Tag: Coalition

Federal Information Minister Firdous Aashiq Awan has said that PML-N/MQM coalition was a good omen for democracy, as a strong opposition guaranteed the stability...

Despite attaining a simple majority in the AJK Legislative Assembly elections held on Sunday, the Pakistan People’s Party AJK and the Muslim Conference will...

The PPP is in no mood to go ahead with the coalition with its earlier coalition partners from Sindh – the Muttahida Qaumi Movement...

Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and President Asif Ali Zardari have agreed to expand the coalition government to other parts of...

Leaders of the coalition government are concerned and disturbed over the PNS Mehran base attack and the Abbottabad incident, but stand firm on their...

While the leadership of the ruling PPP is keeping mum over the parliamentary demand to form an independent commission to probe into the Abbottabad...

India’s beleaguered ruling coalition has managed to avoid a major voter backlash over a series of embarrassing corruption scandals, winning three of five regional...

The PPP-led coalition government further consolidated its numerical strength in parliament with the MQM rejoining the federal cabinet on Tuesday as President Asif Ali...

Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg vowed Sunday that his Liberal Democrats would take a more assertive role in the year-old coalition government after...

Opposing Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) alliance, former foreign minister and PPP leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Saturday said that...

LAHORE - The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) will take its coalition partners in confidence on the financial crunch facing the country, Advisor to the PM on Women Development Yasmin Rehman and said on Monday.Yasmin said that the PPP-led federal government has assured its coalition allies that relief will be provided to the masses in petroleum and gas products, as it was the basic need of the country to run both the public and private sectors smoothly.
The PPP leader said that

ISLAMABAD - The power-sharing talks between the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) have entered the final phase and the latter may join the coalition government by taking portfolios in the federal cabinet in the second phase of cabinet formation in a few weeks, a government source told Pakistan Today on Friday.
The source said that the PPP had offered 6 to 8 ministries to the PML-Q for the second phase of cabinet formation, which was likely

KARACHI - Awami National Party (ANP)-Sindh has summoned a meeting of its think-tank on Friday (today) to deliberate the merits of staying part of the coalition government in Sindh, announced party spokesman Qadir Khan on Thursday. A meeting of the provincial party's executive committee has also been convened on Sunday to follow up on the think-tank's deliberations.
Meanwhile, a delegation of PPP-Sindh led by Secretary- General Taj Haider visited Mardan House and held a meeting

EAST OF BREGA - The US military is poised to withdraw its combat jets and Tomahawk missiles from the air campaign against Libya's regime as NATO allies take the lead in bombing Moamer Gaddafi's forces.
A NATO-led airstrike killed 13 Libyan rebels in a "regrettable incident", a rebel spokesman said on Saturday, in an increasingly chaotic battle with Muammar Gaddafi's forces over the oil town of Brega. Meanwhile, US officials on Friday confirmed that American fighters,

BREGA - At least 10 rebels were killed by a coalition air strike on Friday, fighters at the scene said on Saturday, in an increasingly chaotic battle with Muammar Gaddafi's forces over the oil town of Brega.
With the more experienced and better organised rebel army locked in combat with Gaddafi's forces, hundreds of young, inexperienced volunteers could be seen fleeing east towards Ajdabiyah, after coming under heavy mortar and machinegun fire.
A Reuters correspondent at the

AJDABIYA/TRIPOLI/PARIS - The Libyan government forces pulled back 100 kilometres from rebel-held Benghazi but showed they still had plenty of fight on Monday as they easily beat off a rebel advance. The forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi had retreated overnight to the key town of Ajdabiya, south of the city of Benghazi, after Western-led airstrikes destroyed much of their armour, leaving dozens of wrecked tanks along the road.
But as rebels who massed in their hundreds

SAHIWAL - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Deputy Parliamentary leader Syed Haider Abbas Rizvi said if President Asif Ali Zardari did not accept the demands of MQM within a week, the party would think to leave the government. He further said that all political parties were afraid of the popularity of MQM and could not bear its services for the poor. He added that MQM would continue its services for the poor and save the common people from the cruel hands of the landlords and capitalists.