Politics

Zardari trying to rob PML-N vote bank through PTI: Shahbaz Sharif

MIANWALI: Former chief minister of Punjab, Mian Shahbaz Sharif has alleged that President Asif Ali Zardari was using Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf to rob Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s vote bank, media reported. “Imran Khan never tried to reach out to the ...

Election 2013: Lists of candidates from Sindh, KPK released

ISLAMABAD: Elections Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Sunday released lists of candidates contesting for both National and Provincial Assembly seats in Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces. According to details, overall 3928 candidates have qualified t...

Nawaz’s allegations against Zardari unsubstantiated: Babar

ISLAMABAD: Spokesperson to President has deplored what he called the unsubstantiated accusations hurled by PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif against President Asif Zardari, aimed at dragging him in partisan political controversies. He was referring to a ...

Support Nawaz to end darkness prevailing in Pakistan: Shahbaz

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader, Mian Shahbaz Sharif Sunday urged the nation to join hands with Nawaz Sharif to bring the country form out of the darkness and into the light, media reported. "People, it’s time you told those who p...

Saudi king replaces deputy defence minister

RIYADH: The Saudi deputy defence minister, Prince Khaled bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz who played a key role in the 1991 Gulf War over Kuwait, has been dismissed, state news agency SPA reported Saturday. The move is the latest in a reshuffle of princes h...

Will begin new Pakistan after three weeks: Imran

KARAK: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan has expressed hope that his party will make a new Pakistan after three weeks, media reported Sunday. Addressing a PTI election campaign rally in Kurk on Sunday, Khan said he will call the army ba...

MQM announces to field candidates across Pakistan

KARACHI: Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM)chief Altaf Hussain has asked the Taliban leaders to lay down arms and become a part of the national stream.He expressed these views while speaking to a large gathering of MQM workers in Lal Qila Ground Azizabad...

Election 2013: Printing of ballot papers begins

KARACHI: The Pakistan Security Printing Corporation has begun printing ballot papers amid strict security arrangements with the Pakistan army monitoring the process of printing and transportation of ballot papers after the Election Commission of Paki...

Election campaigns intensify across the country

KARACHI: Election campaign of political parties is underway in full swing across the country after final list of the candidates was issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan, media reported. In this regard, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Kh...

Over two lacs IDPs voters’ lists given to ECP

PESHAWAR: National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has provided to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) voters lists of over two lacs internally displaced persons (IDPs) from war-torn tribal areas, whose verification is in progress, ...

Musharraf’s crime of detaining judges can’t be excused: Nawaz

LAHORE: The front runner for the historic May 11 polls, Nawaz Sharif Saturday said that former military ruler Pervez Musharraf’s crime of detaining judges of the higher judiciary can not be excused, media reported. Speaking at an election rally in K...

Imran throws May 11 challenge to Nawaz

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf chairman Imran Khan has thrown a challenge to Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) chief Nawaz Sharif for a “battle” on May 11, the polling day for general elections. Speaking at a public rally at Data Darbar on Saturday n...

Iraq holds first polls since US pullout as attacks spike

BAGHDAD: Iraqis voted on Saturday in the country’s first polls since US troops departed, a key test of its stability in the face of a spike in attacks that has claimed more than 100 lives. But the credibility of the provincial elections has come int...

Suicide attack at Bajaur hospital kills four

PESHAWAR: At least four people were killed Saturday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives outside a hospital in Bajaur tribal region, officials said. Administration officials, requesting not to be named, confirmed the suicide bomber walked ...

Polls open for Iraqi provincial elections

BAGHDAD: Iraqis began voting on Saturday in the country's first elections since US troops departed, a key test of its stability in the face of a spike in attacks that has claimed more than 100 lives. Polls opened about 7:00 am (0400 GMT) for Iraq's f...

Political parties to formally start election campaign today

ISLAMABAD: The political parties would formally start election campaign for the May 11 election, that would mark the first democratic transition of power in the country’s 66 year history, today (Saturday) and would continue till May 9, media reported...

‘Judiciary never tried to assume role of other institutions’

ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday said that the judiciary has never tried to assume the role of the executive or legislature, but has always acted within its constitutional domain. He was addressing the inaug...

Prince Harry to join expedition to the South Pole

LONDON: Britain's Prince Harry is to join a team of wounded war veterans in a race to the South Pole, he announced on Friday. The third-in-line to the throne, who is 28, will set off in November for the 335-kilometre (208-mile) charity race against i...

Candidates to begin election campaign from Saturday

ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has said that the electoral candidates would formally begin their campaigns from tomorrow, media reported. According to ECP, the candidates will have 20 days for election campaign that is beginning fro...

MQM will not boycott elections

KARACHI: MQM Deputy Convener Farooq Sattar said Friday that the party would not boycott the upcoming elections at any cost. During an emergency news conference of the MQM’s Coordination Committee, Sattar said the new delimitation in Karachi was a con...

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