President Asif Ali Zardari has congratulated Samina Baig and her brother Mirza Ali for scaling the world's highest peak Mount Everest. Samina Mirza 21 -is the first Pakistani lady scaled this peak. Baig completed the climb to the summit at around 7:30 a.m. Read More »
Parliamentary meeting of the newly-elected members of PML-N is being held in Lahore later on Monday to chalk out strategy regarding formation of government. The meeting to be chaired by PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif will also discuss priorities on national and public issues Read More »
PML-N leader Shahbaz Sharif Sunday held a meeting with the chief of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party Mahmood Khan Achakzai in Quetta on Sunday and discussed matters relating to formation of government in Balochistan. Read More »
Chairman Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan Sunday urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take suo-moto notice of the gruesome murder of his party leader Zohra Shahid Hussain in Karachi. She was killed outside her home in Defence Area by unidentified people. Imran Khan alleged the MQM is behind Zohra Hussain’s murder Read More »
A rmy chief, Gen. Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani, Saturday met the country’s Prime Minister-in-waiting, Nawaz Sharif, and discussed with him security issues, PML leaders said Read More »
Spokesperson to the President Senator Farhatullah Babar has deplored the allegation leveled by former Chief Minister Mr. Shahbaz Sharif that the President was involved in making postings and transfers of senior officials in the government as “not only absolutely baseless but also highly irresponsible”. Shahbaz Sharif alleged Friday that the caretaker Prime Minister, under the influence of President Asif Zardari, was making transfers and postings in the federal government and was not prepared to listen to the PML-N Read More »
Pakistan's outgoing ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman has urged the U.S. to end drone strikes in the tribal areas in order to help put the relationship on sustained upward trajectory. Sherry Rehman resigned from her post this week after defeat of her Pakistan Peoples Party in the May 11 election Read More »
The Election Commission Friday rejected MQM's request for re-polling in the entire NA-250 Karachi constituency. Read More »
Presidential spokesperson Senator Farhatullah Babar has said that President Asif Ali Zardari will not be resigning. According to Babar, there is no question of a resignation. Despite suffering a historic defeat at the centre and in three provinces, the Pakistan Peoples Party has surprised many by retaining its earlier position in Sindh by again winning a simple majority here Read More »
At least 12 people were killed and over 20 others were injured in two bombs blasts near two different mosques after Friday prayers in Malakand, police said. The blasts occurred at a remote Bazdara area near Batkhela. Deputy Commissioner of Malakand Amjad Ali confirmed that 12 persons were killed and 20 others injured in the two blasts adding that the number of casualties was expected to increase Read More »
At least 12 people were killed and over 40 others were injured in two bombs blasts at two different mosques at a time of Friday prayers in Malakand, police said. The blasts occurred at a remote Bazdara area near Batkhela. Read More »
The Interim Prime Minister, Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, has decided to release 51 Indian fishermen on humanitarian grounds as a gesture of goodwill, the Prime Minister’s office said Friday. These prisoners have already served their sentences, a statement from the PM office said. Read More »
Two sons of former President Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari joined the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) and the Sindh-based National Peoples Party (NPP) was merged into the PML-N on Friday. Read More »
Pakistani Taliban Friday claimed responsibility for attack on the army and police near Peshawar, which killed at least two military personnel. Seven, including three policemen, were injured when militants ambushed their vehicles late Thursday. Heavily armed militants attacked a police Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) which was on a routine patrol on Kohat Road in Sara Khwara area, leaving three policemen including a driver and two constables injured Read More »
Pakistan said on Thursday that the conflict with Afghanistan over construction of a border post has been resolved. Clashes took place between the border forces of the two countries in recent weeks which killed an Afghan soldier and injured several Pakistani troops. Read More »
