Tag: Presidential

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League (PML) Likeminded, the breakaway faction of the PML-Quaid (PML-Q), has opposed the PML-Q's decision to boycott the presidential address to the joint session of parliament.
PML Likeminded President Senator Salim Saifullah called the PML-Q's decision "inappropriate". "If the opposition parties are really sincere in steering the country out of crises, they should develop mutual understanding and it will be their unity that can force the government

YANGON - Myanmar's junta-backed party swept a vote for presidential nominations on Thursday, officials said, as part of a secretive process apparently designed to reserve the top job for a key regime insider. Prime Minister Thein Sein, a general who retired from the army in April last year, was one of three candidates selected by soldiers and lawmakers, Myanmar officials said, with the president set to be announced on Friday.
A key ally of junta strongman Than Shwe, Thein Sein

PARIS - Tunisia's popular Islamist party Ennahdha said on Tuesday it would field no presidential candidate in planned elections and denounced the country's transition leaders as a government of "exclusion". The party's exiled leader Rached Ghannouchi "will not be a candidate, Ennahdha will not have a candidate in the presidential election," to be held in six months, the party's Paris-based spokesman Houcine Jaziri told AFP. But he said the party would take part in legislative polls.

LAHORE - As five days are left to elect Lahore Bar Association's (LBA) new office-bearers, lawyers' community and political parties are making all out efforts to secure victory for their respective candidates for the presidential slot. For LBA's elections, Pakistan People's party is clear about its candidate to support while Pakistan Muslim league (N) is still confuse and not in position to make any clear decision for the support of a single presidential candidate. Pakistan

LAHORE: Hearing of a petition challenging the pardon granted by President Asif Ali Zardari to Interior Minister Rehman Malik was adjourned to December 24 by a full bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday. Earlier, Deputy Attorney General Naveed Inayat Malik had requested adjournment on behalf of the federation, citing Rehman's pending adjudication in Supreme Court as an excuse.
Barrister Farooq Hassan, representing the petitioner, opposed the request saying the government was

LAHORE
Experts and pundits from the lawyers' community have predicted cut-throat competition between Ahmed Awais and Asma Jahangir for the presidential slot of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) polls being held today (Wednesday).
The bigwigs of the lawyers' community, now being divided in pro-judiciary and pro-government groups, were witnessed struggling yesterday to secure the votes of the 2,130 registered SCBA voters for their respective groups using every trick in