Posts tagged Pakistan
PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif to meet Sindh nationalists today
May 7th
Staff Report KARACHI: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif is due in Sindh today (Tuesday) on two-day visit, SAMAA reports. Sources say, during his visit the opposition party leader will address public gatherings in Garhi Khairo and Rato Dero, beside holding meetings with Sindhi nationalists in a bid to forge alliance against ruling PPP. The PML-N leader will head to Gahri Khairo in Larkana district from Moenjo Dero Airport, and will reach the residence of Mumtaz Bhutto in the night
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Loading ...Pakistan dragging its feet on Mumbai mastermind Hafiz Saeed: Clinton
May 7th
KOLKOTA: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday that Pakistan had not taken enough action against Hafiz Saeed, the Islamist blamed for masterminding the 2008 attack by Pakistan-based gunmen on Mumbai, India’s financial capital
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...ECP releases details of assets declared by MNAs, Punjab MPAs
May 7th
Staff Report LAHORE: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday released details of the assets declared by members of National and Punjab assemblies. According to the list, Noor Alam Khan is the richest Member of the Parliament, owning assets worth Rs32 billion while Jamshed Dasti is the poorest parliamentarian with an empty bank account. Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has declared assets of Rs25 million without any car.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Appointment of ad-hoc judges: Judicial Commission meets today
May 7th
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: The Judicial Commission is meeting today (Monday) to discuss the appointment of two ad-hoc judges and one acting judge in the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will preside over the meeting. Speaking at a ceremony in Sibi on 1st May, Chief Justice Chaudhry had disclosed that three judges had opted to sit out of the possible larger bench if an appeal was filed by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani against his conviction
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...‘Paper lions’ are not my match in fight: Imran Khan
May 7th
Staff Report LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, in clear overtones towards Sharifs of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), said on Monday that paper lions can never fight him. Addressing a ceremony at a private university here, he said he learned only how to win during his 21-year stint on the playground
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Qaeda chief Ayman Al Zawahiri in Pakistan, alleges Clinton
May 7th
KOLKATA: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday her country believed the chief of Al Qaeda was in Pakistan and she vowed to keep up pressure on militant groups in the country. “We want to disable Al Qaeda and we have made a lot of progress in doing that,” Clinton told an audience in India, a week after the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan by US special forces. “There are several significant leaders still on the run.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...By polls for DG Khan’s two seats in progress
May 7th
Staff Report DERA GHAZI KHAN: Voting in by-elections for two vacant seats of Punjab Assembly is currently in progress with 47 polling stations declared extremely sensitive in the two constituencies. The two provincial seats went vacant after Zulfiqar Khosa (PP 243) and Mohsin Leghari (PP 245) were elected to the Senate.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...US hostage Weinstein appears in Qaeda video: SITE
May 7th
HONG KONG: US hostage Warren Weinstein has appeared in an Al-Qaeda video for the first time since he was kidnapped in Pakistan in August last year. According to the US monitoring service SITE, the two minute, 40 second video was posted on jihadist forums by Al-Qaeda’s media arm as-Sahab on Sunday. There is no indication of when the video was made.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Congress’ intelligence heads: Taliban stronger
May 7th
WASHINGTON: The Taliban is stronger now than before President Barack Obama ordered a surge of US troops to Afghanistan, two senior US lawmakers said on Sunday, contradicting the administration’s assessment of the insurgency.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Imran challenges Nawaz to hold rallies in Karachi, Quetta
May 6th
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Sunday challenged Nawaz Sharif to hold rallies in Karachi and Quetta if he wanted to become the country’s prime minister. Addressing a rally to show solidarity with judiciary, he announced that PTI would hold a rally in Rawalpindi’s Liaquatbagh on May 27. He said participants of today’s rally had gathered to make a new Pakistan.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...PML-N stages anti govt rally in Karachi
May 6th
Staff Report KARACHI: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) staged an anti government rally from Shara-e-Faisal to the Karachi Press Club on Sunday.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...PML-N, PTI rallies demand ouster of government
May 6th
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) launch their rallies against government in different cities on Sunday.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Nawaz commits great mistake by launching ‘Long march’: Badar
May 6th
Staff Report LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader of the house in Senate Jahangir Badar said on Sunday that some people are trying to politicize the court’s verdict. Badar also said that Nawaz Sharif is committing a great mistake by launching the long march
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Pak, India hockey match ends in thrilling tie
May 6th
Staff Report MALAKA: A thrilling match of Pool B in the Junior Asia Cup hockey tournament between Pakistan and India ended in a tie here on Sunday.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...PML-N to stage anti-PM rally in Gujranwala
May 6th
Staff Report GUJRANWALA: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is set to stage a rally in Gujranwala today (Sunday) under its ‘Oust Prime Minister’ campaign, launched with a large gathering from Taxila on Saturday. Jiyalas of the ruling PPP have also vowed to take out a pro-PM rally in the city
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...PML-N launches anti-govt movement from Taxila
May 5th
Staff Report TAXILA: Pakistan Muslim League
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