Pakistan

One sided, full-fledged campaign from against PPP leadership. This conspiracy factory is using every plate form to defame democratic Govt. In absence of true representation to the views of other side of politics, all such platforms only breed the Politics of hate, vandetta and fissures. Here,all the worse is PPP while all others including PML-N, JI, PTI and PML-Q are angles, they are pious and never committed a sin. Such propaganda will...  

Islamabad, Jan. 5 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that there is a need to build more five-star hotels, entertainment places and conference halls in Islamabad to address the need ...  

Karachi, Jan 7: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif while calling the PPP a 'national asset' has said that his party would be the first to fight any conspiracy against country's democratic system.  

Islamabad, Jan. 6 : President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Pakistan is ready to wage a thousand-year war with India over the Kashmir dispute. The Daily Times quoted Zardari as saying that this was a war of ideologies and would last for generations. Addressing a joint session of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Assembly and the Kashmir Council, Zardari said democratic governments had played a key role in moving forward on the Kashmir dispute...  

KARACHI/QUETTA – Pakistan Muslim League-N Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif said on Tuesday that his party would foil any plot aimed at destabilising the democratic system in the country.Addressing a news conference after chairing a meeting of the party’s organising committee at the residence of Ghous Ali Shah in Karachi, Nawaz said he did not see any conspiracy being hatched against President Asif Ali Zardari. “If any such move occurred the PML-N...  

A suicide bomber killed three Pakistani soldiers on Wednesday near the demarcation line with India in Kashmir, the latest in a spike of attacks in the Pakistani-administered zone.The bombing came a day after Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari visited the area, declaring that regional peace depended on resolving the dispute over Kashmir -- a fault line that has sparked two wars between India and Pakistan.The attacker detonated his explosives...  

(By SAEED SHAH, McClatchy Newspapers) Pakistan's U.S.-backed president, Asif Ali Zardari, appears to have survived a campaign to oust him, a storm that had threatened to sidetrack the country from its battle with Islamic extremists.Although there were predictions in the last few months of 2009 that he was finished, Zardari has defended himself aggressively in recent days and won some political allies. The news media and the judiciary had...  

A pro-independence group Wednesday condemned the police assault on its leaders in Pakistani Kashmir, who were opposing President Asif Ali Zardari's visit to the “disputed region”. Police allegedly assaulted dozens of Jammu Kashmir...  

KARACHI, Pakistan News: US ambassador Anne W Patterson visited Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) center Nine Zero and met the party leaders. She lauded the efforts of the MQM for the political and democratic stability in the country. Several MQM leaders including Rabta Committee members Kanwar Khalid Younus, Senator Babar Ghauri, Haq Parast MPAs Faisal Sabzwari, Nazim Karachi [...]  

Back-to-back missile strikes on a training camp in Pakistan's lawless tribal region killed at least 13 militants Wednesday, the latest in a string of apparent U.S. attacks on Taliban targets in the wake of last week's suicide bombing at a CIA base in Afghanistan , U.S. and Pakistani officials said.  

The two unidentified sources told CNN the two suspected drone attacks took place in the Sanazala area of Pakistan's North Waziristan region. The targeted area previously was the site of heavy Taliban resistance to Pakistani military forces.  

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that people have given them mandate for five years and it is premature to question about the performance of the Government after one and half years.“If we fail to live up to people's expectations in five years, we will not contest the next elections,” PM Gilani expressed these views while talking to media persons after attending a ceremony here at CDA headquarters on Monday.The Prime...  

By B. RamanThe New Year began on a disastrous note for the people of village Shah Hassankhel and surrounding areas in the Lakki Marwar District of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan. These villagers, who had been co-operating with the Pakistani authorities in countering the activities of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), paid a heavy price for their co-operation when a pick-up van driven by a suicide bomber drove into a...  

Pakistan's prime minister said that his country has been more successful at battling a Taliban-led insurgency than Western forces in Afghanistan. Yousuf Raza Gilani pointed to recent anti-Taliban military operations in the country's northwest as evidence of Pakistan's success.  

ISLAMABAD – Admitting that the non-implementation of Charter of Democracy (CoD) instantly was the biggest mistake of the PPP-led coalition government, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has vowed to implement it at all costs.Talking to media persons here on Sunday, the Prime Minister said that PPP and establishment were working in close coordination and had unanimous stance on all the major issues confronting the state.He said that...