Islamabad: The party of former Pakistan military ruler Pervez Musharraf, facing a series of legal cases over his actions while in power, on Friday said it would boycott Pakistan's May 11, 2013 general election. The move came in the wake of the Peshawar High Court's order barring Musharraf from contesting polls for the rest of his life.
Musharraf has also been arrested over the imposition of emergency rule in 2007, the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto and the killing of Baloch leader Akbar Bugti in a 2006 military operation. Muhammad Amjad, the spokesman for Musharraf's All Pakistan Muslim League (APML), announced their party's boycott of the polls at a news conference in Islamabad.
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01:19 AM, May 04, 2013
Pakistan on Saturday stopped former president Pervez Musharraf from leaving the country a day after a court ordered it. The interior ministry issued directives to the immigration authorities to put Musharraf's name on the Exit Control List (ECL), reported Xinhua, citing Radio Pakistan. ...
05:50 AM, Mar 31, 2013
The Pakistan army has demanded foolproof security for former president Pervez Musharraf after he returned to the country amidst death threats from the Taliban. He is in the country for the May elections, but the US Ambassador to Islamabad said he is unlikely to make an impact. ...
01:45 PM, Mar 26, 2013
Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf returned to the country on Sunday after a four-year long self-imposed exile. "On the very first day of my return, hurdles have been created for me. Our first gathering was sabotaged. I am back today even as people said that I would never return. I only fear God and nobody else," Musharraf said. ...
10:47 AM, Mar 25, 2013
Rejecting Taliban threats of assassination and legal trouble, former President Pervez Musharraf returned to Pakistan on Sunday, ending his 4-year long self-imposed exile. He will be announcing his political plans later on Monday evening. ...
09:06 AM, Mar 25, 2013
Boris Berezovsky, a self-exiled and outspoken Russian tycoon who had a bitter falling out with Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found dead in southeast England on Saturday. He was 67. In recent years, the one-time Kremlin powerbroker-turned-thorn in Putin's side fended off verbal and legal attacks in cases that often bore political undertones - and bit into his fortune. ...
11:40 AM, Mar 24, 2013
After remaining in self-exile for over four years, Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf will return home on March 24 to participate in historic elections in May. Musharraf, 69, will be flying from Dubai to Karachi where his supporters are planning to give him a rousing welcome. ...
02:34 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Islamabad: Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who is a "proclaimed offender" in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case, on Wednesday announced that he will contest the upcoming general elections from Chitral, a constituency in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Musharraf, 69, made the announcement while addressing the elders of Chitral via a video-link from Dubai, the Express Tribune reported. The former president who ruled Pakistan between 1999 and 2008, had formed a...
10:55 PM, Oct 24, 2012
New Delhi: Six books have been shortlisted for 'Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2012' of the Shakti Bhatt Foundation. There were 96 entries. The shortlisted books will be sent to the 2012 panel of judges, which consists of literary agent David Godwin, poet and novelist Tishani Doshi, and author Basharat Peer, said a foundation statement Thursday. The winner will be announced in the second half of November and the prize...
04:41 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Lahore: Former President Pervez Musharraf is keen to return to Pakistan from self-exile when an interim government headed by a "neutral" Prime Minister is formed ahead of the general election scheduled for early next year. According to his party, the All Pakistan Muslim League, Musharraf has started contacting friends in the powerful Army and in political circles to assess the possibility of his homecoming under a caretaker set-up. Musharraf, who...
12:42 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Because the trend of human migration has received a fillip in recent times, the problems of diaspora have begun to loom large the world over. ...
01:00 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Lahore: Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said "a good number of ex-servicemen" are ready to join his party on his planned homecoming next month from self-exile abroad, amid reports that some 100 retired senior Army officers have shown willingness to do so. Musharraf, who has been living in self-exile since early 2009, said he will announce a date for his return when he addresses a public meeting in Karachi...
01:16 PM, Dec 31, 2011
Bunny Suraiya's 'Calcutta Exile' evokes a bygone era of one of the most vibrant and cosmopolitan cities in the world. It also raises questions about individual and collective identities, the foremost among which is: where is home? Set in Calcutta a decade after partition, the novel explores what happens to people when momentous change happens. Here's an excerpt from the book: Chapter 1: Ayah Ayah's name was Sohag Khatun, but...
06:25 PM, Nov 30, 2011
This is a story about four families caught in a vortex of history that changed millions of lives. Set in Calcutta a decade after Partition, the novel explores what happens to people when momentous change happens. Robert Ryan, an Anglo-Indian, is as much a son of Calcutta, as is his Muslim servant Ayah and the Bengali Ronen Mookerjee, but in each of their lives, circumstances have changed. Ryan feels that...
01:41 PM, Nov 02, 2011
New Delhi: Forced to live away from India, M.F. Husain at one time wanted to destroy all his paintings, says his son Owais Husain who is hungering to conquer the wasteland of possibilities left behind by his illustrious father. "I feel suddenly in life there is a wasteland in front of me, but the wasteland is rich, inspiring a hunger in me to devour the wasteland. I am ready, actually...
11:49 AM, Jul 05, 2011
CNN-IBN correspondent Sahar Zaman recalls her meeting with legendary painter MF Husain who died in London on Thursday. ...
12:10 PM, Jun 10, 2011
Dharamsala: After the implementation of the new Tibetan constitution, newly elected members of the 15th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile were sworn in on Monday. Interim Speaker Pema Jungney administered the oath to 42 MPs at a ceremony. The total strength of the House is 44. Election Commission of Central Tibetan Administration will hold polls for election of the two remaining MPs from U-Tsang Province (Central Tibet). Prior to the swearing-in ceremony of...
06:50 PM, May 30, 2011
Washington: The newly elected Prime Minister of Tibet's government-in-exile predicted that the 76-year-old Dalai Lama will return during his lifetime to the homeland he fled five decades ago. In Dharmsala, India, the Tibetan spiritual leader's exile headquarters, Harvard legal scholar Lobsang Sangay was declared on Wednesday as the winner of a vote cast by tens of thousands of Tibetans around the world, after the Buddhist leader said he wanted to...
08:26 AM, Apr 28, 2011
Dharamsala: The Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile has accepted the Dalai Lama's desire to be relieved of his political duties and agreed to amend its Charter for the purpose but has proposed that he should continue as the 'symbolic head' of the Tibetan government. Prime Minister of the Tibetan government in exile Samthong Rimpoche told the Tibetan Parliament here on the last day of its Budget session on Friday that the House has...
06:10 PM, Mar 25, 2011
Dharamsala: Thousands of Tibetans across the world on Sunday voted to elect the Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, an exercise that may usher in a transition in the community's leadership following the Dalai Lama's flat refusal to reconsider his decision to retire as its political head. "As many as 83,399 exiled Tibetan settled in India, Nepal, Bhutan, the United States, European countries, Australia, Japan, Russia and other countries were...
05:19 PM, Mar 20, 2011
