues of the BJP, including uniform civil code and ...

The Indian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was quick to completely disassociate itself from the contents of the Jinnah book authored by its senior leader, Jaswant Singh, doing so on Tuesday morning in less than 24 hours after it was launched. However, some party leaders, including Venkaiah Naidu, said ...

Jaswant Singh, whose book eulogising Mohammed Ali Jinnah has come under attack from the Indian BJP and the sangh parivar, was on Wednesday expelled from the BJP. The decision to expel Mr. Singh, a Lok Sabha member and a former Union Minister, was taken at the Parliamentary Board of the party which ...

The BJP on Thursday said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has failed to convince anybody on the Indo-Pak joint statement and even Congress President Sonia Gandhi has preferred to remain "silent" on Balochistan and some other issues mentioned in it. Waving a text of Gandhi's speech made at the Congress ...

BJP on Friday termed as "sheer betrayal" and "U-turn" India agreeing with Pak that terrorism should not be linked to the composite dialogue process and said it was done under international pressure. "This step by India has come as a shock. It is sheer betrayal and U-turn by the government. They are ...

A slipper was on Thursday lobbed at BJP leader LK Advani by a former functionary of the saffron party during a public meeting in Madhya Pradesh, the latest in the series of such episodes involving political leaders. The slipper was hurled by former Katni district president of BJP Pawas Agarwal, who ...

Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of practicing favouritism, saying the saffron party did not believe in taking everybody with it. We believe that the weakest person in India needs the most help from the government. The BJP, on the other ...

In a stinging attack on the Left and BJP, Indian Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday said it was a "shame" that the two parties had joined hands in attacking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh using "bad and negative language". "It is a shame on the part of the BJP and the CPI(M) to attack Dr ...

The terrorist attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore proves that Pakistan has become "Talibanised" and a failed state, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley said Wednesday. "There is also no distinction (in Pakistan) between state actors and non-state actors," Jaitley told a news ...

Having started off by supporting the ruling UPA on dealing with terror following the Mumbai attacks, the BJP is gradually building pressure on the government for "climbing down" from its strong stand. BJP accused the government of "being down on its knees and meekly accepting" the verdict of the US ...

Accusing Congress of trying to pit "Hindu terrorism" against "Islamic terrorism", the BJP on Tuesday warned rpt warned such a move would push the country to brink of a civil war.  Addressing a traders' rally here, BJP president Rajnath Singh alleged that "to divert the ...

BJP president Rajnath Singh appealed Pakistan to join with India to fight the war against terror.  "If terrorism is not contained in Pakistan, it may invite International intervention against it with grave consequences," Rajnath told a party function. The BJP national president said ...

BJP on Thursday said India has entered into a blind trap and finally acceded to the nuclear non-proliferation regime with the Indo-US nuclear deal. "The government has gone for a blind trap knowingly and can't get out of it. We have acceded to the nuclear non-proliferation regime with the ...