LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief and former Prime Minster Nawaz Sharif was aware of the situation in Kargil in 1999 through the then defence secretary who had been briefed on the situation, a new book on the Pakistan Army has quoted a senior army official as saying.
ISLAMABAD: Federal Government has decided in principle to withdraw subsidy being provided for electricity.It has been proposed to raise general sales tax on electricity bills from present 15 percent to 16 percent and collect the same from the consumers.
ISLAMABAD : Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf Chief Imran Khan has said that the important meeting of the All Parties Democratic Movement will be held on June 18 in which future line of action regarding re-instatement of judges against the government will be planned.
ISLAMABAD : Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi on Saturday described the annual budget 2008-09 as a “negation of the Five Es election manifesto of PPP” and said it would put extra burden on poor masses.
QUETTA : A militant group on Saturday claimed it has kidnapped 28 Iranian border security personnel soldiers and demanded release of its jailed activists.
A spokesman for Jundullah, Maulvi Abdul Rauf told reporters at Quetta press club over phone from an undisclosed place that the group is holding the Iranian border security men.
TV channels also quoted […]
Islamabad, June 14 : Former premier Nawaz Sharif today said that Pakistanis now wanted President Pervez Musharraf's trial instead of impeachment, and asked the parliament to take decision according to peoples' wishes.
Addressing the ceremony of the participants of Lawyers' Long March, Sharif said that Musharraf couldn't be given safe passage.
Hundreds of thousands of anti-Musharraf marchers […]
New York, June 14 : Washington and Islamabad must now do everything they can to repair relations, starting with a joint investigation and a full public report on bombing by US forces on the Pak-Afghan border leading to the death of 11 soldiers, the New York Times has said.
Washington should "Ëœquietly discuss' with Pakistan the […]
ISLAMABAD: Tens of Thousands of participants of the long-march Friday gathered here at the Parade Avenue for the restoration of the deposed judges of the country’s superior courts and removal of the President Pervez Musharraf.
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sherry Rehman Friday said that in past it was only PPP that remained committed for the cause of democracy and it is a good omen that now other political parties have also stepped in the field.
ISLAMABAD : A mammoth rally from across Pakistan converged on the Capital on Friday to press the new government to reinstate the judges ousted by President Musharraf on November 3 after imposing emergency.