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Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar stressed that continued tensions along the Line of Control (LoC) in disputed Kashmir region is not in the interest of South Asian peace, proposing high level talks between the two arch-rivals. In a statement she noted, “Instead of issuing belligerent statements by the military and political leaders from […]
Thanking Tahirul Qadri for inviting Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) to join his long march, PTI Chairman Imran Khan reiterated his stance of putting protests on hold until the caretaker setup was formed. Imran said this while presiding over a party meeting on Wednesday held to review the offer made by Qadri. “Protests will only help […]
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has welcomed the declaration of the opposition parties at a conference held in Lahore on Wednesday regarding upholding of constitution and holding of free and fair elections in the country. The heads of opposition parties including Pakistan Muslim League-N Chief Nawaz Sharif, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) Chief Fazlur Rehman, Jamat-e-Islami […]
Hundreds of Bara tribe men have staged sit-in with 18 dead bodies found a day earlier in Alamgudar area of Khyber tribal region’s Bara tehsil in front of the on Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa governor house. Reports said that the protestors carrying the bodies of 18 tribe men who were found in different areas of Bara […]
Pakistan had refused to release any of its players for the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) after a planned bilateral series had to be scrapped, Bangladesh cricket chiefs said. Pakistan had been due to host Bangladesh for a Twenty20 game and a 50-over match in Lahore this month in what would have been its first […]
Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira scoffed at Dr Tahirul Qadri and the demands he had put forward during his long march in Islamabad on Wednesday. Speaking on behalf of the government, Kaira responded to each of the four demands put forward by Qadri and questioned their credibility. “He wants the government, assemblies, parliament and […]
The military said on Wednesday that unprovoked firing by Indian troops had killed one of its soldiers across the tense border in disputed Kashmir. An ISPR (Inter-Services Public Relations) statement said that one of its soldiers had “embraced martyrdom due to unprovoked Indian firing” at the Line of Control (LoC). “Indian troops again resorted to […]
Former Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president Asma Jahangir has claimed the apex court’s judgment into the Rental Power Plants case ordering arrest of Premier Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has exposed the real face of the establishment’s organs, including the judges. She was addressing a press conference at the Karachi Press Club. Sindh High Court […]
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has rejected demands put forth by Dr Tahirul Qadri, chief of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran (TMQ), terming them unconstitutional. A consultative meeting of the PML-N was held at Raiwand on Tuesday with the party chief, Nawaz Sharif in the chair. The meeting discussed the situation after the long march and the […]
In the wake of protests following border tension between the arch-rivals, nine Pakistani players were on Tuesday withdrawn from a new field hockey league in India and asked to return home. Shiv Sena protests in Mumbai forced the team to shift training base to Delhi, Hockey India decided to play safe and send […]
Leaders of different political parties have rejected the demands of Chief of Minhajul Quran Tahirul Qadri as unconstitutional and undemocratic. Begum Naseem Akhtar of Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) while speaking to Radio Pakistan said that assemblies cannot be dissolved on the dictation one person. 180 million people have given mandate to the present government […]
The stocks at Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) took a nosedive Tuesday and fell by three percent after the Supreme Court ordered the arrest of the prime minister over possible corruption charges. The Karachi Stock Exchange’s (KSE) benchmark100-share index ended 3.16 percent, or 525.29 points, lower at 16,107.89. Investors, who were already trading cautiously […]
