Tag: Politics

Senator Babar Awan said on Sunday that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif was practicing the politics of division and hatred, and demanded...

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said in a meeting with senior journalists at his residence here on Sunday that the government was aware of...

PPP Women Wing Faisalabad City Senior Vice President Rubina Butt has observed that the involvement of money in politics is a post-Bhutto phenomenon, which...

The Cannes film festival is gearing up for what critics say should be a vintage year, with Hollywood stars out in force, revered directors...

ISLAMABAD - More than 200 activists of PML-Q on Monday staged a protest demonstration outside the Parliament House against Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan for creating hurdles in the construction of Saroba and Mujahid bridges in Rawalpindi. The protests were staged over what the PML-Q called political victimisation on part of PML-N leader, as he had stopped construction work on Soraba Bridge and Mujhaid Bridge.
The protesting activist from NA-53 and PP-7

KARACHI - Tazeen Qayyum's work comments on aggressive global politics and the subsequent suppression of differences. She uses insects as motifs, her favourite being dead cockroaches that are repeated in a pattern and are simultaneously rendered as compelling and repulsive.
Through these dead insects, she comments on human rights violations and human fatalities in the current wartime environment. The paintings have an attractive appeal, but only when the works are looked at

LAHORE - Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) is facing differences within the alliance over its future strategy. The SIC chairman-led Markazi Jamiat Ulema Pakistan, Sunni Tehrik and Nizam-e-Mustafa Party, an offshoot of JUP-N, are pushing for a greater role in politics while Jamat-e-Ahlesunnat Pakistan, the leadership of Tanzim-ul-Madaris and others are vehemently opposing the idea. Some small parties of the Ittehad are sitting on the fence.
The SIC, an alliance of 23 parties of the

LAHORE - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Secretary General Senator Jahangir Badr on Saturday said that PPP Co-chairman President Asif Ali Zardari would make a final decision on whether or not the PPP would attend the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)'s meeting today (Sunday).
On Saturday, an MQM team led by Farooq Sattar met Jehangir Badr at his residence and invited the PPP to attend MQM's Istehkam-e-Pakistan rally today. Badr welcomed the call but made it clear that a final decision

LAHORE - Heinrich Boll Stiftung (HBS) and Shirkat Gah Women's Resource Centre held an International conference titled "Women, Religion and Politics" at a local hotel to mark 100 years of International Women's Day on Thursday. The two day conference is the last of the series of events exploring engendered dimensions of various religious and political paradigms and their impact on women's lives at local as well as international level. Distinguished international scholars including Yesim

LAHORE - Condemning Shahbaz Sharif's demand of involving judiciary and the army in the politics, Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Punjab has termed the All Parties Conference (APC) proposal 'unconstitutional and undemocratic'. President PPP Punjab Chapter Imtiaz Safdar Warraich at a news conference at Lahore Press Club the other day urged Shahbaz to withdraw his call and said his thoughts were a 'reminder of General Ziaul Haq 's black era'. Warraich said, "Sharifs have always had a

LAHORE - Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Asma Jahangir has said lawyers should not indulge in politics at the cost of their own well being and welfare and solidarity of the lawyers' community. Addressing the members of the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) on the occasion of a reception she hosted in honour of the newly elected office bearers of the LHCBA here on Thursday, Asma reiterated that the legal fraternity must take a united stand for the welfare and

KARACHI - The PML-N wants to indulge in the politics of the 90s, but the PPP will not follow suit, President Asif Ali Zardari said on Monday. "The PPP is a democratic party and will face all such tactics politically," Zardari told Punjab Governor Latif Khosa and Interior Minister Rehman Malik in a meeting at the Bilawal House. According to sources in the PPP, various other issues such as the progress of development projects, rebuilding of the flood-damaged infrastructure and the

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif told Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah in writing that he would be stepping into practical politics since his agreement to not participate in politics for 10 years had ended.
Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif called on the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Pakistan Ibrahim Al Ghadir in Islamabad and handed over the letter. Sources said the letter contained information about Nawaz's active role in future

LAHORE - Pakistan Tehreek Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan has flayed power politics in Punjab and termed it against principles. He was addressing a press conference here at a local hotel on Sunday. He said that the PML-N's 10-point agenda had no solution to terrorism and drone attacks.
He said that injustice was the main cause of rampant corruption in the country, adding that during the last three days government borrowing had touched high levels. Imran said that 2011 could be an

LAHORE - Federal Environment Minister and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Lahore President Samina Khalid Ghurki on Tuesday asked the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to avoid the politics of confrontation.
Talking to journalists at the PPP Lahore Office, she said that the PPP believed in the politics of reconciliation but its workers were ready to respond to any kind of confrontation. She said that a decision on the 10-point agenda of the PML-N would be taken after consultation

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif apparently have a different stance on their future political strategy, with the PML-N chief aspiring to continue politics of reconciliation in the larger national interest and Shahbaz proposing the exact opposite.
In a meeting with a delegation of the Pakistan Business Council on Friday, Shahbaz exploded unprovoked when Nawaz talked about continuing politics of

LAHORE - At a time when Muslims are celebrating the Eid Miladun Nabi, some old trends are giving way for new traditions of celebrating the occasion. The success of religious parties in forcing the federal government not to amend the blasphemy law would reflect the mood of events to be held throughout the day.
Religious parties have emboldened their heads having forced the government to bow before them. Chief amongst these is the Sunni Ittehad Council, an alliance of eight Barelvi