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Reiterating his previous stance, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has invited opposition parties to sit with the government, asking them to resolve issues for holding of free, fair and transparent polls. While speaking to his party workers, the premier said they should resolve issues by sitting together instead of leveling allegations against each other. He […]
Foreign Office spokesman Moazzam Ahmad Khan has said that Islamabad was concerned over the deteriorating situation in Syria and over the plight of Muslim community in Burma (Myanmar). While speaking to the media during a weekly briefing, he said that President Asif Ali Zardari had sent a letter to his Myanmar’s counterpart of the excesses […]
President Asif Ali Zardari has said the government will not allow the misuse of any law against vulnerable groups, saying there were aware of the misuse of blasphemy law against the religious minorities for vested interests. The presidency hosted a ceremony to mark National Minorities Day in which the president urged all stakeholders together to […]
Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, the daughter of President Asif Ali Zardari and Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto vowed to carry on the mission of her mother by standing up against forces that have politicized the anti-polio campaigns. While interviewing to Express Tribune, Pakistan’s goodwill ambassador Aseefa Bhutto said, “We would not allow them (Taliban) to disrupt the anti-polio […]
In order to fight the battle on legal grounds, the government has filed a review petition against ruling of the Supreme Court that declared Contempt of Court Act 2012 null and void. Abdul Shakoor Paracha, the counsel for federation filed the petition on behalf of the government. A five-judge bench of the apex court headed […]
Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) Senator and renowned legal expert Aitzaz Ahsan has said that the judiciary was stepping out of the domain of the constitution in some matters and was getting too independent. While interviewing to BBC Urdu, the former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) said that the activism of the apex court […]
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday issued a show-cause notice to Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf over his failure to implement its directive of writing a letter to Swiss authorities to reopen graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. The apex court in its short-order, which has already dismissed prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani over […]
In quite an expected move, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has decided to strongly resist all the new centres of power confronting the parliament. This fight, however, will be within the legal and constitutional limits. A meeting held at the presidency with President Asif Ali Zardari in the chair in which Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf […]
Declaring President Asif Ali Zardari responsible for energy crisis, Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday said ongoing spells of load shedding have ransacked the economy of the country. Speaking to the media, he was of the opinion that the province was being subjected to the revenge of worst kind with President Zardari playing the […]
The government has decided to file a review petition against the Supreme Court’s ruling of August 3, in which it declared the Contempt of Court Act 2012 null and void. In quite an unprecedented way, the incumbent dropped the option of either promulgating the law through a presidential ordinance or re-enacting it through parliament. After […]
Pakistan Muslim League-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Saturday said that there should be no confrontation among judiciary and Parliament, adding it could derail the system. Speaking to the media, the party president said that the institutions should not clash with each other that could lead towards destruction of system. It is vital to mention […]
After the intense struggle by Pakistani officials, seven crew members of merchant ship MV Albedo have been released and would be reaching Karachi on Thursday. Governor Sindh Dr. Ishratul Ebad while holding a presser late Wednesday informed that those seven hostages, who have been in the captivity of Somali pirates since November 2010, have been […]
