Islamabad: Asif Ali Zardari is here to stay and has no plans to travel abroad, said an official, refuting reports that the Pakistan president's return from Dubai could be just a "cameo appearance" and he would later leave for a long convalescence either in London or Dubai. The president's spokesperson Farhatullah Babar on Tuesday contradicted reports that Zardari was planning to leave for London, reported Associated Press of Pakistan. Babar...
10:43 AM, Dec 21, 2011
Zardari's Dubai visit triggered rampant speculation that he might be on the verge of resigning. ...
09:59 AM, Dec 19, 2011
Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday returned to Pakistan from Dubai, where he had gone almost a fortnight ago to seek treatment for a heart condition, triggering rampant speculation that he might be on the verge of resigning. Zardari, along with his daughter and personal staff, flew from Dubai to Karachi in a special aircraft that landed in a Pakistan Air Force base in the southern port city shortly...
09:39 AM, Dec 19, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan's ailing President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday scotched speculation that he could be ousted under a constitutional provision that provides for the removal of a president on the ground of "physical or mental incapacity". Talking to a senior Pakistani journalist who had written a column on the same issue on Friday, Zardari said he was "absolutely fine" but doctors treating him in Dubai were not giving him permission...
07:38 AM, Dec 17, 2011
New Delhi: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is fit and will return to work next week says his close aide Wajid Shamsul Hassan who is also Pakistan's ambassador to the UK. Zardari was released from a Dubai hospital on Wednesday evening. Zardari had been admitted to a Dubai hospital on December 6 due to a "mild" stroke that caused bleeding in the brain and facial paralysis. His sudden exit had...
05:47 AM, Dec 16, 2011
Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari was on Wednesday discharged from a Dubai hospital where he was being treated for a heart condition and sent home to recuperate, according to a media report on Wednesday. Zardari was discharged from the American Hospital, where he was admitted on December 6, and was expected to recuperate at his private villa in Dubai, Geo News channel reported. A sizeable number of PPP workers and...
11:21 PM, Dec 14, 2011
Dubai: Luke Donald was on top of the world in more ways than one on Sunday after becoming the first player to win the money-list crowns in Europe and the United States. Donald became the first golfer to win both the PGA Tour and European Tour money titles, finishing third in the Dubai World Championship on Sunday behind winner Alvaro Quiros. Rival Rory McIlroy needed to win the Dubai World...
01:10 PM, Dec 12, 2011
Dubai: Spaniard Alvaro Quiros holed a 40-foot eagle putt on the 18th to clinch a two-shot win over Paul Lawrie at the Dubai World Championship on Sunday as No. 1-ranked Luke Donald became the first golfer in history to win both the American and European money titles. The 34-year-old Donald, who won the American title earlier this year, had to finish better than ninth or hope his only rival Rory...
01:06 PM, Dec 12, 2011
Dubai: Top-ranked Luke Donald is on the verge of becoming the first golfer to win the European and American money titles, shooting a 6-under 66 on Saturday in the third round of the Dubai World Championship to trail leader Alvaro Quiros by four strokes. While Donald climbed the leaderboard, Rory McIlroy headed the other way to all but end his chances of overtaking the Englishman for top spot on the...
11:47 AM, Dec 11, 2011
Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari has said that he is completely alright and will return to Pakistan soon. A television anchor who spoke to him quoted the president as saying that many of his enemies did not want him to return to his country. "They think that I have fled but escape is not an option. I will never leave as I was born in Pakistan and I will die...
11:27 AM, Dec 10, 2011
Dubai: Rory McIlroy's chance for the European money title took a hit when his ball landed in the water on 18, finishing five shots off the lead halfway through the Dubai World Championship on Friday. McIlroy had a 1-under 71 to trail Spanish leader Alvaro Quiros, who eagled the 18th for a 64. Top-ranked Luke Donald finished with three straight birdies for a 68, tied for 12th. Second-ranked McIlroy needs...
09:17 AM, Dec 10, 2011
Dubai: A swashbuckling finish yielding five birdies in six holes catapulted Rory McIlroy up the Dubai World Championship leaderboard on Thursday as he seized the early initiative in his European money-list battle with Luke Donald. The US Open champion returned a six-under-par 66 while US PGA Tour money-winner Donald, bidding to become the first player to land the orders of merit on both sides of the Atlantic, struggled to a...
02:24 PM, Dec 09, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari had a "mild" stroke that caused bleeding in the brain and facial paralysis before he was flown to Dubai for treatment, a media report said on Friday. However, the President was stable and out of danger as the stroke and internal bleeding were not "life threatening", The News daily quoted its sources as saying. Zardari would require "some treatment, including speech therapy, to resume...
10:51 AM, Dec 09, 2011
Dubai/Washington: Asif Ali Zardari, who is undergoing treatment in Dubai following heart complications, is in stable condition but would remain in hospital for few more days, authorities said, amid assertion by the US that the embattled Pakistan President's UAE trip was not political and there was no sign of a 'silent military coup'. Downplaying Zardari's sudden departure from home, State Department spokesman Mark Toner, said that the US had no...
02:05 PM, Dec 08, 2011
Dubai: Rory McIlroy is a more talented golfer than 14-times major winner Tiger Woods, said world number one Luke Donald on the eve of his Dubai World Championship showdown with the young Northern Irishman. "Tiger's work ethic has always been tremendous, and his mindset as well," Donald told reporters on Wednesday. "But I think Rory has more pure talent. "I have always said that, of the guys I've played with,...
01:15 PM, Dec 08, 2011
Washington: The United States has said there are no reasons to believe a "silent military coup" in Pakistan as sparked by some media reports, after President Asif Ali Zardari suddenly left for Dubai to undergo medical treatment. "No concerns, and no reason to believe (of a silent military coup)," the State Department spokesman, Mark Toner, said on Wednesday at his daily news conference when asked about reports in the Pakistani...
09:56 AM, Dec 08, 2011
Manama: A package that came from Britain and contained explosives has been detected at the Bahrain International Airport, Xinhua reported. Bahraini security authorities announced on Wednesday evening that they found the package at the airport in Muharraq, an island on the northern tip of Bahrain, about seven km northeast of the capital Manama. The interior ministry said the explosives were reportedly sent from Britain through Dubai. It, however, did not...
04:16 AM, Dec 08, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is in a "stable" condition after undergoing tests for a heart condition in Dubai and he is expected to return to Pakistan once the results of his check-up are available in two to three days, a close aide to the Pakistani leader said on Wednesday. "His condition is stable. He has been kept in the ICU because a lot of visitors were coming to...
03:55 AM, Dec 08, 2011
Islamabad/Dubai: Beleaguered Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has been admitted to a Dubai hospital following heart complications, triggering intense speculation that he may step down in the face of army pressure over the 'memogate' scandal. 56-year-old Zardari was flown to the Emirates for "an emergency medical check up in a Pakistan Air Force plane equipped with medical devices", Gulf News reported quoting diplomatic sources. Quoting his personal physician Col Salman,...
06:53 PM, Dec 07, 2011
Dubai: Dubai's ruler said he does not believe Iran will get nuclear weapons, despite Western suspicions that it is trying to develop them, saying the Islamic republic would face devastation if it ever used an atomic bomb against its arch-enemy Israel. Iran insists its nuclear programme is peaceful but a United Nations watchdog issued a report last month which suggested that it had worked on designing an atomic bomb. Dubai's...
04:02 AM, Dec 07, 2011
