Islamabad, March 12 (IANS) Pakistani lawyers Thursday began their long march from Karachi to demand restoration of Supreme Court judges sacked two years back, as over 400 opposition activists across Punjab were rounded up in a major crackdown by the police on the eve of the march and the sit-in planned here next Monday.

A large number of lawyers gathered outside the Sindh High Court from where the long march was kicked off. A rally of lawyers left for Mazar-i-Quaid, Geo TV reported.

Washington, March 11 (DPA) The United States Wednesday said Pakistan should allow its citizens to protest government actions, but refrained from criticizing a massive government clampdown against opposition activists.

Pakistani police said they arrested more than 300 people earlier Wednesday on the pretext of avoiding violence ahead of a cross-country protest march planned for later this week. Opposition groups said the arrests numbered in the thousands.

Peshawar/Islamabad, Mar.11 (ANI): Even as the situation across Pakistan’s political landscape is taking a turn for the worse which each succeeding day, a minister of the North West frontier Province (NWFP) Government survived an attempt on his life on Wednesday.

Islamabad, March 11 (IANS) A confrontation is looming between the government and the opposition over restoring Supreme Court judges sacked two years ago, with former prime minister Nawaz Sharif bent on leading a countrywide “Long March” of lawyers on the issue.

The Punjab government Tuesday night began a crackdown on Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders but a defiant Sharif vowed the struggle would continue.

Islamabad, March 11 (DPA) The police in Pakistan’s eastern province of Punjab began a crackdown Wednesday on opposition parties and anti-government lawyers to forestall this week’s planned countrywide protest march.

Islamabad, Mar. 10 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) can play the kingmaker’s role in Punjab.
Addressing the parliament, he said the PPP-led government would not mind sitting on the opposition benches if it failed to show majority support, adding that the Federal Government would respect the […]

Islamabad, Mar 8 (ANI): The wife of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s close friend has got a lucrative diplomatic posting abroad.

Karachi, Feb.28 (ANI): Continuing his meetings with the country’s top political figures, Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has met important leaders of Sindh province here.