Islamabad: Pakistan 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 [...]
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday said his conviction of contempt by the Supreme Court does not disqualify him from the office of premier as he had not committed any criminal offence by not approaching Swiss courts to revive graft charges against President Asif Ali Zardari. “The charges against me are not [...]
Islamabad: Pakistan has condemned the April 28 burning of copies of the Quran by US pastor Terry Jones in Florida. “Pakistan strongly condemns the burning of the holy Quran by Pastor Terry Jones, head of the Dove world Qutreach Center in Florida recently,” Xinhua quoted the foreign ministry as saying Wednesday. “We feel that such [...]
Islamabad: The British government has made it clear to the Pakistani authorities that it would not hand over former President Pervez Musharraf to them. As per British government, it does not extradite individuals to countries where the death penalty is enforced; rather, it processes such requests as per its judicial system before giving out [...]
New Delhi: Seeking closer ties through a sustained talks process and a step by step approach to solve outstanding issues, India and Pakistan are likely to sign a “liberalised visa agreement” when their home secretaries meet in Islamabad next month, external affairs minister SM Krishna said on Wednesday. Krishna was speaking in the [...]
Islamabad: Apparently, Osama’s sojourn was not confined to the now famous luxury residence across from the Pakistani military headquarters. But he and his family seemed to have moved around the country in style. The residence in the frontier town of Haripur (see photo) was one of five safe houses used by the slain al-Qaida leader [...]
Islamabad: Lashing out at the US for putting a bounty of $10 million on his head, a combative Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the head of terror organization LeT said Washington was “frustrated” with him for his countrywide protests against the resumption of NATO supplies and drone strikes. “We are not hiding in caves for bounties [...]
Islamabad: Pakistan’s population increased by 46.9 per cent between 1998 and 2011 while Balochistan province witnessed the highest increase in population and Punjab the lowest, according to the preliminary results of the country’s latest census. Households witnessed an increase of 50.4 per cent since 2011 and the population increased from 130,857,717 in 1998 to [...]
Islamabad: Pakistan prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said he would rather go to jail for committing contempt of court than violate the constitution by acting on the supreme court’s ultimatum to reopen graft cases against president Asif Ali Zardari. Gilani’s remarks at two public events in Bahawalpur region of Punjab province marked [...]
Islamabad: Pakistan has allowed slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s family to leave the country, and a Yemeni brother-in-law of the militant leader has arrived here to shift his two Yemeni widows, a newspaper said Tuesday. US commandos had killed Osama in a secret raid on his hideout in May 2011 in [...]
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