Tag: President
Case of tortured girl to be taken to Afghan president
The case of a tortured Afghan child bride that shocked the world will be taken directly to President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday, a lawyer...
Seat adjustment: MQM delegation to meet President Zardari today
A five-member delegation of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) would hold an important meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday to evolve a...
Opposition ups heat on Merkel over president scandal
Germany’s main opposition party piled pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday over a scandal dogging her handpicked candidate for president, calling for new...
Chaudhrys call on president, PM
Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Senator Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Senior Federal Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi separately called on President Asif Ali Zardari and...
Scandal-hit German president faces resignation calls
German President Christian Wulff, an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, faced calls for his resignation Tuesday over a home loan scandal and allegations he...
Iran sentences former president’s daughter to jail
The daughter of influential former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was on Tuesday sentenced to jail and banned from political activities for “anti state...
PT reporter elected ERA president
Education reporters from all top media organisations on Monday participated in the Education Reporters Associations (ERA) annual meeting. Pakistan Today (PT) Staff Reporter Adnan...
Zardari saw future president in me: Gilani
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Wednesday said Asif Ali Zardari had once called him a future president of Pakistan. When I was sentenced...
Putin rejects acting president role ahead of March vote
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday rejected the idea of becoming acting head of state ahead of March 4 presidential elections where he...
South Korea not hostile to North: President Lee
South Korea's conciliatory gestures to North Korea following the death of Kim Jong-Il are intended to show it is not hostile towards its neighbour,...
PPP decides on no response from president in memo case
The top brass of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Wednesday night resolved not to submit a response from President Asif Ali Zardari in...
President’s return disappoints rumour mongers: PM
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said that the return of President Asif Ali Zardari has disappointed rumour mongers.
He said this while talking to...
He’s back
A set of challenges
The best gig in town, being a news pundit. A turn of phrase here, an amusing anecdote there and off you...
The Prestige
Tony Montana paid the price for having morals, however deranged. El Jefe Zardari will also pay for his good deeds
It is the year 2008....
The game changer
Just as the Peoples Party had completed a stunning transformation from its long-running anti-establishment persona to the one seen as a defender of the...
SC moved to clear president’s name in memo petition
A civil miscellaneous application was filed in the Supreme Court’s Lahore Registry for an early hearing of the petition on the constitutional immunity to...
Rumour, again, has it
Our dysfunctional republic
“Anything can happen in life,” quips Michel Houellebecq, “especially nothing.”
The rumours that are making the rounds after the president left the country...
