ISLAMABAD - Presidential Spokesman, Senator Farhatullah Babar, has rubbished as irresponsible the allegations levelled against President Asif Ali Zardari by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Shahbaz Sharif.The spokesman said that President ...

ISLAMABADUtterly alarmed over MQM chief Altaf Hussain’s remarks who reportedly demanded separation of Karachi from rest of Pakistan, Dr Shireen Mazari, Central Information Secretary PTI, expressed shock at his statement and said as a leader of a Pakistani political party Altaf Hussain’s ...

KARACHI - The political parties and civil society organisations have expressed shock over the anti-women remarks of former Sindh chief minister and chief of Peoples Muslim League Arbab Ghulam Rahim.They condemned him and demanded the Chief Election Commissioner to take notice of it.PPP Sindh ...

LAHORE – Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz spokesperson Pervaiz Rashid has rejected as baseless remarks by PPP leader on security for SharifsWattoo said on Monday: “Around 761 security personnel – 317 of Punjab Elite Force, 302 of Lahore Police Security Division, 108 of Punjab ...

Hearing the case pertaining to the voting right of overseas Pakistanis, the Supreme Court (SC) ordered the interim government to make legislation through ordinance as per the needs of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).A three-member bench of apex court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar ...

The Election Commission of Pakistan has taken a serious view of a news item titled “DECs in KP ‘least cooperative, transparent’ published in a section of press quoting FAFEN’s report.  It has also come to the notice of Election Commission that certain NGOs unnecessarily ...

NEW DELHI  – Congress on Monday found nothing wrong in Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde's remark sarcastically giving credit to party chief Sonia Gandhi for the appointment of a Muslim IPS officer as IB chief and made it clear this will not be highlighted in Gujarat poll campaign."There ...

UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations has welcomed a public statement by Afghan officials confirming that it is not a criminal offence for women and girls to ‘runaway’ from home to escape violence.Last month, three Afghan officials - the Minister of Justice, Habibullah Ghalib; the ...

Interior Minister Rehman Malik’s comments that everyone is lamenting the murder of Mir Bakhtiar Domki’s daughter and wife, (the granddaughter of Akbar Bugti) but the killing of 40 FC personnel are ignored have been rubbished by MNAs from Balochistan. One fully agrees with the MNAs' ...

CAIRO (Agencies) - The Egyptian foreign minister said on Wednesday that Egypt would not accept any interference in its internal affairs, in response to criticism by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the way security forces dealt with women protesters.In a speech on Monday, Clinton ...

Sentencing remarks of Justice Cooke in the spot-fixing trial involving Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Amir and Mazhar Majeed 1. The gravamen of the offences committed by all four of you is the corruption in which you engaged in a pastime, the very name of which used to be associated with ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - Kashmiris of Occupied Kashmir chant slogans in favour of Pakistan at every Independence Day of Pakistan. However, some leaders of Pakistan, by their irresponsible statements, are rubbing salt into the wounds of the people of Held Kashmir, said Muthidda Jihad Council ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader has crossed all red lines by praising the social upheaval against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as an "Islamic liberation movement", Cairo's foreign minister said on Saturday. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei advised the people of Egypt and Tunisia on Friday to ...

ISRAR AHMED RAWALPINDI - Regional Police Officer (RPO) Hamid Mukhtar Gondal has rebuffed certain media reports by saying that former RPO Nasir Khan Durrani did not write any kind of remarks on the service book of Malik Mumtaz Qadri, who gunned down Governor Punjab Salman Taseer in Islamabad. A ...

KARACHI - Bullish rally was witnessed on Monday with rising volumes in scrips across the board on global commodity prices run. Analysts said that rise in local cement, cotton, sugar and oil prices led the rally. Positive statements on Pakistans role as ally in the anti-terror war by US President in ...

ISLAMABAD The statement of MQM Chief Altaf Hussain, urging patriot Generals to take action against corrupt and landlord politicians, seems to trigger another political alignment in the country, as some political parties may support MQM on this issue. The chief of PML-Functional (PML-F) has already ...

KARACHI - Federal Ports and Shipping Minister Babar Ghouri on Wednesday termed Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirzas remarks against the MQM as incendiary which according to him had hurt the sentiments of people and asked Dr Mirza to render apology for his provocative remarks. Addressing a press ...

LONDON Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf Imran Khan Saturday lambasted British Prime Minister David Cameron over his criticism of Pakistan and warned that his remarks would radicalise more young Muslims against the West. Speaking on BBC Radio 4, Imran said his country had suffered more from ...

DISAPPROVING the comments made by Indian Home Secretary GK Pillai on the eve of Indo-Pak talks, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Wednesday said his whole visit to Islamabad was 'underpinned by the remarks, the timing of which was 'very unfortunate. Clearly unhappy with Pillais statement ...

ISLAMABAD The Upper House of the Parliament echoed with the voices of senators hailing from the ruling PPP over the remarks of Zafar Ali Shah, in which he said that how long the party would keep on doing politics in the name Bhuttos and diverting attention of the people from real issues. He ...

ISLAMABAD Legislators in the National Assembly on Monday condemned the statement of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President, Qazi Anwar and demanded of the Constitutional Reform Committee of the Parliament to add a clause 'contempt of Parliament in the constitutional reform bill so that the ...

ISLAMABAD Legislators from Hindu community in the National Assembly on Tuesday staged a walkout from the House against the remarks of Chief Justice Lahore High Court Khawaja Muhammad Sharif. Speaking on a point of order, Ramesh Lal said the remarks of the Chief Justice LHC regarding financial help ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) - Two Senators belonging to treasury benches Raza Rabbani and Haji Mir Lashkar Raisani have submitted an adjournment motion in the Senate Secretariat against remarks made by US Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke. Holbrooke had commented that if ...

ISLAMABAD - Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Tuesday said that government could not take lightly the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs remarks about fresh terrorist attacks against India being planned in Pakistan. Talking to newspersons here, the Foreign Minister said Islamabad was ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Friday took serious notice of the remarks made by Indian State Minister for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor about the joint statement, issued following the meeting between the prime ministers of the two countries in Sharm El-Sheikh, said an official statement. According to ...

Hong Kong action star Jackie Chans comments about whether freedom was a good thing for China were taken out of context, his spokesman has said. He was criticised after suggesting to a business forum in southern China that Chinese people need to be controlled. But his spokesman said Chan was talking ...

ISLAMABAD - Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) protested in the National Assembly on Monday against the statement of Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) chief Maulana Sufi Muhammad that superior courts (Supreme and high courts) of the country were un-Islamic and demanded Speakers ruling on ...

NEWD DELHI (Agencies) - The Antulay issue once again caused uproar in Parliament on Monday as agitated BJP and Shiv Sena members stormed the well in both the Houses demanding sacking of the Union Minister for Minority Affairs, forcing their brief adjournments. The controversy caused by Antulay's ...

LAHORE - Indian leaders should think twice before issuing statements as their mindless remarks against Pakistan are not only adding fuel to fire but also denting the bilateral trade relations between Pakistan and India. This was stated by Chairman PIAF Irfan Qaiser Sheikh in a statement issued ...

U.S.-led forces said they shot dead a leader of al Qaeda in Iraq on Friday who was the mastermind behind a series of deadly recent bombings in Baghdad. A spokesman for coalition forces said Mahir Ahmad Mahmud Judu' al-Zubaydi, also known as Abu Assad or Abu Rami, had been al Qaeda in Iraq's ...