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News Source: Turkish Press
| about 1 year ago
Pakistan's new parliament is slated to convene Monday, setting the stage for a showdown between key US ally President Pervez Musharraf and a coalition government that has vowed to take him on. The party of slain ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto will..
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
March 17 (Xinhua) -- The inaugural session of Pakistan's National Assembly or the lower house of parliament is to begin at 11 a.m. (local time) Monday morning, in which the members-elect will take oath. The session will be prorogued soon after the...
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News Source: BBC South Asia
| about 1 year ago
Parties opposed to Mr Musharraf have agreed to form a governing coalition. The 18 February polls delivered a huge blow to President Musharraf's parliamentary allies, making his own position more precarious. The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) of the...
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News Source: Dawn
| about 1 year ago
March 16: As the new parliament prepares to meet in Islamabad, policy-makers in Washington hope that the new set-up in Pakistan will retain the country�s position as a strong US ally in the �war against terror�. US officials, in...
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News Source: Dawn
| about 1 year ago
March 16: The new National Assembly opens on Monday under tight security to herald a promised spring of a democracy despite a bruising power struggle over the next prime minister, shadows of bloody violence and warnings of a confrontation with a...
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News Source: The Frontier Post
| about 1 year ago
PPI): President, Supreme Court Bar Association Barrister Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan has said that we are ready to give the President Pervez Musharraf safe-way for interest of the country. He said we will get restored the deposed judges including the...
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News Source: The Frontier Post
| about 1 year ago
Veteran constitutional experts Sunday declared that the removal of the superior courts’ judges under the November 3 emergency decree was unconstitutional and a simple resolution in the National Assembly was quite enough for their restoration...
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News Source: The Frontier Post
| about 1 year ago
Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) and its allied parties Sunday named Dr. Farooq Sattar of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) as its unanimous candidate to contest the election of Prime Minister. Addressing a news conference after the joint...
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News Source: The Frontier Post
| about 1 year ago
However, every passing day has set off a new alarm resulting in demoralization and extreme despondency among the people of this country. Once again it was the politicians who were playing a shady game with the tacit support of the presidency. A...
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News Source: The Frontier Post
| about 1 year ago
The newly elected Members of the 13th National Assembly will take oath today (Monday) in the maiden session of the Parliament amid tight security in the federal capital due to ongoing string of bomb attacks in the country...Amir Hussain will chair...