BEIRUT - Syria's outgoing opposition chief published an initiative for his war-torn country on Thursday that would grant President Bashar al-Assad a safe exit, and urged dissident factions to adopt his plan. Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib published his initiative on Facebook, as the main National Coalition ...

Alex Lantier In a series of interviews, UN investigator Carla del Ponte said that sarin gas used in Syria was fired by the US-backed opposition, not the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.Her account explodes the lies on which Washington and its European allies have based their campaign for war ...

CARACAS :  Venezuela's opposition on Thursday challenged the results of last month's presidential poll won by the late Hugo Chavez's successor, further muddying an already messy transition to life without the divisive leader. The center-right opposition in the oil-rich South American nation filed ...

ISTANBUL The Turkish government welcomed a planned withdrawal by Kurdish militants as significant progress towards ending three decades of conflict on Friday, and it warned its nationalist opponents not to sabotage the peace process.The main nationalist party, however, was quick to reiterate its ...

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday said the country risks civil war if the opposition wins polls later this year and tries to prosecute ex-Khmer Rouge members in his government.His comments were issued as a rebuke to opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who has pledged ...

karachi Former chief minister of Punjab and PML-N leader, Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that the ten-party alliance of opposition parties in Sindh has finalised the consensus candidates to defeat the PPP in the province.He was addressing a press conference after chairing a parliamentary board ...

QUETTA – Balochistan Election Tribunal has rejected nomination forms of former Balochistan Assembly opposition leader Nawabzada Tariq Magsi, while appeals about provincial presidents of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and PML-Q have also been rejected. Likewise, Balochistan High Court has reserved ...

KARACHI - The differences have emerged between the 10-party electoral alliance of opposition parties as every party demanded more share of seats in next polls. Even, some nationalist parties so far not ready to withdraw their candidates, whose nomination papers have been accepted by the Returning ...

KARACHI - Chief Election Commissioner Justice (r) Fakhruddin G Ebrahim has once again refused of conducting fresh delimitation of electoral constituencies in Karachi before the next elections.During his meeting with the leaders of opposition parties protesting outside the provincial election ...

KARACHI - The opposition parties in Sindh Assembly have demanded the government to start consultation with them on formation of caretaker government immediately as tenure of the present assemblies is completing in March. Talking to The Nation, the leaders of the opposition parties also demanded ...

LAHORE – Opposition parties on Wednesday demanded an immediate timetable for the next general elections, but dealt a blow to Tahirul Qadri-led four-day anti-government protest by not endorsing it. “This meeting demands the government announce an election schedule and caretaker ...

KARACHI - The Pakistan Muslim League Functional (PML-F), a faction of PML-Q and other opposition parties have rejected the suggestion of ruling PPP to amend the Sindh Peoples Local Government Act 2012, demanding complete repeal of it.PML-F General Secretary Imtiaz Shaikh while addressing a press ...

KARACHI - The Pakistan Muslim League Functional (PML-F), a faction of PML-Q and other opposition parties have rejected the suggestion of ruling PPP to amend the Sindh Peoples Local Government Act 2012, demanding complete repeal of it.PML-F General Secretary Imtiaz Shaikh while addressing a press ...

LAHORE – The Opposition on Friday proposed setting up a tax counter in Punjab Assembly, besides appointing an adviser to guide the members over the tax issues. Opposition member, Dr Samaya Amjad made this proposal during the 43rd session of the Punjab Assembly claiming that all the elected ...

KARACHI - The lawmakers of PML-Likeminded staged protest against not getting permission to speak in favour of resolution against the Kalabagh Dam on Friday. They leveled allegations of partiality on Sindh Assembly Speaker Nisar Ahmed Khuhro. PML-Likeminded MPAs, Nuzhat Pathan and Razak ...

KARACHI - The lawmakers of PML-Likeminded staged protest against not getting permission to speak in favour of resolution against the Kalabagh Dam on Friday. They leveled allegations of partiality on Sindh Assembly Speaker Nisar Ahmed Khuhro. PML-Likeminded MPAs, Nuzhat Pathan and Razak Rahimon ...

KARACHI - The protest and legal arguments of opposition MPA in Sindh Assembly on Thursday compelled the resigning minister Syed Murad Ali Shah to leave the House.The government benches amended the rules of procedures of Sindh Assembly in hurry, facilitating the resigning minister/MPA to sit and ...

QUETTA - The performance of the Balochistan chief minister has been best commented upon by the Supreme Court. The court has said more than once that the Balochistan government has lost the constitutional right to stay in power. However, the government is clinging to power. Chief Minister Aslam ...

ISLAMABAD - SYED DANISH HUSSAIN and IMRAN MUKHTAR - Pointing out the stark reality that central government is not seriously taking the law and order situation in Karachi and other areas of the country, the legislators belonging to the opposition and government-allied parties Wednesday separately ...

DOHA  - The Syrian opposition agreed on Sunday to unite against Bashar al-Assad’s regime as Israel fired warning shots into the war-torn country in response to mortar fire that hit the Golan Heights.After four days of marathon talks in Qatar, the Syrian National Council finally signed up ...

KARACHI - The combined Opposition in the Sindh Assembly comprising PML-F, PML-Q, PML-Likeminded, NPP and ANP on Monday came down hard on PPP, terming the ruling party as “traitor” of Sindh province. They called the new legislation “black law”.PML-F’s Parliamentary ...

 MIRPUR (AJK) - Amendments should be made to the Interim Act – 1974, the Constitution of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, without further delay to pave the way for the empowerment of the AJK government, demanded Shah Ghulam Qadir, the former speaker of AJK Legislative Assembly.He was talking to ...

PESHAWAR - Opposition parties in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Monday strongly rejected the provincial budget, as according it lacked appropriate allocations for power, education, health and agriculture sectors, and urged the Federal Government to provide funds on priority basis for all mega ...

ISLAMABAD - Criticising the Opposition for not learning any lesson from the past mistakes, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said that Opposition was bent upon rocking the boat of democracy but expressed the resolve that the PPP alongwith its coalition partners would frustrate their nefarious ...

DHAKA - A Bangladeshi court on Monday charged a fifth member of the country’s largest Islamic party with alleged atrocities including genocide during the nation’s 1971 war against Pakistan.Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, 60, the third highest ranked leader of the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami ...

ISLAMABAD - With a countywide crisis of electricity, unending gas shortages, increasing inflation and poor law and order situation in most parts of the state, the federal government is going to present today its fifth financial budget in the national assembly.President Asif Ali Zardari has summoned ...

ISLAMABAD - A delegation of Sindh Cabinet ministers belonging to PPP led by Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah called on Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani here at the PM House on Friday to express complete solidarity with the Prime Minister and the coalition govt.They also commended him for his ...

ISLAMABAD - After a long gap, the combined opposition is most likely to adopt a unanimous stance on any future course of action against the PPP-led government policies while discussing the issue of Nato supply line in today’s meeting.The combined opposition parties meeting is scheduled for ...

ISLAMABAD - Contrary to the unopposed elections for the slots of Senate chairman and deputy chairman, the Upper House of the Parliament is likely see a tough and heated contest for the leader of opposition between the incumbent, Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri from JUI-F, and PML-N candidate Senator ...

LAHORE - All opposition parties, either because of their complicity with the ruling PPP-led setup or incapacity, have failed to mount enough pressure on it to hold early elections, as a result of which the political scene appears set to remain more or less the same.In such a situation, the ...