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President, Asif Ali Zardari, will not seek second time, Presidential Spokesman, senator Farhatullah Babar said on Monday. The term of Mr. Zaradri, who was elected President in September 2008, will complete in the second week of September this year. “President Asif Ali has decided not to contest election for the second time,” Babar told reporters […]
Pakistan on Monday strongly condemns the US drone strike that killed two people in North Waziristan tribal agency late on July 13. It was third US attack since Sharif has come to power, two suspected militants riding a motorcycle were struck by missiles in the Mir Ali on Saturday night. “These unilateral strikes are a […]
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has delayed demonstrations against load shedding in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa scheduled for Monday, the ruling party said. Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Pervez Khattak was to lead the protest. PTI says it wants to consult other parties for joint protest. The federal gov’t was also unhappy at the announcement made by a group […]
Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pervez Khattak, will lead a rally in Peshawar on Monday to protest against the long power outage in the province, provincial assembly members said on Sunday. Addressing a press conference in Peshawar, Pakistan Tehreek Insaf MPAs described the load-shedding as a conspiracy against their government. They demanded immediate removal […]
Pakistan’s first private hydro power project is being inaugurated in Mirpur‚ Azad Kashamir on Monday. Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif is expected to inaugurate the project. The 84 megawatt run-of-the river New Bong Escape Hydropower Project will contribute 540 GWh of green energy annually to the National Grid. The project […]
Pakistan army said Sunday that its army officers have jumped from military helicopters for the first time in the country’s history. An army statement said a total of 24 Lady Officers of Pakistan Army successfully completed a three-week Basic Air Borne course at Parachute Training School in Peshawar. “Pakistan Army, in another landmark […]
A new International airport will be constructed at Mirpur with the financial assistance of International Investment companies. A formal agreement was signed between the AJK Government and a group of Consortium of the Investment companies in Islamabad on Saturday. Earlier addressing briefing on various Hydel power generation and tourism projects ‚ the AJK […]
Details of accounts of Fouzia Gilani‚ the wife of former Prime Minister, Yusuf Raza Gilani, and his son Abdul Qadir Gilani and Ali Musa Gilani were submitted in the court in the Ephedrine quota case. However‚ Makhdoom Shahabuddin, former minister, did not submit details of his assets. Anti-Narcotics Court Rawalpindi also ordered to freeze the […]
President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Malala Yousafzai is the symbol of young defiant girls in all climes and all ages wishing to seek education for their emancipation and rejecting extremism‚ tyranny and militancy. The President offered remarks shortly after she addressed the UN General Assembly on education on her 16th birthday. President Zardari […]
Former military president, Pervez Mushararf, will now face another case as the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday ordered the registration of a case against him for his alleged involvement in the Lal Masjid military raids. Justice Noorul Haq Qureshi of the IHC issued the order during the hearing of a petition filed by Haroon […]
Adviser to Prime Minister Sartaj Aziz has said that the All Parties’ Conference has been postponed as the government needed some more time and now it will be held before the end of the current month. The gov’t had planned to hold the conference on July 12 and Interior Minister had extended invitations to some […]
Pakistani Taliban, blamed for most of the attacks in the country, face rift days after the leadership dismissed Ehsanullah Ehsan as the central spokesman over his alleged threats to the Afghan Taliban. Ehsan refused to accept the central council’s decision and has approached the Taliban court against the decision announced this week. A Taliban pamphlet […]
