- Saturday, April 20, 2024
The Agra Summit in 2001 collapsed primarily due to Pervez Musharraf's public airing of hawkish Kashmir views, his insufficient actions against terrorism, and his insistence on linking overall progress to developments in Kashmir, not solely due to LK Advani's firm stance. This is what Ambassador Ajay Bisaria, who served as…
Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, the architect of the Kargil War in 1999, loved his cricket. Musharraf, who passed away in a Dubai hospital on Sunday, used cricket as a strong diplomatic tool to improve relations between the two countries when he led Pakistan first as Chief Executive and…
The special flight to repatriate the mortal remains of Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf was delayed, media reports said on Monday. Musharraf, the architect of the Kargil War in 1999, died on Sunday in Dubai after a prolonged illness. The 79-year-old former military ruler, who had been in the…
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has reacted to the demise of the ex-chief of army staff and former President General Pervez Musharraf. https://twitter.com/NawazSharifMNS/status/1622179667410051072?s=20&t=FvMYysKQJBzw9dH3Z9l8kQ Taking to his official Twitter handle, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo wrote a verse in Arabia with the hashtag Pervez Musharraf. The verse loosely translated to…
Pakistan's former military dictator General Pervez Musharraf, the architect of the Kargil War, toppled the democratically-elected government in a bloodless military coup in 1999 and ruled the country for nine years during which he survived numerous assassination bids.Born in a middle-class family of Urdu-speaking Mohajir parents in Delhi in 1943,…
Pakistan's former military ruler General (retd.) Pervez Musharraf, the architect of the Kargil War in 1999, died on Sunday in Dubai after a prolonged illness.The four-star general, who ruled Pakistan in a dictator-style and passed away on Sunday at the age of 79, was born in Delhi. During his reign…
Pakistan's former dictator General Pervez Musharraf who died in Dubai on Sunday due to prolonged illness, earned the ignominy of being the first military ruler to receive capital punishment in the country's history for subverting the Constitution in 2007.Musharraf, 79, who was suffering from amyloidosis, a rare disease caused by…
Pakistan's former Army chief Gen (retd.) Qamar Javed Bajwa has a lot to tell about ousted prime minister Imran Khan, his rise in politics, and how he ran his government, a media report said on Monday. Khan, 70, has been targeting Gen Bajwa ever since his ouster from power in…
Pakistan’s former military dictator General Pervez Musharraf is critical and on a ventilator support at a hospital in the UAE, his close aide and former information minister Fawad Chaudhry said on Friday. Gen. Musharraf, 78, ruled Pakistan from 1999 to 2008. “Musharraf is critical as he is on a ventilator,”…
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif testified on Saturday (28) in a special court hearing in the Pakistan Rupee 16 billion money laundering case against him that he had refused to take any salary when he was the Chief Minister of Pakistan's Punjab province, and called himself a "majnoo" for doing…
PAKISTAN’S new prime minister Shehbaz Sharif is a ‘hard-core realist’ and has over the years earned the reputation as a matter-of-fact person.Shehbaz, the younger brother of three-time prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif, has served as the chief minister of the country's most populous and politically…
REGARDED as a wily cricket captain during his playing days, Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan appeared on Sunday (3) to have stumped his political opposition as well.The country's president dissolved the national assembly just hours after the deputy speaker declined to accept a no-confidence motion that would likely have seen…
PRIME minister Imran Khan will travel to Russia on Wednesday (23) on a two-day visit - the first by a Pakistan premier in more than two decades.Khan will hold talks with Russian president Vladimir Putin and review the bilateral ties including energy cooperation besides exchanging views on major regional and…
ABDUL Qadeer Khan, who died on Sunday (10), was lauded in Pakistan for transforming it into the world's first Islamic nuclear weapons power. But he was seen by the West as a “dangerous renegade” responsible for smuggling technology to rogue states. The nuclear scientist, who died at 85 in Islamabad…
ABDUL Qadeer Khan, the founder of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme, has died at 85, authorities said on Sunday (10). The atomic scientist, who spent the last years of his life under heavy guard, died in Islamabad, where he had recently been hospitalised with Covid-19. Khan died after being transferred to…
After the September 11 attacks, the United States gave Pakistan a harsh ultimatum to break with the Taliban. Pakistan offered help but insisted -- it will not be abandoned again, as in the 1990s after Washington lost interest in Afghanistan. Twenty years later, the Taliban has retaken Afghanistan from a…
PAKISTAN'S opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday (24) rejected prime minister Imran Khan's remarks that Islamabad would let the people of Kashmir decide if they want to join Pakistan or become an "independent state". He said Khan was deviating from the country's "historical and constitutional position" by proposing a second…
