Lahore: Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has claimed that a plot was hatched to assassinate him during an election rally in Punjab before Pakistan's General Elections on May 11. "I was informed by the government before the May 11 polls that there was a plot to assassinate me at an election rally on GT Road," Khan said while talking to a group of journalists at his residence at Zaman Park here on Monday.
The Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf did not give other details about the plot. He also did not identify who was behind the move. 60-year-old Khan has not fully recovered from serious spinal injuries sustained when he fell from a forklift during an election rally in Lahore on May 7.
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10:10 PM, Jun 11, 2013
Islamabad: With Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif deciding to retain the foreign affairs portfolio, former minister Sartaj Aziz will play a crucial role as his advisor in charting a way forward on issues like relations with India and the US. The Cabinet Division has notified the appointment of the 84-year-old Aziz as Advisor to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs. Aziz served as both finance and foreign minister...
05:35 PM, Jun 08, 2013
Islamabad: Nawaz Sharif was on Saturday formally nominated as candidate for the position of Pakistan's prime minister by the newly-elected members of parliament, said sources in his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party. The party won majority seats in the May 11 general elections and is in a strong position to form the government, reported Xinhua. Lawmakers of the PML-N, who met in Islamabad, formally nominated Sharif to lead Pakistan for...
04:15 AM, Jun 02, 2013
Allahabad: India on Wednesday expressed hope that Pakistan Prime Minister-elect Nawaz Sharif will "convert into reality" the "positive signals" he had given during his election campaign. "There were many positive signals from Nawaz Sharif with relation to India during the election campaign. We hope that he will work towards converting these positive signals into reality upon assuming office," External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said. Khurshid, however, parried a query about...
10:56 AM, May 30, 2013
Supporters of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the party led by Imran Khan, gathered in the Clifton district of southern Karachi on Sunday to protest against the killing of senior party member Zahra Shahid. ...
10:05 AM, May 20, 2013
Islamabad: Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf is set to form government in the militancy-hit Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province with the backing of the Jamaat-e-Islami while the PML-N and several smaller parties are expected to form a coalition in the restive Balochistan province. The Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf emerged the single largest party in Khyber-Pakhtunkwa by bagging 35 of the 99 directly elected seats far short of a simple majority. The Jamaat-e-Islami, which won seven seats,...
02:37 PM, May 14, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistan former President Pervez Musharraf was slapped with terror charges on Friday by a court and placed under house arrest at his famrhouse. The court directed the police to produce Musharraf before anti-terror court in two days. Musharraf was earlier in the day arrested in a case relating to the imposition of emergency rule in 2007 and was presented before a magistrate, becoming the first former army chief to...
10:14 AM, Apr 19, 2013
Islamabad: A Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader, who was a candidate for Pakistan's upcoming polls, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in southern Sindh province on Thursday, police said. Two gunmen, who were riding a motorcycle, shot at Fakhrul Islam outside his home in Halanaka area of Hyderabad city this afternoon. Islam was hit by several bullets and died instantly, police officials said. The gunmen escaped after the attack. No group...
03:35 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party is back home and in time to campaign for the May 11 elections. He returned late on Monday night a week after he controversially left for Dubai. ...
03:30 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Pakistan's election season is heating up despite a bombing and threats of more violence. And there is another wild card in the race to lead chaotic Pakistan. Retired cricket idol Imran Khan told supporters on Sunday, "We will establish a new Pakistan." ...
09:31 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Two women from Pakistan's restive northwest have made history by becoming the first tribal women to file nomination papers for the May 11 parliamentary polls. Forty-year-old Badam Zari filed nomination papers for a National Assembly constituency in the restive Bajaur tribal region on Saturday while Nusrat Begum plans to contest elections from Lower Dir, a tribal district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. ...
03:15 PM, Apr 01, 2013
A day after a shoe was hurled at Pervez Musharraf, the former Pakistani president remains unfazed. "I didn't even see it. There was nothing that hit me. I was told that somebody hurled something," he said. ...
11:44 AM, Mar 30, 2013
Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said he felt a little "insulted and humiliated" standing before a judge in a Karachi court, where he appeared to seek extension of his pre-arrest bail in a series of cases. Musharraf, 69, who ruled Pakistan for about a decade, following a military coup in which he overthrew Nawaz Sharif, appeared in a court in Karachi for the first time in his life. ...
10:58 AM, Mar 30, 2013
Rejecting Taliban threats of assassination and legal trouble, former President Pervez Musharraf returned to Pakistan on Sunday, ending his 4-year long self-imposed exile. He will be announcing his political plans later on Monday evening. ...
09:06 AM, Mar 25, 2013
Breaking a jinx, Pakistani politics has achieved a major milestone with the National Assembly completing its full term for the first time, even as the country's leadership continue to be divided on the issue of choosing a caretaker premier to oversee polls. ...
05:51 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Abdul Hafeez Shaikh on Tuesday resigned as the Finance Minister of Pakistan amidst mounting speculation that he would play a key role in the caretaker administration that is expected to oversee the next general election scheduled for mid-May. ...
11:17 PM, Feb 19, 2013
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and his son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari have moved into a new sprawling bomb-proof residence in this eastern city that will be the base for their political activities in Punjab province ahead of the general election. ...
04:59 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is intent on launching his son Bilawal's formal political career before the general election early next year though he will not achieve the minimum age of 25 for contesting polls till September 2013. Zardari plans to launch the political career of Bilawal, the nominal head of the ruling PPP, by May 2013, when the general election would be held, the Dawn newspaper reported on...
04:53 PM, Nov 23, 2012
Lahore: In a setback to Hafiz Saeed promoted Defa-e-Pakistan Council, no mainstream political parties on Saturday attended a conference convened by it to mobilise support for its planned long march against the reopening of NATO supply routes to Afghanistan. The conference was not attended by representatives of key political parties like the PML-N or Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf. Leaders of parties like the Jamaat-e-Islami and Awami Muslim League, which are part of...
11:05 PM, Jul 07, 2012
Lahore: Disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist A Q Khan has expressed his willingness to contest elections while suggesting the formation of a government of technocrats because politicians have failed to deliver good governance. Khan, 76, made the remarks while addressing students at the Punjab University on Wednesday. Khan has been accused of running proliferation network and providing nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and others. He advised PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif...
01:49 PM, May 03, 2012
