Tag: Offered

Devolution-hit ministers likely to be offered ‘honorable exit’

ISLAMABAD: The devolution of five federal ministries - Local Government, Zakat and Ushr, Youth Affairs, Population Welfare and Special Initiatives - to the provinces has left the bereaved ministers in utter desperation, as most of them see no imminent chance for a re-induction into the federal cabinet.
Of the five ministers, Firdous Ashiq Awan is lucky to have clinched another important ministry, Women Development, which is not included in the list of the ministries being

Spain offered to host Africom: WikiLeaks

MADRID: The Spanish government offered to host the US military command for Africa (Africom) in southern Spain, according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.
Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero told newly arrived US Ambassador Alan Solomont in January that "Spain was open to an expanded US Government presence" at the US Naval Base in Rota, near the southern port of Cadiz, "for Africom objectives," said one cable published the newspaper El Pais on Wednesday.

Yes, Asfandyar was offered presidency, says ANP

PESHAWAR: Presidency was offered to Awami National Party (ANP)'s leader Asfandyar Wali by the Chief of Army Staff Gen Kayani in 2008, Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said while confirming the claim made by Wikileaks reports.
"Yes, Asfandyar Wali Khan had received the offer and he had informed his party colleagues," Hussain said in response to a question at the concluding ceremony of a 3-day photo exhibition at the Cultural Center of Islamic Republic