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Tahir Khan
Joined on: Dec 04, 2012 Published stories: 1513

Articles By Tahir Khan

After criticism, PM’s House clarifies transfers/postings reports

Caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso and his govt has been under fire for weeks over appointments on key position at a time when the govt has just few days to transfer power to the new govt.   Many are surprised at the move by the caretaker set up and the interim law minister […]

Bomber kills senior Afghan official, 9 others

A suicide bomber Monday killed a senior Afghan official and nine other people in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan province, officials said.   Chairman of the Baghlan Provincial Council Mohammad Rasul Mohsini came under attack at the entrance gate of the Baghlan Provincial Council in Pol-e Khomri city, the provincial capital.   A local official in Baghlan […]

Zardari congratulates Samina Baig for scaling Mount Everest

President Asif Ali Zardari has congratulated Samina Baig and her brother Mirza Ali for scaling the world’s highest peak Mount Everest. Samina Mirza 21 -is the first Pakistani lady scaled this peak.   Baig completed the climb to the summit at around 7:30 a.m. local time with her brother Mirza Ali‚ who becomes the third […]

PML-N MPs-elect discuss strategy for govt formation

Parliamentary meeting of the newly-elected members of PML-N is being held in Lahore later on Monday to chalk out strategy regarding formation of government.   The meeting to be chaired by PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif will also discuss priorities on national and public issues.   Independent parliamentarians-elect‚ who have joined PML-N‚ will also attend the […]

Shehbaz Sharif concludes gov’t formation talks in Quetta

PML-N leader Shahbaz Sharif Sunday held a meeting with the chief of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party Mahmood Khan Achakzai in Quetta on Sunday and discussed matters relating to formation of government in Balochistan.   Later‚ addressing a joint news conference with Mahmood Khan Achakzai‚ Shahbaz Sharif said that PML-N‚ PkMAP and National Party will form […]

Imran Khan urges CJP to take suo moto of party leader’s murder

Chairman Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan Sunday urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take suo-moto notice of the gruesome murder of his party leader Zohra Shahid Hussain in Karachi.   She was killed outside her home in Defence Area by unidentified people.   Imran Khan alleged the MQM is behind Zohra Hussain’s murder.   In a […]

Gen. Kayani discusses security issues with Nawaz Sharif

Army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani, Saturday met the country’s Prime Minister-in-waiting, Nawaz Sharif, and discussed with him security issues, PML leaders said.   PML-N senior leader Raja Zafar-ul-Haq confirmed the meeting and said it is a routine practice that the majority leaders are given briefing in the world.   General Kayani visited Sharif’s residence […]

President’s Spokesperson rejects Shahbaz Sharif statement

Spokesperson to the President Senator Farhatullah Babar has deplored the allegation leveled by former Chief Minister Mr. Shahbaz Sharif that the President was involved in making postings and transfers of senior officials in the government as “not only absolutely baseless but also highly irresponsible”.   Shahbaz Sharif alleged Friday that the caretaker Prime Minister, under […]

Media group asks Pakistan to withdraw cases against journalists

Pakistani authorities should dismiss separate complaints filed against newspapers and journalists in Baluchistan for publishing statements made by banned militant groups, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Saturday.   Police in the provincial capital of Quetta had filed a First Information Report, or complaint, on Wednesday against at least seven Baluch dailies and Pakistani journalists […]

Sherry Rehman for end to US drone strikes in farewell address

Pakistan’s outgoing ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman has urged the U.S. to end drone strikes in the tribal areas in order to help put the relationship on sustained upward trajectory.   Sherry Rehman resigned from her post this week after defeat of her Pakistan Peoples Party in the May 11 election.   On […]

MQM call for NA-250 re-polling rejected

The Election Commission Friday rejected MQM’s request for re-polling in the entire NA-250 Karachi constituency.   The Commission while hearing the request in Islamabad said that re-polling will be held only in 43 polling stations.   The MQM had opposed the ECP move and also staged sit-in in Karachi for several days.   Meanwhile‚ Chairman […]

President Zardari will not resign, says spokesperson

Presidential spokesperson Senator Farhatullah Babar has said that President Asif Ali Zardari will not be resigning.   According to Babar, there is no question of a resignation.   Despite suffering a historic defeat at the centre and in three provinces, the Pakistan Peoples Party has surprised many by retaining its earlier position in Sindh by […]

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