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Sajjad Hussain
Joined on: Nov 30, -0001 Published stories: 43

Articles By Sajjad Hussain

Capital abuzz with rumours over the president’s health

Islamabad was once again abuzz with rumours on Wednesday that President Asif Ali Zardari was resigning due to health issues. The announcement on Monday that the president had suddenly left for Dubai for medical check-up has already led to speculative news that he might resign from his office. A report that appeared in The Cable […]

Memogate scandal: Tariq Khosa refuses to head the commission

With the fears of clash between the judiciary and executive in full swings, former Director General of the Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) Tariq Khosa on Saturday, December 3, refused to run the one-man inquiry commission on memo scandal. This comes after the Supreme Court had set up the commission on Thursday, and asked Tariq to […]

SC accepts the petition on memogate

The ‘memogate’ saga refuses to die down. The Supreme Court on Thursday, 01 December, accepted the petition filed by the leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. The petition, among other things, had asked the court to place the former ambassador Hussain Haqqani’s name in the Exit Control List (ECL). A nine-judge bench of SC heard the […]

Combatting drug smuggling: Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan agree to bolster cooperation

 While the three countries in the region might not have complete agreement on an array of issues, if one thing that can bring Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran together is cooperation to combat drug smuggling. All the three countries agreed on Monday, November 28, to bolster cooperation to fight the menace of drug smuggling. The decision […]

Qureshi joins Imran’s Tehrik-e Insaaf

The rumours making rounds that Shah Mehmood Qureshi would be part of Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaaf finally proved right on Sunday when the former Pakistan People’s Party member announced to join the PTI in the largely attended rally at Ghotki. Also addressed by Imran Khan whose presence brought a lot of his supporters in Ghotki bordering […]

Qureshi’s Ghotki rally attracts attention

If there is anything eagerly awaited and closely observed, it is the supposedly big rally of Shah Mehmodo Qureshi scheduled for Sunday, 27th November. There are reports that the former foreign minister has got a lot of assurances from the bigwigs in the politics that they will join him whatever decision he makes. The rally […]

With the government cornered, president asks CJ to hear ZAB reference on daily basis

The Pakistan People’s Party threw the ball in Supreme Court’s court on Saturday by asking to fix an early date for hearing the reference of ‘judicial murder’ of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan and the founder of the PPP. In a special letter sent to the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar […]

Qureshi yet to make the final decision

With the Shah Mehmood Quereshi and Nawaz Sharif meeting bringing no tangible results, the guessing game as to which party shall the former foreign minister join continues in full swing. Shah Mehmood Qureshi is scheduled to address a rally in Ghotki on 27th November which – some observers say, will finally put an end to […]

Qureshi leaves the pundits guessing

The much-awaited and closely observed meeting between Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s president, Nawaz Sharif, and Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday did not produce any result as rumours kept swirling in Islamabad that the latter may formally announce joining PML-N. “Mr Qureshi has been a foreign minister and a successful one. Now he is looking beyond that […]

Qureshi set to meet Nawaz Sharif today

Islamabad, Nov 22:The former Pakistan People’s Party member from Multan and the former Foreign Minister of the current government, Shah Mehmood Qureshi is set to meet the Pakistan Muslim League-N’s president Nawaz Sharif today. While speculations swirl as to which party will Qureshi finally join, the choice being Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf and PML-N, today’s meeting […]

Nawaz comes up with the demand of commission on ‘memogate’

With the memo-gate saga refusing to die down, chief of his faction of Muslim League, Nawaz Sharif demanded for a formation of a commission to probe the issue. His demand came in the wake of the Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani’s assurance in the parliament that Ambassador Hussain Haqqani has been summoned for explanation […]

PPP turns to its allies as challenges multiply

With crisis after crisis falling on the embattled Pakistan People’s Party’s government simultaneously, the party leadership has decided to step up their contacts with the allies to deal with them. Chaudhry Shujahat Hussain is one of the first allies to assure the government of his PML-Q’s complete support complete. The decision to step up the […]

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