The 24-year-old only son of assassinated former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is due to launch his political career on December 27, the fifth anniversary of his mother's death. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is among hundreds of high-ranking Pakistani officials, including the current President, his father Asif Zardari, who gathered to commemorate Bhutto's killing in a gun and suicide attack during a 2007 political campaign rally. ...
06:49 PM, Dec 27, 2012
London: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari was among individuals whose personal data was clandestinely obtained by private investigators at the behest of a newspaper owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch. Nick Davies, a journalist writing for The Guardian who has doggedly exposed the dubious news-gathering practices in the British press, mentions that Zardari's credit-card statement was obtained by a private investigator for The Sunday Times. Davies, an award-winning journalist whose...
04:54 PM, Jul 21, 2011
London: In a damning assessment, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has been described by British officials as "highly corrupt" and a "numbskull". The assessment of Zardari was made by officials and military leaders in the months after his election as president in September 2008, The Daily Telegraph reported citing documents leaked by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks. Sir Jock Stirrup, then Chief of the Defence staff, told American diplomats that Pakistan was...
04:40 PM, Feb 05, 2011
Islamabad: The New York-based woman at the centre of a controversy over her purported wedding with President Asif Ali Zardari has said that has never even met the Pakistani leader. Tanveer Zamani, the physician and Pakistan People's Party activist whom some hitherto unknown blogs and websites had named as Zardari's purported wife, said: "I explicitly and clearly deny being married or being subject to a proposal or notion of being...
04:16 PM, Feb 05, 2011
Islamabad: The ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Friday rejected rumours that President Asif Ali Zardari has secretly tied the knot in the US with a Pakistani doctor based in Boston. Rumours abound on Zardari's remarriage with Tanveer Zamani, 40, who has declined to comment. The president's office has not only rebutted but also condemned the report as baseless propaganda against Zaradri's personal life, The Nation reported on Friday. The...
04:27 PM, Feb 04, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan on Tuesday dismissed as a "figment of imagination" a media report that the Gilgit-Baltistan region of the country had been handed over to China and that 10,000 Chinese troops had moved into the area. Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit rejected assertions made in this regard in an article written by Selig Harrison in
The New York Times on August 26. The writer, a south Asia expert, had claimed...
11:11 PM, Aug 31, 2010
Islamabad: The floods in Pakistan may have increased the chances of the army taking over from what is seen as an inept civilian government, claim Pakistani media. Reports coming out of Pakistan hint that the army and its allies are pushing for the formation of a national government without the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party headed by President Asif Ali Zardari. The reports speculate that the only person to emerge with...
10:35 AM, Aug 21, 2010
The Islamabad Police had on August 10 filed a criminal case against ex- leader. ...
01:38 PM, Sep 15, 2009
He also threatened to use constitutional powers to dissolve parliament. ...
02:33 AM, Aug 07, 2008
Lahore: The chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, Ijaz Butt claimed on Tuesday that its Indian counterpart (BCCI) has agreed on an Indo-Pak charity match in the near future to raise funds for country's flood victims. I had a very good meeting with BCCI president, N Srinivasan, and we discussed the resumption of bilateral cricketing ties and also the possibility of having a charity match for the flood victims, Butt...
07:13 PM, Mar 08, 2008
London: Australian spin legend Shane Warne has launched a severe attack on India's young batsmen and felt Mahendra Singh Dhoni's captaincy was getting affected by his below par wicketkeeping as the visitors slumped to a massive 319-run defeat against England in the second Test. Warne said to derail India, an opposition just needs to dismiss their three most experienced batsmen as the rest of the willow-wielders in the side lack...
01:48 PM, Feb 17, 2008
New Delhi: When Indian coach Gary Kirsten said a few days ago that he was not hoping for any easy games, he surely hadn't thought that his team will give away nine wickets within a space of 29 runs and allow South Africa to make a contest out of a match that should have been sealed and delivered in India's favour in the first half itself. For the players who...
04:49 PM, Dec 31, 2007
Bangalore: Australia vice-captain Michael Clarke returned to the Chinnaswamy Stadium on Wednesday hoping for yet more success on the ground where he scored a century on his Test debut.Australia, bidding for a fourth straight World Cup title and fifth in all, continue their campaign in Bangalore against minnows Kenya and Canada on Sunday and a week on Wednesday respectively. It was at the Chinnaswamy in 2004 where Clarke, batting at...
01:23 AM, Dec 29, 2007
A local court in Pakistan has issued non-bailable arrest warrants against former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. ...
05:31 PM, Mar 10, 2007
A local court in Pakistan has issued non-bailable arrest warrants against former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. ...
05:31 PM, Mar 10, 2007
A Pakistani court has asked the government to serve arrest warrants against former PM Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Zardari. ...
09:20 PM, Sep 09, 2006
