Pakistan People's Party News

MIRANSHAH: The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed that attacks on Friday and others targeting civilians were carried out by the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, the Awami National Party, the Pakistan People's Party and Blackwater, 'to malign the group'. 'We deem un-Islamic killings haram, as we believe in jihad,' TTP spokesman Azam Tariq ...

Islamabad, Nov.13 : Rejecting allegations of massive fraud in the Gilgit-Baltistan elections, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has termed the polls as 'free' and 'fair'. Responding to the allegations of poll rigging made by Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Gilani said it has almost became a tradition ...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government should confront India with whatever evidence it has of New Delhi's alleged involvement in fomenting unrest in Balochistan, former premier and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday.

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has boxed himself in and is now trying to get out.

Mayhem on the airwaves: A TV grab showing chaotic scenes of the site of the first attempted assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in Karachi Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani last week assured the government had no plans to curb the freedom of the media.

Karachi, Nov.10 : Criticising former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf for his verbal attack on President Asif Ali Zardari, Bilawal House spokesman Ejaz Durrani has called the former general 'a hypocrite'. Referring to Musharraf's recent interview, in which he blamed Zardari for the country's current turbulent situation, Durrani said ...

Monday, November 09, 2009 By Tariq Butt ISLAMABAD: Parliamentary Affairs Minister Dr Babar Awan has said President Asif Ali Zardari is firm and under no pressure whatsoever from his critics to resign.

Pakistan Muslim League-N activists greet their leader, Nawaz Sharif, at an election rally in Gilgit.

Islamabad, Nov 9 : Legal experts of the ruling Pakistan People's Party are busy working out a pre-emptive strategy to counter a Supreme Court move to revive cases withdrawn under the National Reconciliation Ordinance .

A U.N. team investigating the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto issued a request to speak to former President Pervez Musharraf.

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has sought the help of top lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan, considered close to Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, to deal with the fallout of the possible scrapping of a controversial law that granted him immunity in graft cases.

Shuja Nawaz Rising violence, targeted and random, has become a fact of life in Pakistan today.

'I will not address the joint sitting of parliament unless controversial clauses in the constitution - such as the 17th Amendment and Article 58 are repealed,' Zardari was quoted as saying at a meeting with a delegation of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists .

Islamabad, Nov.4 : Terming the National Reconciliation Ordinance as a 'non-issue', Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has urged the members of the National Assembly to let the judiciary decide the fate of the controversial ordinance, and help the government address the 'real issues' confronting the people of the country.

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People's Party has always been at the forefront of defending democracy and will continue to do so in the future as well, President Asif Ali Zardari said on Wednesday.

The Punjab chief minister was addressing a meeting of PML-N members. Sources privy to the meeting told Daily Times that Shahbaz said people would raise fingers at the alliance when the PML-N staged a protest against the PPP in and outside parliament on the National Reconciliation Ordinance issue as the party had announced.

To devise strategy to tackle the thorny issues like NRO, ongoing military operation in South Waziristan and inconclusive debate on the Kerry-Lugar Act in the Parliament, President Asif Ali Zardari, in his capacity as Co-Chairman of Pakistan People's Party, has convened the meeting of parliamentary parties of coalition partners here today .

Pakistan's standing committee for law and justice of National Assembly , the lower house of the parliament, approved Friday the controversial National Reconciliation Ordinance with majority vote, according to the official APP news agency.

A Pakistani soldier speaks on a field radio as a Mi-17 helicopter lands on top of Kund mountain near Kotkai village in South Waziristan Pakistan on Thursday Oct.

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance was briefed on Friday that the Banking Companies Bill 2009 should be approved by parliament as soon as possible for release of the International Monetary Fund's next instalment of $1.2 billion under a standby agreement.