Islamabad: Pakistani opposition lawmakers and members of the treasury benches on Friday engaged in fisticuffs as Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh presented the government's new budget in Parliament amidst uproar. Members of the main opposition PML-N, who were protesting against power cuts and corruption during Shaikh's speech, scuffled with lawmakers of the ruling Pakistan People's Party in the National Assembly or lower house of parliament. Several lawmakers were seen raining...
11:04 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Islamabad: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani faces the prospect of being disqualified as an MP for five years after Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that he "wilfully, deliberately and persistently" defied the highest court and brought the judiciary into "ridicule". A seven-judge bench headed by Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk issued a 77-page detailed order regarding the conviction of the premier for refusing to act on directives to revive cases of alleged...
06:16 PM, May 08, 2012
Lahore: Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday said he did not need permission from the Leader of Opposition to enter Parliament following his conviction of contempt by the Supreme Court because he is a unanimously elected premier and a lawmaker. Gilani made the remarks two days after his conviction while talking to a lawyers' delegation at Governor's House in Lahore. He was responding to Leader of Opposition Chaudhry...
10:18 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is likely to file a review petition in the Supreme court on Friday. This comes after the Pakistan cabinet decided that he will not quit from his post. The apex court found him guilty for contempt of court and was given a symbolic sentence of a 30-second detention in the courtroom. Gilani was convicted for not following a court order to reopen...
08:34 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Islamabad: The ruling Pakistan People's Party on Thursday rallied behind Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani following his conviction of contempt by the Supreme Court, making it clear that he will continue to hold the post. A meeting of the top leadership of the PPP chaired by President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Gilani "expressed dismay that an elected Prime Minister of the country had been sentenced for upholding the...
03:21 AM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Pakistan Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on the contempt case against Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday. The case was registered against Gilani after his refusal to write to the Swiss government to reopen graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. "The court has summoned me for the third time and I have decided to appear in the court tomorrow. I am doing this because...
07:07 AM, Apr 26, 2012
Islamabad: Bilawal Bhutto, the 24-year-old son of President Asif Ali Zardari and chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party, has a fan following on Facebook, with some wishing him a good visit and welcoming him to India. Nazia Rehman, a user, wrote on a Facebook page: "welcome to india.. khush amadeed". Bilawal Bhutto is accompanying his father who is on a day-long trip to India on Sunday. Zardari will meet Indian...
01:24 PM, Apr 08, 2012
Kolkata: Mehboob Elahi is happy that his old prison mate Asif Ali Zardari is coming to India but is crestfallen that he will not get to meet the Pakistani president during his short visit Sunday. Elahi, a former Indian spy, was Zardari's jail mate at the Karachi Central Jail for a few months between 1986-87. Elahi had decided that if he gets to meet Zardari he would request the Pakistani...
01:11 PM, Apr 08, 2012
Lahore: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday said that he was asked to leave the country but he had refused to do so. "I was told to leave the country and that a plane was ready but I refused as I am not a weak-hearted man like others," Zardari said while talking to a group of journalists and lawyers at the Governor's House. He did not say who had...
10:25 PM, Apr 07, 2012
Chandigarh: Putting at rest all speculation, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday declared that Parkash Singh Badal will remain the Chief Minister of Punjab, a post he would be holding for a record fifth time. "I had declared it well in advance that Badal will be the Chief Minister," SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal told reporters at the chief minister's official residence in Chandigarh. Sukhbir said that the swearing-in ceremony...
07:40 PM, Mar 08, 2012
Chandigarh: Out of total 93 women candidates contesting the 117-seat Punjab Assembly polls, only 14 of them managed to win. SAD had fielded 10, BJP three, Congress 11 and Peoples Party of Punjab (PPP) three women. Maximum six women each of SAD and Congress returned home victorious in comparison to two of BJP and none of the Peoples Party of Punjab. Former chief minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal of Congress was...
09:58 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Chandigarh: Any hopes for a third front in Punjab's electoral politics were shattered as results to the 117 assembly seats were declared on Tuesday. Former finance minister and People's Party of Punjab (PPP) president Manpreet Singh Badal, who broke away from his uncle, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, in October 2010 to chart his own political course, was comprehensively decimated. The PPP even failed to open its account in the...
04:15 PM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Shiromani Akal Dal(SAD)-Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) alliance seemed to be heading for a majority in the Punjab Assembly belying history which has not seen the incumbent returning to power in the recent past. The counting for the 117-seat Punjab Assembly began at 8 am on Tuesday and as per the trends at 10:00 am, the SAD-BJP alliance was ahead in 65 seats and the Congress was behind with...
09:07 AM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: Punjab is locked in a close contest between the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party (SAD-BJP) alliance and the Congress, with the former ahead by a narrow margin, according to the latest post-poll survey by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in association with The Week and CNN-IBN. The ruling BJP seems to be on its way out in Uttarakhand with the Congress improving its performance,...
07:00 PM, Mar 03, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has been indicted by the Supreme Court for contempt of court for refusing to open the corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. Gilani is the first Prime Minister to have been indicted by the SC. Gilani denied the charges against him and challenged his indictment. The chargesheet indicted him for contempt of court. Seven judges of the Pakistan SC have signed the...
10:33 AM, Feb 13, 2012
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