Saturday, February 11, 2012
- Lahore: Shopping centre caught fire in Gulberg
- Australia beat Sri Lanka by 5 runs, remain unbeaten in tri-series
- Blasts, firing near PTIs rally leave 7 injured in Swabi
- Imran says will shoot down drones if comes to power
- 25 killed, 175 injured in Syria blasts
- Aqib Javed resigns as bowling coach
- NATO supplies from Pakistani airspace never stopped: Pentagon
- 11 militants killed, 19 injured in Orakzai operation
- Mansoor Ijaz to record statement via videolink on Feb 22
- LHC adjourns hearing of petition against TCP
LK Advani steps down as leader of opposition
Veteran Indian politician and BJP leader L K Advani on Friday stepped down as leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha, handling the reins to party leader Sushma Swaraj. Advani is elected Chairman of BJP parliamentary party. The changes in the BJP have come at a time when the party is beset with several challenges including its decline in Uttar Pradesh where it finished a distant fourth in the last Lok Sabha polls. The defeat in the Lok Sabha polls also led to internal bickering and blame-game in the party. Advani, 82, who has scripted the rise of BJP from the mid-eighties, is expected to guide the party in the role of a mentor. He could not realize his ambition of becoming prime minister in the 2009 parliamentary polls.
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