ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s main opposition leader gave the government a three-day deadline Tuesday to accept a list of demands if it wants to avert its possible collapse after the loss of its ruling majority in parliament.
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s main opposition leader gave the government a three-day deadline Tuesday to accept a list of demands if it wants to avert its possible collapse after the loss of its ruling majority in parliament.
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Tuesday announced a three-day national mourning period following the assassination of Punjab governor Salman Taseer, Gilani’s office said.
Salman Taseer, the governor of Pakistan’s most politically important province Punjab, was assassinated by one of his bodyguards in Islamabad on Tuesday, apparently for opposing blasphemy laws.
Pakistan’s largest opposition group says it will meet to decide whether to back a no-confidence vote against the Prime Minister.
QUETTA, Pakistan — A bomb blast tore through a school bus in Pakistan on Tuesday, wounding at least five children in the insurgency-hit south-western province of Baluchistan on the Iranian border, officials said.
Pakistan’s main opposition group will not push for a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani because to demand such a vote would exacerbate instability.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari expressed full confidence in the country’s beleaguered prime minister, who is scrambling to prevent his government from falling.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. government regards Pakistan’s ruling coalition crisis as a strictly internal matter, a senior U.S. official said on Monday.
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan and India cannot afford a war, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said, stressing that dialogue is the only way to resolve outstanding issues between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
FIZAGAT (Swat) — Pakistan Association Dubai (PAD) has set up a study camp and hostel for boys in Fizagat, near Swat’s main city of Mingora, for students from the areas devastated by last year’s floods.