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Lahore, May 15 (ANI): Senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan today said that no consultations were made with PML-N leaders for the appointment of the new governor in Punjab. Addressing a press conference here at PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharifs residence, he termed appointment of Salman Taseer ... Read more...

Lahore, May 15 (ANI): An election tribunal on Thursday accepted the nomination papers of Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Nawaz Sharif to contest election from NA-123. The tribunal also accepted the nomination papers of PML-N covering candidate Hamza Shahbaz, The News reported. The nomination papers of Nawaz Sharif were rejected during ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) Ahead of talks between India and Pakistan next week, former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif has struck an upbeat note saying both sides should "seize the opportunity to clinch all issues" and abolish the restrictive visa regime. Underlining cross-party consensus on building better bilateral ties, ... Read more...

Islamabad, May 15 (ANI): Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said that he was still engaged in talks with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif, and believes the future of the ruling coalition is bright in Pakistan. Addressing a press conference here, at his house ... Read more...

Lahore, May 15 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has urged the people to take to the streets for the restoration of sacked Pakistani judges. Sharif claimed that he had only accepted the (Provisional Constitutional Order) PCO judges under compulsion from the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), and would ... Read more...

By Muhammad Najeeb Islamabad, May 14 (IANS) Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said Wednesday his party will restore the sacked judges but it will be done through a "parliament act" and he cannot give any deadline for it. "I am not in a position to give deadline, but ... Read more...

Lahore , May 14 (ANI): In the run-up to the by-polls slated for June 26, the erstwhile ruing party in Pakistan , the PML-Q has decided to exploit the differences between the PPP and the PML-N and misdeed of the new government and take it to the voters. Appealing for ... Read more...

Islamabad, May 14 (IANS) The political crisis caused by the collapse of Pakistan's ruling coalition is impacting on the country's budget making exercise, with bureaucrats apprehending they would not be able to complete the task by the early June deadline. Pakistan's fiscal 2008-09 begins July 1. Finance Minister Ishaq Dar was ... Read more...

Islamabad , May 14 (ANI): The deposed provincial high court judges have reportedly rejected a Presidency offer to reinstate them as judges at the cost of their seniority as compared to their colleagues who preferred to work with President Pervez Musharraf under the PCO (Provincial Constitutional Order) promulgated on ... Read more...

Islamabad, May 14 (IANS) Contrary to popular perception, it now emerges that it is former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and not Asif Ali Zardari, co-chair of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) that heads the country's ruling coalition, who is calling the shots in Pakistan's political roller coaster ride. This view ... Read more...

By Muhammad Najeeb Islamabad, May 13 (IANS) A leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Tuesday compared President Pervez Musharraf to a "dangerous virus" that was harmful for Pakistan's democracy and said it was important to remove him. "Just like a deadly virus in any computer that can destroy the whole ... Read more...

By Muhammad Najeeb Islamabad, May 13 (IANS) A day after Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif announced his party's withdrawal from the cabinet, nine federal ministers of the party Tuesday submitted their resignations over disagreement on the issue of sacked judges. The resignations come six weeks after the PML-N joined ... Read more...

Islamabad, May 13 (ANI): All the nine federal ministers of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Tuesday handed over their resignations to Prime Minister Yousuf Reza Gillani over the restoration of deposed judges issue. The names of the PML-N ministers are Khwaja Saad Rafique, Ishaq Dar, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Rana ... Read more...

Xinhua Islamabad, May 13 (Xinhua) Ministers from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani Tuesday afternoon, marking the end of the six-week-old coalition government. PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif announced Monday that the PML-N ministers would resign following the failure of talks with the Pakistan ... Read more...

Islamabad, May 13 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani seems to have completed one full circle of his political life, as he has been asked to make PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif fall in line once again, as he was made to do in 1986. Then he worked for ... Read more...

Islamabad, May 13 (ANI): Erstwhile ruling party in Pakistan, the PML-Q has termed the PML-Ns decision to quit the federal cabinet after 42 days in power a failure of the leadership of the PPP and the PML-N in their first test of political acumen to resolve the judges issue. PML-Q ... Read more...

Islamabad , May 13 (ANI): Senior PPP leader and Pakistan s Information Minister Sherry Rehman has said that resigning from the federal coalition government was a democratic right of the PML-Q and PPP respected it. She said that the PML-N took the decision of walking out of the government was ... Read more...

