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  Lahore Gang-Rape: PML-N Leader Held, Sent To 3-Day Remand In Pak

  A top leader of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz or the PML-N party, who surrendered before authorities for allegedly gang-raping a 15-year-old girl along with his accomplices at a hotel, was today sent to three-day police remand.

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  Pakistani Prime Minister Sharif Meets Malala Yousafzai in Oslo

  Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai held their first official meeting today after both attended a UN education summit in Oslo.

• Islamabad Sealed, Imran Khan Barred from Holding Anti-Government Rally

  Cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan and members of his political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf or PTI will march from Lahore to Islamabad at around 6.30 pm today, in what is expected to be the largest protests organised by the opposition since Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Nawaz Sharif came to power last year.

• India-born Mamnoon Hussain elected Pakistani president

  Pakistan today elected businessman Mamnoon Hussain as 12th president of the nuclear-armed state, replacing the unpopular Asif Ali Zardari whose five-year term expires in September.

• Asif Ali Zardari's party boycotts Pakistan presidential vote

  Pakistan's main opposition party announced today it would boycott next week's presidential election to protest against the vote being brought forward without consultation.

• Pakistani parties name presidential candidates

  Pakistani political parties have nominated their candidates for the upcoming presidential elections with the ruling party's candidate seen as the front-runner.

• Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif calls Taliban for peace talks

  Pakistan's presumptive prime minister Nawaz Sharif called for peace talks with Taliban militants at war with the government Monday, potentially charting a course that could put him at odds with the country's powerful army.

• Pakistan elections 2013: party positions

  With results for 207 of 272 seats in Pakistan declared, Pakistan Muslim League-N's chief Nawaz Sharif looks set for his third term as the country's prime minister.

• Pakistan tribal belt wants to defy Taliban threat to vote for change

  Pakistan's tribal belt may have been dubbed the world's most dangerous place by the United States, but enthusiastic tribesmen are defying the Taliban to vote for change at next week's polls.

• Pervez Musharraf disqualified from upcoming Pakistan election

  Pakistani judges on Tuesday disqualified Pervez Musharraf from running in the upcoming parliamentary election, a blow to the former military ruler who recently returned from self-imposed exile to make a political comeback, lawyers said.

• Pakistan's opposition splits with ruling party

  Pakistan's largest opposition party ended its coalition with the party of President Asif Ali Zardari in the country's most populous province on Friday, dealing a blow to the national government.Opposition leader Nawaz Sharif sharply criticized Zardari's record when announcing the split in the Punjab provincial assembly.Sharif's Pakistan Muslim Leag...

• Pakistani opposition gives government 3-day ultimatum

  Pakistan's main opposition leader has given the government a three-day deadline to accept a list of demands to avert its collapse.Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif says the government must reverse recent fuel price hikes, cut government expenditures by 30 percent and implement a series of court verdicts against ruling party offici...