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Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) and Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) Wednesday agreed to make seat adjustment in Balochistan for the May 11 elections. PML-N leader and former Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif met BNP chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal and agreed to form committees for seat adjustment. Both told a joint presser that the seat […]
President Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Khan has claimed that his party had rejected U.S. pressure about the peace deal with the Swat Taliban. “The ANP was under tremendous pressure from the United States not to enter into peace agreement with militants in Swat but it ignored the pressure in view of ground […]
Renowned columnist and the PML-N candidate in Chakwal, Ayaz Amir, was allowed to contest National Assembly election as an election tribunal cancelled an earlier decision by Returning Officer. The Returning Officer had rejected Ayaz Amir’s papers over his controversial columns about the Ideology of Pakistan. An election tribunal bench in Rawalpindi overturned the […]
Gunmen opened fire on a polio team in Mardan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing a policeman and injuring another on Wednesday. The polio team came under attack in Musam Korona in the outskirts of Mardan when the team was busy in door-to-door anti-polio vaccination. The attackers riding a motorcycle fled after the […]
Pakistan on Wednesday conducted a successful launch of the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile, which can carry nuclear warheads, the military said. The missile is capable of carrying nuclear and conventional warheads to a range of 900 kilometers, an army statement said. “Pakistan today conducted a successful launch of the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile […]
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Tuesday announced its manifesto, making a pledge to end difference between the rich and the poor. Imran Khan was the chief guest while the party spokesman highlighted salient features of the document at a press conference in Islamabad. The PTI manifesto stated that the […]
Last week, a high-level delegation of American cotton scientists visited Pakistan to review progress and plan new strategies with Pakistani counterparts to fight the Cotton Leaf Curl Virus (CLCV), a devastating disease that affects cotton yields in Pakistan and caused the loss of an estimated 1.5 million bales or 15 percent of this year’s total […]
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday adjourned until April 15 hearing of petitions, seeking high treason proceedings against former President ervez Musharraf as his defence lawyers sought more time to reply to the charges against him. The court on Monday summoned Musharraf to appear in person on Tuesday or he must be represented by […]
Pakistan has developed indigenous assistance and protection capability meeting international standards, to respond to chemical emergencies and ensure chemical safety and security, a Pakistan official says. Additional Foreign Secretary, Ambassador Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry, made the remarks in the Third Review Conference on Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in The Hague, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. […]
The Election Commission of Pakistan has expressed its inability to provide vote casting right to the overseas Pakistanis. The Election Commission of Pakistan submitted its report in this regard in the Supreme Court on Monday. The Commission opposed hurried evolution of a mechanism to enable overseas Pakistanis to exercise their right to vote. […]
The European Union will deploy over 100 observers and experts in different parts of Pakistan to monitor election activities, Head of the European Union Election Observation Mission to Pakistan Michael Gahier said Monday. Addressing a news conference in Islamabad he said the Observer Mission is visiting Pakistan on the invitation of Ministry of […]
The Supreme Court has summoned former Pakistani President General (retired) Pervez Musharraf to appear on Tuesday in proceedings of high treason charges against him, court officials said Monday. Five petitions, seeking high treason proceedings against Musharraf, had been filed in the Supreme Court of Pakistan, and the apex court has now issued notices to […]
