
Islamabad: India's ruling Congress party general secretary Rahul Gandhi was invited to visit Pakistan by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the son of President Asif Ali Zardari, and has accepted the invite, it was reported on Sunday. Bilawal, 24, the Pakistan Peoples Party chairman, has accompanied his father on his day-long trip to India where they were invited for lunch at Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence in New Delhi. The News...

05:32 PM, Apr 08, 2012

Islamabad: The ruling Pakistan People's Party has decided to hold the general election and the polls to the Senate ahead of schedule against the backdrop of rampant speculation that the government may not be able to complete its tenure, according to media reports on Friday. A meeting of the top leadership of the PPP chaired by President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday decided to...

11:44 AM, Jan 06, 2012

Islamabad: The ruling coalition in Pakistan led by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has suffered a major setback as another of its key ally, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), decided to part ways with the government. "The reservations of the party have not been addressed and we are forced to make a decision to go our own way," MQM legislator Haider Abbas Rizvi told Samaa TV. The MQM's decision comes...

12:39 PM, Dec 28, 2010

Asif Ali Zardari was addressing a gathering of PPP workers in Birmingham on Saturday. ...

07:15 AM, Aug 08, 2010

PPP member explains why Benazir should have led the troubled country. ...

12:11 PM, Dec 27, 2008

PPP leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on December 27, 2007. ...

10:10 AM, Dec 27, 2008

Sharif said Zardari was declared as presidential nominee without consultation. ...

11:43 PM, Aug 25, 2008

PML-N accuses PPP of not honouring commitment to reinstate sacked judges. ...

06:47 PM, Aug 25, 2008

London: Former India captain Sourav Ganguly has said the current team was under-prepared and asked the players to put their bodies on the line if they want to turn it around in the remaining two Test matches against England. India followed a 196-run defeat at Lord's with a 319-run loss at Trent Bridge on Monday to go 0-2 down in the series with two Tests to play. Ganguly, who led...

03:32 PM, Feb 17, 2008

Lahore: Pakistan's former captain Shoaib Malik will know on August 15 whether his international career is over or will be revived. Malik has been told by the Pakistan Cricket Board to appear before its integrity committee on August 15 here along with Test leg-spinner Danish Kaneria. There has been widespread speculation that Malik has been cleared by the integrity committee after he was able to explain how he spent 90,000...

05:46 PM, Feb 16, 2008

Pakistan Peoples Party will not attend a multi-party conference by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League. ...

04:48 PM, Jan 11, 2007