Lahore: President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday blamed national and international forces for his Pakistan Peoples Party defeat in the May 11 polls while the party's losing candidates held former premiers Yousuf Raza Gilani and Raja Pervez Ashraf responsible for the debacle. In a meeting with PPP ticket-holders of Punjab province at his private residence here, Zardari claimed some "international forces" did not want the party to come to power again.
"These forces were not happy with the (outgoing) PPP government's agreements with the countries in the region," he said. PPP leaders believe that the US was not happy over the previous government's agreements for a gas pipeline and the management of Gwadar Port with Iran and China, respectively. Zardari said the mandate of the PPP had been "stolen" but it would play an effective role at the centre as an opposition party. He said he would actively participate in politics after completing his tenure as President in September.
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01:05 AM, May 21, 2013
Bhopal: BJP's humiliating defeat in the Karnataka assembly polls is the beginning of its decline in election-bound states, Madhya Pradesh Congress president Kantilal Bhuria said in Bhopal on Wednesday. Congratulating Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice president Rahul Gandhi for the success in Karnataka, where it regained power after a gap of ten years, Bhuria claimed that the BJP's decline because of its misdeeds was set in motion from...
01:23 AM, May 09, 2013
Downplaying the recent verdict by International Court of Arbitration upholding India's right to divert water from the Kishanganga hydro project, Pakistan said on Tuesday it was not a legal defeat for the country. Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said that the arbitration award was not a legal defeat for Pakistan. ...
06:53 PM, Feb 26, 2013
London: French Open champion Rafael Nadal was philosophical about his shock second-round defeat to 100th-ranked Czech Lukas Rosol at the Wimbledon. The Spanish second seed looked to have fought his way back into the match, cruising to the fourth set after taking the first and surprisingly dropping the next two. But Rosol rallied and won a dramatic decider to record a 6-7 (11), 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 victory. Nadal, a...
05:43 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Germany's coach Joachim Low believes that the time has come for Germany to overcome their struggles of the past and defeat Italy in a major tournament. Die Mannschaft have failed to come out on top against the Azzurri in four previous World Cups and two European Championship meetings. They will go head-to-head once more in the Euro 2012 semi-final on Thursday, and the 52-year-old trainer believes that they will finally...
10:52 AM, Jun 27, 2012
Ottis Gibson urged Caribbean cricket fans to keep faith with his youthful side after their latest defeat. ...
11:22 AM, May 29, 2012
Los Angeles: Interview with TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas for Undefeated Q. Hey, guys. Congratulations. A. (Dan Lindsay) We're short. Q. Hi, congratulations. You guys dropped the F bomb on stage. What do you have to say to that? A. (Dan Lindsay) Why did that have to be the first question? A. (TJ Martin) First and foremost, I'd actually like to apologize. That wasn't the classiest thing in...
06:53 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Ok, ok, so you do remember it all, dont you? That Dhoni six that sealed the World Cup. Those stories that appeared soon after about team spirit and leadership. And the paeans of praise for a leader who could do no wrong. Ah, those were the days. Suddenly, it seems to have all gone wrong. The Indian team has slipped in the world rankings, lost every international game on the...
12:58 PM, Sep 27, 2011
Kolkata: CPI(M) leader and Land Reforms minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah, one of the few ministers who retained their seats, on Friday held state's Commerce and Industry minister Nirupam Sen squarely responsible for the debacle of the Left front in the Assembly election. Reacting to the Front's poll reverses, he said the chief minister was not to be blamed alone for the failure. Stating that his suggestion on "faulty" land acquisition...
06:13 PM, May 13, 2011
Washington: US President Barack Obama on Wednesday took responsibility for the defeat of the Democrats in the US mid-term elections. He acknowledged that he has been unable to change the nature of Washington politics during his first two years in office. The US President said, “Over the last two years we have made progress but clearly not too many Americans have felt that progress and they have told us that...
07:42 AM, Nov 04, 2010
Rajnath Singh explained exactly what the party ideology was. ...
09:59 PM, Jun 20, 2009
Party holds first major meeting to debate ideology, election results. ...
01:23 PM, Jun 20, 2009
One leader wants Hindutva explained, another cribs about posts. ...
11:56 AM, Jun 20, 2009
Post polls, BJP is divided sharply on lines of followers of Advani, Vajpayee. ...
02:26 AM, Jun 13, 2009
BJP is groping for reasons for dismal show in the Lok Sabha elections. ...
12:46 AM, Jun 13, 2009
Even in defeat, John McCain, the war veteran was ever gracious. ...
03:45 PM, Nov 06, 2008
Islamabad: The Pakistan Cricket Board awarded Category A contracts to spinners Saeed Ajmal and Abdul Rehman on Monday in a new list of 28 centrally-contracted players until the end of the year. Misbah-ul-Haq, Pakistan's captain for all three formats, former skipper Younis Khan, fast bowler Umar Gul and opening batsman Mohammad Hafeez also received contracts in the top category. Details of the new contracts, which run from July 1 to...
03:08 PM, Feb 19, 2008
Lahore: The Pakistan Cricket Board will submit a detailed report to the ICC on the steps it has taken to combat corruption in the sport since the spot-fixing scandal involving three leading Pakistani players broke out in England last year. A senior official of the board told PTI that not only would Pakistan support the concept of day and night Test matches but would also submit its detailed report on...
12:13 PM, Jan 24, 2008
Melbourne: Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan will not be able to mentor the next generation spin talents Down Under because of prior commitments, which includes playing in the Indian Premier League in May. The veteran of 800 Test wickets was supposed to spend some time at Cricket Australia's Centre of Excellence in Brisbane tutoring the budding spinners of the country. "Unfortunately, Murali will not be able to make it," said...
11:28 PM, Dec 23, 2007
Mulayam said that the political fight in UP was between the SP and the BSP and that the Congress is a non-starter. ...
10:49 PM, May 11, 2007
