President Asif Ali Zardari has written a confidential letter to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Fakhruddin G Ibrahim expressing his grave concern over security situation and persistent attacks of Taliban against 3 political parties.As per a private TV channel president had mentioned PPP complaint ...

islamabad - A three-member committee comprising Federal Ministers for Petroleum, Water and Power and Adviser on Finance has been constituted to review the energy situation and give its recommendations with a view to improve the power situation in the country.This decision was taken by Prime ...

LONDON - President Zardari and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Monday discussed the overall situation against the security backdrop in the run-up to elections. Talking over the phone late night, Altaf Hussain apprised President Zardari of the terrorist attacks on MQM, ANP and ...

LAHORE - A 13-member delegation of Nepali journalists on Saturday said law and order situation in Pakistan was not as being projected by the Western and Indian media.The delegation, which has been here since Thursday, said before coming to Pakistan they had the impression as if bomb blasts were ...

Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Syed Munawar Hassan has asked caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso to convene an all-party conference on prevailing security situation in the country.Talking to media in Quetta on Sunday‚ the JI chief said the conference should be attended by leaders of ...

QUETTA Director General Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Balochistan Khalid Baloch has said provincial government is capable of handling the situation and providing relief to earthquake victims of Mashkail.“The situation is under control of provincial government and earthquake ...

Chief Minister Balochistan, Nawab Ghaus Baksh Barozai called on Prime Minister Justice (R) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso at the PM's House Thursday and briefed him on the law and order situation as well as the overall political situation in the province. The Chief Minister informed the Prime Minister that ...

ISLAMABAD - Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani reportedly called on President Asif Ali Zardari at Aiwan-e-Sadr on Friday and briefed him on the overall security situation in the country and on the borders.Official quarters, however, said no such meeting had taken place. According to a ...

PARIS (AFP) - The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) on Thursday said H7N9 bird flu posed an “exceptional situation” as the outbreak among Chinese poultry claimed a 10th human victim. “Based on the information currently available we are facing a rather exceptional ...

RAJANPUR - PML-Q leader Muhammad Jaffar Khan Leghari, a PML-N candidate from NA-174 who had joined the party after prolonged meeting with top leaders, has appeared to be a defaulter of the Punjab Cooperative Bank, Choti (DG Khan).In election 2008, he made an alliance with Sher Ali Khan Gorchani, ...

RAJANPUR - PML-Q leader Muhammad Jaffar Khan Leghari, a PML-N candidate from NA-174 who had joined the party after prolonged meeting with top leaders, has appeared to be a defaulter of the Punjab Cooperative Bank, Choti (DG Khan).In election 2008, he made an alliance with Sher Ali Khan Gorchani, ...

ISLAMABAD - It is a significant achievement for Pakistan’s democracy that political parties have agreed on a code of conduct for the upcoming elections, and it is crucial that they adhere to it to ensure free and fair polls.This was the opinion of participants at a seminar organised on Friday ...

ISLAMABAD - Expressing its resolve to uphold its neutrality, the Federal Cabinet on Friday expressed commitment to play its due role in the provision of peaceful environment for holding free, fair and transparent elections in the country.Briefing the media persons after the maiden cabinet meeting ...

NEW YORK - The Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based watchdog body, has described as "alarming" the situation for journalists in Pakistan, while condemning the murder of senior journalist Pakistani Mehmood Jan Afridi in Kalat. "The level of violence against journalists in Pakistan ...

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that the leadership and workers of ANP, PPP and MQM was being targeted by terrorists to create instability in the country.Talking to media persons here on Sunday after his return from Peshawar where he attended the funeral prayers of senior KPK ...

UNITED NATIONS – The security situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine province is still tense after a recent wave of violence which began in October, the U.N. humanitarian agency said Monday, adding that more than 110,000 displaced people are in urgent need of food, shelter and health care ...

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has directed the Minister for Interior Senator A Rehman Malik to immediately rush to Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and help the Government to control the situation due to the abhorrent incident.  The Prime Minister gave the instructions that all assistance from ...

Trilateral summit of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan started here at Aiwan-e-Sadr on Friday morning to discuss the regional situation, prospects for peace and security and promote trade and economic ties. The summit hosted by President Asif Ali Zardari is being attended by President of Afghanistan ...

Acknowledging the strain in US-Pak relationship, a top US intelligence official has said that the internal situation in Pakistan is "fraught" and will take some time to get back to normalcy, an Indian news channel reported Wednesday."The relationship (with Pakistan) is very important, but the ...

KARACHI - Awami National Party Sindh (ANP) Monday announced support for the Pakistan People’s Party-led government in the critical political situation and vowed that the party would oppose the undemocratic and unconstitutional steps against the government.Addressing the press conference at ...

LAHORE – Jurists say its a make or break situation for the government after the Supreme Court has put his foot down to get the NRO case decision implemented. They say the government itself brought this situation by defying the Supreme Court orders.Former Chief Justice of Pakistan Saeeduz ...

Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan warned on Thursday that the countrys situation might worsen if the upcoming elections were rigged. Speaking to media representative at the Lahore airport, Khan said results of any election in Pakistan had never been accepted wholeheartedly and that it ...

LAHORE - Although the ruling PPP consistently rules out the possibility, some other parties insist that the government is on its way out. Spiritual leader Pir Pagara, whose PML-Functional is part of the coalition and who never conceals his contacts with the GHQ, says that a change will take place ...

WASHINGTON - The United States has described the situation in violence-torn Karachi as a "serious issue" for the Pakistani security forces, and said it was monitoring the situation in that city. Asked by an Indian correspondent about the U.S. assessment of target-killings and bombings in Karachi, ...

JUI-F central leader Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haidri has said 3 parties are responsible for deteriorating the situation in Karachi. Three parties including, PPP, MQM and ANP are responsible for worsening the situation in Karachi. When they sit together then normalcy comes to Karachi and when ...

UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan Tuesday sharply criticized a UN report' section that included "unwarranted" information on the situation in the country, saying its author had exceeded the mandate which was limited to covering the plight of children in armed conflicts. "We respect the independence of ...

PESHAWAR - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, President Asad Qaiser has stated that some elements are trying to create Karachi-like situation in Peshawar. Addressing a protest rally in Kundabad Agha Mirjani Shah here on Tuesday, he said that political parties should be used to ...

The leaders of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) have contacted different parties leaders here on Saturday to discuss the situation of the city. According to the media reports, former Sindh chief minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim who is residing in Dubai, Awami National Partys President for Sindh chapter ...

MULTAN - President, Mango Growers Association Pakistan and Mango Growers Cooperative Society Limited Multan Zahid Hussain Gardezi has declared the reports by Pakistan Water Council (PWC) on the future water situation in Pakistan as 'spine chilling for the entire nation, asking the government to ...

LAHORE The emerging PPP-PML-Q alliance surely poses a serious challenge to the PML-N if not now than certainly for the next general elections when an IJI-like situation emerges against the Sharifs. Through this alliance, both parties have made a tangible effort aimed at damaging the PML-N, which ...