Islamabad: A police team has reached the residence of former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on the outskirts of Islamabad to arrest him after he fled from the Islamabad High Court following a court order to arrest him. Musharraf fled from the court premises with the help of his bodyguards after the court ordered his arrest in a case related to the confinement of over 60 judges in 2007 when he...
04:59 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Islamabad: Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf's efforts to seek election to parliament from four seats suffered major setback after his candidature was rejected in all four constituencies for which he had filed nomination. The tribunals barred the former general from contesting the May 11 polls from two constituencies in the Pakistani capital and Punjab province. The tribunals comprising High Court judges upheld decisions by Returning Officers to reject Musharraf's nomination...
04:06 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Islamabad: Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's party has acknowledged "Kashmiri jihadi forces" active in Pakistan as one of key factors driving "terror and lawlessness" within the country. The 'Naya Pakistan Plan', a document posted on the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf's special website created for the May 11 polls, lists six factors in its section on internal security that "drive terror and lawlessness in varying degrees". These factors are "Taliban resistance movement in Afghanistan; Pakistani...
02:31 PM, Apr 14, 2013
Islamabad: Ex-President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday failed to appear before a Pakistani anti-terrorism court conducting the trial of suspects charged with involvement in the 2007 assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto and was subsequently summoned for the next hearing on April 23. During proceedings held behind closed doors at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman summoned all the accused, including former military ruler Musharraf, for the next hearing. Musharraf...
02:10 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Islamabad: A Pakistani court extended the pre-arrest bail of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf by six days during proceedings conducted amid tight security on Friday. Musharraf, 69, had applied to the Islamabad High Court for the extension of his bail in a case registered against him for placing dozens of judges under house arrest after imposing emergency rule in late 2007. Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui extended the pre-arrest bail till...
02:02 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Islamabad: Former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf's plea to put off a treason case against him till after the May 11 general elections was on Tuesday rejected by the Pakistan Supreme Court which, however, refused to order his arrest. A two-judge bench led by Justice Jawad Khwaja, which is hearing five petitions seeking Musharraf's trial for treason for subverting the constitution and declaring an emergency in 2007, turned down Musharraf's...
07:00 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Islamabad: The nomination papers of several high-profile candidates in the fray for Pakistan's general election, including Pervez Musharraf and Imran Khan, were on Saturday challenged by their opponents in different parts of the country. Jamaat-e-Islami leader Niyamatullah Khan, who intends to contest parliamentary polls in Karachi from the same constituency as Musharraf, objected to the former military ruler's candidature on the ground that he had twice violated and subverted the...
06:05 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistan Election Commission on Friday rejected former president Pervez Musharraf's nomination papers, raising objection under article 62 and 63 of the constitution. Musharraf had recently returned to the country after a four-year self-imposed exile to take part in elections, despite death threats from Pakistani Taliban. Musharraf, who was banned by a court from leaving the country, wanted to contest in the May 11 polls from Karachi, Islamabad, Chitral and...
04:13 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Pakistan Army will deploy about 50,000 troops across the country to secure the general election process on May 11, which is facing a "massive terrorist threat" from the Taliban and other militant groups. ...
04:44 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Former premier Nawaz Sharif kicked off the PML-N's election campaign in northwest Pakistan on Monday, pledging to carry out 'economic explosions' on the lines of the nuclear tests of 1998 if his party is voted to power. ...
08:37 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Muhammad Tahir-Ul-Qadri the Islamic cleric, who is pushing for electoral reforms in Pakistan, said that his political party would boycott the forthcoming general elections in the country. ...
07:54 AM, Mar 18, 2013
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf faces possible disqualification in Pakistan's upcoming polls as a company co-owned by him has been declared a defaulter by authorities, according to a media report on Sunday. ...
12:09 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the barbaric killing of Indian soldiers in Kashmir had cast a shadow on bilateral ties and asked Pakistan to create a conducive environment to take the normalisation process forward. Singh also underlined that enhancement of bilateral cooperation and economic relations with Pakistan was in the mutual interest of the two countries. ...
08:41 PM, Mar 06, 2013
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11:48 PM, Mar 01, 2013
A rare countrywide blackout has left Pakistan without electricity for almost two hours overnight. The authorities blamed technical problems for the breakdown early on Monday, insisting it was not caused by sabotage. ...
11:30 PM, Feb 25, 2013
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday imposed a complete ban on the transfer and development of land around shrines of minority communities in the wake of allegations about the illegal sale of a gurdwara's property by a state-run body. ...
05:06 AM, Feb 07, 2013
A flight, which took-off from Karachi for Islamabad, took a detour and landed at Lahore to drop-off the daughter of an officer with the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), the flag carrier of Pakistan, said a media report on Wednesday. ...
10:40 AM, Jan 30, 2013
Notwithstanding lukewarm response from India following heightened tensions, Pakistan on Thursday said it wants to resolve all issues with India, including those along the Line of Control, through talks as dialogue is the best way to address such matters. Islamabad wants to sort out all issues with New Delhi, particularly ceasefire violations along the LoC, Foreign Office spokesman Moazzam Khan told a weekly news briefing. ...
08:13 PM, Jan 24, 2013
Pakistan government on Thursday reached out to fiery cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, who has been camping outside Parliament along with thousands of protesters for the fourth day in a row demanding the government's resignation and dissolution of the national and provincial assemblies. A four-member committee, formed by the government, held talks with Qadri. ...
09:46 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Pakistan politician Imran Khan on Tuesday called for immediate elections in Pakistan, demanding the resignation of President Asif Ali Zardari at the earliest. Hitting out at the PPP-led government in the country, the former cricketer said there must not be fair and time elections. ...
06:27 PM, Jan 15, 2013
