DUBAI : An adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei joined the presidential race on Friday, with authorities keen to make the June vote a peaceful contrast to the upheaval that followed the disputed 2009 poll. Reformist groups have been suppressed or sidelined since then and the next ...

I am a doctor and have been living in USA for the last 38 years; I am visiting my sick mother in Pakistan and have got to see the political fever for the first time It is good to see an independent Election Commission, the freedom of media as well as judiciary. Despite so much changing in my ...

TEHRAN :Iran began registering candidates Tuesday for a June 14 presidential vote, the first in the Islamic republic since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election sparked months of violent street protests in 2009. The interior ministry opened the five-day registration process at 8:00 am ...

  LOS ANGELES ES One Direction will be protected by President Barack Obama’s bodyguards on theirUStour. The ‘Kiss You’ hitmakers’ management have reportedly hired a team ex-secret service agents whose previous assignment was protecting the American leader to escort the ...

ROME - Former Italian prime minister Romano Prodi was proposed on the weekend as Italy's next president by leftist loyalists -- drawing immediate indignation from Silvio Berlusconi and others on the right. "I find it intolerable that some people think of excluding Prodi" from the list of candidates ...

TEHRAN - Iran's former nuclear negotiator Hassan Rowhani joined the race to succeed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday, accusing the incumbent of needlessly incurring crippling economic sanctions. Rowhani, 64, who headed the relatively moderate nuclear negotiating team that served under ...

President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday announced that general elections to the National Assembly shall be held on 11th of May this year.Spokesperson to the President Senator Farhatullah Babar said that the President announced the date as soon as the summary was received from the Prime Minister a ...

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday signed the reference on the issue of appointment of superior court judges that will be filed on his behalf by the law minister on Friday (today).The move comes after the government decided to file a reference in the case pertaining to the extension ...

ISLAMABAD - Presidential reference in judges appointment case will be filed in the Supreme Court under Article 186 of the Constitution on December 6 (Thursday).According to sources of the Ministry of Law and Justice, the reference containing ten questions related to the appointment of judges in the ...

PARIS (Reuters) - A handful of people in the world know that German Chancellor Angela Merkel loves popping over to Paris because of her penchant for French cuisine, while it’s best to avoid serving artichokes to French President Francois Hollande. They are the top chefs from the kitchens of ...

LAHORE (MIAN DAWOOD) – Besieged by the Supreme Court, the PPP regime is considering bringing in a presidential ordinance to curtail the original jurisdiction and the suo moto powers the apex court enjoys under article 184(3) of the constitution.Though a draft of the ordinance is available ...

Islamabad  - Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Saturday said the statements that made Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani regarding the presidential immunity, were all within the domain of the constitution. She was talking to the media persons outside the Parliament. The minister said ...

BAHAWALPUR - President Asif Ali Zardari’s address to the joint session of the Parliament received mixed reaction from various circles of the city on Saturday.Most of the people termed it a historic occasion and praised it while some remarked it only a jugglery of words as nothing has been ...

CAROLINA - Former Chinese ambassador and one-time Utah governor Jon Huntsman is dropping his US presidential bid and will endorse frontrunner Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination on Monday, his campaign said. The timing of the news was a shock, coming hours after Huntsman picked up a major ...

The memo controversy, which has overshadowed all the issues facing the country right now, has taken another major turn after the petitions filed on the issue with the apex court were declared maintainable and a high-powered judicial commission was constituted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan to ...

COLOMBO (AFP) - Tension increased on Sunday ahead of Sri Lankas first peacetime presidential election after the Opposition accused the ruling regime of preparing a state-backed coup. The allegations raised the prospect of street protests and a potentially violent struggle for power in the countrys ...

BUCHAREST (AFP) - Romanians voted on Sunday in a tight presidential election seen as a chance to resolve a political crisis that has hindered the recent EU members bid to recover from a deep recession. Twelve candidates are running, but polls have shown the incumbent centre-right President Traian ...

KABUL (AFP) - They may be backed by warlords and rely on donkeys to get their supporters out to vote, but contenders in Afghanistans elections are making promises and trading insults like politicians anywhere. Just days before Afghans choose their president, the main candidates are criss-crossing ...

KABUL (AFP) - A candidate for the Afghan presidential election in an interview with AFP Saturday accused incumbent Karzai of having tried to buy him off. Abdullah Abdullah said Karzai had offered him a prestigious post in the next govt if he was prepared to withdraw from the August 20 election. I ...

LAHORE - The International Hockey Federation (FIH) announced that the nomination of Peter Cohen of Australia as candidate for the FIH presidential election has been withdrawn.   The election for the FIH President will take place on the occasion of the FIH Congress in Los Angeles, USA on ...

HONG KONG/LONDON (AFP) - Asian markets were mixed Tuesday as traders stayed on the sidelines ahead of the US presidential election, with most hoping the next leader will introduce a new economic stimulus for the world's biggest economy. With most indices seeing little change, some investors took ...

SAN FRANCISCO - MySpace announced Wednesday it is launching a website devoted to the US presidential debates. MyDebates.org was created in partnership with the Commission on Presidential Debates and will go live in the days leading up to the first US presidential debate on September 26. ...

ISLAMABAD - In anticipation of a possible consensus of the coalition partners on a motion of presidential impeachment, President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday met with PML-Q's central command and deliberated on the various aspects of the issue.  The meeting between the President and PML-Q ...

WASHINGTON - Democrat Barack Obama is still the frontrunner in the 2008 United States presidential race, according to a poll by Opinion Research Corporation released by CNN. Fiftyone per cent of respondents would vote for the Illinois senator, who aspires to be the first black American to be US ...

NEW YORK - Former US presidential candidate John Edwards endorsed Senator Barack Obama on Wednesday in an effort to transfer his appeal among white, working-class voters to the Democratic front-runner who has struggled to win them over. Obama's campaign hopes the endorsement, late in the ...

WASHINGTON - The Democratic Party has yet to nominate its presidential candidate, but advisers for US Senators Barack Obama and John McCain say it's time to look to November. Strategists for both teams say Sen Hillary Clinton, Democrat of New York, is all but out of the race completely. Advisers ...