Islamabad: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari says he will not seek another presidential term after his present five-year period expires in September 2013, Xinhua reported on Sunday. Zardari made the remark in an interview with editors, which will be aired late on Sunday night, according to a media report.
Zardari's Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) faced defeat in the general elections in the centre and three provinces and has formed government only in southern Sindh province.
Speaking to TV anchors and newspaper editors in Islamabad, Zardari said the PPP would play a positive role in the incoming government of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party led by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
The president said his party would unanimously support Sharif to be elected as prime minister as was done in the case of former prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani of the PPP. ...
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04:34 AM, Jun 03, 2013
Lahore: President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday blamed national and international forces for his Pakistan Peoples Party defeat in the May 11 polls while the party's losing candidates held former premiers Yousuf Raza Gilani and Raja Pervez Ashraf responsible for the debacle. In a meeting with PPP ticket-holders of Punjab province at his private residence here, Zardari claimed some "international forces" did not want the party to come to power...
01:05 AM, May 21, 2013
Islamabad: Six suspects, including two women, were arrested on Thursday during an operation to trace the kidnapped son of former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani in Pakistan's restive northwest, officials said. A joint team of police and law enforcement agencies raided the property of a man named Sardar Ali near Akhora Khattak in Nowshera district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province early Thursday morning. The team arrested six suspects and freed a kidnapped man...
12:59 PM, May 16, 2013
Lahore: Former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday resigned from the post of vice-chairman of the Pakistan People's Party, accepting responsibility for its resounding defeat in the general election. "I am tendering the resignation on the basis of the election results," Gilani told a news conference in his hometown of Multan. "The PPP did not want to contest the May 11 elections but President Asif Ali Zardari did not let...
11:13 PM, May 13, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistanis began voting on Saturday for a landmark democratic transition of power after a bloody campaign, marred by Taliban violence that killed over 100 people, forced key parties to abandon rallies and large gatherings. Polling for 2013 general election started across the country where masses will cast their vote to elect their representatives for the next five-year term. Long queues of people were seen outside polling stations well before...
08:50 AM, May 11, 2013
Pakistan will vote on Saturday to decide who is next leader amidst threats of terror and violence. ...
08:47 AM, May 11, 2013
Islamabad: Despite a bloody campaign marred by Taliban attacks, polling began in Pakistan on Saturday amidst threats of violence, pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister once exiled by the army and an incumbent blamed for power blackouts and inflation. The vote marks the first time in Pakistan's 65-year history that a civilian government has completed its full term and handed over power in democratic elections. Previous...
07:24 AM, May 11, 2013
Islamabad: Former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani's son Ali Haider, kidnapped by gunmen while campaigning for Pakistan's landmark elections, had received threats from the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Sipah-e-Sahaba. Though no group has claimed responsibility for the abduction, Gilani and other members of his family told The Express Tribune that Ali Haider had been receiving "death and kidnapping threats" from the LeJ and Sipah-e-Sahaba. Ali Haider, 27, was kidnapped on Thursday while...
12:13 PM, May 10, 2013
Lahore: With just a day to go for elections in Pakistan, former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's son Ali Haider was abducted by a Taliban group in Punjab province. The news has shaken Pakistan. But As Taliban militants took away Gilani's son in the final hours of campaigning on Thursday, it was only the latest in a series of attacks on the election process. In the past month, more than...
08:59 AM, May 10, 2013
Lahore: The Punjabi Taliban is believed to be behind the kidnapping of former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani's son Ali Haider, officials said on Thursday. "A Punjabi Taliban group based in Mian Chanu, 80 km from Multan district, is believed to be involved in the kidnapping of Ali Haider Gilani," a source in Punjab Police said. Earlier in the day, gunmen kidnapped Ali Haider in Multan district, 350 km from Lahore,...
09:59 PM, May 09, 2013
Islamabad: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's son Ali Haidar was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from a rally in Multan and his secretary killed on Thursday. The attack comes just two days ahead of elections in Pakistan that are scheduled to be held on May 11. According to Pakistani news channel Geo News, Ali Haider was campaigning when he was kidnapped and has been injured. Gilani has now reached...
02:12 PM, May 09, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani and other officials to respond to allegations that the previous Pakistan Peoples Party-led government closed a probe into corruption in organising the Haj pilgrimage. A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, which is investigating a multi-million rupee scam in organising the Haj, also issued notices to the Law Ministry and the Attorney General and...
12:38 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Cast: Luke Kenny, Kirti Kulhari, Ashwin Mushran, Benjamin Gilani Directors: Devaki Singh, Luke Kenny Being a zombie means reaching a state where the sub-conscious starts ruling the body in a way in which the living being turns into a walking dead. The body doesn't die which gives weapons like gun, dagger and sometimes tanks a chance to kill the zombie. Luke Kenny and Devaki Singh's 'Rise of the Zombie' accepts...
06:38 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: Ramsay Brothers contributed a lot in establishing horror as a sough after genre in the Hindi film industry, and they experimented with different versions of ghosts in their film. Though zombies were also a part of their films in different forms but they never based an entire film on the zombies only. Now, Luke Kenny and Devaki Singh have come up with a proper zombie film, which stars...
01:24 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Karachi: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Thursday launched the Pakistan People's Party's election campaign in a low-key manner, invoking the legacy of the Bhutto family while calling on people to back the party in the May 11 election. Addressing a gathering of hundreds of PPP leaders and workers in the Bhutto family's traditional stronghold of Naudero in Sindh province at about 1.30 am, Bilawal listed the achievements of his grandfather Zulfiqar...
01:00 PM, Apr 04, 2013
World View - Pakistan Election Hello and welcome to world view with me Suhasini Haider. Tonight, Pakistan's election season has kicked off; we'll be discussing what's next in the run up to May 11th. From Islamabad, the central information advisor of Imran Khan's PTI party Shafqat Mehmood and Moeed Yusuf, Political Analyst at the US institute of peace. He is Lahore right on a study. Later in the Show the ...
03:23 PM, Mar 29, 2013
Mir Hazar Khan Khoso was on Monday sworn in as Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister by President Asif Ali Zardari during a ceremony held at the presidency. The ceremony was attended by former premiers Raja Pervez Ashraf and Yousuf Raza Gilani, leaders of political parties, top military officials, bureaucrats and diplomats. ...
09:15 AM, Mar 26, 2013
BBC's popular game show 'Mastermind' returns to India as 'Disney Q: The Family Mastermind'. ...
05:41 PM, Feb 12, 2013
Terming as "unfortunate" the detention of journalist Iftekhar Gilani by Delhi Police, Information and Broadcasting minister Manish Tewari on Monday said if there is evidence against him, it should be brought on record or else action should be taken against responsible police officials. ...
06:24 PM, Feb 11, 2013
