Sheikh Rashid Crashed, 15000 Votes from PPP workers
Sheikh’s strategy fails in this NA-55 election against unexpected strong candidate of PML-N Shakil Awaan. Unofficial results that have started pouring in show Pakistan Muslim League-N candidate Shakil Awan in clear lead over Sheikh Rashid in a neck-and-neck competition between the two. This has been reported yesterday that PPP, PML-Q and few small political groups [...]
Secret Joint Raid Captures Taliban’s Top Commander by US in Karachi
Top Taliban commander captured in secret raid. The Taliban’s top military commander has been captured in Pakistan in a joint operation by Pakistani and U.S. intelligence forces, The New York Times reported. AP reports: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, described as the No. 2 behind Taliban founder and Osama bin Laden associate Mullah Muhammad Omar, has [...]
Judges restoration not yet approved by Parliament: PM
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani Monday said the Parliament has not yet granted approval to the judges’ restoration effected through an executive order and that he will not have any objection if the Parliament grants power of judges’ appointment to the Chief Justice of Pakistan. Addressing the National Assembly here, the Prime Minister said [...]
Lawyers jumps again into the ring, Nationwide strike Observing
Again, fuel has been added to the lasting fire of Lawyers Movement. Lawyers getting united , protesting against Government and you might hear this again ” Chief Terey Jaan Nisaar – Be-shumaar Be-shumaar” . RAWALPINDI: The lawyers’ National Coordination Council (NCC) is staging countrywide strike with complete boycott of the courts’ proceeding on Monday. Qazi Anwar, [...]
Zardari is the biggest threat to democracy, Nawaz
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) will not allow the government to move scot-free, the party chief Mian Nawaz Sharif warned terming President Asif Ali Zardari as the biggest danger to the democracy, Geo News reported Sunday. Addressing the packed hall of journalists after the party’s meeting, he said it seemed that the government does not [...]
Pakistan, India foreign secretaries to meet on Feb 25
Foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India will meet on February 25 in New Delhi, INDIA. The decision was taken in a meeting held in Prime Minister House , ISLAMABAD, on Friday. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani chaired the meeting that reviewed Pak- India dialogues, water, Kashmir and other issues and outline the strategy. The meeting [...]
Pakistan is Worlds Biggest Worry: Biden
WASHINGTON: US Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that his greatest concern was not Afghanistan, not Iraq, nor the Iranian nuclear crisis, but Pakistan. “I think it’s a big country. It has nuclear weapons that are able to be deployed. It has a real significant minority of radicalized population,” Biden quotes this in an [...]
Talks ‘fruitless’ unless Kashmir, water issue solved : PAKISTAN
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi Wednesday said Pakistan wants to hold candid talks with India at the earliest and that the dialogue will not be fruitful unless Kashmir and water issues are addressed. Correspondents Jawad Naeem Rana and Fayaz Raja here, Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Pakistan does not want to hold dialogue just for [...]
Manmohan alert of cross-border terrorism
NEW DELHI: Expressing concern over increase in infiltration attempts, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday said the Centre and the states should launch coordinated efforts to tackle internal and cross-border security threats, Geo news reported. Addressing the Chief Ministers’ Conference on Internal Security here, he said hostile groups and elements operate from across the border [...]
Shiv Sena(Bal Thackeray) shifts quickly to attack SRK, calls ‘Traitor’
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray , the leader of Hindu extremist party in Maharashtra shifts quickly from his position of separating Maharashtra from India, to an Indian Nationalist. He has once again slammed actor Shah Rukh Khan for supporting Pakistani players’ inclusion in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Through his mouthpiece Saamna, the Shiv Sena supremo [...]