Islamabad, Mar.22 (ANI): While the political chaos in Pakistan may have died for the time being, the political fraternity of the country has now demanded that the Army, which regularly downed speculation of taking over the reigns during the turmoil, must accept the sovereignty of Parliament.
Karachi, Mar.18 (ANI): Outlawed terrorist outfits such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) may be on the US’s list of most dreaded terror groups, but Pakistan does not consider them dangerous as far as the Criminal Investigation Department’s (CID) recently released ‘Red Book’ of terrorists is concerned.
Islamabad, Mar. 18 (ANI): In a bid to bring estranged party leaders back into the PPP mainstream and bridge the cracks within his party, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has started reconciliation efforts by inviting estranged leaders for talks.
On Wednesday, Zardari has invited leader of the house in Senate Raza Rabbani and former PPP Sindh […]
Karachi, Mar.14 (ANI): The former Pakistan Prime Minister and PML-N chief, Nawaz Sharif and his brother, sacked Punjab Chief Minister, Shahbaz Sharif may have garnered huge public support against the PPP led government and especially against President Asif Ali Zardari, but their voracious verbal attack on Zardari and continuous call to defy the government’s orders has now seen a case filed against them in the Sindh High Court (SHC) on charges of orchestrating a mutiny.
Islamabad, March 13 (IANS) A volatile situation existed in Pakistan where authorities Friday continued their crackdown on agitating lawyers staging a ‘long march’ amidst reports that President Asif Ali Zardari had been set an internationally-backed, 24-hour deadline by the army to end the stir.
Pakistan Army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani was reported to have got into the act Friday, meeting Zardari for the first time since the president returned home Wednesday from a regional meeting in Tehran.
Islamabad, March 13 (IANS) Pakistan’s army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Friday met President Asif Ali Zardari amid reports that he had been given 24 hours to act on the lawyers’ stir for overturning the controversial measures of former ruler Pervez Musharraf.
Islamabad, March 13 (IANS) Under a new deal “backed by Washington, London and the army establishment”, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has been given 24 hours to act on the lawyers’ stir for overturning the controversial measures of former ruler Pervez Musharraf, a media report said Friday.
Zardari was Friday “reportedly asked to go by the army and the Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani if he does not accept a new deal hatched by them in consultation with foreign powers”, a Pakistan News website said.
Islamabad, March 13 (DPA) Pakistani authorities Friday impeded a cross-country lawyers’ rally by blocking a protest convoy from travelling to the capital city Islamabad to join a planned sit-in against the faltering year-old government.
Lahore, Mar 12 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif today demanded immediate release of the lawyers, representatives of civil society and politicians arrested by police for participating in the lawyers’ long march.
Meanwhile, police baton-charged lawyers and political activists and manhandled dozens into vans at Karachi Toll Plaza on Thursday.
Police also arrested several lawyers and leaders of Pakistan Muslim League-N, Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, National People’s Party and Sindh United Party who gathered at Toll Plaza to leave for Sukkur, The News reported.
Islamabad, March 12 (IANS) Fascism of the worst kind was in evidence as the Pakistani government moved to counter the lawyers’ Long March that began Thursday, taking the country “downwards in the direction of totalitarianism”, a leading English daily said as another warned of the inevitability of violence during the protest.