KUALA LUMPURBahrain's Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa fought back against allegations of human rights abuses Thursday as he became Asian football's new leader with a landslide election win.The royal, who has also denied vote-buying claims, won 33 of the 46 votes to become president of the ...

ISLAMABAD -  Spokesperson for President Senator Farhatullah Babar has deplored the accusations hurled by PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif in a public meeting against the president. In a statement issued on Saturday, the presidential spokesperson said that the president as head of the state and in ...

ISLAMABAD – The presidential spokesperson has refuted the allegations levelled by former Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif that the Presidency was behind the move to declare him a loan defaulter. In a statement issued here on Saturday, Farhatullah Babar stated the National Accountability ...

LAHORE – After 23 hearings in eight months on a plea seeking contempt of court proceedings against President Asif Ali Zardari for defying Lahore High Court’s judgement in dual office case, an LHC bench on Wednesday was given a simple assurance that Presidency would not be used for ...

ISLAMABAD : - President House, Prime Minister House, intelligence agencies and defence institutions are defaulters on electricity bills, disclosed a report issued by Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco). According to the report presented before the Power Crisis Committee, Army Military ...

ISLAMABAD – The Public Accounts Committee on Tuesday made it clear that each and every department/organization consuming the government funds would have to respond to audit objections and no one was exception. The National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee which met with its ...

Secretary to President Asif Ali Zardari, Malik Asif Hayat, submitted a response stating that no political cell had been operating in the President House since Sept 2008.A three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar, has been hearing the 1996 petition filed by Asghar Khan who had accused the ...

FAISALABAD - Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on Monday said that Governor House and Presidency had become hub of conspiracy against the Punjab government.Talking to media persons here, he said that both houses were hatching conspiracies against the Punjab government. He said that propaganda was ...

ISLAMABAD – The President House and the Pakistan Army spokesmen on Saturday denied any contact between President Asif Ali Zardari and Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on the night between May 1 and 2, 2011, when US aircraft violated Pakistani airspace, killing Osama bin Laden ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE National Fertilizer Marketing Ltd (NFML) Managing Director Brig (rtd) Balal Ahmed Khan has said that he is not being removed, as President Asif Ali Zardari had specially appointed him in the corrupt organization in order to weed out unscrupulous elements so that this ...

LAHORE - No constitutional bar exists on a presidents affiliation with any political party or his heading a party, however, the president is not permitted to the use the presidents house for the purpose of political activities. Abid Hassan Minto advocate told the full bench of the Lahore High Court ...

ISLAMABAD - The slain Governor Salman Taseer was strongly resisting the moves from powerful quarters in PPP against any amendment in blasphemy law and Aasia Bibis amnesty, and his last visit to the Federal Capital aimed at winning Presidencys support in this regard, it is reliably learnt. The late ...

CAIRO (AFP) - The younger son of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has said he has no personal ambition to succeed his father at the helm of the country, newspapers reported on Saturday. Despite what people think, I have no personal ambition, Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper quoted Gamal Mubarak as ...

BRASILIA (AFP) - Dilma Rousseff celebrated victory Monday after she was elected Brazils first female president and vowed to uphold the legacy of her predecessor and mentor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Rousseff, who served as Lulas cabinet chief before he handpicked her to succeed him in the runoff, ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Special codes that allow the US president to order a nuclear attack went missing for months during Bill Clintons time at the White House, his former top military officer says in a memoir. The nuclear authorisation codes, known as the biscuit, are supposed to remain close to the ...

KARACHI Former CEO of the PCB Arif Ali Khan Abbasi is the first Pakistani to have openly opposed former Australian prime minister John Howards candidacy as ICC vice president. Talking to TheNation here Monday, Arif Ali Khan Abbasi, who played a crucial role in introducing 'rota system which ...

ISLAMABAD The National Assembly (NA) on Wednesday was informed that around Rs153.3 million were spent by the administration of President House in the first ten months (July -April) of the current fiscal year 2009-10. The written information was given on the question posed by MNA Khalida Mansoor ...

ISLAMABAD As many as 24 affiliated soccer clubs with Islamabad Football Association (IFA) showed their confidence in Dr. Shahzad Wasim and jointly nominated him their candidate for the president of IFA in next elections. They also nominated their candidates Syed Maqbul Hussian Naqvi and Manzar ...

LAHORE Former PCB chairman Lt Gen (retd) Tauqir Zia is among some of the citys sports circles heavyweights expected to run for the Lahore City Cricket Association president seat in the coming elections scheduled on March 26. Reports also suggested that former Pakistan captain Aamer Sohail is also ...

WASHINGTON - Two weeks after reporting that President Asif Ali Zardari was facing growing public anger and disillusionment over his remote presidency, The Washington Post said Tuesday that the Pakistani leader had come out swinging to hold off his political foes. President Asif Ali Zardari, ...

CHISINAU (AFP) - Thousands of young protesters stormed the parliament and presidency in Moldova Tuesday after a rally against a Communist election victory boiled over into violence in Europes poorest country. Moldovas ruling Communists, the first Communist Party to win power in the former Soviet ...

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's reformist ex-president Mohammad Khatami on Sunday announced he would stand in June presidential elections in a challenge that could see the ouster of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government. "I strongly announce my candidacy in the elections," Khatami told a news conference after he ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former president George HW Bush Sr, father of the outgoing US President Bush, on Sunday touted another son Jeb for a future presidential bid. "I'd like to see him run. I'd like to see him be president some day," the elder Bush, 84, who was the 41st president, told "Fox News ...

WITH record low approval ratings and intense criticism for his handling of the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina and the economy, the word most used to label George W Bush's presidency will be "incompetent", historians say, reports CNN. "Right now there is not a lot of good will among historians. Most ...

LONDON (AFP) - Wall Street and European stocks fell Wednesday as investors took profits despite gains earlier in Asia as Democrat Barack Obama was elected the first black president of the United States. In opening deals, New York's Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.91 percent to 9,537.51 ...

WASHINGTON - PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari says his election as President would seal the victory of democracy over dictatorship, and he took a swipe at "an elite oligarchy", located between Lahore and Rawalpindi-Islamabad, that often deprived smaller provinces and rural Punjab from ...

ISLAMABAD - During the recent parleys among ruling coalition partners in which the alliance reached the consensus for the impeachment of President Musharraf, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman asked PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif to decide first who would be the ...

LAHORE-While asking the people to wait for PPP call for a Long March, the Co-Chairman PPP , Asif Ali Zardari on Monday said the day was not far when PPP would show its presence in the Presidency. 'The day is not far when Jeay Bhutto slogans would echo in the Presidency, and PPP would show its ...