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Pakistan urges world to ensure peaceful post-NATO Afghanistan

Pakistan Friday urged all concerned stakeholders including the United States to devote their energies towards making Afghanistan peaceful, progressive, prosperous and stable country in the post-withdrawal period.   Concerns about possible instability in Afghanistan grow as the endgame fast approaching and the Taliban and the U.S. have not resumed peace talks.   Pakistan is also […]

Musharraf denies judges’ arrest charge in police statement

Hours after former President Pervez Musharraf was arrested for imposing emergency rule in 2007 and placing top judges under house arrest, the police transferred him to the police headquarters in the capital for questioning on Friday, officials said.   Earlier in the morning Musharraf appeared before a court of a local magistrate in Islamabad and […]

Senate for Musharraf’s portraits removal from public buildings

The Senate on Friday passed a unanimous resolution, demanding the government to remove portraits of former President Pervez Musharraf from all the public buildings.   The resolution was moved by Senator Ishaq Dar of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) party of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the upper house of the parliament unanimously […]

PM Khoso for addressing security loop holes

Prime Minister, Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, has asked the Ministry of Interior and Home departments in the provinces and FATA to lay additional emphasis on addressing loop holes in security.   “We should all do our utmost effort to plug all holes that can affect or disrupt the electoral process,” the Prime Minister told a […]

Pervez Musharraf offers arrest after court order

Former President Pervez Musharraf was arrested early Fridaya day after a court ordered his arrest for imposing emergency rule in 2007.   Musharraf appeared before a court of a local magistrate in Islamabad and formally offered his arrest, his defence lawyer, Qamar Afzal, said.   The judicial magistrate Abbas Shah granted a two-day transit remand […]

Overseas Pakistanis to get vote right

The Election Commission has decided to give right of vote to overseas Pakistani and the decision will be implemented through the Presidential Ordinance, Secretary Election Commission Ishtiaq Ahmad Khan said on Thursday.   The decision was taken at a meeting held in Islamabad today with Chief Election Commissioner Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim in the chair.   […]

Musharraf leaves court after arrest order

The Islamabad High Court on Thursday ordered arrest of former President Pervez Musharraf for detaining senior judges when he imposed emergency rule in 2007.   Musharraf was in the Islamabad High Court when the court delivered verdict.   The court cancelled his interim bail in the case and ordered his arrest. However, Musharraf, succeeded to flee […]

Musharraf’s bail in Benazir murder case extended

The Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench on Wednesday extended by a week interim bail to former President Pervez Musharraf in the case of the 2007 assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto, lawyers said.   Musharraf has been accused of failing to provide adequate security to Benazir Bhutto when she returned to Pakistan from exile in […]

Interim gov’t says can’t start treason case against Musharraf

Pervez Musharraf

The interim government Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it cannot initiate high treason case against former President Pervez Musharraf as it has only a mandate to hold elections.   The apex court had on Monday sought reply from the federation about five identical petitions, seeking high treason proceedings against him for Musharraf for suspending […]

Pak Army busy in relief efforts in quake-hit areas

Pakistan army said Wednesday that rescue and relief operations in the earthquake-hit areas of Balochistan province are in progress.   An earthquake, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, Tuesday hit Mashkeel area in Balochistan, bordering Iran, and killed at least 34 people and injured 80 more.   Correspondents in the region said that many houses […]

US drone kills 5 in South Waziristan

An American spy aircraft Wednesday fired missiles into South Waziristan tribal region and killed at least five people, security officials said.   Two missiles were fired on a house in Sararogha area early morning, completely destroying the building.   All those in the compound were killed and injured, officials said.   They said that the […]

Bomber near election rally kills 11 in Peshawar

A suicide bomber attacked an election meeting in Peshawar killed at least 11 people late Tuesday, police said.   The Awami National Party (ANP) was holding a meeting at Yaka Toot area of Peshawar when the bomb exploded in the crowded area.   Police and doctors confirmed that 11 people were killed and nearly 40 […]

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