Pakistan celebrates Independence Day
August 15th, 2012 - 12:41 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Aug 14 (IANS) Pakistan celebrated Independence Day Tuesday with great enthusiasm.The day dawned with 31 gun salute in the capital and 21 gun salute in the provincial capitals. ... Read more...
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Vice presidential hopefull Jaswant Singh comes full circle
July 16th, 2012 - 9:46 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 16 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party, which had once expelled Jaswant Singh for his laudatory views on Pakistan's founder, Monday managed to build consensus on him ... Read more...
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Gurinder Chadha wants Saif to play Nehru in her next
June 20th, 2012 - 7:45 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, June 20 (IANS) Britain-based Indian filmmaker Gurinder Chadha sports a new look and is ready to wear the director's hat again. She'll soon begin filming a movie on ... Read more...
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Government will complete 5-year term: Gilani
December 25th, 2011 - 9:00 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, in the midst of the memogate scam, said Sunday his government would complete its full five-year term to 2013.Addressing ... Read more...
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Respect ballot’s power to effect change: Zardari, Gilani
December 25th, 2011 - 7:11 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Pakistan's president and prime minister, on the backfoot in the wake of the memogate scandal, have urged the nation to keep their faith in the ... Read more...
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Pakistan launches website to promote history
August 15th, 2011 - 11:03 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Aug 15 (IANS) The Pakistani government has launched a website on its 65th Independence Day Sunday to promote the country's political and cultural history.Information and Broadcasting Minister Firdous Ashiq ... Read more...
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Make Pakistan truly democratic: Zardari
August 14th, 2011 - 4:15 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Aug 14 (IANS) President Asif Ali Zardari has called upon the people to make Pakistan a truly modern, dynamic, progressive and democratic country, adding that much could have been ... Read more...
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Pakistan is our identity: Gilani
August 11th, 2011 - 9:20 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Aug 11 (IANS) "Whatever we are today, it is due to Pakistan. It is our identity," Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Thursday.Gilani was addressing the National Assembly, ... Read more...
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Idea of man who named Pakistan remains a dream six decades after death
April 5th, 2011 - 5:26 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Apr 5 (ANI): Chaudhary Rehmat Ali's dream of having a Pakistan much bigger than what it was in 1947 continues to remain a distant dream 60 years after his death.Ali wanted ... Read more...
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Jihad against India only solution to Kashmir issue: Nazria Pakistan Trust
March 23rd, 2011 - 5:04 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, Mar 23(ANI): The Nation's editor-in-chief and Nazria Pakistan Trust (NPT) Chairman Majid Nizami has reiterated that Pakistan must wage jihad against India to 'free' Kashmir."I ask every Pakistani who acts upon ... Read more...
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Obama extends “warmest greetings” to Pakistan on National Day
March 23rd, 2011 - 4:41 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Mar 23(ANI): US President Barack Obama has extended his "warmest greetings" on the Pakistan Day to President Asif Ali Zardari and the countrymen."On the anniversary of your republic day this ... Read more...
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Sindh Assembly wants Pak Govt to recommend Bhatti’s name for Nobel Prize
March 15th, 2011 - 1:02 pm ICT by ANI
Karachi, Mar 15(ANI): The Sindh Assembly has unanimously passed a resolution urging the Pakistan Government to recommend the name of assassinated Minorities Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti for the Nobel Prize.Salim ... Read more...
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If nobody stands up, extremists will win: Pakistani daily
March 3rd, 2011 - 3:16 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, March 3 (IANS) The real culprit behind the killing of Shahbaz Bhatti, the only federal minister who was a Christian, is "an extremist mindset that has spread far ... Read more...
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Pak must be made ‘Islamic welfare democratic State’ as envisaged by Jinnah: Nizami
February 11th, 2011 - 6:43 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, Feb 11(ANI): The two-nation theory is the basis of Pakistan's creation and efforts will be made to make the country an Islamic welfare democratic state, The Nation Editor-in-Chief and Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust ... Read more...
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Pak Govt to protect minorities at all costs: Zardari
January 21st, 2011 - 1:12 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Jan 21(ANI): The Pakistan Government will protect the country's minorities at all costs in accordance with the vision of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Constitution of Pakistan, President Asif Ali ... Read more...
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Zardari vows to be guarantor of Pakistan’s better future
December 26th, 2010 - 4:16 pm ICT by ANI
Karachi, Dec 26 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has vowed to be a guarantor of the better future of the country, saying the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) government will create ... Read more...
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Pakistan can be developed by defeating extremism, says Musharraf
December 26th, 2010 - 2:58 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Dec 26 (ANI): Pakistan can be developed by defeating extremism, poverty and the so-called leaders, former president and All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) chief Pervez Musharraf has said.Addressing the birth ... Read more...
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Zardari’s dual office case verdict will have far-reaching effects: LHC
November 25th, 2010 - 5:19 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, Nov 25 (ANI): A full bench of the Lahore High Court has postponed the hearing of petitions against President Asif Zardari over dual office issue for further arguments to December 13, ... Read more...
