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At long last, the Supreme Court of Pakistan fixed a date for the hearing of a decade-old petition filed by Air Marshal (Retd) Asghar Khan. After facing criticism from different circles, the apex court set February 29 as the date for the hearing of Asghar Khan’s petition in which he asked the court to punish […]
Imran Khan, the chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has urged the United States to stop drone strikes in Pakistan, claiming that they were killing many innocent people. He observed that each bomb that killed terrorists also killed many people who might be related to the terrorists but were not involved in militancy. In his […]
Fatima Bhutto, the renowned writer and granddaughter of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, is not impressed by and still critical of Imran Khan’s revolutionary tsunami, which seems to have swept away many a veteran politicians. The legendary figure of Bhutto family, the daughter of Murtaza Bhutto, while speaking at the Jaipur Literature Festival on Sunday made it […]
Farahnaz Ispahani, the media adviser to President Asif Ali Zardari and wife of former ambassador to United States, Hussain Haqqani, claimed that she ran away from Pakistan to save her life, saying she feared of being kidnapped by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). A report published in Sunday Times cited Farahnaz Ispahani as saying that she […]
Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that the Interior Ministry would provide security to Mansoor Ejaz. Talking to media men Saturday in F-9 Park, he said that ISI could not provide security to anyone as it is an intelligence agency and not a security agency. “Under article 245 of the constitution if any need […]
Repeating his claims of receiving threats from Pakistani officials, Pakistani-origin US business tycoon, Mansoor Ijaz, has said he had not afraid of anyone and nothing can stop me from visiting Pakistan. While speaking to an Indian TV channel, Ijaz reinterred that nothing can stop him from coming to Pakistan, adding he will bring his BlackBerry […]
There are very few people speak about the problems linked with the process in which voting, the nub of democracy, is held. However, there are many intellectuals who voice their views that revolve around the need for the system to continue at all costs. In Pakistan, we hear about rigging of one kind or the […]
The death reports of Hakimullah Mehsud, the chief of defunct Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), are once again proving false. A private TV channel quoting sources reported Hakimullah Mehsud is still live and safe in some unidentified location of North Waziristan, the tribal area of Pakistan. “Hakimullah is well and safe in North Waziristan the news related […]
Amid a tense standoff between Pakistan’s civilian-military leadership, Attorney General Maulvi Anwar ul Haq told the Supreme Court on Friday that the government had no intentions of sacking Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General Ahmed Shuja Pasha for their unconstitutional and illegal replies in the memogate case. […]
The Supreme Court directed Director General of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to arrest former media advisor to Prime Minister Khurram Rasool by January 24 in Rs530 million fraud else action would be taken against him. “The DG, FIA should be ready to face legal action if he fails to present the accused in the court […]
A parliamentary committee sought explanation from the Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and Attorney General over a constitutional amendment bill introduced by the government to legalize by-elections held by a constitutionally incomplete ECP. A meeting of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Law and Justice was held in Parliament House with Begam Nasim Akhtar […]
After Pakistan closed the two key border crossings used to supply NATO troops in Afghanistan, the U.S. is bearing six times more expenditures for sending war supplies to allied forces battling in the region. Almost a couple of months ago, Pakistan took stern action, closing the supply line, after a NATO airstrike killed at least 24 […]
