Pak clerics not giving an inch to govt to modernise seminariesLAHORE - The Pakistan Government’s ambitious plan of bringing the seminaries within the mainstream education has hit snag, at least for the time being, due to stubborn attitude of seminaries manipulators. Musharraf terms his meeting with Saudi King a successLAHORE - Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said that his recent meeting with Saudi King Abdullah was a success. Pak Army, PAF have achieved ’significant successes’ against Taliban: KayaniLAHORE - Pakistan Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Kayani has said the Pakistan Air Force and the Army have achieved ’significant successes’ against the Taliban and other extremist groups in their offensive in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP). US plotted Zia-ul-Haq’s plane crash: Ex-Pak IB chiefLAHORE - Former Pakistan Intelligence Bureau chief Brigadier (retired) Imtiaz Ahmad has said that United States was behind the assassination of former Army chief Zia-ul-Haq. Musharraf must be prosecuted to end Army’s interference in country’s politics: SharifLAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has said that prosecuting former President General Pervez Musharraf under high treason charges for taking ‘extrajudicial’ actions on November 3, 2007 would help resolve all crises facing the country currently. Mujeeb feared military would kill him, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: KharLAHORE - Former Punjab Governor Mustafa Khar has revealed that former Bangladesh President Sheikh Mujeebur Rehman feared being killed by the Army. Outcome of Musharraf’s ’successful’ Saudi visit to be revealed soon: QureshiLAHORE - Former Pakistan Presidency spokesperson Rashid Qureshi has said former President General Pervez Musharraf’s meeting with Saudi King Abdullah has been ’successful’, and the outcome of the talks between the two leaders will surface after some days. Top militant commanders planning attacks from Pak prisonsLAHORE - Terrorists detained in different prisons across the country are planning attacks from prisons, Pakistan Interior Ministry sources said. Sharif has inked secret ‘indemnity’ deal with Musharraf: JI chiefLAHORE - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Syed Munawar Hassan has said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has signed a secret deal with former President General Pervez Musharraf that awarded clemency to him from being tried under high treason charges. PML-N will not indulge in ‘undemocratic’ method to overthrow govt. : SharifLAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has said his party would not get involved in any ‘undemocratic’ process to bring down the ruling PPP government. Three more sons of TNSM chief Sufi Mohammad arrested in PeshawarLAHORE - Pakistan security agencies have arrested three more sons of the Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) chief Sufi Mohammad. Musharraf tries to woo embattled nazimsLAHORE - Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has invited ‘Nazims’ (elected officials of local governments) to meet him in Abu Dhabi in order to gain his support against government’s move to scrap the existing local government system. Top PML-N leaders disapprove Iqbal’s 48-hour ‘ultimatum’ to PPPLAHORE - PML-N’s inner circle has reportedly rejected party information secretary Ahsan Iqbal’s 48-hour ‘ultimatum’ given to the PPP, saying that such moves would create a political deadlock in the country. PML-N media committee to counter Sharif ’smear campaign’ in ‘tit-for-tat manner’LAHORE - A four-member media team has been constituted by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif to counter the ’smear campaign’ against the party leadership initiated by some anti-PML-N groups. A Q Khan may be hospitalized for swollen legs and feetLAHORE - Disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist Dr AQ Khan maybe admitted to hospital, as doctors have advised him to seek special medical attention for his swollen legs and feet. One call from Saudi Arabia would seal Musharraf trial seekers’ mouth: PML-QLAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Secretary General Mushahid Hussain Sayed has said that former President General Pervez Musharraf had left the country after inking a deal with the present government regarding not being prosecuted under high treason charges, and that one call from Saudi government would silence Musharraf’s trial seekers. Saudi King warns Pak to call off Musharraf ‘witch hunt’
Al Qaeda had no role in Pak Taliban chief’s appointment: FaqirLAHORE - Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Bajaur Agency chief Maulvi Faqir has said that Al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban had no role in the appointment of new Pakistan Taliban chief. USAID closes Islamabad offices over security threatLAHORE - US authorities have closed all USAID offices in Islamabad after receiving threats from unidentified miscreants, a private TV channel has reported. Mushahid’s claims on Pak nuke tests campaign had no basis: GoharLAHORE - Former Pakistan Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub Khan has rejected statements made by PML-Q leader Mushahid Husain in which he claimed that he had spearheaded a campaign in favour of conducting nuclear tests in 1998. No LeT, JuD militant in Pakistan’s top 10 most wanted terrorists listLAHORE - No militant belonging to Lashkar-e-Toiba or its charity organisation, Jammat-ud-Daawa, has been in included in the Pakistan’s top 10 most wanted terrorists list. Battle lines drawn as PML-N issues 48 hrs ultimatum to PPP to stop vilifying SharifLAHORE - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has issued a 48 hours ultimatum to the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) to halt a “malicious” campaign against party chief Nawaz Sharif or be prepared for a forceful response. Official suspended for writing blood stained love letter to female Pak ministerLAHORE - The provincial government has suspended a Horticulture Department official for harassing Sindh Minister for Culture and Tourism Sassui Palijo by writing her love letters. Terrorists from tribal areas infiltrate into LahoreLAHORE - Intelligence agencies have warned that 17 terrorists from Pakistan’s tribal areas have entered Lahore to possibly target sensitive installations, mosques, Iftar parties and political personalities. Nawaz for more Pakistan-India intellectuals’ contactsLAHORE - Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif has urged greater interaction between intellectuals of the two countries as the way forward in the stalled subcontinental dialogue process. Karzai slammed his karakuli cap on table during explosive meeting with HolbrookeLAHORE - During the recent ‘explosive’ meeting between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and US special envoy Richard Holbrooke, Karzai is reported to have whipped off his distinctive karakuli cap and slammed it onto the dinner table. Indira Gandhi backed plot to kill Pak Army officials: Brig. AhmedLAHORE - Former Pakistan Intelligence Bureau (IB) Director General Brigadier (retired) Imtiaz Ahmed has alleged that former Punjab Governor Ghulam Mustafa Khar had hatched a conspiracy to kill several key Pakistan Army officials, and claimed that the plot was backed by the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. PML-N’s abrupt U-turn on trying Gen Kayani for ‘high treason’LAHORE - A day after the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif’s spokesman Zaeem Qadri said that Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani should also be prosecuted under high treason charges along with former President General Pervez Musharraf, the party has denied General Kayani’s involvement in imposition of emergency rule on November 3, 2007. Benazir wanted retaliatory PAF strikes on Indian nuclear sites in 1990: ex-Pak COASLAHORE - Slain Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto had asked the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) to be ready for attacking India’s nuclear facilities, when reports surfaced in 1990 that US, Israel and India were planning to strike Pakistan’s nuclear establishments. PML-N demands Kayani’s high treason trialLAHORE - The Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) has now demanded trial of Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani under the Article Six of the Constitution. |
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AHORE - Expressing concern over the political brickbatting between the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) over the trial of former President General Pervez Musharraf, Saudi Arabia has asked the Pakistani leadership to abide by the agreement on Musharraf’s immunity from prosecution, and stop the infighting, saying it could further deteriorate the country’s situation.
