AJK elections: MQM to participate in polls for two seats
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement will participate in the rescheduled Azad Jammu & Kashmir elections for two Karachi constituencies, sources said on Monday. The MQM had earlier boycotted the elections after the AJK Election Commission postponed polling in three constituencies, one in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and two in Karachi. MQM ministers in More...
We are in contact with MQM: Dar
New senate opposition leader Ishaq Dar has said that he is in contact with all parties and their priority is to take the country out of its current predicament. Speaking to media on Monday, he called for all parties More...
MQM signals joining PML-N grand alliance
ISLAMABAD: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has for the first time ever hinted at ‘joining’ a proposed grand opposition alliance led by Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif, indicating tough times More...
Pakistan’s attitude to terrorism has changed: Rao
NEW DELHI: Although India finds that Pakistan’s attitude to terrorism has changed, it believes concrete deliverables on 26/11 attack in Mumbai are still far away. On the highly-popular television programme Devil’s More...
9 BJP-Sena legislators thrown out of House
MUMBAI/PUNE: Five Shiv Sena and four Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators have been suspended from the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly till December this year for causing trouble in the House. Link: 9 BJP-Sena More...
PPP, PML-N meetings: Recover loans from 1,300 defaulters, SBP to be told
ISLAMABAD: The government and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) have decided to direct the State Bank of Pakistan to start recovering loans that were reportedly written off under influence. Loans will now More...
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Breaking the Silence: FCIC Report Brings the Focus Back to Wall Street
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission’s report couldn’t come at a better time. At a moment when it seems that Washington would rather forget what happened two years ago, it documents the opportunism, More...
Mark Sanford, Mistress Hit Uruguay Resort
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A week after divorced South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford left office, he and his Argentine lover he called his “soul mate” were spotted frolicking on the beach in the More...
Federal Government Operating Status For Thursday
The Federal Government is open for business — but it’s too bad their Facebook status can’t say “it’s complicated.” With the Washington D.C. metro area getting hammered by snow, More...
Emma Ruby-Sachs: Gay Hero Murdered in Uganda — It’s Time for the U.S. to Act
Yesterday, David Kato, a gay man in Uganda, was reportedly bludgeoned to death in his own home by a neighbor with a hammer. David had spoken out for gay rights, was one of the high profile plaintiffs who successfully More...
