Tag: Statement

Benazir murder case: US journalist Mark Segal to visit Pakistan to...

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) joint investigation team on Friday contacted a key witness, US journalist Mark Segal, who agreed to personally record a...

‘NAB statement about corruption in Punjab under govt pressure’

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Senator Pervaiz Rashid has said that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman has issued a statement declaring Punjab...

SC ‘seriously considering statement made on Monday’

Asserting the Supreme Court’s authority as envisaged in the constitution of Pakistan, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJ) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Tuesday said the...

Parliament or SC to decide COAS’s statements according to constitution: Rana...

Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on Tuesday said that parliament and Supreme Court of Pakistan can decide that Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General...

Dual nationality case: Federation submits reply before court

The federation on Wednesday submitted a reply in response to the Supreme Court’s notice seeking explanation and assistance over a statement allegedly made by...

Chaudhry Mukhtar’s brother joins N-League

Politics of Gujrat took a new turn when Chaudhry Ahmed Saeed, a brother of Pakistan People’s Party leader and Federal Minister for Water and...

Bilour’s statement was personal: FO

The Foreign Office spokesperson said on Monday that announcement made by Minister for Railways Ghulam Ahmed Bilour does not represent government policy. Responding to the...

Rehman Malik’s statement

Apropos to news in which the Interior Minister Rahman Malik said the government would provide arms licenses to political and religious parties in Karachi...

Bearing down heavy on Pakistan

This is with reference to US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta’s statement that ‘US is running out of patience with Pakistan’. I am sure that...

No one should doubt Pakistan’s resolve to fight terror: FO

Islamabad has vehemently rejected recent assertions by US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta regarding terrorist “safe havens” in Pakistan. “We feel that the (US)...

SC rejects Haqqani’s plea for video statement

Rejecting an application filed by former ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani in which he requested the court to direct the memo commission to...

SC resumes Gilani contempt case

The Supreme Court (SC) has resumed hearing on contempt case against Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, according to a private TV channel. A seven...

PM’s statement should not be made an issue: Firdous

Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Friday that statement of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani should not be...

Ijaz likely to record his statement before memo commission today

Both the fate of the government and the credibility of the star witness in the memo scandal, Mansoor Ijaz, depend on what is being...

Too little

Too much Apropos of nothing, the army chief said the other day that the defence budget is around 18 percent of the federal budget, not...

PCNS seeks explanation of Munter’s statement

The Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) took exception on Friday to the statement of US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter about using Pakistan’s...