Islamabad, May 13 (ANI): PML-Ns decision to walk out of the federal coalition government could be seen as a threat to Pakistans democracy and it might lead to political uncertainty which the country witnessed in 1990s, says an editorial in the Daily Times. Analyzing the possible fallouts of the political ... Read more...

Washington, May 13 (ANI): Contradicting the claims by the US embassy in Islamabad that US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher had not discussed the judges restoration issue with PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif during his one-to-one meetings with the duo in London last ... Read more...

Lahore, May 13 (ANI): Following PML-N's decision to walk out of the Pakistan coalition government last evening, PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari has asked Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani not to accept the resignations of PML-N ministers, as he would try to resume talks with the second largest coalition ... Read more...

New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) India is closely watching political developments in Pakistan after former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's party pulled out of the ruling coalition, triggering uncertainty in the neighbouring country. India is concerned that prolonged uncertainty and unstable government in Pakistan could slow down the peace process between ... Read more...

By Muhammad Najeeb Islamabad, May 12 (IANS) The issue of reinstatement of judges, sacked by President Pervez Musharraf last year, was pushed to the centre-stage of Pakistani politics Monday with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz pulling out of the coalition cabinet and lawyers across Pakistan observing a 'black day'. The PML-N decided ... Read more...

Islamabad, May 12 (ANI): Former Prime MInister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif said on Monday that as the May 12 deadline for the restoration of the over 60 sacked judges had expired, his party's ministers in the federal cabinet would be submitting their respective resignations to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Read more...

Islamabad, May 12 (IANS) The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Monday decided to pull out of the cabinet following failure of talks with coalition partner Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) over the restoration of judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf last year. Former prime minister and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif told reporters ... Read more...

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Islamabad, May 12 (ANI): Since PML-Ns only condition of joining the PPP-led government in Pakistan (of restoration of deposed judiciary to pre-Nov 3 days) is not fulfilled, the party seems all set to move out of the government, but it wont affect the stability of the PPP-led federal government, ... Read more...

Islamabad , May 12 (ANI): Even as the second deadline of restoration of judges issue expires today, PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif appears to be in a tight spot. He seems to be caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, as he can neither continue his partys support ... Read more...

By Muhammad Najeeb Islamabad, May 12 (IANS) The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) was Monday set to decide on withdrawing its ministers from the cabinet after its talks with the ruling coalition partner Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) failed to resolve their difference over the reinstatement of judges. "But the party will continue ... Read more...

Islamabad , May 12 (ANI): The US embassy in Islamabad has said that the restoration of judges issue was to be resolved by the Pakistan government only and that the US administration had nothing to with it. And, thats why US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher didnt discuss ... Read more...

Washington, May 12 (ANI): Even as todays deadline for restoration of deposed Supreme Court judges is almost certain to expire, and the PML-N expected to take a stand today regarding continuance of its support to the PPP-ld coalition government, the US media has predicted fall of the three-month old ... Read more...

Lahore, May 12 (ANI): PML-N leader and former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif will chair a joint meeting of his partys Central Working Committee (CWC) and parliamentary group in Lahore today to decide whether to continue his partys support to the PPP-led government or move out of the coalition. Nawaz Sharif ... Read more...

By Muhammad Najeeb and Dipankar De Sarkar Islamabad/London, May 12 (IANS) Pakistan's fragile ruling coalition was facing collapse after a US official's last-ditch mediation Sunday failed to help break the deadlock on reinstating judges and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) was set to withdraw its ministers from the cabinet. "We ... Read more...

By Dipankar De Sarkar and Muhammad Najeeb London/Islamabad, May 11 (IANS) A senior US official joined Pakistani leaders for talks in London Sunday but the last-ditch mediation bid reportedly failed to break a prolonged deadlock on whether to reinstate judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf. US Assistant Secretary of State for ... Read more...

DPA Islamabad, May 11 (DPA) A senior US diplomat intervened Sunday to end the deadlock between Pakistan's governing coalition partners over the reinstatement of deposed judges that seriously threatens their month-old alliance. President Pervez Musharraf, a favourite of the US for his unflinching support in the war against terror, sacked around ... Read more...

By Muhammad Najeeb Islamabad, May 11 (IANS) Pakistan's leading ruling coalition partners, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), have failed to reach an agreement to reinstate superior court judges as a senior American official reached London for possible mediation. "US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher ... Read more...