COLOMBO - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on Sunday sacked the chief justice by ratifying a controversial parliamentary vote, defying international calls for restraint and plunging the country into a constitutional crisis.Shirani Bandaranayake, the first woman to hold the office of top ...

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has sacked Defence Secretary Lt Gen (retd) Naeem Khalid Lodhi from his post. The move came minutes after the Pakistan army strongly reacted to Prime Minister Gilani’s remarks against Army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani and ISI chief Lt General Ahmed ...