Islamabad, Jan 4 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is a highly professional soldier and ardent supporter of democracy.
In an interview with Al Jazeera television, he said General Kayani had supported [...]
Islamabad, Dec.31 (ANI): The Pakistan National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is set to reopen the multi-billion rupee military land scam, which is being described as the mother of all scams in the country.
The re-opening of the case regarding the ‘misuse’ of military land worth billions of rupees, which [...]
Lahore, Dec.31 (ANI): A former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) official, Khalid Khawaja, has filed a petition in the Pakistan Supreme Court challenging Asif Ali Zardari’s eligibility to be President.
Khawaja has challenged Zardari’s eligibility under Article 248 of the constitution.
The ex-ISI official, in his petition, has [...]
Islamabad, Dec.30 (ANI): Rejecting the notion of having a deal with former President General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said the government will act if the court of law orders it to bring back Musharraf.
Gilani told a private television channel that [...]
Islamabad, Dec.29 (ANI) : Condemning the suicide attack on a Muharram procession in Karachi in which 40 people were killed, former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has called on the government to root out terrorism from the country.
“Terrorism should be uprooted at all cost. The menace [...]
Islamabad, Dec.27 (ANI): Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has rebuffed allegations regarding handing over Pakistanis to foreign authorities for interrogation.
Replying to queries on Facebook, Musharraf said policies during his regime were well defined and added that those who were handed over to the US for [...]
Lahore, Dec. 26 (ANI): Pakistan’s religious party Jamaat-e-Islami has resolved that freedom from US “slavery” is the country’s foremost need.
According to a resolution passed by the party with JI leader Syed Munawar Hasan in the chair, the objective of [...]
Islamabad, Dec. 25 (ANI): Rejecting apprehensions regarding a possible military coup in the country, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government and the Army, probably for the first time, are working in tandem with each other.
In an interview to a private television channel, Gilani said the army [...]
Karachi, Dec.25 (ANI): Troubles for former Pakistan President President General Pervez Musharraf are far from over, as the Sindh High Court has issued a notice on a constitutional petition pending against him on charges of abrogating the Constitution, and has directed the concerned authorities to publish the notice in British newspapers.
The petition stated that Musharraf [...]
Islamabad, Dec.19 (ANI): Expressing solidarity with under fire President Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has made it clear that the Supreme Court’s judgement declaring the amnesty law (NRO) as ‘unconstitutional’ would not have any effect on the Presidency.
Interacting [...]
Islamabad, Dec 18 (DPA) Pakistani immigration staff prevented the country’s defence minister from taking a plane to China because his name was on a list of people facing a travel ban after an amnesty law was scrapped, news reports said Friday.
Ahmed Mukhtar was stopped at the Islamabad airport late Thursday, one day after Pakistan’s Supreme [...]
Lahore, Dec. 17 (ANI): Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has refused to comment of the Supreme Court’s judgement declaring the controversial National Reconciliation Ordinance ‘unconstitutional’, The Daily Times reports.
According to a private television channel, Musharraf said he would not comment on [...]
London, Dec. 11 (ANI): Blaming the PPP government for the country’s current turbulent situation, former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has said that Pakistan is facing a civil war-like situation due to the lack national leadership.
Addressing a delegation of the Pakistani community here, Musharraf said he is concerned about Pakistan’s deteriorating law and order scenario.
According [...]
Islamabad, Dec. 10 (ANI): Accusing former President General Pervez Musharraf of decieving other army officers and corps commanders, former Pakistan Chief of General Staff, Shahid Aziz has said that Musharraf’s decision to support the US in its ‘war on terror’ [...]
London, Dec 9 ( IANS) Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has assets of $1.5 billion spread around the world, according to the country’s main anti-corruption body, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
The National Accountability Bureau said Zardari’s riches, including properties in America, Britain and Spain, were ‘beyond his means’.
His British portfolio is alleged to include the luxurious [...]
Islamabad, Dec.5 (ANI): Officials and staff of the Pakistan High Commission in London are completely mum on the sensitive evidence against many influential personalities, who were benefited from the National Reconciliation Ordinace (NRO).
