Islamabad: Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday accepted a list of demands by the main opposition, further driving back the spectre of a looming political crisis in the country. The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), headed by former two-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif, had started a 72-hour clock on their ultimatum on Friday. Their demands included taking steps to address endemic corruption and price hikes. "Today I called...
09:18 PM, Jan 09, 2011
Karachi: Pakistan's fragile Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)-led federal government got a lifeline on Friday when its biggest ally Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) announced its return to the coalition after its demands like the rollback of petrol prices were met. But the MQM leaders, who held crunch talks with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in Karachi, said the party would not join the federal cabinet. "In the larger interest of the...
06:21 PM, Jan 07, 2011
Lahore: In a desperate move to shore up support for his tottering government, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday met top leaders of the two opposition PML-N and PLM-Q parties, as clamour mounted for his resignation. The attempts to reach out to the dominant opposition party, the Nawaz Sharif-led PML-N and its rival PML-Q, came in the wake of its key ally Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) withdrawing support,...
05:23 PM, Jan 03, 2011
New Delhi: The ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)-led coalition was dealt a severe blow, after a key ally the MQM pulled out on Sunday. The MQM, which had pulled its two ministers out of the federal cabinet last month, announced its decision to quit the nearly three-year-old coalition following meetings of its top leaders in Karachi and London. The PPP deprived of a majority is vulnerable. There's also speculation that...
08:17 AM, Jan 03, 2011
London: Imran Farooq, a leader of the pro-Musharraf Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) party, was stabbed to death on Thursday evening. The police said they were called to reports of a serious assault in Green Lane, Edgware in North London and found a 50-year-old Asian male suffering from multiple stab wounds and head injuries. A Metropolitan Police spokesman said there had been no arrests. Farooq claimed asylum in Britain 11 years...
02:09 PM, Sep 17, 2010
Islamabad: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday rejected rumours about a change of the government in Pakistan, saying that the ruling coalition led by his party and the parliament would protect democracy. Gilani described the rumours about a change in the political dispensation as mere speculation. The government and the parliament had obtained the mandate of the people through elections, he said. "We have come (to power) through elections....
11:53 PM, Sep 16, 2010
It comes in the midst of a series of target killings in Karachi in which some 40 activists of different political and religious parties have been killed. ...
08:41 AM, Aug 03, 2010
The violence has targeted activists of different parties including the MQM, ANP, MQM-P and Jamaat-e-Islami. ...
02:35 PM, May 21, 2010
Pak's commercial hub engulfed in violence after murder of MQM supporters. ...
01:25 PM, Apr 30, 2009
New Delhi: As he made an impressive Test debut by taking nine wickets, off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin on Tuesday said patience was key to his success on an unresponsive wicket in the first match against the West Indies. Ashwin's figures of nine for 128 in the unfinished match was second only to Narinder Hirwani's incredible debut performance of 16 for 136 against the same rivals in 1987. I had never thought...
03:53 PM, Mar 17, 2008
Pallekele: Australia's Twenty20 captain Cameron White was frustrated at his team's 35-run loss in the Twenty20 match against Sri Lanka here on Saturday night. Sri Lanka captain Tillakaratne Dilshan hit a magnificent 57-ball 104 not out as the hosts made 198 for three in their 20 overs, a total that proved unassailable for the Australians. Clearly didn't play as we would have hoped, White said. Full credit to Sri Lanka,...
08:18 AM, Feb 19, 2008
Were the people fighting in Karachi puppets with strings in the hands of a leadership in UK, particularly the MQM? ...
02:53 AM, May 19, 2007
PPP leader Zardari likely to be next Pakistan President ...
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