Islamabad: A day before the expiry of a deadline set by Pakistan's Supreme Court for reviving graft charges against President Asif Ali Zardari, the government on Tuesday informed the court that the federal cabinet has made no decision to approach Swiss authorities to reopen the cases. The government conveyed its position to the court through a reply submitted by Attorney General Irfan Qadir. A five-judge bench headed by Justice Asif...
03:10 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Lahore: Pakistan People's Party leader Yousuf Raza Gilani's son has won a parliamentary seat in Punjab province that was vacated by former prime minister after being disqualified by the Supreme Court in June. Abdul Qadir Gilani won a by-poll in the family's traditional stronghold of Multan by bagging 64,628 votes, according to media reports. His closest rival, Shaukat Bosan, an independent candidate backed by parties like the PML-N and Pakistan...
01:47 PM, Jul 20, 2012
Islamabad: In the face of pressure from Pakistan's Supreme Court to reopen graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Sunday defended the President's immunity, saying it would only end after he leaves office. "He (Zardari) is the democratically elected President and as per law, he enjoys immunity as long as he holds office," Ashraf said during an interaction with reporters. He said all legal...
10:06 AM, Jul 01, 2012
Islamabad: Piling up pressure on new Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, Pakistan Supreme Court on Wednesday asked him to respond by July 12 to its order to reopen graft cases in Switzerland against President Asif Ali Zardari, an issue that had cost his predecessor his job. A three-judge bench headed by Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk reminded Attorney General Irfan Qadir that former Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani had been convicted for contempt and...
11:28 AM, Jun 27, 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...
12:46 AM, Jun 23, 2012
Islamabad: Raja Parvez Ashraf, a stalwart of the ruling PPP, on Friday became Pakistan's new Prime Minister as the country struggled to come out of its latest political crisis. Ashraf was administered the oath of office by President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday night, hours after he was elected as the new Prime Minister by the National Assembly. A new federal Cabinet was also sworn in at the Presidency, where...
11:51 PM, Jun 22, 2012
Islamabad: Raja Parvez Ashraf is all set to be the next Prime Minister of Pakistan following his nomination by the Pakistan Peoples Party on Friday. The new premier will be elected by Pakistan's National Assembly on Friday evening. Ashraf was the Water and Power Minister in the Cabinet of former Pakistan prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani who has been disqualified by the Supreme Court, necessitating the election of a new...
12:43 PM, Jun 22, 2012
Yousuf Raza Gilani could have broken two records in Pakistan. First, of being the country's longest serving prime minister (with the supreme court disqualifying him ...
09:32 AM, Jun 22, 2012
New Delhi: Two days after Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was ousted by a court order, the country is set to get its new Prime Minister. Information and Broadcasting Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira is the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) candidate, due to be voted in when the National Assembly meets on Friday. But he was not the party's first choice, nor the second. Makhdoom Shahabuddin, who was nominated on...
07:14 AM, Jun 22, 2012
Islamabad: A Pakistani court on Thursday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for Pakistan Peoples Party prime ministerial candidate Makhdoom Shahabuddin in connection with alleged irregularities in the import of a large amount of the controlled drug Ephedrine during his tenure as Health Minister. Acting on a request from the Anti-Narcotics Force, Judge Shafqatullah Khan of a special ANF court in Rawalpindi issued arrest warrants for Shahabuddin and former premier Yousuf...
02:08 PM, Jun 21, 2012
Islamabad: Little known Makhdoom Shahabuddin, Pakistan Peoples Party's nominee for the Prime Minister, is a strong loyalist of the Bhutto family and hails from a revered spiritual family in south Punjab. Shahabuddin, 65, faces a tough road ahead as he will lead the fractious coalition government at a time when it's engaged in a tug-of-war for supremacy with both the military and the judiciary. Born in a revered spiritual family...
12:43 PM, Jun 21, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's president has nominated ruling party veteran and textiles minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin to replace the ousted prime minister, state media reported on Thursday, in an apparent bid for continuity ahead of elections due early next year. The Supreme Court on Tuesday declared Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ineligible for office for refusing to re-open corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, triggering a new crisis in nuclear-armed Pakistan. At...
11:46 AM, Jun 21, 2012
Suhasini Haidar: Hello and welcome to World View with me Suhasini Haider. Tonight with just months to go before its term the country gets a new PM. But will the turmoil in the country continue? We will be joined from Pakistan by senior lawyer and pro-democracy activist Asma Jehangir, who is in Lahore. In Islamabad, GEO TV's executive editor Hamid Mir. In the show we are talking about the G20 ...
10:38 AM, Jun 21, 2012
Islamabad: The people of Pakistan will never permit the undermining of legislature on different pretexts, President Asif Ali Zardari has said, contending that the era of "packing the parliament through back door" was over. Against the backdrop of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's disqualification by the Supreme Court, Zardari said the people know how to ensure the supremacy of parliament and the Constitution. Zardari's message came on the eve of...
11:58 PM, Jun 20, 2012
Islamabad: A special session of Pakistan Parliament will be convened on Friday to elect a new premier following Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's disqualification by the Supreme Court. Pakistan People's Party leader Khursheed Shah, who was Religious Affairs Minister in Gilani's cabinet, told reporters that a session of the National Assembly or lower house of Parliament will be convened at 5.30 pm on Friday to elect the new premier. Nomination...
04:41 PM, Jun 20, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court referred to two judicial verdicts by Indian apex court in its ruling disqualifying Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani following his conviction of contempt. The four-page short order issued on Tuesday by a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry referred to a total of eight judicial verdicts, including six by Pakistani courts and two by the Indian judiciary. The references, included in the second paragraph...
02:36 PM, Jun 20, 2012
New Delhi: The ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) is hunting for a replacement for former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani after the Supreme Court disqualified him from holding the Prime Minister's office on Tuesday. The PPP Parliamentary Party is meeting in Islamabad at 4.30 pm IST on Wednesday. Among the number of names doing the rounds, Power Minister Chaudhary Ahmed Mukhtar and Textile Minister Makhdoom Shahbuddin are said to leading...
10:32 AM, Jun 20, 2012
Islamabad: The ruling Pakistan People's Party has nominated senior leader Makhdoom Shahabuddin for the post of premier following the Supreme Court's disqualification of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, according to a media report on Wednesday. The decision was made at a meeting of senior PPP leaders chaired early on Wednesday morning by President Asif Ali Zardari, Geo News channel quoted its sources as saying. The meeting further decided to convene...
07:59 AM, Jun 20, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan People's Party leader Makhdoom Shahabuddin on Tuesday emerged as a strong contender for the post of premier after the Supreme Court disqualified Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani following his conviction for contempt. Shahabuddin, who belongs to the Seraiki belt in the southern part of Punjab province, has held several portfolios in Gilani's cabinet since 2008. PPP insiders said that Shahabuddin and former Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar were...
01:01 AM, Jun 20, 2012
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