The files, which were claimed back by the Pakistan government from Geneva earlier this week, was supposed to arrive at the London High [...]
Islamabad, Dec.5 (ANI): With the expiry of the two-year political ban on him, former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has started consultations with his close aides to announce his comeback in the country’s politics.
According to sources, Musharraf is in contact with several Pakistan Muslim League-Q leaders to fine-tune his political strategy for his comeback within [...]
Geneva, Dec.2 (ANI): The Pakistan government has finally claimed back evidence of the cases filed in the Swiss court against many influential personalities, who were benefited from the National Reconciliation Ordinace (NRO).
The files, which were stacked inside a lawyer’s office here, have been removed and are likely to be taken back to Islamabad, The News [...]
Islamabad, Nov 28 (IANS) Pakistan is set for a tremendous amount of internal churning with some 8,000 prominent individuals losing the waiver they have received from corruption charges.
The Supreme Court will now take up a batch of petitions to decide the fate of the benefits drawn by prominent politicians, army officers and bureaucrats from the [...]
Islamabad, Nov 26 (IANS) Retired Supreme Court judge Bhagwan Das, a highly respected name in the Pakistani judiciary and one of the very few Hindus to hold high office in this country, Thursday assumed charge as chairman of the Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC).
Officers and staff members warmly welcomed him when he arrived at his [...]
Islamabad, Nov 23 (IANS) President Asif Ali Zardari Monday asked Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to review the names of all those who had benefited from an ordinance granting immunity to prominent Pakistanis charged with corruption.
Gilani was also asked to remove the names of those who had been wrongly included in the list, Zardari said [...]
Islamabad, Nov. 23 (ANI): Pakistan People’s Party’s Information Secretary Fauzia Wahab has praised former President Pervez Musharraf for eliminating the environment of confrontational politics from the country by introducing National Reconciliation Ordinance.
She displayed her soft corner for Musharraf [...]
Washington, Nov 23 (IANS) With power virtually resting with the army in Pakistan even in a democratic regime, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wonders ‘who to deal with’ or negotiate with in Islamabad.
‘I think the most important force in Pakistan is the army,’ he said in an interview with CNN’s ‘Fareed Zakaria GPS’ Sunday coinciding with [...]
Lahore, Nov.22 (ANI): The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) would not create a hindrance in former President General Pervez Musharraf’s high treason trial under the Article Six of the Constitution and would support any political party that takes the initiative in this regard, Pakistan Industries and Production Minister Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo has said.
Addressing a press [...]
Islamabad, Nov 21 (IANS) The names of prominent Pakistanis who have benefited from an ordinance granting immunity to politicians, army officers and bureaucrats charged with corruption will be made public, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Saturday.
Speaking after receiving the list of names of those who have benefited from the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) from [...]
Islamabad, Nov.21 (ANI): Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf certainly put the safety of his ministers and bureaucrats on top of his priorities even if it cost the nation millions of rupees.
During the autocratic rule, the then Prime Minister Shukat Aziz had [...]
Lahore, Nov.20 (ANI): Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has reportedly funnelled a large amount of money to his former aides in the country in order to improve his image, as he is planning a return to the country’s political scene.
According to an Asia Times Online report, Musharraf is planning to flaunt a new political [...]
Karachi, Nov 17 (IANS) Pakistan has slipped five places to be ranked 42nd among the world’s most corrupt countries against 47th last year, Transparency International said in its report released Tuesday.
Pakistan’s 2009 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) score is 2.4, ranking it at 42, TI Pakistan chief Adil Gilani said while releasing the report here.
Against this, [...]
Karachi, Nov.17 (ANI): Pakistan ranks 42nd in the global list of most corrupt countries, the Transparency International’s (TI) latest report has revealed.
The TI’s report said Pakistan has gained few positions from last year and now stands at 42nd place in the list of most corrupt countries [...]
Islamabad, Nov 16 (ANI): Former Pakistan Army Chief Mirza Aslam Beg has claimed that ex-President Pervez Musharraf had given Blackwater the green signal to carry out its terrorist operations in the cities of Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar and Quetta.
He said that Blackwater was directly involved in the murder of Benazir Bhutto and Lebanese leader Rafiq Hariri.
It [...]
