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Kabul, Jan 7 (IANS/AKI) The suicide bombing that killed seven CIA agents at a US base in Afghanistan was ‘revenge’ for deadly US drone strikes in Pakistan, Al Qaeda said Thursday.
A Jordanian identified as Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, who has since been identified as a double agent, blew himself up at the base in Khost [...]
Hafizabad, Jan 4 (ANI): Pakistan’s Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira has said that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) had never been afraid of accountability, but it wanted a transparent system of accountability for all those who had plundered the national [...]
Islamabad, Jan 4 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said the lack of implementation of the Charter of Democracy (CoD) immediately after it was signed was “the biggest mistake”.
Interacting with a group of journalists, Gilani [...]
Lahore, Jan.3 (ANI): Expressing his resolve to strengthen the country amid the present tumultuous situation, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said he will fight both internal and external forces that are conspiring against the democracy
Addressing a public gathering after the stone laying ceremony of a dam in Hyderabad, Zardari said he is determined to [...]
New York, Jan.1 (ANI): UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has accepted the demand of extending the mandate of the commission probing the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto until late March to enable it to [...]
Lahore, Jan.1(ANI): The Pakistan government has denied giving permission to the United Nation’s (UN) commission probing the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to interrogate Army’s top brass, including the Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez [...]
New York, Jan 1 (DPA) The UN investigation into the 2007 assassination of Pakistan’s former prime minister Benazir Bhutto is to take three months longer than planned.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon informed Pakistan’s government that the report on the inquiry would now be finished March 31, a UN spokesman said here Thursday.
The commission carrying out [...]
Karachi, Jan.1 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that he has some ‘political weapons’, which he could use to thwart threats facing the democratic government.
In an interview with a private television channel, Zardari said there are some ‘political actors’ who are working against the government and hatching conspiracies against it to destabilise [...]
Islamabad, Dec 31 (IANS) The Pakistani government has barred a UN team probing the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto from meeting the country’s top military leadership as part of its investigations.
In a letter to the Pakistani government, the commission head, Chilean Ambassador to the UN Heraldo Munoz, had sought access to top [...]
Lahore, Dec.30 (ANI): Denouncing Monday’s suicide attack on a Muharram procession, in which 40 people were killed, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has vowed to punish the perpetrators of the deadly attack, including the assassin of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto by waging ‘jihad’ against them.
“We will wage jihad against those who murdered Benazir Bhutto, [...]
Islamabad, Dec.30 (ANI) : Pakistan has denied reports suggesting that it had transferred nuclear know-how’s to North Korea .
Referring to an article published in The Washington Post on December 28 titled,”Pakistani scientist depicts [...]
Islamabad, Dec. 28 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has issued a brutal threat to anti-democratic forces of the country, saying that any “evil eye on democracy” will be “gouged out.”
“If anyone casts an evil eye on democracy, we will [...]
Rawalpindi, Dec. 28 (ANI): Pakistan’s Parliamentary Affairs Minister Babar Awan has said that findings of the UN probe in the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will be presented before parliament in March 2010.
During his visit to Benazir’s memorial service at Liaquat Bagh, [...]
Islamabad, Dec. 28 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim league Nawaz has criticised President Asif Ali Zardari’s speech on Benazir Bhutto’s second death anniversary, saying that the time had come for him to walk the talk.
“This is the time to [...]
Islamabad, Dec. 28 (ANI): The Governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province, Salman Taseer, has said the PPP can defeat any political party, if mid-term polls are held, as the party enjoys a great public support.
Addressing a public gathering on the second [...]
Larkana, Dec. 28 (ANI): Political secretary of Benazir Bhutto has warned that further delay in late Pakistan prime minister’s assassination probe could harm the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), as party workers were tired of waiting for unearthing of the facts.
Naheed Khan, a close confidant of [...]
Islamabad, Dec 27 (DPA) Thousands of people Sunday commemorating the second anniversary of the death of Pakistan’s former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, called on the government to unmask her assassins.
Bhutto was killed in a gun-and-bomb attack when she was leaving a park after an election rally in the garrison town of Rawalpindi Dec 27, 2007.
Crowds [...]
Islamabad, Dec. 27 (ANI): Ruling out any threat to the present democratic set-up in the country, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has said that he is ready to hold talks with President Asif Ali Zardari, but only if clear agendas are fixed prior to the meeting.
Interacting with media persons after a meeting of [...]
Islamabad, Dec. 27 (ANI): Paying homage to the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on her second death anniversary, Pakistani political leaders remembered her as a leader who gave voice to the downtrodden and worked for the national unity.
In his message, former Prime Minister and Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif described Bhutto’s assassination as a [...]
Karachi, Dec 26 (IANS) A close relative of slain Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto has accused her widower President Asif Ali Zardari of tampering with evidence relating to the assassination.
Mumtaz Bhutto, a cousin of Benazir’s father and former president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, made the remarks while speaking to reporters in Tandojam, in Sindh’s Hyderabad’s district.
He [...]
Islamabad, Dec.26 (ANI): In an effort to build up a national consensus against demands of his resignation and restore his image, which has been shattered by the reopening of corruption cases, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has decided to go for direct [...]
Islamabad, Dec.26 (ANI): The Pakistan Government has barred US citizens from landing in any city other than Islamabad.
According to sources, Americans would now be able to land only at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad.
The decision has been taken following a steep rise in [...]
Lahore, Dec. 26 (ANI): Pakistani intelligence agencies have warned of a possible terror strike on the occasion of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s death anniversary (December 27).
“Terrorists are planning to attack rallies and ceremonies to be arranged on December 27 in [...]
Lahore, Dec. 26 (ANI) : Holding former President General Pervez Musharraf responsible for former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Britain Wajid Shamsul Hassan has said that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud could not have proceeded with [...]
Islamabad, Dec. 23 (ANI): The Pakistan government has given its nod for a three-month extension in the mandate of the United Nations Commission probing former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.
However, a formal announcement about the extension will be made by the UN secretary general’s office later this [...]
Islamabad, Dec. 23 (ANI): The Pakistan government has given its nod for a three-month extension in the mandate of the United Nations Commission probing former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.
However, a formal announcement about the extension will be made by the UN secretary general’s office later this [...]
Lahore, Dec 21 (IANS) The Lahore High Court Monday issued notices on a petition that has sought a bar on President Asif Ali Zardari, former president Farooq Leghari, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and 19 others from holding public office for transferring their assets to foreign countries.
Issuing the notices to the attorney general and the [...]
Islamabad, Dec 21 (IANS) Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, who could be tried for corruption after a court nullified an amnesty against graft, said Monday that his Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) would never ‘run away’ from accountability and would face the courts like it had in the past.
The assertion came during a meeting at the [...]
Islamabad, Dec. 21 (ANI): Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has not formally requested the Swiss government as yet to reopen the money-laundering cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.
According to The Dawn, the NAB is awaiting [...]
Lahore, Dec. 20 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is undeterred by the present turmoil in the country and the wide scale demand for his resignation, and has made it clear that he would fight it out come what may.
During a marathon meeting of Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) Central Executive Committee (CEC) on Saturday, [...]