SUSPENDED Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir has reminded prime minister Imran Khan about a 2007 promise to uphold press freedom if he became the leader of the country. Writing in The Guardian on Wednesday (2), Mir, who was taken off air from his regular programme on Monday (31), said, “Imran Khan and I used to…
A British-born militant sentenced to death for the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl was ordered to be let out of prison Thursday (25) by Pakistan's Supreme Court in the latest twist to a legal saga spanning nearly two decades. The court said, however, that Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh should…
A LAWYER has produced a handwritten letter in Pakistan's Supreme Court in which the key accused in the Daniel Pearl murder case claimed that he was a 'scapegoat' and arrested under 'US pressure'. It also says that the real culprit was a Karachi-based militant named Attaur Rehman. Lawyer Faisal Siddiqui,…
Pakistan's former prime minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, who served under military leader Pervez Musharraf, has died, his family announced. The 76-year-old died in the city of Rawalpindi outside Islamabad on Wednesday after recently suffering a heart attack, his son Mir Muhammad Khan Jamali said. Jamali was elected prime minister…
Pakistani authorities arrested a media mogul on corruption charges on Thursday (12), in a decades-old case his representatives said was motivated by a desire to retaliate following the broadcast of several investigative programmes. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested Mir Shakeel-ur-Rehman -- the editor-in-chief of the Jang Group that includes…
A Pakistani journalist critical of the government and the army has been detained for five days for having published "anti-state" comments online, his lawyer told said Tuesday, in a new illustration of shrinking freedoms in Pakistan. Azhar-ul Haq Wahid, who worked for a small television and newspaper with a limited…
A Pakistan court on Monday (13) annulled the death sentence handed to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, ruling a special court which found him guilty of treason last year was unconstitutional, a government prosecutor told AFP. The original ruling had marked the first time a former leader of the armed…
A COURT in Pakistan has returned Pakistan's former military dictator General Pervez Musharraf's application challenging the death sentence handed to him by a special court in a high treason case, citing non-availability of the full bench due to winter vacations. The registrar office of the Lahore High Court (LHC) returned…
Exiled former Pakistan military leader Pervez Musharraf dismissed the unprecedented treason conviction and death sentence handed to him earlier this week, saying the ruling was the result of a "personal vendetta". The special court's decision announced Tuesday marked the first time a former leader of the armed forces has been…
A PAKISTANI court sentenced on Tuesday (17) former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to death on charges of high treason and subverting the constitution, government officials said. Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup and later ruled as president, is not in Pakistan and was not available for comment on…
Pakistan's former military dictator general (retd) Pervez Musharraf was admitted to a hospital on Monday in Dubai after he developed "heart and blood pressure-related" complications, according to media reports. The 76-year-old former president, who is living in Dubai in self-imposed exile, was admitted to the Dubai American Hospital on a…
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif left Pakistan on Tuesday (19) in an air ambulance to seek medical treatment in London, his party said, a month after the three-time premier was released on bail from a seven-year prison sentence for corruption. Sharif, 69, was accompanied by his younger brother and personal…
Featuring bumbling generals, assassination plots, and homosexual romance, Pakistani military satire A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif has finally been released in the country's official language Urdu - even as the army tightens its grip on freedom of expression. The former fighter pilot turned journalist, novelist and librettist…
THE international community does have a role in diffusing tension in Kashmir and an India-Pakistan dialogue could help arrive at a solution akin to the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, which allows a level of free exchange on both sides of the border, opined strategic experts in London over…
Prime minister Imran Khan admitted on Monday (23) said that Pakistan committed "one of the biggest blunders" by joining the US after the 9/11 attacks, saying the previous governments "should not have pledged what they could not deliver." Speaking at a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) think-tank event, Khan also…
By Rehan Fazal ON MAY 8, 1999, Captain Iftekhar of the 6 Northern Light Infantry was sitting in an isolated post with a junior officer, Lance Hawaldar Abdul Hakim, and 12 other Pakistani soldiers. They noticed a few Indian shepherds grazing their animals some distance away. The soldiers went…
Pakistan's new interior minister, appointed in a major cabinet reshuffle this month by Prime Minister Imran Khan, is a former spy chief and close ally of the country's last military ruler who has long been accused of deep ties to militant groups. The appointment of retired Brigadier Ijaz Shah has…
