Tag: Resignation

A united opposition can pull its weight The decisions taken at a meeting of the opposition leaders on Friday would increase pressure on the government...

President Asif Ali Zardari made no offer to resign during a meeting of top leaders of the ruling coalition that was held after the...

German President Christian Wulff, an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, faced calls for his resignation Tuesday over a home loan scandal and allegations he...

A long haul to March Going by the prime minister’s somersaults in the last few days, one can only surmise that there “something is rotten...

The government continues to change its position on the resignation of former ambassador to Washington Husain Haqqani, whose counsel Asma Jahangir contradicted Prime Minister...

The role of a ministry Cabinet meetings are probably never all fun and games, but the 100th meeting of the federal cabinet would have been...

PML-N leader Javed Hashmi, demanding resignations of president, prime minister and the Parliament said Pakistan was surrounded by worst crises today, a private TV...

National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza has accepted the resignation of Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan from the office of Chairman Public Accounts Committee with immediate...

Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Thursday said the parliament elected President Asif Ali Zardari for five years and he will...

The master stroke rests with the judiciary Let’s have two things straight. The lack of delivery of the PPP-led government, the mammoth dossier of corruption...

The memo controversy has been rocking the feeble Pakistani state for some time now. Who did what, how it was done, what was the...

The memo scandal is a very big and serious issue but it looks like that the government is not taking it seriously. Hussain Haqqani...

Keeping it in perspective Justice requires that an enquiry be conducted before removing any important functionary of the state for any commission, omission or indiscretion...

The White House said Tuesday that the resignation of Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, was an "internal issue" for Pakistan but...

Pakistan’s envoy to Washington Husain Haqqani lost the battle with the country’s powerful military leadership to keep his job on Tuesday over allegations he...

Defence analysts and politicians believe that the sacking of Husain Haqqani would not diffuse the tension between the civilian and military leadership, as the...

Reacting to Husain Haqqani’s decision to resign as Pakistan’s ambassador to Washington, Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, the central character in the ‘memogate’ scandal, said...