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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
At least 12 people were killed and over 40 others were injured in two bombs blasts at two different mosques at a time of Friday prayers in Malakand, police said. The blasts occurred at a remote Bazdara area near Batkhela. Deputy Commissioner of Malakand Amjad Ali confirmed that 12 persons were killed and […]
The Interim Prime Minister, Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, has decided to release 51 Indian fishermen on humanitarian grounds as a gesture of goodwill, the Prime Minister’s office said Friday. These prisoners have already served their sentences, a statement from the PM office said. The Prime Minister expressed the hope that the Indian Government […]
Two sons of former President Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari joined the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) and the Sindh-based National Peoples Party (NPP) was merged into the PML-N on Friday. Owais Legahri and Jamal Leghari, both elected as independent from Dera Ghazi Khan, met Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz Sharif in Raiwind, and joined the PML-N, […]
Pakistani Taliban Friday claimed responsibility for attack on the army and police near Peshawar, which killed at least two military personnel. Seven, including three policemen, were injured when militants ambushed their vehicles late Thursday. Heavily armed militants attacked a police Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) which was on a routine patrol on Kohat Road […]
Pakistan said on Thursday that the conflict with Afghanistan over construction of a border post has been resolved. Clashes took place between the border forces of the two countries in recent weeks which killed an Afghan soldier and injured several Pakistani troops. Afghan government accused Pakistan army of constructing a border post on […]