PAKISTAN'S former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has been admitted to a hospital in Dubai after suffering a reaction from a rare disease that has weakened his nervous system, his party has said. General (retd) Musharraf, 75, who has been living in Dubai since March 2016, is facing the treason case…
CHINA prevented a UN Security Council committee on Wednesday (13) from blacklisting the head of Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), which said it attacked an Indian paramilitary convoy in disputed Kashmir. India said it was disappointed at the block, which sparked calls for boycotts of Chinese products on domestic social…
Pakistan swears in a new chief justice on Friday, opening the next chapter for the Supreme Court which has pursued an expansive agenda that has ranged from ousting a prime minister to pressing authorities to improve the public water supply. Outgoing Chief Justice Saqib Nisar cultivated a high profile, launching…
The cancer-stricken wife of Pakistan's jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif died in London on Tuesday (11) while her husband and daughter were in prison, officials said. Kulsoom Nawaz Sharif, 68, died after months in a coma. She was diagnosed with lymphoma last year, barely a month after Nawaz Sharif…
Pakistan president Dr Arif Alvi was a dentist to India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, according to a short biography of him on the website of his party, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI). "Dr Elahi Alvi was a dentist to Jawaharlal Nehru and the family has letters from Mr Nehru to…
by Amit Roy MPS LEAD TRIBUTES AS FORMER PRIME MINISTER VAJPAYEE IS LAID TO REST. IT IS one of the civilised traditions of India that when politicians pass away, even their opponents come together to pay tribute to the departed leader. THOUSANDS of mourners in white funeral dress escorted the coffin of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India’s former prime minister,…
Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has quit his post as chief of All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) just days after the Supreme Court barred him from contesting in the upcoming general elections. General secretary of the party, Muhammad Amjad, will now be the party's chairman. "Musharraf had tendered his…
BHUTTO FAMILY SEEKS TO MAKE A MARK IN ELECTION PAKISTAN’S only major left-leaning political party is fighting for its electoral relevance and to preserve the legacy of the country’s best-known political dynasty weeks before the country heads to the polls. In his first election campaign, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the scion of the…
Pakistan's only major left-leaning political party is fighting for its electoral relevance and to preserve the legacy of the country's best-known political dynasty weeks before the country heads to the polls. In his first election campaign, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the scion of the storied Bhutto family who now heads the…
ONE OF Pakistan’s leading human rights advocates, Asma Jahangir, has died, her family said yesterday (11). She was 66. The lawyer and co-founder of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan died of cardiac arrest, according to her sister. "Unfortunately, we have lost her," Hina Jilani, also a prominent rights…
Pakistan's ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif today left for Saudi Arabia amid reports of a "deal" between the embattled Sharif family and the powerful military establishment. Sharif left for Saudi Arabia on a Saudi Airlines flight this evening. On his arrival he is scheduled to meet King Salman and Crown…
Ten years after former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the first woman to lead a Muslim nation, was killed in Rawalpindi the unanswered questions about her assassination still fuel conspiracy theories. Earlier this year two police officers were found guilty of "mishandling the crime scene". They are the only people…
A decade after Pakistan's first female leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated, her son Bilawal is striving to reclaim his mother's mantle, the latest act in a Shakespearean saga of tragedy and power. But reviving the wilted fortunes of his family's political dynasty ahead of a general election due next year will…
A top Baloch leader has written to US Secretary to declare Pakistan's former dictator Pervez Musharraf as a global terrorist days after Musharraf stated that he is the biggest supporter of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Naela Quadri Baloch, the head of the World Baloch Women Forum, has written a letter to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asking that Pervez Musharraf…
Dina Wadia, the only daughter of Pakistan’s founder Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, passed away at her home in New York on Thursday, a spokesperson for the Wadia Group said in a statement. She was 98. Dina Wadia is survived by her son and Wadia Group Chairman Nusli N Wadia, daughter Diana…
PAKISTAN’S ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif returned home today (2) to face trial in an anti-corruption case he calls political revenge but which opposition leaders have termed as accountability for the rich and powerful. Sharif, who was in London with his wife who is undergoing cancer treatment, is due to…
A PAKISTANI anti-corruption court today (19) indicted ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter over allegations linked to ownership of London properties, opening a trial that could see the former leader jailed. The Sharifs have called the corruption proceedings against them a conspiracy, hinting at intervention by the powerful…
