
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has welcomed the declaration of the opposition parties at a conference held in Lahore on Wednesday regarding upholding of constitution and holding of free and fair elections in the country. The heads of opposition parties including Pakistan Muslim League-N Chief Nawaz Sharif, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) Chief Fazlur Rehman, Jamat-e-Islami […]

Major opposition parties in the country on Wednesday joined hands to call upon the government to immediately announce dates for parliamentary elections to put an end to the current political uncertainty. The main opposition leader and former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, had invited leaders of other opposition parties to review the situation following the […]

The military said on Wednesday that unprovoked firing by Indian troops had killed one of its soldiers across the tense border in disputed Kashmir. An ISPR (Inter-Services Public Relations) statement said that one of its soldiers had “embraced martyrdom due to unprovoked Indian firing” at the Line of Control (LoC). “Indian troops again resorted to […]

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan demanded an immediate resignation of President Asif Ali Zardari, ruling out the possibility of free and fair elections under the former. The above is one of the seven demands that the PTI Chairman Imran Khan made while talking to media persons here. He also demanded immediate announcement of general […]

Prime Minister, Raja Pervez Ashraf, on Tuesday convened an emergency meeting in Islamabad to seek legal opinion on the Supreme Court’s order of his arrest in a corruption case. The apex court issued Ashraf’s arrest warrant at a time when the country was in the grip of political uncertainty in view of the long-march […]

The Supreme Court of Pakistan has ordered to arrest Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in rental power plant case. A three member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Chaudhry Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry resumed the hearing of rental power case. During the hearing, the bench ordered to arrest the PM and directed […]

Minhajul Quran International (MQI) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri has said that parliament has no right to rule in the country. Addressing the long march participants at D-Chowk on Islamabad’s Jinnah Avenue in front of the Parliament House, he termed his address as Islamabad declaration saying the declaration has seven points. He says this parliament […]

In a bid to avoid a possible smackdown, the government has surrendered to Tehrik Minhaj-ul-Quran leader Allama Tahir-ul-Qadri’s demand of allowing his long marchers to stage a sit-in at D-Chowk. On the face of it a showdown was in the making as the chanting protesters responded by pushing aside barricades made of shipping containers […]

Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran chief Dr Tahirul Qadri gave a 7-hour deadline to President Asif Zardari and the Pakistan People’s Party-led federal government to dissolve all assemblies by 11am today (Tuesday) as “they had lost the right to govern people”. “Morally, your government and your assemblies have ended tonight,” Qadri told a mammoth gathering from behind […]

Shahrukh Jatoi – prime suspect in Shahzeb Khan’s murder case – has apparently surrendered himself to officials at Pakistan’s consulate in Dubai. Shahrukh had reportedly escaped to Dubai after allegedly killing Shahzeb Khan in Karachi. Shahzeb was murdered on December 25, 2012 over a petty dispute in Karachi’s Defence area allegedly by Shahrukh. […]

Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri, leading thousands of his supporters, entered Islamabad late Monday to mount pressure on the government to introduce ‘electoral reforms’ to stop corrupt elements from taking part in elections. Qadri told his marchers that the sit-in will continue until the government resigns, the demand described as ridiculous by the Information minister. Interior Minister, Rehman […]

Hours after the government imposed governor rule and dismissed chief minister, Nawabzada Aslam Raisani, members of Shia community ended their four days of protest for deployment of troops and also buried those killed the string of the Thursday’s bomb attacks. Over 100 people were killed and nearly 200 were injured in three bomb blasts […]