Tag: Prime Minister
PM appoints PSO, USF heads, extends date to exchange Rs5 note
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has appointed Naeem Yahya Mir as Managing Director Pakistan State Oil (PSO) and A Riaz Asher Siddiqui as...
Gilani orders immediate release
After knowing that despite federal cabinet’s orders to accelerate work on Nandipur Power Project, the machinery of the project was still lying at Karachi...
Mohmand attack: Pakistan’s survival at stake
“Pakistan’s survival cannot be put to stake for Afghanistan’s peace.” This was rightly said by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani while responding to media...
Moscow braces for record anti-Putin rally
Tens of thousands of Russians prepared Friday to hold their biggest protest yet over a contested election that has sent Moscow’s relations with Washington...
After PML-Q, funds for PPP MPs also unlikely
While the government has failed to fully honour its commitment to the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) parliamentarians and members of the provincial assemblies to...
Road to peace with India
While commenting on the dialogue with his Pakistani counterpart, India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he regarded Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani as “a...
Contractual employees demand permanent jobs
The contractual employees of the Population Census Organisation on Monday appealed to the chief justice of Pakistan, President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister...
Ministries differ over MFN status to India
Taking strong notice of not taking the Ministry of Textile into confidence over the grant of Most Favored Nation (MFN) status to India by...
Hundreds occupy Cairo’s Tahrir after night of clashes
Egyptian protesters streamed into Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Sunday after a night of deadly clashes that signalled the start of a violent countdown to...
Bangladesh’s 1971 war crimes trial opens
The first trial of a suspected collaborator from Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence began on Sunday, in a widely-criticised court process that the government...
Egyptians demand military handover power
Thousands of Islamist and secular protesters gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday for a mass rally to press the ruling military to hand...
Monti rushes to launch radical reforms to save Italy
Prime Minister Mario Monti, who has won overwhelming support from the Senate, rushed to firm up ambitious proposals to revitalise the economy Friday as...
Libyan ex-PM will get fair trial: NTC
Libya’s former prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi will get a “fair trial” when he is extradited from Tunisia to face Libyan justice, interim leader Mustafa...
Ex-ECB deputy Papademos named Greek PM
Greek President Carolos Papoulias on Thursday asked former European Central Bank vice-president Lucas Papademos to form a new government, the head of state’s office...
‘Gilanis of Multan’ seek PM’s help in reviewing FLC decision
A Gilani family of Multan has sought directions of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on behalf of the federal government to the Chairman Federal...
Iranian cleric dismisses ‘empty’ Israel threats
A senior Iranian cleric on Sunday dismissed talk of a military strike by Israel as empty propaganda, taunting the Jewish state for screaming “like...
Pakistan to stress resolution of issues with India
Pakistan will urge India to engage in “meaningful, result-oriented and sustained dialogue” to settle the Kashmir and other bilateral disputes when Prime Minister Yousaf...