Tag: Nation

President Asif Ali Zardari and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif are befooling the masses and conniving with each other to cover their...

Yemen's wounded President Ali Abdullah Saleh, recovering in a Riyadh hospital from a bomb blast, is to address his people "very soon", the defence...

A congressional investigation has warned that the expensive US attempt at nation-building in Afghanistan may not survive and collapse after the US withdrawal, reports...

PPP leader Babar Awan has said nation has rejected the elements who are playing politics under the cover of institutions. He said this while...

Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh has said that connecting six decades old economic problems with the budget would not be appropriate and the...

Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain demanded on Friday that Pakistan Army, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the government be held accountable, saying that...

Jamaat e Islami Secretary General, Liaquat Baloch, has said the PPP was collecting hotchpotch to save its government while the so called opposition that...

ASTANA - Riding high on a crest of government-nurtured adulation, Kazakhstan's strongman has now become a star of the silver screen. 'The Sky of My Childhood,' released Thursday in Kazakhstan, is a polished account of the early life of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who last week won a presidential election with an astonishing 95 percent of the vote. International observers criticised the election for ballot-box stuffing and said authorities coerced many into voting. Nazarbayev makes

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that the government was aligned with the US in the drone attacks and was pursuing the policies of former president Pervez Musharraf. He was talking to the media after the 5th annual certificate distribution ceremony of Rangers Institute of Technical Education (RITE) at Pakistan Rangers Headquarters on Wednesday.
The CM said that everyone including the judges and generals should unite against the drone attacks.
He

HAFIZABAD - Islamic leadership can get nation rid of American slavery, corruption, unrest and price hicks and if the masses are determined to bring revolution, the enforcement of Islamic system in the country will not be so far. Hafizabad Jamaat-e-Islami amir said this while addressing a press conference at the Hafizabad Press Club while General Secretary Aman Ullah Chatta and Malik Shoukat Ali Phularwan were also with him. He further said Pakistan was acquired for introducing Islamic

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday urged the nation not to prop up the "unfortunate tradition" of disqualifying politicians to pave the way for dictatorship.
"We have come through votes and will go by votes ... leadership is not film stars who could be changed whenever someone wishes a change... No other way is acceptable than elections," Gilani said in his address to a seminar titled "Quaid-e-Azam's vision for democracy", which was attended by academicians,

KARACHI - The idea of 'one nation' cannot take root unless people belonging to all nationalities, ethnicities and cultures are treated equally, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain said while talking to a delegation of students from various universities of the Punjab at MQM headquarters Nine Zero.
Addressing the delegation, which is on an inter-provincial study tour of various cities of Sindh on the invitation of Provincial Youth Affairs Minister Faisal Sabzwari,

LAHORE/KARACHI/ISLAMABAD - Thousands of cricket fans poured onto the streets across the country to celebrate Pakistan's 10-wicket win over the West Indies in the World Cup quarter final on Wednesday, which skipper Shahid Afridi called the best gift the team could give the nation on Pakistan Day.
The crucial victory provided the people of Pakistan much-needed relief from a myriad of crises that have struck the country one after another in recent months. Amid economic woes such as

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Day was celebrated on Wednesday across the country and in Azad Jammu Kashmir with traditional zeal and enthusiasm to commemorate the passage of the Lahore Resolution, later called, the Pakistan Resolution, which led to the creation of Pakistan.
The day dawned with special prayers for progress and prosperity of the country and with 31 gun salutes in the federal capital as well as 21 gun salutes in provincial capitals. The national flag was hoisted on

ISLAMABAD - The nation will celebrate Pakistan Day today (Wednesday) to commemorate the Lahore Resolution adopted on the very day in 1940. The day would dawn with 31 gun salutes in Islamabad and 21 gun salutes in all provincial capitals.
The day would be observed as a public holiday in all federal and provincial government offices, banks and private offices. The national flag will be hoisted on important public and private buildings throughout the country and all Pakistani

LAHORE - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani must take the public in confidence on releasing Raymond Davis, former foreign minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Friday. Addressing reporters at the Lahore Press Club, Qureshi said that the unrest among masses would soar if the government would not provided complete information to them about the issue.
Stressing on his demand, he said masses were disappointed as they were considering Raymond Davis' release an attack on

RABAT - Morocco's King Mohammed VI will address the nation late Wednesday, the government announced, delivering his first statement since protests last month demanding political reforms.
The address at 8:00 pm (2000 GMT) will be broadcast live on television and radio, the Royal House ministry said in a statement. It will be the first time the king has delivered an address to the nation since thousands of people demonstrated in several cities on February 20 demanding political