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11:52 PM, May 25, 2012

London: The restrictions imposed on student visas by the David Cameron government may prevent the next generation of world leaders such as Manmohan Singh, Benazir Bhutto or Bill Clinton from coming to Britain to study, the head of a leading think-tank on Monday said. Criticising the Cameron government for restrictions on student visas, the influential Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) said in a report that students from India and...

01:34 AM, May 15, 2012

Islamabad: Pakistani officials on Saturday promised a full investigation into the crash of a domestic flight that killed 127 people, saying they were examining all possibilities, from a technical fault to the age of the Boeing 737. Grieving relatives claiming the remains of loved ones at a hospital expressed grief and anger over the crash in a storm as the plane approached Islamabad on a flight from Karachi, Pakistan's commercial...

09:23 PM, Apr 21, 2012

Islamabad: Days after an avalanche buried 138 people, mostly soldiers, at a Pakistani army camp in the Siachen sector, a top Pakistani diplomat has called on India to honour, what she claims, a 1989 "agreement" for resolving the military standoff on the Himalayan glacier. Over the years, Pakistani officials have claimed there was an agreement on Siachen following back channel contacts between the governments of the then Prime Ministers Benazir...

12:13 AM, Apr 15, 2012

Islamabad: Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry on Monday said former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, a "proclaimed offender" in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case, could not be given another opportunity for further hearing as he failed to appear before the court and surrender. Chaudhry made the remarks when a three-judge bench led by him resumed hearing a petitioned filed by slain former premier Bhutto's ex-protocol officer Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam, who has...

08:24 PM, Apr 09, 2012

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is the only son of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and former Prime Minister, the late Benazir Bhutto. He has two other siblings " Bakhtawar and Asifa, both younger sisters. At just 23 years of age, Bilawal is the chairman of the Pakistan People's Party, the political entity founded by his maternal grandfather Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1967, and has been announced as the next Tumandar (chief)...

02:17 PM, Apr 09, 2012

Islamabad: Bilawal Bhutto, the 24-year-old son of President Asif Ali Zardari and chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party, has a fan following on Facebook, with some wishing him a good visit and welcoming him to India. Nazia Rehman, a user, wrote on a Facebook page: "welcome to india.. khush amadeed". Bilawal Bhutto is accompanying his father who is on a day-long trip to India on Sunday. Zardari will meet Indian...

01:24 PM, Apr 08, 2012

Seoul: Amid global concerns over Pakistan's track record on nuclear non-proliferation, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Monday said his country had no links with North Korea's atomic programme. "There had been some disinformation and allegations during the past, but now it is a closed chapter that we have already denied," said Gilani, who is in Seoul to attend second Nuclear Security Summit. His comments to South Korea's Yonhap news...

04:40 PM, Mar 26, 2012

Islamabad: Pakistani authorities on Tuesday pasted a summons at ex-President Pervez Musharraf's farmhouse that directed him to return from self-exile and appear in Supreme Court on March 22 in connection with the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, days after the government sought an Interpol Red Corner notice for his arrest. The summons, which was issued in the wake of a petition seeking the registration of a second FIR for Bhutto's December...

08:36 AM, Mar 07, 2012

Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday directed authorities to paste a notice at the residence of former President Pervez Musharraf seeking his response to a petition for registering a second FIR regarding the assassination of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry issued the order during the hearing of a petition by Bhutto's former protocol officer Aslam Chaudhry, who wants a second FIR to be...

02:41 PM, Mar 05, 2012

Islamabad: Pakistan has approached France-based Interpol for a Red Corner notice against former President Pervez Musharraf, seeking his arrest and extradition to the country over his alleged involvement in the assassination of ex-Premier Benazir Bhutto. The Interior Ministry has forwarded the request to the Interpol Secretariat through the global police organisation's representative in Pakistan, the Dawn newspaper reported on Sunday, quoted sources. Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) senior prosecutor, Chaudhry Zulfiqar...

02:49 PM, Mar 04, 2012

Islamabad: Pakistan's embattled Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will appear before Supreme Court on Monday to face contempt charges that could decide his fate and plunge the country into a fresh political turmoil over his refusal to reopen graft cases against the President. Dealing a major blow to Gilani, 59, Pakistan's apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry on Friday had rejected his appeal against framing of contempt charges...

08:24 AM, Feb 13, 2012

Islamabad: Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said he will resign if the Supreme Court convicts him in a contempt of court case for not acting against President Asif Ali Zardari, Geo News reported on Sunday. Speaking to an Arab news channel, Gilani also said the cases against Zardari are politically motivated and the President enjoys immunity in the country and abroad. Gilani has refused to write to the...

07:44 AM, Feb 13, 2012

Lahore: Former president Pervez Musharraf was forced to delay his planned return to Pakistan from self-exile after he failed to get any assurances from the military and the Pakistan People's Party-led government about his security, sources said on Friday. Two Pakistani courts have issued arrest warrants for Musharraf in cases related to the killing of Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Bugti and former premier Benazir Bhutto. Top Pakistani officials have said...

01:34 PM, Jan 20, 2012

Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik says Musharraf has been declared proclaimed offender in Benazir Bhutto's case. ...

09:14 PM, Jan 19, 2012