Hong Kong: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s niece Fatima Bhutto on Monday said that the western media played irresponsible role while reporting February 18 polling in Pakistan, adding that they had disregarded heavy rigging.
“We turned on CNN and we turned on the BBC and we were told, Musharraf has lost, it’s a sign for […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) spokesman Farhatullah Babar said Monday that Makhdoom Amin Fahim was still the front runner for the slot of prime minister but a decision would be made by the party’s Central Executive Committee.
The Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) quoted Babar as saying that the first high-level meeting of the […]
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has accepted a mercy plea from an Indian national who spent 35 years on death row on spying charges, and ordered his release, a minister said on Friday.
Kashmir Singh, was arrested in the city of Rawalpindi with another Indian in 1973 while trying to smuggle goods from Pakistan […]
ISLAMABAD: Lawyers and members of civil society came under heavy shelling by police here at Judges Colony when they were protesting against the House Arrest of deposed chief justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chuadhry on Monday.
The police resorted to tear gas shelling when the protesting lawyers and representatives of civil society tried to removes the barbed wire […]
Islamabad: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is likely to announce its Prime Ministerial candidate at the National Assembly parliamentary party meeting on March 6.
PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari has called the meeting at Zardari House.
ISLAMABAD: Police fired tear gas Monday to disperse hundreds of lawyers who tried to remove barbed wire outside the house of Pakistan’s deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, an AFP reporter witnessed. Around 200 people joined a rally at the residence of former judge Chaudhry, who was suspended by President Musharraf under emergency rule four […]
ISLAMABAD : Ahmed Mukhtar, a prominent figure in Pakistan People’s Party, said Monday said that he would like to become president rather than prime minister.
The MNA-elect from Gujrat, who defeated PML (Q) president Ch. Shujaat Hussain in the February elections, was talking to a private television channel.
ISLAMABAD: Authorities yesterday released a prominent firebrand lawyer who was under house arrest since President Pervez Musharraf imposed a state of emergency in November.
The government has lifted a security cordon and withdrawn police deployed around the house of Aitzaz Ahsan in Lahore.
A senior police officer said Ahsan could again travel freely.
He gave no reason why […]