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Islamabad, Dec 26 (IANS) Twenty-eight peasants, includng 11 children, have been freed from a private prison run by a landlord in Pakistan’s Sindh province. The police conducted a raid in Badin and found the 28 peasants, including 11 children and 13 women, in the illegal captivity of the local landlord, Geo News reported Monday. Police said the raid was conducted [...]
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Sunday expressed his government’s commitment to ensure the rights of minorities as enshrined in Pakistan’s constitution. Felicitating the Christian community on Christmas, Gilani reiterated his government’s commitment stating: ‘The Pakistan government regards the protection of rights of the minorities as its constitutional duty and is committed to their welfare.’ The Constitution [...]
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, in the midst of the memogate scam, said Sunday his government would complete its full five-year term to 2013. Addressing the 100th meeting of the federal cabinet here on the 135th birth anniversary of Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the prime minister said the parliament would complete its five-year term [...]
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Sunday turned down Information and Broadcasting Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan’s resignation from her post as minister during a one-on-one meeting, the News reported. A tearful Awan had announced her resignation during a televised cabinet meeting earlier Sunday morning, saying: ‘I endorse your leadership (but) I think I am not competent enough [...]
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Pakistan’s president and prime minister, on the backfoot in the wake of the memogate scandal, have urged the nation to keep their faith in the ballot as the instrument of change and not use force to bring this about. In his message on the 135th birth anniversary of Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah Sunday, President Asif [...]
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has been criticised for raising in parliament the question of the slain Osama bin Laden’s presence in the country. It was not appropriate for the prime minister to talk about martial law and conspiracies against the democratic system, Leader of Opposition Nisar Ali Khan (Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz) said at a press [...]
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Pakistan Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan tendered her resignation during a cabinet meeting Sunday while expressing her disappointment over the ‘attitude’ of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leadership. Awan announced her resignation at the meeting presided over by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Dawn News reported. ‘I endorse your leadership (but) I think I am not [...]
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) No one will be allowed to dissolve Pakistan’s parliament and abrogate the constitution, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has said, urging the government to focus on the country’s economic growth. Speaking at a ceremony Saturday ahead of the 135th birth anniversary of Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president said that dictators had [...]
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Pakistan Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan resigned during a cabinet meet Sunday. Awan announced her resignation at the meeting presided over by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Dawn News reported.
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) The year 2011 saw Pakistan making headlines for all the wrong reasons, compounded by yearend uncertainty about the political future of a nation that is a declared nuclear power. Will the military take over the reins of government yet again was the common refrain among Pakistanis following the memogate scandal and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s [...]
Washington, Dec 24 (IANS) Pakistani military had harboured Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden with the knowledge of former president General Pervez Musharraf, former army chief General Ziauddin Butt has said. An article on the Jamestown Foundation website, which cited Butt, said that despite denials, evidence is emerging that ‘elements within the Pakistani military harboured Osama with the knowledge of [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) The NIA, India’s premier anti-terror probe body, Saturday filed charges against Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists, including Pakistani-American David Headley and two alleged ISI men for their role in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack. The chargesheet, which also names Lashkar founder Haafiz Sayeed and seven others, was filed in a special National Investigation Agency court here. The [...]
Islamabad, Dec 24 (IANS) Pakistan may be on the ‘cusp of a defining historic moment’, said a daily over the tension between the army and the government. An editorial in the Daily Times Saturday said that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s ‘unusually blunt remarks the other day about moves to oust his government implied that the usual cast of suspects [...]
Islamabad, Dec 24 (IANS) Nine Pakistani paramilitary troopers were killed Saturday when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into their office building in northwest Pakistan, police said. Seventeen others were injured in the attack at the Frontier Corps’ office in Bannu town of Khyber Pakhtonkhwa province, Geo TV reported. The bomber drove his vehicle packed with explosives into the [...]
Islamabad, Dec 24 (IANS) A number of parliamentarians met and told Yousuf Raza Gilani that they stood firmly by him after the prime minister spoke of the supremacy of parliament in a tussle with the army. The parliamentarians extended full support to the prime minister for his assertion that ‘State within a State is not acceptable’ and that all institutions [...]
Islamabad, Dec 24 (IANS) At least five troopers were killed and 12 injured early Saturday when a suicide bomber drove his vehicle packed with explosives into a paramilitary camp in northwest Pakistan, a media report said. The dead and the injured were paramilitary soldiers, said Geo TV. The attack took place at about 6 a.m. Saturday when a suicide bomber [...]
Islamabad, Dec 24 (IANS) Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said there is a ‘complete convergence of views’ between Islamabad and Beijing on global and regional issues as Pakistan hosts a top Chinese official whose visit comes amid a clash between the government and the army. Gilani Friday said Pakistan and China’s comprehensive cooperation and robust partnership was in the fundamental [...]
Islamabad, Dec 24 (IANS) All institutions of the state have to work within the constitution without trespassing into the domain of others, President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said at a meeting amid tension between the government and the army. The meeting took place Friday, a day when Pakistan Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani assured [...]
Islamabad, Dec 23 (IANS) The army will support the democratic process in the country, assured army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani as he dispelled speculations of a military takeover Friday, a day after Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani insisted that conspiracies were being hatched to oust the elected government. General Kayani reiterated that the army has and will continue to [...]
Islamabad, Dec 23 (IANS) There was no threat to democracy in Pakistan, said the country’s powerful army chief General Ashfaq Kayani Friday, a day after Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani insisted that conspiracies were being hatched to oust the government. General Kayani said the army would continue to support the democratic process, reported Geo News. The army chief was speaking [...]
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