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Islamabad, Sep 17 (ANI): The United States has provided 970 million dollars in aid to Pakistan since the PPP-led Government came to power and not three billion dollars as claimed by US Ambassador Anne Patterson, a Pakistani Finance Ministry official has said.

The [...]

Islamabad, Sep 7 (ANI): The Sharif brothers and top leadership of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) are believed to have softened their demand for the trial of former President Pervez Musharraf owing to international pressure by his guarantors, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Well-placed party sources said that the PML-N central leadership would take the [...]

Islamabad, Sep.2 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Zafar Ali Shah has said the whole nation would demand mid-term term elections if the PPP-led government fails to try former President General Pervez Musharraf under Article Six of the Constitution.

Criticising the Gilani government for not taking any substantial action against Musharraf, Shah said he would again [...]

Islamabad, Aug. 26 (ANI): While former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has come under fire from certain quarters for protecting former President General Pervez Musharraf from being tried under Article six of the Constitution, a report in a leading Pakistan daily suggests that Sharif is being targeted.

According to The News, while it is difficult to [...]

Karachi, Aug. 9 (ANI): A prominent Pakistani legal expert has said the PPP-led government should take the initiative to prosecute former president Pervez Musharraf for violating the constitution.

The Dawn quoted former Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz [...]

London, July 16 (ANI): Cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan has lambasted Britain for its ‘mad’ Afghan strategies.

Speaking in front of a joint audience of Foreign Press Association and Commonwealth Club members here, Khan said the British’ Afghanistan [...]

Lahore, July 5 (ANI): Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has said that terrorism should not be linked with Islam.

Talking to media persons after visiting Jamia Naeemia to express grief over the assassination of country’s top religious scholar Sarfaraz Naeemi here, Khan termed the suicide bombings as a ‘political issue.’

“No religion can allow suicide bombing. There is no [...]

Washington, May 4 (ANI): President Barack Obama has only limited options for dealing with the crisis in Pakistan, as the anti-American feeling in the country is high, and US combat presence is prohibited, according to a leading US daily.

The United States is fighting Pakistan-based extremists by proxy in order to save the PPP-led Government.

President [...]

Lahore, Apr 26 (ANI): Alarmed over thousands of Taliban militants pouring into the Swat Valley and spreading to other areas, leading US dailies have warned that Pakistan with its 176 million people and its pivotal position in the region is “more than likely to collapse into a growing civil war.”

US special envoy to the region [...]

Islamabad, Apr 23 (ANI): Pakistani senators have asked the PPP-led Government to revisit the NWFP Government’s peace agreement with the Taliban in Swat and also review Islamabad’s role in the US war on terror.

Debating on President Asif Ali Zardari’s address to the joint sitting of Parliament, the lawmakers said the federal government should ensure [...]

Turning down the olive branch extended by the ruling PPP, Pakistan’s main opposition PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif on Thursday ruled out his party rejoining the government, but made it clear that he did not want to engage in any sort of confrontation.
Announcing his decision after a meeting of the PML-N parliamentarians and central working committee, [...]

Islamabad, Apr. 8 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief, Nawaz Sharif, has said that his party has no immediate plans to join President Asif Ali Zardari-led Pakistan People’s Party at the center.

“We have no plans to join the PPP-led government in the Centre,” Sharif told reporters after his meeting with US Special Representative for Afghanistan [...]

Khar, Apr 6 (ANI): The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Bajaur Agency has declared that the money provided by the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) to women as “haram and un-Islamic”.

The TTP also warned the women against getting the BISP support money or having Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) made.

In a broadcast on the [...]

London, Mar. 25 (ANI): Pakistan is using ex-terror suspect Hyarbyar Marri as a mediator between the terror outfit which kidnapped UN official John Solecki and the government to get the American citizen released.

Marri, recently acquitted of terrorism charges in the UK, was approached by Pakistan’s Interior Ministry to use his influence with the kidnappers, Dawn [...]

Islamabad, Mar 16 (ANI): Intense and hard negotiation backed by major foreign powers led to reconciliation, steering Pakistan out of the turmoil and changing the charged up political atmosphere ahead of the lawyers ‘Long March’.

Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s announcement regarding reinstatement of [...]

Islamabad, Mar 13 (ANI): In a bid to broker a truce between the PPP-led Government and the PML-N and end the ongoing political turmoil that has alarmed the international community, US and British diplomats have spoken to top Pakistani leaders.

US Special Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke made separate telephone calls to Prime Minister [...]

Islamabad, Mar. 10 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) can play the kingmaker’s role in Punjab.

Addressing the parliament, he said the PPP-led government would not mind sitting on the opposition benches if it failed to show majority support, [...]

Abbotabad, Feb 13 (ANI): Former cricketer Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan on Friday said the PPP-led government has created East Pakistan like situation in the Swat valley by launching military operation there.

Talking to party workers and media here, he said the government has been lying to the nation.

“If the Parliament is independent then it should conduct [...]

Islamabad, Feb.11 (ANI): The Pakistan Government on Wednesday registered a case against Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorist captured alive during the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attack.

Media reports said that the charges were filed against Kasab and 13 other people on the basis of a Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) probe into the Mumbai [...]

Islamabad, Feb 9 (ANI): The Pakistani dossier on the Mumbai terror attacks is ready and the PPP-led Government will file cases against five Pakistanis, including the lone captured militant Ajmal Kasab, for planning the attacks.

The Interior Ministry’s report into the Mumbai carnage also states that the attacks were not planned in Pakistan or India, but [...]