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Musharraf wanted his photograph on currency notes
November 11th, 2010 - 1:57 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Nov 11 (IANS) Former president and military dictator Pervez Musharraf was keen to have his photograph on Pakistan's currency notes, a former prime minister has disclosed.Former premier Mir Zafarullah Khan ... Read more...
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Plea to make Urdu Pakistan’s official language dismissed
October 13th, 2010 - 1:15 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Oct 13 (IANS) A petition seeking to direct the government to make Urdu the official language of Pakistan has been dismissed by the Lahore High Court.Lahore High Court Chief Justice ... Read more...
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Jaswant Singh to rejoin BJP (Lead)
June 24th, 2010 - 1:49 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 24 (IANS) Lok Sabha MP and former external affairs minister Jaswant Singh will rejoin the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) later Thursday, a party spokesman said.
He will be admitted ... Read more...
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Jaswant Singh may return to BJP
June 15th, 2010 - 8:43 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 15 (IANS) Nine months after former external affairs minister Jaswant Singh was expelled from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over his book praising Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, ... Read more...
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POK PM says he is as patriotic as any other Pakistani citizen
May 12th, 2010 - 2:35 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, May 12 (ANI): Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider has denied allegations levelled against him in a TV programme, and said that he is "as patriotic as any ... Read more...
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Jaswant firm on Jinnah remarks
April 12th, 2010 - 10:16 pm ICT by IANS
Karachi, April 12 (IANS) Former Indian external affairs minister Jaswant Singh said Monday he stood by the stand he had taken in his book on Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah that ... Read more...
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President Barack Obama congratulates Pakistan on its national day
March 23rd, 2010 - 3:43 am ICT by BNO News
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) – President Obama sent his congratulations to Pakistan on Monday, as it celebrates its national day.“Seventy years ago, Muhammad Ali Jinnah and those of the independence generation declared ... Read more...
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Jaswant Singh’s book to hit Pakistan in Dec
November 14th, 2009 - 4:30 pm ICT by ANI
Karachi, Nov.14 (ANI): Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh's controversial yet famous book 'Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence' would hit bookstalls in Pakistan next month.However, even before the original copies of the ... Read more...
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Mountbatten’s historical ‘transfer of power’ document to Jinnah rotting in Sindh loo!
October 15th, 2009 - 3:57 pm ICT by ANI
Karachi, Oct.15 (ANI): The Sindh Assembly administration appears to care the least about keeping important documents and historical records concerning the house proceedings intact and secure.Historical records such as the 'power documents' ... Read more...
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Pakistan is not half as important as we make it, says Rahul Gandhi
October 13th, 2009 - 10:38 pm ICT by ANI
Shimla, Oct 13(ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that people in India tend to spend too much of their crucial time thinking about Pakistan and emphasized that the ... Read more...
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Police swoop on sellers of Jaswant Singh’s pirated book in Pak
September 18th, 2009 - 1:43 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, Sep.18 (ANI): Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh's book on Mohammad Ali Jinnah has sent the Pakistani book piracy nexus working overtime, but it has also landed people ... Read more...
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Jaswant’s Jinnah: India, Partition-Independence flying off book shelves in Pakistan
August 28th, 2009 - 12:04 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, Aug. 28 (ANI): Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh's controversial book, Jinnah: India, Partition-Independence, which has created a furor in India, has received an overwhelming response in Pakistan.A ... Read more...
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Sharad Yadav disapproves ban on Jaswant Singh’s book on Jinnah
August 24th, 2009 - 11:10 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Aug 24(ANI): Sharad Yadav leader of Janata Dal (United), an ally of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday said that he disapproved of the ban imposed on the book ... Read more...
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Shourie stands by his concerns for BJP, dismisses charges of ‘publicity stunt’
August 24th, 2009 - 11:09 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Aug 24(ANI): Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Shourie on Monday said that the issues that he has raised are the concerns he has been raising for the last ... Read more...
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BJP defends Jaswant expulsion, reposes faith in Advani
August 22nd, 2009 - 3:32 am ICT by IBNS
Shimla, Aug 21 (IBNS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the concluding day of its brainstorming session (chintan baithak) here has defended its action of expelling senior leader Jaswant Singh since the ... Read more...
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Residents of Jinnah’s ancestral village seek apology from Jaswant Singh
August 20th, 2009 - 11:09 pm ICT by ANI
By Suresh SoniRajkot (Gujarat), Aug.20 (ANI): Residents of Moti Paneli, an obscure village in Gujarat's Rajkot district, which is the ancestral place of Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah have sought apology ... Read more...
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Minorities’ Protection Bill to be tabled in National Assembly
August 18th, 2009 - 5:11 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Aug 18(ANI): Pakistan's Minorities Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti has said that a bill aimed at addressing the concerns of the minorities would soon be tabled in the National Assembly.Bhatti said that ... Read more...
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