Strategising for elections: PML-N keeping arms open for grand alliance
ISLAMABAD:? Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has been keeping the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on its toes with its recent anti- government campaign – and it’s planning to extend its strategy to the More...
Countercurrents: In bid to make Sindh inroads, Nawaz looks to Jatoi
LAHORE:? With the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) preparing to politically blitz Punjab, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)’s stronghold, the main opposition party plans to return the favour in the government’s More...
Pacification politics: Gilani travels to Lahore to pacify irked PML-Q
LAHORE:? Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Friday that he would remain prime minister as long as he enjoyed the support of parliament and was supported by his coalition partners. The comment is particularly poignant More...
Gilani’s top budget priorities include electricity, not education
LAHORE:?“I have four priorities for the upcoming budget,” said Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, listing them down as electricity, employment, no new taxes and relief to the agriculture sector. “We More...
Iran threatens to sue Google over dropping Persian Gulf
DUBAI:?Iran’s Foreign Ministry threatened on Thursday to take legal action against Google for dropping the name Persian Gulf from its Google Maps and leaving the waterway between Iran and Arab states More...
Maulana Fazl advises PML-N to remove Chaudhry Nisar as opposition leader
ISLAMABAD:?The calls for change in the National Assembly are not restricted to the leader of the house – the prime minister. The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) on Thursday is said to have has ‘advised’ More...
Seeking accountability: PAC orders inquiry into Sheikh Rashid’s illegal purchase
ISLAMABAD:? The Public Account Committee (PAC) has ordered an inquiry into the illegal purchase of a Mercedes Benz coach in 2005 that can possibly implicate former information minister Sheikh Rashid and the More...
Withdraw all luxury vehicles, PAC tells govt
ISLAMABAD:? In a rare move, the top parliamentary watchdog has directed the government to withdraw all luxury and bullet-proof vehicles being ‘illegally used’ by the services chiefs, federal ministers More...
Hayden Panettiere: ‘Nashville’ Country Cutie
Looking stunning in red, Hayden Panettiere appeared on the black carpet at the Entertainment Weekly & ABC-TV Up Front VIP Party at Dream Downtown this evening (May 15). The 22-year-old actress attended the More...
Cold shoulder: Jamaat-e-Islami snubs PML-N alliance offer
ISLAMABAD:? After Imran Khan led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), a party considered to have significant street power, has also given cold shoulder to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz that More...