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Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is set to formally step into political arena on Thursday at a public meeting that will also mark the 5th death anniversary of her mother Benazir Bhutto at Ghari Khuda Bakhsh in Sindh province. The PPP expects a big crowd to greet Bilawal,24, who will also lead the party’s campaign during […]
Senior leaders of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) proudly say that their government has successfully completed five-year constitutional term. Top party leaders claim achievements, however, the people could not hear anything about the mystery still shrouds the 2007 assassination of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. President Asif Ali Zardari had once announced that he knows […]
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan of $245 million for the eight distribution companies to improve power distribution system in Pakistan, the bank said Monday. The investment is part of the ongoing $810 million Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program agreed n 2008. The multi-tranche financing facility (MFF) targets investment in […]
A debate has opened in Pakistan following the remarks by Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri, chief of Minhaj-ul-Qura’an, at a mammoth public meeting in the shadow of ‘Minar-e-Pakistan’ that he wants to ‘save Pakistan’, asking the rulers to ‘introduce electoral reforms in three weeks or face a march on Islamabad of four million people on January 14’. Independent political […]
Thousands Sunday attended funeral for a Pakistani provincial minister, who was killed in a Taliban attack in Peshawar yesterday. Bashir Ahmed Bilour, senior minister in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa province, and seven other people were killed when a bomber blew himself up shortly after he spoke to his supporters. Taliban claimed responsibility for killing Bilour, who had […]
Punjab Governor Saturday resigned as President Asif Ali Zardari has nominated Syed Ahmed Mehmood, influential politician to assume the governorship of the country’s biggest province. Sardar Latif Khosa called on President Asif Ali Zardari in Karachi and tendered his resignation, officials said. The President accepted his resignation. A leader of a breakaway faction of […]
Pakistan has welcomed the nomination of Senator John Kerry as the next U.S. secretary of states at a time when Washington needs Islamabad’s key role for a political way out in Afghanistan. Pakistani ambassador in Washington, Sherry Rehman, called Mr Kerry as a “steadfast” friend of the country, which has suffered a lot since […]
Pakistan on Saturday summoned Afghan Charge d’ Affaires for lodging a formal protest over torturing of a group of Pakistani nationals in Afghanistan. Pakistani authorities had closed its border with Afghanistan after they received complaints of alleged Afghan torture against 29 Pakistani labourers in Kabul, official sources said. “The Government of Pakistan takes […]
As the Supreme Court has disqualified several lawmakers for holding dual nationality, now the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party has launched a counter attack and has demanded suitable legislation to bar dual nationals from becoming judges. Speaking on a point in the Senate on Friday to discuss the implications of an answer given last month […]
The National Assembly has passed a bill, allowing the country’s security agencies to record phones and use e-mails and text messages as proof in trials in terrorism-related cases. Rights groups are concerned at the possible misuse of the legislation, as such laws have always been misused by the state institutions especially when they deal with the […]
Although political leaders are struggling to enter into new alliances and seat adjustment ahead of the parliamentary polls, tradition electioneering and hustle and bustle have yet to pick up. The tenure of the current National Assembly four provincial assemblies will complete on March 17. A caretaker government will be installed for two months to […]
Terrorist attacks on volunteers of anti-polio teams in Karachi and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday and Wednesday, which claimed lives of five women and a male in only 24 hours, have raised serious concern about the success of the campaign in Pakistan. All law enforcement agencies have miserably failed to apprehend the culprits who fled […]
