Islamabad: Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday said he had no plans to resign after the presentation of the next budget this week in the wake of his conviction of contempt by Pakistan's Supreme Court. "After all the achievements, why should I resign after the budget?" Gilani said during an appearance on the monthly television programme "Prime Minister Online", during which he answers questions from people around the...
03:43 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Islamabad: Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, convicted for alleged involvement in bomb attacks in 1990 in Pakistan, has sent a fresh clemency appeal to President Asif Ali Zardari, a media report said on Tuesday. This is the fifth mercy petition from Sarabjit, who was sentenced to death for alleged involvement in a string of bombings in Punjab in 1990 that killed 14 people. The 49-year-old Indian is currently being...
10:59 AM, May 29, 2012
Nay Pyi Taw: India on Monday said it would explore all options to normalise relations with Pakistan and its intentions are "very transparent" in this direction. "With Pakistan, speculation will never stop and I wouldn't like to enlist myself in the club of speculators. All I can convey to you is that India's intention are very honest, India's intentions are very transparent," External Affairs Minister SM Krishna told reporters here....
11:09 AM, May 28, 2012
Islamabad: In a reprieve for Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan Parliament's Speaker on Thursday ruled out his disqualification in the wake of his conviction for contempt by the Supreme Court for refusing to revive graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. In a ruling issued this afternoon, Fehmida Mirza, the Speaker of the National Assembly or lower house of parliament, said she had decided not to send any proposal for...
12:06 AM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: Talks between India and Pakistan at the Home Secretary level will begin in Islamabad on Thursday. This is the second such meeting of Home Secretaries since the 26/11 attacks in 2008 in Mumbai. A 12-member delegation, led by Home Secretary RK Singh, on Wednesday left for Pakistan on Thursday where a relaxed visa regime is expected to be inked apart from New Delhi pressing for action against perpetrators...
09:50 AM, May 24, 2012
Lahore: Former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said Pakistan was humiliated at the NATO Summit in Chicago because of President Asif Ali Zardari's "zero credibility". "Pakistan had not been taken seriously by the world owing to the zero credibility of the incompetent rulers. World leaders gave a cold shoulder to President Zardari at the summit. It is the humiliation of my country as the elected President was snubbed at...
04:03 PM, May 23, 2012
Washington: In a clear snub to Pakistan, US President Barack Obama left off the country from a list of nations he thanked for getting war supplies into Afghanistan, signalling a deepening rift between the two nations. "I want to welcome the presence of (Afghan) President (Hamid) Karzai, as well as officials from Central Asia and Russia, nations that have an important perspective and that continue to provide critical transit for...
09:31 PM, May 22, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama is at loggerheads with his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari, refusing to meet him apparently over blockage of NATO supply lines into Afghanistan, an issue which continues to strain ties between two nations, American media reports said on Monday. 'The New York Times' said a deal to reopen the supply lines fell apart as Obama began talks on ending the NATO alliance's combat role in...
12:58 PM, May 21, 2012
Washington: Raising the issue of "drone strikes" and delay in payment of collation support fund, the Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, in his meeting with the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has called for addressing the issue of trust deficit between the two nations. Zardari, during the meeting, noted due to the trust deficit, it would be difficult for Islamabad to rejoin counter-terrorism co-operation with the international community. In...
10:57 AM, May 21, 2012
Washington: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has arrived in Chicago to attend the crucial NATO Summit which is expected to take important decisions with regard to the future of Afghanistan, where the stakes of Islamabad are very high. Zardari is accompanied by Foreign Minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, and the Foreign Secretary, Jalil Abbass Jilani, besides his spokesman Farhatullah Babar. His first scheduled appointment with the NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh...
05:12 PM, May 20, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's donation of $ 1 million to the famous sufi shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti at Ajmer will be paid from Pakistan's public exchequer, his spokesman has said. Zardari announced the donation, which the shrine's administrators have described as one of the biggest in recent years, when he offered prayers at the Dargah on April 8. The President visited the shrine in Rajasthan after meeting...
05:37 PM, May 18, 2012
Karachi: Pakistan's ailing virologist Khaleel Chishti on Wednesday reunited with his family after nearly two decades amidst moving and tearful scenes at the Karachi airport where hundreds of people gathered to welcome him. Chishti, who spent 20 long years away from home in Indian jail on charge of involvement in a murder, was brought out of the Jinnah international airport in a wheelchair, looking frail and weak but with his...
11:47 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh conveyed to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari that India's concerns on terrorism have to be addressed and anti-India activities have to be stopped there if the people of India were to support and sustain progress in bilateral relations with Islamabad. During the visit of Zardari to India on April 8, Singh and Zardari had discussed the issue of terrorism and the Prime Minister told...
03:48 PM, May 16, 2012
Washington: The US on Tuesday said that NATO countries have decided it is important to have participation of Pakistan at the Chicago Summit on Afghanistan hoping that Islamabad would be able to reopen the supply routes by then. "We are making progress, and we will continue to work on this throughout the week. Obviously, it'll be a wonderful signal if we can get it done by the time of the...
12:20 AM, May 16, 2012
Islamabad: NATO on Tuesday invited Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to its crucial upcoming Chicago summit, a day after Foreign Minister Khar publicly indicated Pakistan's willingness to end its six-month blockade of supplies for foreign troops in Afghanistan. NATO Secretary General Rasmussen telephoned Zardari in the afternoon and invited him to the NATO summit in Chicago beginning from the 20th of this month. President's spokesperson Farhatullah Babar said that the...
07:16 PM, May 15, 2012
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