Source: China View
ISLAMABAD, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) — Pakistan’s senate Monday adopted a unanimous resolution strongly condemning missile attacks by American drones in Pakistan’s territory.
Leader of the House in the senate Mian Raza Rabbani moved the resolution, saying that the United States attacks in Pakistan’s territory have resulted in immense loss of life.
Suspected U.S. drones fired […]

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Source: Boston.com
Pakistan troubles did not end with the resignation last week of former President Pervez Musharraf. On the contrary, the rupture this week of the coalition between the parties of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari, widower of the assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, suggests that Pakistan’s several overlapping crises are becoming […]

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Source: Bloomberg
By Khalid Qayum and Paul Tighe
Nawaz Sharif meets with leaders of his Pakistan Muslim League party today to decide whether to quit the ruling coalition because the Pakistan Peoples Party is ignoring its partners in the alliance.
“There is no need for the party to be part of the coalition government, if one party is […]

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Source: CBC News
Political uncertainty gripped Pakistan’s fragile coalition government Tuesday as Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani refused to accept the resignations of nine members of cabinet until his party leader returned from abroad.
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ordered his party members to resign from the six-week-old governing alliance because the cabinet was refusing to immediately […]

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Source: The New York Times
Elections to fill vacant legislative seats will be delayed by two months, to Aug. 18 from June 18, the Election Commission announced. Election officials said the postponement was necessary because of security concerns in North-West Frontier Province and the presentation of the federal budget in June. Members of the governing coalition […]

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Source: Daily Times
DUBAI (AFP) — The leaders of Pakistan’s ruling coalition held talks in Dubai Wednesday with their month-old alliance on the line amid a deadlock over the reinstatement of judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf.
Former premier Nawaz Sharif flew to the Gulf emirate on Tuesday for talks with Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) leader Asif […]

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Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistan’s ruling coalition has failed to agree on a plan to restore judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf, but will reinstate them “soon”, former premier Nawaz Sharif said Tuesday.
Sharif, the head of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party, held two days of talks with Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain opposition […]

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Source: Howrah
By SHAFQAT ALI
Islamabad, April 12: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has a “very limited” political role for the future, a top cleric said. National Assembly member Maulana Fazlur Rahman said that President Musharraf is standing on frail grounds “but until now his impeachment is not under consideration”.
Talking to this newspaper, Mr Rahman, whose Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam […]

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Source: The Times of India
ISLAMABAD: Mehdi Hasan is one of Pakistan’s leading political analysts and media historians. A regular commentator on political affairs on TV and radio, Hasan is the author of The Political History of Pakistan, a widely acclaimed book. He spoke to Shobhan Saxena about the emerging political situation in the country. Excerpts:
With […]

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Source: [Emergency] Mailing List
MURREE: Pakistan Peoples Party and PML-N have signed a joint declaration for formation of coalition government in Centre and Punjab.
Asif Ali Zardari and Muhammad Nawaz Sharif signed the joint declaration titled “PPP-PML-N summit declaration Murree” during a joint press conference here at PC Bhurban hotel.
In the joint declaration both the parties agreed […]

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Source: The emergency Times
ISLAMABAD:President Musharraf was meeting key aides Monday after Pakistan’s main opposition parties agreed to form a coalition and reinstate the judges he sacked last year, officials said. Government officials said Musharraf was ‘meeting legal aides’ at his office in Rawalpindi but did not give details on what was being discussed. Private television […]

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Source: Hindustan Times 
Tipped to be Pakistan’s next Prime Minister, Makhdoom Amin Faheem has a temperament tailored to carry along parties that might share power with the PPP in the political coalition being given shape in Islamabad. But what could clinch the PPP vice-chairman’s candidature is his long association with the Bhutto family, cemented by unwavering […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro
In a joint statement of Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari they have come together to form a coalition govt and have promised to reinstate all deposed judges within 30 days of Parliament. Aitzaz Ahsan welcomes this new development and states that countdown will begin.
In all honesty this could be the ‘face-saving’ excuse that […]

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Source: AFP
JACOBABAD — Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said Friday he would convene the country’s new parliament within ten days and vowed his full support to the incoming coalition government.
Speaking at the opening of water-supply project in southern Sindh province, Musharraf said the international community recognised that he had fulfilled his pledge to hold free and […]

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Source: Reuters
By Zeeshan Haider
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan’s army chief called for harmony on Thursday as a coalition opposed to President Pervez Musharraf prepared to form a government that could force him from power.
Recent opinion polls showed the vast majority of people would like U.S. ally Musharraf, who came to power as a general in a […]

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Source: [Emergency] Mailing List
By Yousuf Nazar
The new government’s economic managers may hold the key to its success or failure. Inflation, energy crisis, and stagnant exports would need immediate attention. There is a tendency to look at the economic issues in isolation from the politics but the economic policy would need heavy engagement from the new […]

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Source: The Hindu
Islamabad (PTI): Widely respected PPP leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim was emerging as the frontrunner for the Prime Minister’s post in the new coalition government in Pakistan as the two main opposition parties today worked for a power sharing formula.
The newly elected Parliamentarians of Pakistan People’s Party(PPP) met on Friday for the first time […]

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