Tag: President Zardari

From Presidency to Lahore

President Asif Ali Zardari is due to arrive in Lahore soon after he quits the Presidency for the new president, Mamnoon Hussain. Sources in the...

Senate thankful to Zardari for his services to the country

The lawmakers from the Upper House of parliament on Friday unanimously adopted a motion to express gratitude to President Asif Ali Zardari for his...

President visits Benazir’s grave on her birth anniversary

President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday visited Benazir Bhutto’s grave on the eve of her birth anniversary and laid a floral wreath as PPP...

Graft cases against President Zardari cannot be reopened: Swiss authorities

The Swiss government has officially conveyed to the Pakistani Law Ministry that the money laundering cases against President Asif Ali Zardari and others could...

President summons first NA session on June 1

President Asif Ali Zardari has summoned the first session of the newly-elected National Assembly to meet in Islamabad on June 1, Saturday. Presidential spokesman Senator...

President promulgates Surveying and Mapping Ordinance 2013

President Asif Ali Zardari Monday promulgated an ordinance to regulate and implement surveying and mapping standards in the country and to enable Survey of...

President gives overseas Pakistanis right to vote

President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday approved and signed the Electoral Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 2013 to facilitate overseas Pakistanis to cast their vote from...

President gives thumbs up to AIOU ‘Open Schooling System’

President Asif Zardari on Monday said that the recently launched educational project “Open Schooling System” of the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), aimed at...

With olive branch in hand, PM goes to SC

The leadership of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and its allied parties on Sunday resolved to adopt a reconciliatory path with the superior judiciary...

Pakistan will soon reopen supply routes: White House

Pakistan will soon reopen the ground lines of communication to Afghanistan, which were shut down last November following the death of 24 soldiers in...

Toothless tiger, flailing tsunami and everything in between

After the by-polls with PPP and PML (N) leading from the front once again, it is now quite safe to say that nothing will...

On judicial activism

More power to the judiciary’s elbow I have always considered that the success of lawyers’ movement in Pakistan in 2008 was its first war of...

A new foreign policy?

Our old one doesn’t seem to be working… Despite multiple problems in the domestic context, the federal government is endeavouring to expand its foreign policy...

Power plays

More is less The government of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani is enjoying power. This cannot be said for the people whom he governs. Power is...

Much ado about nothing?

Haqqani leaves Will the furies have no mercy on the champions of doom and gloom in the country? Will the national addiction to drama -...

Competition for power

Everybody jostles In an interview to a foreign news channel in Davos on January 26, PM Gilani rejected the notion that “democracy was under threat...

Another petition

Of tensions and extensions The Supreme Court’s direction to the government to submit a written assurance within two weeks that it has no intention of...