Nawaz Sharif

Columnists and calumny

Monday, November 10, 2008 by Aziz Akhmad While I am writing this, a young woman appears on the TV screen, on a Pakistani channel, her head partially covered in a headscarf and her wide eyes dyed in kohl. She looks into the...

Businessmen, expats urged to open dollar account

Monday, November 10, 2008 by Myra Imran Islamabad A group of concerned citizens has urged the business community and overseas Pakistanis to open a new dollar account in Pakistan starting with an amount of at least $1,000 to...

Kalia, Khanani held in forex scandal

Sunday, November 09, 2008 Confess to transferring billions of dollars abroad illegally; FIA arrests several others, seizes records in raids By Salman Siddiqui KARACHI: Munaf Kalia and Javed Khanani, two top officials of the...

AML chief calls for cutting supply line to stop US strikes

AML chief calls for cutting supply line to stop US strikes Sunday, November 09, 2008 by Bureau report PESHAWAR: Awami Muslim League (AML) President Sheikh Rashid Ahmad Saturday said the government should cut Chaman supply line...

The acting governor and the

revival of the commissioner system Sunday, November 09, 2008 By Tahir Hasan Khan Karachi One can only wonder what her thoughts were when Shehla Raza marked the third death anniversary of her two children on the day that she...

Govt might call Army to control situation, apprehend politicians

Karachi, November 8, 1998 Saturday, November 08, 2008 Various politicians, while discussing governor’s rule at a seminar, criticized the Nawaz government for imposing governor’s rule in Sindh and apprehended that it was going...

Escalating U.S. Attacks Stir Opposition and Outrage in Pakistan

Secular-minded workers, students, professionals, and concerned citizens joined a mass protest in the streets of Karachi, demanding an immediate end to the deadly raids by U.S. forces on Pakistani villages from bases in...

PML-N leaders see off relief train

Friday, November 07, 2008 By our correspondent LAHORE: The PML-N Punjab leadership on Thursday received the Quetta-bound special ‘Relief Train’ and saw it off after attaching 15 carriages of relief goods to it for the quake...

Relief train leaves for Balochistan

Friday, November 07, 2008 By Our Correspondent LAHORE PML-N Punjab leadership on Thursday received the Quetta-bound special ‘Relief Train’ and saw it off after attaching 15 carriages of relief goods to it for the quake...

Pak govt to reinstate employees sacked during Sharif`s regime !

The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)-led federal government has reportedly decided to reinstate all government employees who were recruited between November 1993 and November 1996, ie the PPP`s previous regime, but sacked between...