Islamabad: Nawaz Sharif will be sworn in for a record third term as Pakistan's Prime Minister on Wednesday after he is formally elected to the post and a very small cabinet comprising close aides is expected to take oath along with him.
India's High Commissioner to Pakistan will represent the government at Sharif's swearing-in ceremony on Wednesday in Islamabad. The decision to depute Sharat Sabharwal was taken by the PMO. Sabharwal had in fact been in Delhi this week to share his assessment with South Block of the new leadership. Observers say the choice of the High Commissioner indicates the government is not keen to make any dramatic overtures to the PM-elect at this point.
Sharif's election in the National Assembly or lower house of Parliament is a foregone conclusion as his PML-N party has over 180 members in the 342-member strong House.
The election of the Prime Minister will be done by a division of the House. 63-year-old Sharif's nomination papers for the election to the post were submitted by PML-N leaders Ishaq Dar, Khwaja Asif and Abdul Qadir Baloch this afternoon....
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05:19 PM, Jun 04, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minster Raja Pervez Ashraf has given up smoking, becoming the only member of Pakistan's power troika of premier, president and army chief to stop using tobacco, according to a media report on Wednesday. Ashraf made the decision to quit smoking when he was in Mecca in October to perform Haj at the special invitation of King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz. President Asif Zardari, who too is a...
02:55 PM, Dec 05, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan Supreme Court has adjourned the contempt case against Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf till September 18. Ashraf has asked for more time of about four to six weeks from the court. The court, however, seems to be taking a hard stand. It has told Ashraf that contempt of court is avoided not by merely appearing in court, but by following the court's directives. The Supreme Court has asked...
10:43 AM, Aug 27, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Tuesday expressed his desire to work together with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh to forge friendly and mutually beneficial relations between the two countries. Ashraf made the remarks in a message sent to Singh to felicitate him on India's Independence Day on August 15. "I would also like to reiterate our sincere desire to working together with Your Excellency towards forging harmonious,...
12:20 AM, Aug 15, 2012
Islamabad: The Pakistan Supreme Court has issued a contempt notice to Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf for failing to approach the Swiss authorities to re-open corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. The Supreme Court's deadline to Ashraf ended on Wednesday. The apex court had struck down a new contempt law last week. The law aimed at preventing the Prime Minister from being pressured to revive the graft cases. The...
11:27 AM, Aug 08, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan desires peaceful ties with its neighbours, including India, and will work to strengthen the dialogue process that is already underway to resolve problems like the Kashmir issue, Prime Minister-elect Raja Pervez Ashraf said on Friday. "We want peaceful ties with our neighbours Afghanistan, Iran and India. We desire good relations in our region on the basis of the philosophy of peaceful co-existence," Ashraf said during his first address...
10:00 PM, Jun 22, 2012
Islamabad: Raja Parvez Ashraf, a stalwart of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP), was on Friday elected by the National Assembly as Pakistan's new Prime Minister as the country struggled to come out of its latest political crisis. The 61-year-old loyalist of the Bhutto family was pitched forked into the hot seat after the original choice Makhdoom Shahbuddin faced an arrest warrant on Thursday. But the new leader himself is...
08:27 PM, Jun 22, 2012
Islamabad: Veteran leader Raja Parvez Ashraf, Pakistan Peoples Party's nominee for the Prime Minister, is a strong loyalist of the Bhutto family and hails from a royal family of Rawalpindi in Punjab. Sixty-one-year-old Ashraf, who was PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari's second choice for the post of premier, became the main candidate after an arrest warrant was issued against party nominee Makhdoom Shahbuddin for alleged irregularities during his tenure as...
01:19 PM, Jun 22, 2012
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09:32 AM, Jun 22, 2012
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04:46 PM, Jun 19, 2012
Islamabad: Against the backdrop of tensions between Pakistan's civilian government and the military over the 'Memogate' scandal, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday said there would be no martial law in the country as no one would accept it. Speaking in the National Assembly or lower house of parliament, Gilani said martial law would be unacceptable to everyone in the country, including civil society and the media, and the...
10:53 PM, Dec 19, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan supports military actions against terrorists to safeguard its own interest and for global peace, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said. Gilani told ABC News: "We are supporting military action against terrorists and extremists. The terrorists are working against the interest of my country and we are fighting for the peace, prosperity and progress of the entire world." The prime minister spoke in the Australian city of Perth...
10:39 AM, Nov 01, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani faced some embarrassing moments when a chair buckled under his weight at an official function in the capital city, prompting a participant to say that this might be a "bad omen" for the top PPP leader. According to a media report, Gilani's aide-de-camp, who was standing behind him, came to his rescue and saved him from falling to the ground after the chair gave...
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Lahore: A constitutional petition has been filed in a Pakistani court seeking the disqualification of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani for allegedly committing "high treason" by defying orders of the Supreme Court and attempting to subvert the Constitution. A man named Allah Baksh Gondal filed the petition in the public interest in Lahore High Court on Tuesday through lawyer A K Dogar, who is also counsel for Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz...
08:42 AM, Aug 10, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday said regional peace cannot be guaranteed until the "core" Kashmir issue with India is resolved. "Unless this core issue (Kashmir) is resolved, the dream of peace and harmony in the region cannot come true," Gilani said after inaugurating a two-day conference on Kashmir in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Gilani asked peace-loving nations to come forward to help resolve the...
03:12 PM, May 23, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities on Wednesday arrested two senior police officers for allegedly failing to protect slain former prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, a government prosecutor said. Bhutto was assassinated in a suicide attack on December 27, 2007, during an election rally in the garrison city of Rawalpindi near Islamabad. Saud Aziz, then district police officer, and his assistant Khurram Shehzad were detained after a court in Rawalpindi denied their...
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