Tag: Remarks

Reacting to a volley of statements from top US officials accusing the Pakistan Army and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of having links with the...

ANP leader Asfandyar Wali Khan has welcomed MQM chief Altaf Hussain’s decision to retract from his controversial remarks. Altaf had accused ANP leader of receiving...

The South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) has sent defamation notices to the management of a private TV channel, anchor Mehr Bukhari and analyst...

The Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA) spokesman on Tuesday condemned Advisor to the PM on Industries Raja Basharat’s statement on sugar prices saying that...

National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza Friday cautioned the media houses against publication of expunged remarks, saying it was a breach of privilege and...

The Cannes film festival expelled Danish director Lars Von Trier for jokingly calling himself a Nazi and Hitler sympathiser, leaving the world's biggest cinema...

LONDON - Differences emerged in the British coalition government over the issue of immigration as one of the important cabinet ministers launched attack on Prime Minister Cameron, branding him as 'very unwise' in comments about Britain needing "good immigration rather than mass immigration".
UK Business Secretary Vince Cable, a Liberal Democrat, said, "The comments from the prime minister are very unwise. I do understand there is an election coming but talk of mass immigration

NEW DELHI - Indian cricket stars Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh have hit out at Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi for his comments that Indians do not have "big clean hearts" like Pakistani Muslims.
Afridi also praised Pakistan's media for being "100 times better" than India's in a Pakistani TV show aired Sunday that has caused hurt and anger across the border in India.
"If Indians were not large-hearted, they would not have made so much of progress and delivered growth,"

ISLAMABAD - Criticising Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Saturday, Senator Shahid Bugti said the prime minister's reply in the Upper House to extra-judicial killings in Balochistan only rubbed salt into the wounds of Baloch people. "The prime minister did not reply to our concerns on extra-judicial killings in Balochistan and said he had included people from Balochistan into his entourage for India," Bugti said, adding that it was not an answer to the question of extra-judicial

QUETTA - Provincial ministers from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) walked out on the Balochistan Assembly (BA) session to protest against the objectionable remarks against PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif by a Pakistan People's Party (PPP)'s parliamentary leader.
The BA session began here on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Speaker Muhammad Aslam Bhootani. On a point of order, PPP parliamentary leader Mir Sadiq Umrani strongly criticised PML-N minister Sardar Sanaullah Zehri

KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) provincial assembly members boycotted Sindh Assembly proceedings on Monday to protest Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza's remarks that the People's Aman Committee was a sub-organisation of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP). However, PPP assembly members warmly welcomed Dr Mirza on his arrival in the House. The MQM Rabita Committee had announced earlier on Monday that its MPAs would not attend the session. Dr Mirza was accorded a hero's welcome as

KARACHI - The PPP condemned the remarks of two of its MPAs at a Sindh Assembly session accusing PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif of murdering former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer and also asking for the registration of a murder case against him.

Lahore - Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry on Friday dismissed a petition seeking contempt of court proceedings against former Pakistan People's Party (PPP) information secretary Fauzia Wahab for giving contradictory statements about diplomatic immunity to US national Raymond Davis.
The LHC CJ dismissed the petition and observing that statements of politicians did not affect court proceedings, as they were personal views. Rana Ilmuddin had filed the

MOSCOW - The war of words between Russia and Japan escalated on Monday when Moscow called Tokyo's latest comments on a disputed island chain "clearly undiplomatic". Prime Minister Naoto Kan used a national remembrance day Monday to call President Dmitry Medvedev's November visit to the Kuril Islands -- which are known as the Northern Territories in Japan -- an "unforgivable outrage."
Russia's response was swift, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov calling the comments hostile and

LONDON - The BBC has apologized to Mexico's ambassador for remarks on its 'Top Gear' program that described Mexicans as lazy and oafish. The BBC wrote to Ambassador Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza on Thursday, saying that national stereotyping is part of British humor - and that the presenters did not intend to be vindictive.
"Our own comedians make jokes about the British being terrible cooks and terrible romantics, and we in turn make jokes about the Italians being disorganized and

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday conveyed its displeasure and disappointment to France and Germany over the reported remarks by their leaders, wherein they condemned Islamabad for being unable to eliminate Al Qaeda and Taliban safe havens.
At the end of his recent visit to India, French President Nicolas Sarkozi said, "It is unacceptable that Al Qaeda and Taliban find safe havens in Pakistan."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a joint press conference in Berlin with