LAHORE - In a bid to rebuild its public image after its near-decimation from Punjab province in elections 2013, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid has decided to take shelter under PTI on opposition benches inching towards an announcement that will end its over two years long marriage of convince with ...

ISLAMABAD - Resolving the impasse between Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) to jointly form next government in centre, the leaderships of both parties are likely to announce their alliance next week.“The ongoing talks, which is going in the positive ...

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) President Makhdoom Javed Hashmi said on Sunday that PTI will not make an alliance with Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz (PML-N).Unofficial poll results suggest that PML-N is currently leading the elections.Talking to the media, Hashmi said that the election results ...

KARACHI -The Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen, Sunni Tehreek and Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan have reached an electoral alliance for the polls to be held on May 11. Addressing a news conference here at the Press Club Thursday, MWM’s Allama Sadiq Raza Taqvi, ST’s Matloob Awan Qadri and JUP’s ...

C christine fairAs the US withdrawal from Afghanistan looms ever nearer, opponents of “abandoning Afghanistan” continue to rehearse the ostensible lessons from the US exeunt from the region in 1990.They warn that the US failure to stay the course and rebuild Afghanistan led inexorably ...

HAVANA : Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has renewed a strategic alliance with Cuba, signing $1 billion in cooperation agreements two weeks after his election to replace the late Hugo Chavez.The 51 agreements signed Saturday during Maduro's visit to Cuba encompass health, education, ...

KARACHI - The ten-party alliance of opposition, led by PML-F and PML-N, has failed to field unanimous candidates to challenge the PPP and MQM as hopefuls from opposition parties are contesting against each other on many seats in the Sindh province. This situation shows a clear negation of tall ...

Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Farooq Sattar has said their party would not make political alliance with any party before elections.Talking to a private TV Channel‚ he urged all political parties to develop a consensus to face challenges of sectarianism‚ poverty and terrorism.Farooq ...

LAHORE - The PML-Q top leadership Saturday met with Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) leaders to buy time for announcing the schedule of dissolution of assemblies, but reportedly they also used the opportunity to check if the PAT would like to make a political alliance with them.The ruling coalition had ...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) have started contacts to enter into an alliance for joint efforts to deal with the ruling political parties at the centre and in Punjab. According to well placed sources backdoor contacts between PTI chairman Imran Khan and JI Ameer Syed ...

Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has said that country has undergone a big shift of opinion as sapling of change has been planted and with nutrition of efforts to restore peace and economy of country it would soon start bearing fruit. Talking to media persons at Allama Iqbal ...

Important political developments could be witnessed before the general elections as political parties are adjusting their positions in line with the prevailing scenario. The All Pakistan Muslim League chief Gen (Retd) Pervez Musharraf and Tehrik-e-Insaf leader Imaran Khan are being persuaded by ...

A new case was registered against Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi (MQM-H) chief Afaq Ahmed at the Landhi police station in Karachi on Monday. The case has been registered by Khalid Hussain, a Water Board employee, who alleges that Afaq Ahmed had ordered his abduction and torture. Three others have ...

Leader of Pakistan Muslim League PML-N Siddiq ul Farooq has said that they would welcome any political party that wants to be a part of grand alliance. He said that corruption is People Partys agenda; PPP has gained success through cheating in the elections of AK. PPP has backstabbed its first ...

Talking to the media in Multan, former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that the PPP and the PML-Q coalition was not conciliation but hypocrisy. He stated that the governments agreement with Q-league was to protract its rule and approve the coming budget. He suggested that President Asif ...

The alliance between Muslim League (N) and People's Party in Punjab was unnatural, President Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Asma Jahangir said on Saturday. She said the parliamentary committee for appointment of judges will not act as a rubber stamp. She vowed to continue struggle against ...

President Asif Ali Zardari said that people should not worry about the alliance of political orphans and social plunderers. He said that political orphans are those demanding end of feudalism. Addressing the ceremony held for the monthly draw of Benazir Income Support Programme in Badin, the ...

American counter-terrorism specialists and Saddam Hussein's former intelligence officers have forged an unlikely alliance in Yemen to tackle al-Qaeda. The two sides were enemies on the battlefield just seven years ago but have been brought together by the failings of Yemen's security and ...

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Secretary General Syed Munawar Hassan says that Pakistan People Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) have no consensus on internal and external affairs of the country, but National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) and deal have forced them to form an alliance. Talking ...

PML(N) Secretary Information Ahsan Iqbal has said that there is no question of making an alliance with the PML-Q. Talking to media here on Sunday, Iqbal reiterated that PML-N would participate in lawyers' long march at any cost. "We will continue our struggle for independent judiciary and ...

The Special Draft committee of the ruling coalition on Saturday held it's meeting to discuss the charge sheet against President Musharraf. The meeting was held in the chamber of Leader of the House in Senate Raza Rabbani. The committee decided to prepare a detailed charge sheet on constitutional ...