Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf's offering, called Nazrana, was accepted by his Khadim during his visit to the Dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti on Saturday, a shrine official on Sunday night said refuting reports that the donation was refused. ...
01:45 AM, Mar 11, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said there cannot be normalisation of ties with Pakistan unless the "terror machine still active" in that country is brought under control. ...
05:43 AM, Mar 09, 2013
On the eve of Prime Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf's visit to Ajmer Sharif, Pakistan on Friday said the only way to overcome problems in its relations with India is through "building trust and confidence". ...
11:59 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Is Pakistan democracy going to be derailed in the wake of the protests led by Sufi cleric Tahir ul Qadri against the PPP government? Suhasini Haidar asks experts. ...
11:55 AM, Jan 19, 2013
The government also agreed that the caretaker administration would be chosen in consultation with all parties. ...
09:16 AM, Jan 18, 2013
Pakistan's main anti-corruption agency will decide whether a case should be filed against Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf or if he should be arrested over allegations of graft in power projects, Law Minister Farooq Naek said on Tuesday. Speaking hours after the Supreme Court directed the National Accountability Bureau to arrest Ashraf and 15 other suspects linked to alleged corruption in setting up rental power projects, Naek said only the...
10:52 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday left for a week-long tour of Pakistan at the invitation of chief ministers of Punjab and Sind provinces of the neighbouring country. He left for Delhi on Thursday morning from where he would fly to Pakistan via Dubai on Friday, officials in Patna said. During his tour, Kumar would meet leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement which has the support of migrant...
09:15 AM, Nov 09, 2012
Islamabad: Raja Parvez Ashraf, a stalwart of the ruling PPP, on Friday became Pakistan's new Prime Minister as the country struggled to come out of its latest political crisis. Ashraf was administered the oath of office by President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday night, hours after he was elected as the new Prime Minister by the National Assembly. A new federal Cabinet was also sworn in at the Presidency, where...
11:51 PM, Jun 22, 2012
It has been more than 40 hours since five-year-old Mahi fell into a borewell in a village in Manesar, Haryana. Rescue efforts are on and are said to be in their last leg. ...
11:16 PM, Jun 22, 2012
Islamabad: Raja Parvez Ashraf, a stalwart of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP), was on Friday elected by the National Assembly as Pakistan's new Prime Minister as the country struggled to come out of its latest political crisis. The 61-year-old loyalist of the Bhutto family was pitched forked into the hot seat after the original choice Makhdoom Shahbuddin faced an arrest warrant on Thursday. But the new leader himself is...
08:27 PM, Jun 22, 2012
Islamabad: Veteran leader Raja Parvez Ashraf, Pakistan Peoples Party's nominee for the Prime Minister, is a strong loyalist of the Bhutto family and hails from a royal family of Rawalpindi in Punjab. Sixty-one-year-old Ashraf, who was PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari's second choice for the post of premier, became the main candidate after an arrest warrant was issued against party nominee Makhdoom Shahbuddin for alleged irregularities during his tenure as...
01:19 PM, Jun 22, 2012
New Delhi: Two days after Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was ousted by a court order, the country is set to get its new Prime Minister. Information and Broadcasting Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira is the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) candidate, due to be voted in when the National Assembly meets on Friday. But he was not the party's first choice, nor the second. Makhdoom Shahabuddin, who was nominated on...
07:14 AM, Jun 22, 2012
