Pakistan

Pakistan's newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has recommended 19 names to President Asif Ali Zardari to be inducted into the Federal Cabinet. The 19 names, which were sent to newly elected President Zardari as part of a letter,…
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Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that Asif Ali Zardari is set to be the next president of the country. Speaking at a function in Islamabad last night, he said that all allies of the ruling coalition have agreed to support…
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s newly elected lower house of parliament on Sunday elected Shehbaz Sharif as prime minister for a second time, putting him back in a role he had stepped down from ahead of general elections on Feb. 8. Sharif, the…
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Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) leader Shehbaz Sharif has been elected as the Prime Minister of Pakistan on Sunday. He secured 201 votes while Omer Ayub Khan, the Imran Khan-backed PTI candidate managed to get 92 votes. The vote in…
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The caretaker finance minister of Pakistan, Shamshad Akhtar confirmed today that China has agreed to extend a 2 billion dollar loan to Pakistan, which was due in March, for another year. Beijing has formally communicated this decision to…
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Kathmandu. Preparations for presidential elections are starting in Pakistan. Since the general election has been completed, the Election Commission of Pakistan is preparing to release the election schedule for the post of President.…
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Pakistan's Supreme Court today dismissed a plea seeking the February 8 general elections to be declared null and void as the petitioner failed to appear for two consecutive hearings. The petitioner Ali Khan filed an application last week,…
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Bhutto Zardari's Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) reached a formal agreement to form a coalition government, ending ten days of intense negotiations after an inconclusive national election did not…
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The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) yesterday announced that it will sit in opposition in the Centre and Punjab, as the political parties make efforts to finalize the process of government formation in Pakistan and provinces after the…
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Pakistan's government has said that the general elections in the country will go ahead as planned. The statement comes after the country's poll body held a meeting with government and intelligence officials to discuss a spike in violence.…
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