new yorkFormer Pakistan Ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani has ruled out the possibility of working for the Prime Minister-in-waiting, Nawaz Sharif, and said that the PML-N government was unlikely to bring about any substantial foreign policy shifts."I have not had a relationship or ...
LAHORE - It was in July 1998 that Mian Nawaz Sharif, as prime minister of Pakistan, participated in a SAARC summit in Colombo. From there he went to Singapore where he had an overnight stay and met his counterpart Lee Kuan Yew and asked him the secret of the city state’s economic ...
LAHORE - Imran Khan fell off the lifter when he was getting to the stage to address a rally. Moments after hearing the news I happened to watch the fall on a TV channel which left me terribly shaken. It was awful.The more and more I watched the footage, my scare for his life swelled. Knowing ...
karachi - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has hailed the address of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani clearing the ambiguities regarding general elections and role of the Armed Forces.In a statement issued here on Wednesday, Altaf Hussain said that Kayani ...
lahore - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz says that the arrest of Pervez Musharraf is a test case for the caretaker government because after the rejection of his bail by the court, it is imperative for the executive to take him into the custody and try according to the law.PML-N spokesman ...
LAHORE – Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) Chairman Sahibzada Haji Fazal Karim passed away on Monday in a Faisalabad hospital. He was survived by a widow, four sons and one daughter. Fazal Karim, suffering from liver cancer, had been in the hospital in critical condition since April 4. A couple of ...
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran Khan, has announced he will declare war on illiteracy in the country and will treat it as a national emergency when he assumes office.Khan said that he intends to create a specialist cabinet of advisors and implement a ten-year multi-pronged plan to reach full ...
PESHAWAR - Electioneering is picking up momentum in Nowshera as the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP-P), Awami National Party (ANP) and Pakistan Tahrik-e-Insaf (PTI) have fielded senior politicians from Khattak tribe to win elections from the NA-5 Nowshera-I ...
LAKKI MARWAT – Local leaders of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf have condemned the party’s parliamentary board for awarding ticket to an undeserving person for the sole seat of National Assembly of Lakki. Speaking at a hurriedly called meeting here on Sunday, Haklim Asghar, Farman Zangikhel, ...
Terming the attitude of the Election Commission of Pakistan and the Returning Officers improper President Asif Ali Zardari has said that he has constitutional powers but he has abstained from using them so as not send any wrong impression.President Zaradri stated this during his meeting with the ...
LAHORE - Though in principle President Asif Ali Zardari is not holding any party office at the moment, the question being asked is whether he would really shun politics or not.In the recently held intra-party polls of the PPP, the president has chosen not to keep any party office, perhaps in view ...
Mohammad JamilPresident Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney with a big margin and won himself a second term after a bitter and historically expensive race. In his victory speech, Obama thanked every American who voted, and vowed to work with leaders from both parties to tackle the country’s ...
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira said here in Islamabad on Monday that if Imran Khan engages in talks with TTP, the government would cooperate with him.Kaira added that the government did not prevent Khan from going to South Waziristan but in fact, informed him of ...
ISLAMABAD - Beneath the ostensible calm in the face of the judgement in the contempt of court case against Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani reserved by Supreme Court, the PPP leadership was engaged in hectic activities to cope with the situation on political horizon in case the court would ...
British Airways has halted all flights to Pakistan following the bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, a spokesman for the airline said on Monday. "We have temporarily suspended our flight operations in Pakistan following Saturday's suicide attack," Sohail Rehman, a spokesman for ...
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif Saturday said he was ready to accept Asif Zardari as president if he does away with powers to dissolve parliament. Former president Pervez Musharraf had strengthened his powers through a 17th constitutional amendment, which gave the president the power to dismiss ...