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday suspended the membership of 261 lawmakers of the senate, and national and provincial assemblies for failing to submit their statements of assets and liabilities. According to ECP's notification, the membership of seven senators, 71 National Assembly members, 84 lawmakers of Punjab Assembly, 50 members…
Pakistan's former dictator Pervez Musharraf today claimed that Asif Ali Zardari was responsible for the killing of his wife Benazir Bhutto, saying the former president gained the most from the assassination of the country's first woman prime minister. The 54-year-old Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chief and a two-time prime minister was killed along with…
Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf said he would return to Pakistan to face trial in the murder case of ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto. A Pakistani court on Thursday pronounced Musharraf a fugitive in the murder trial but acquitted five men accused of involvement in the 2007 assassination of Bhutto, the…
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court declared former military ruler Pervez Musharraf a fugitive in ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto's murder trial Thursday, nearly 10 years after the iconic political figure was gunned down in the streets of Rawalpindi. The court dismissed charges against five alleged Taliban militants accused of being involved in…
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi announced the verdict in the Benazir Bhutto murder case on Thursday, acquitting five Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) suspects and announcing 17-year imprisonment for two police officials. The ATC also declared retired Gen Pervez Musharraf an absconder in the case. The ATC had named Musharraf in the case…
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Pakistan's interim prime minister, is a long-time loyalist of ousted premier Nawaz Sharif and one of the wealthiest parliamentarians in the country. Abbasi, 58, hails from the famous hill resort of Murree in Rawapindi district of Punjab province and was minister for petroleum in the ousted government.…
By Asjad Nazir Legendary epic Mughal-e-Azam (1960) continues to power on nearly 60 years after it was released with a lavish musical based on the K Asif directed movie currently playing to packed-out theatres across India. The enduring magic of the greatest Bollywood movie ever made is continuing to captivate…
Pakistan is looking to hire lobbying firms in Washington after a gap of nearly eight years, seeking to refurbish its image in the United States at a time of deteriorating relations between the allies, two government officials said on Tuesday (June 14). Ties have been particularly strained following a US…
prime minister ‘overseeing affairs of state’ PAKISTANI prime minister Nawaz Sharif underwent open heart surgery in a London hospital on Tuesday (31), his second cardiac procedure in five years, his daughter Maryam said. Sharif’s surgery comes as his government prepares to present its annual budget on Friday (3). It also…
IN A relief to Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday (March 16) ordered the government to lift a travel ban on the former military ruler who is facing trial in a number of cases, including for high treason. The court ruled that there was no legal bar on foreign…
prime minister ‘overseeing affairs of state’ PAKISTANI prime minister Nawaz Sharif under- went open heart surgery in a London hospital on Tuesday (31), his second cardiac procedure in five years, his daughter Maryam said. Sharif’s surgery comes as his government prepares to present its annual budget on Friday (3). It…
Imran Khan on Sunday (30) accused Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif of pursuing his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi’s interests in Pakistan as the government cracked down on the cricketer-turned-politician’s supporters with police arresting over 100 of them. “When Nawaz Sharif went to London for whatever kind of surgery, he on…
Pakistan will ban all Indian content on television and radio channels from Friday, its media regulator said, stepping up media tit-for-tat bans that followed a spike in tension between the nuclear-armed neighbours. The blanket ban drew immediate criticism from viewers and cable operators in Pakistan, a nation of 190 million…
THERE will be no immediate shift in Pakistan’s military policy under the new army chief, the country’s defence minister said, after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appointed a new military leader yesterday. Lieutenant General Qamar Javed Bajwa will replace retiring army chief Raheel Sharif when his three-year term ends on Tuesday,…
Pakistan’s powerful army chief Raheel Sharif began a round of farewell visits on Monday (November 21), his spokesman said, damping speculation he might receive an extension when his three-year term ends this month. The general has been immensely popular among ordinary Pakistanis, who see him as having effectively tackled crime…
Pakistan’s television regulator on Thursday (26) banned a well-known talk show host for hate speech, after he hosted shows accusing liberal activists and others of blasphemy, an inflammatory allegation that could put their lives at risk. Blasphemy is a criminal offence in Muslim-majority Pakistan that can result in the death…