Lahore: Pakistan's nuclear arsenal deterred India from carrying out any attacks and made the country's defence impregnable, former premier Nawaz Sharif has claimed. "India could have attacked Pakistan many times but Pakistan being an atomic power country,India could not gather the courage to do so," said Sharif, who heads the main opposition PML-N party. Pakistan emerged as a nuclear power after conducting a series of nuclear tests in 1998, when...
03:55 PM, May 29, 2012
Lahore: Former premier Nawaz Sharif has welcomed Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's recent visit to India and his efforts to normalise relations between the two countries, especially a proposal to revive cricketing ties. "There should be negotiations between India and Pakistan on all issues, including Kashmir, so we can move forward on resolving these issues," the PML-N chief said. Sharif described Zardari's day-long visit to India, where he met Prime...
08:37 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Lahore: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday said that he was asked to leave the country but he had refused to do so. "I was told to leave the country and that a plane was ready but I refused as I am not a weak-hearted man like others," Zardari said while talking to a group of journalists and lawyers at the Governor's House. He did not say who had...
10:25 PM, Apr 07, 2012
Lahore: Pakistan should buy electricity from India to overcome a crippling energy shortage if it is provided at an affordable rate, former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday. "We should take this offer if India is providing electricity at an affordable rate," Sharif, the head of the main opposition PML-N party, said while interacting with reporters at Khanewal in Punjab province. Sharif said the situation today was in...
05:57 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-i Insaaf (PTI) chief and former Pakistan cricket team captain Imran Khan came out strongly against Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday, saying that he must step down immediately. Khan was speaking in the aftermath of the Pakistan Supreme Court indicting Gilani for contempt of court over his failure to act on its orders against President Asif Ali Zardari in money laundering cases. "PM Gilani must...
03:15 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: He's the Chief Justice who hit the streets of Pakistan four years ago demanding justice. His crime - suspicion that he and other judges were preparing to unseat then military leader General Pervez Musharraf. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary and other judges suffered dismissal, violence and jail. But he went on to lead an agitation by lawyers that eventually unseated Musharraf. Yet although victimised by the army, Chief...
07:36 AM, Jan 19, 2012
New Delhi: After a night of speculation about long knives or a coup, Pakistan awoke on Thursday to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's assertion that the Army had only issued its statement criticising him, after he gave his approval. A peace deal seemed to have been struck with the army clarifying that there was no meeting of the corp commanders either. But the next challenge came from the PPP's political...
09:30 PM, Jan 12, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan lashed out at the Pakistan government led by President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, demanding their resignation. He said that early elections were the only way out of the country's current crisis, but also added that he won't support a military coup. "I have been hearing 'go Zardari go' slogans. If you are serious, then resign from the Assembly...
12:49 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Islamabad: As confrontation mounted between the Pakistan government and the Army on the one side, and the judiciary on the other, opposition leader Nawaz Sharif said holding immediate polls was the only was out of the crisis. Asking President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to "not play with the fate of this country any more," the former premier said Pakistan cannot allow to lose the hard-earned...
09:51 PM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: Former chief of Pakistani Army Gen Ziauddin Butt has told Dawn News that Osama bin Laden was kept in an Intelligence Bureau (IB) safe house in Abbotabad and former president General Pervez Musharraf knew about it. Butt also said that Osama was kept there under instructions from then director of the IB Brig Ijaz Shah. Brig Shah is also responsible for hiding Omar Saeed Sheikh who killed journalist...
02:44 PM, Dec 24, 2011
Lahore: Terming the PPP-led government as "the most corrupt" administration in Pakistan's history, opposition leader Nawaz Sharif on Thursday said he was prepared to launch a long march to press for his demand for an early election. Earlier this week, Sharif had called for early polls, saying the situation in the country could deteriorate further if the ruling Pakistan People's Party remains in power for another year. "We will win...
11:15 PM, Dec 22, 2011
PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif said if General Kayani doesn't halts the involvement of agencies in politics, he will be held responsible . ...
08:46 AM, Nov 20, 2011
Islamabad: As the 'memogate' scandal continues to raise a political storm in Pakistan, Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday said the entire episode will be investigated to find out how the controversial memo was prepared and who was behind it. "The question rises how this memo was prepared, who is behind it, that is all going to be investigated," Malik said. The scandal exploded into the political space here recently...
06:48 PM, Nov 19, 2011
Islamabad: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif raised several "tough questions" for the military leadership during a meeting to discuss Pakistan-US tensions, saying the country had increasingly become isolated in the world and there must be some reasons for this. Sharif made the remarks during Thursday's in-camera meeting convened by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to forge national consensus on a response to US accusations that the Inter-Services Intelligence agency was backing...
05:51 PM, Sep 30, 2011
Lahore: Former premier Nawaz Sharif on Saturday said Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's remarks that Pakistan should 'leave Kashmir alone' could harm peace talks between the two countries. "This is not a political statement. Such statements complicate matters. The Indian Prime Minister should not have made such a statement and there was no need for it," Sharif, the chief of the main opposition PML-N, said during an interaction with reporters....
07:13 PM, Jul 02, 2011
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