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Pakistan Muslim League-N Chief Nawaz Sharif has formally announced to part ways with the ruling coalition led by Pakistan Peoples Party and named Justice (R) Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui as presidential candidate of the party.
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Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari Monday expressed sadness over the Pakistan Muslim League-N’s decision to disunite with the ruling coalition. Read Full Post »

Goods transporters’ strike that lasted seven consecutive days in the city here has now come to an end on late Monday after 10-hours of negotiations between government officials and Goods Carrier Ittehad. Read Full Post »

Supreme Court Bar Association president Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan has said he will not quit the PPP even if the deposed judges are not reinstated. Read Full Post »

ollowing resignation of Pervez Musharraf from the office of president, his camp office established in a grand building in Rawalpindi has been vacated, a source told Dawn on Thursday. Read Full Post »

Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has threatened to pull his party out of the governing coalition if all the judges dismissed by former president Pervez Musharraf are not reinstated after a Friday deadline, but he ruled out bringing down the government. Read Full Post »

US President George W. Bush reached out to his former ally Pervez Musharraf on Thursday, thanking him for his role in the war on terror. He then called Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to tell him that he had telephoned Mr Musharraf. Read Full Post »

The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has made up its mind to resolve the lingering issue of reinstatement of the deposed judges through a parliamentary debate and a resolution in this regard is expected to be moved in the National Assembly in a few days. Read Full Post »

The Pakistani ruling coalition showed signs of fracture Tuesday, only a day after embattled President Pervez Musharraf resigned to avoid impeachment, and a bomb that killed at least 26 people in the country’s volatile northwest underlined the challenges faced by the new government. Read Full Post »

he death toll from a suicide blast in northwest Pakistan has risen to 30 following the deaths of seven more people in hospital overnight, police said Wednesday.

The suicide attack happened at a hospital in the troubled town of Dera Ismail Khan on Tuesday as Shiite Muslims gathered to protest over the death of a man in a suspected sectarian attack.

“The death toll has risen to 30 after seven more blast victims died in hospitals,” local police official Malik Mushtaq told AFP by telephone. Read Full Post »