LAHORE -  Allies of the PTI have geared up efforts to install Imran Khan as the new opposition leader in the National Assembly. Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed, Awami Muslim League (AML) chief, Syed Munawar Hasan, Jamaat-i-Islami ameer, Aftab Sherpao, Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) chairman and Chaudhrys of ...

LALAMUSA Newly elected PML-N MNA Ch Jaffar Iqbal has said that the electorate in district Gujrat including NA-106 constituency has politically wiped out the PPP and its allies forever and have given a clear mandate to PML-N again to steer the country out of crises. “The people think that the ...

PESHAWAR The PTI-led government will ensure peace, justice, education and health facilities to the people of the province, said Pervez Khattak, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister-designate.Addressing a joint press conference with JI Vice Ameer Sirajul Haq and QWP Chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan ...

QUETTA - JUI-F Amir Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that there is a direct contest between secular and religious forces in the coming elections.Addressing an ‘Islam Zindabad conference’ in Pishin on Sunday, some 70km from here, he said Akhtar Mengal and his allies were being supported by ...

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan  - On an Afghan parade ground, Dutch soldiers stand to attention at a graduation ceremony for local police officers, one of many such scenes which will soon fade into the past.The international military effort in Afghanistan since 2001 has seen scores of nations take up a ...

Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira on Tuesday said the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) had completed internal consultations over the dissolution of assemblies and the installation of a caretaker setup and was scheduled to begin its talks with the allied parties.Addressing participants of a ...

ISLAMABAD - The Senate Friday passed the recommendations on the controversial tax amnesty bill to the National Assembly amid strong opposition even from its coalition partners.The MQM and PML-Q, coalition partners of the government, strongly opposed the Tax Laws (Amendment) Bill 2012 while the ANP, ...

ISLAMABAD - The wavering coalition partners forced the ruling Pakistan People’s Party to defer tabling of National Accountability Commission (NAC) bill for enactment before the National Assembly.Sources in the ruling coalition informed TheNation that PPP was all set to get the NAC bill passed ...

KARACHI - Junior partners of the provincial ruling coalition as well as opposition parties flayed PPP for not taking action against the extremists and criminals responsible for the growing lawlessness in the country’s commercial hub as a result of which dozens of innocent people are being ...

KARACHI - Differences among the ruling allies further widened as many provincial ministers, advisers and special assistants on Saturday submitted their resignations at the CM’s Secretariat to protest the PPP’s solo flight of promulgating the ‘Sindh Peoples Local Government ...

KARACHI – Throwing weight behind the arguments put forward by Sindh Minister for Education Pir Mazharul Haq in favour of recruitments through provincial departments, allies of the ruling PPP on Sunday outrighlty rejected the decision to hand over the recruitment authority for government posts ...

KARACHI - Despite the claims of ministers from the ruling PPP about having reached a consensus on a new governance system for Sindh, an agreement over the contentious issue of powers of local governments is nowhere until now, it has been learnt.Nevertheless, the PPP and its ally (the MQM) have ...

ISLAMABAD - Ruling out any role in Arsalan Iftikhar scandal, Pakistan People’s Party-led coalition government has expressed its resolve to conduct impartial inquiry into the whole affair as per the directions of the Supreme Court.At a coalition partners’ meeting, jointly chaired by ...

NEW YORK - The United States and its Western allies plan to demand that Iran immediately close and ultimately dismantle a recently completed nuclear facility deep under a mountain near the city of Qom as part of new negotiations with the Islamic Republic over its nuclear programme, The New York ...

ISLAMABAD – A meeting of the heads of allied parties, which are part of the ruling alliance, on Tuesday discussed issues relating to the report of PNCS.President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani jointly chaired the meeting held at the Presidency. Presidential ...

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE/KARA-CHI – Despite upset on some seats, the PPP-led ruling alliance secured the highest number of Senate’s 54 seats, making its tally to 70 in the House of 104 and thereby gaining ample space to set country’s future roadmap.With the nine candidates who have ...

Recently, the Presidents of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan gathered in Islamabad to seek ways and means to wriggle out of asymmetric American pressures. It is because the three countries have run into many difficulties in the context of their bilateral relations with the US. Although these states ...

ISLAMABAD - Soon after the indictment of Prime Minister Gilani in the contempt of court case by the apex court, the coalition parties heads gathered at Prime Minister’s House and expressed solidarity with the Prime Minister and pledged to stand by him.All the coalition partners were ...

WASHINGTON  - The United States, European governments and Arab states have begun discussing the possibility of exile for Bashar al-Assad despite skepticism the defiant Syrian president is ready to consider such an offer, Western officials said on Wednesday. While talks have not progressed far ...

ISLAMABAD - After getting a little respite from the Supreme Court of Pakistan in the contempt of court case against Prime Minister Gilani, the ruling Pakistan People’s Party and its coalition partners have started negotiations on seat adjustments for the upcoming elections on half of the ...

ISLAMABAD – The coalition partners of the PPP-led government have advised the main player to observe caution and avoid steps that could lead to more disharmonies among the state institutions, though they agreed to put forth a resolution in the National Assembly in favour of the President and ...

ISLAMABAD - The PPP-led ruling alliance Tuesday decided to seek nod of the Parliament in evolving a response to tackle challenges that have emerged following the Supreme Court’s decision giving six options to the government to implement NRO decision.The ruling alliance took this decision at ...

ISLAMABAD - The matter about creation of new provinces including Hazara and Seraiki provinces on Tuesday dominated the National Assembly session, as major Treasury and Opposition parties locked horns on creation of new provinces. Awami National Party (ANP) and PML-N opposing the idea to debate ...

PARIS/AJDABIYA (AFP) - Disagreement over arming the rebels battling Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi emerged Wednesday with at least three of the countries enforcing the no-fly zone over the country opposing the idea. Russia also criticised the proposal, amid dissent within NATO over the conduct of the ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Peoples Party has decided to slash down the share of the coalition partners in the truncate cabinet to be formed after the dissolution of the incumbent one by the Prime Minister in the next few days and in this connection both the President and Prime Minister have talked to the ...

UNITED NATIONS - Israels allies should threaten economic sanctions to persuade it to lift its stifling blockade of Gaza, a UN official says. Richard Falk, the United Nations special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of the start of the ...

ISLAMABAD - In a bid to be on the same page with the coalition partners, President Asif Ali Zardari accelerated his direct political contacts as he dined with an ANP delegation at the Presidency here on Friday. PPP as the largest political force in the country possesses the will and capacity to ...

Baghdad (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's allies triumphed in weekend elections, preliminary results showed Thursday, delivering him a popular mandate after fiercely contested polls in the war-torn nation. Candidates backed by Maliki took the biggest vote in Baghdad and eight of the ...

LAHORE - PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said that he had taken a number of such steps and decisions during the last five months that he didn't like to do. In an interview with an Indian newspaper, he said that coalition parties often made him take the decisions which he did not like to ...

LAHORE - PML-N central leader Tehmina Doltana has said the country is passing through hard times and PPP despite being in coalition partners is making all decisions without consulting PML-N leadership. She was addressing a ceremony held in connection with the 41st anniversary of Mather-e-Milat ...