Pak Presidential Election

With a power-sharing deal already inked, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and the Pakistan Peoples Party are moving ahead with plans to form a coalition government by March 2 and hold the presidential election before March 9, according to a media rep

US Republican Party, Grand Old Party (GOP) Presidential candidate Nikki Haley has said that if voted to power, she will cut every cent in foreign aid for countries that hate the US.

Pakistani lawmakers are set to choose a new President on Tuesday, an election in which the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf party's candidate is expected to win as the Opposition parties failed to field a joint candidate.

With results for 225 of the 272 seats in Pakistan's national assembly announced, cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's party Tehreek-e-Insaf or PTI has emerged as the single-largest party. In a presidential style address on Thursday night after claiming victory in the bitterly fought elections marred by allegations of rigging, Mr Khan indicated ...

Stormy debates on cow vigilantism, farmers' protests, the Kashmir unrest, corruption charges against opposition leaders and India's stand-off with China are expected to dominate the discourse of the Parliament in the Monsoon Session that begins today. The Lok Sabha as well as the Rajya Sabha will be adjourned today due to the death of sitting membe...

If she's elected president, Hillary Clinton may need to do some plain-speaking with Pakistan much sooner than she had bargained for.

Several dozen demonstrators gathered in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, on Tuesday, to protest against the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in a US special forces' mission a day earlier. Chanting "Obama! solve your own problems" and "the friend of America is a traitor", members of Pasban (Pakistan Voice Against Injustice) youth organisa...

With a power-sharing deal already inked, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and the Pakistan Peoples Party are moving ahead with plans to form a coalition government by March 2 and hold the presidential election before March 9, according to a media rep

US Republican Party, Grand Old Party (GOP) Presidential candidate Nikki Haley has said that if voted to power, she will cut every cent in foreign aid for countries that hate the US.

Pakistani lawmakers are set to choose a new President on Tuesday, an election in which the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf party's candidate is expected to win as the Opposition parties failed to field a joint candidate.

With results for 225 of the 272 seats in Pakistan's national assembly announced, cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's party Tehreek-e-Insaf or PTI has emerged as the single-largest party. In a presidential style address on Thursday night after claiming victory in the bitterly fought elections marred by allegations of rigging, Mr Khan indicated ...

Stormy debates on cow vigilantism, farmers' protests, the Kashmir unrest, corruption charges against opposition leaders and India's stand-off with China are expected to dominate the discourse of the Parliament in the Monsoon Session that begins today. The Lok Sabha as well as the Rajya Sabha will be adjourned today due to the death of sitting membe...

If she's elected president, Hillary Clinton may need to do some plain-speaking with Pakistan much sooner than she had bargained for.

Several dozen demonstrators gathered in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, on Tuesday, to protest against the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in a US special forces' mission a day earlier. Chanting "Obama! solve your own problems" and "the friend of America is a traitor", members of Pasban (Pakistan Voice Against Injustice) youth organisa...