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Pakistan's opposition parties fail to agree on joint candidate, 6 in race for PM's polls tomorrow
World | Jul 31, 2017, 10:14 PM ISTSix candidates are in fray after Pakistan's opposition parties failed to agree on a joint against PML-N's Shahid Khaqan Abbasi for the prime minister's election.
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Shahid Abbasi, PML-N's interim PM nominee, facing Rs 22,000 cr graft inquiry: report
World | Jul 31, 2017, 04:05 PM ISTAbbasi, the former minister for petroleum and natural resources, is the principal accused in a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) case registered in 2015 over the award of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import contract, Dawn News reported
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Pakistan PM disqualification case slated for Dec 8
World | Nov 29, 2014, 02:51 PM ISTIslamabad: The Pakistan Supreme Court on Saturday fixed Dec 8 as the date for the hearing on the disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif by a larger bench.A seven-member bench headed by Chief Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk
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Pakistan PM vows to battle militants as Wagah toll mounts
World | Nov 03, 2014, 01:38 PM ISTIslamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed the military operations against militants would continue till their complete elimination as the Wagah suicide bombing toll mounted to 59, a media report said Monday.Over 110 people were
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Pakistan PM unlikely to attend Malala's Nobel ceremony
World | Oct 13, 2014, 01:32 PM ISTIslamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is unlikely to attend the award ceremony for the Nobel Peace Prize shared by Malala Yousufzai and Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi, a top official said.Malala has called upon Sharif
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Imran threatens to drag Pakistan PM to court
World | Sep 07, 2014, 11:32 AM ISTIslamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Imran Khan has said he would approach the Supreme Court to get Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif disqualified because he had allegedly lied in parliament, media reported on Sunday.Addressing protestors at Islamabad's
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Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif pays tribute to armed forces
World | Aug 14, 2014, 08:23 AM ISTIslamabad: In his Independence Day address on Thursday, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif paid tributes to the security forces fighting militants in restive North Waziristan tribal region.The prime minister's speech marked the official beginning of
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Pakistan PM calls for efforts to end terrorism
World | Jul 11, 2014, 01:22 PM ISTIslamabad: Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has called for collective efforts to end terrorism and intensify the on-going military operations in North Waziristan.At a meeting in Karachi on Thursday, Sharif was given a detailed briefing
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Pakistan PM announces financial aid for drought-hit area
World | Mar 10, 2014, 04:31 PM ISTIslamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Monday announced a Pakistani Rs.1 billion (around $9.82 million) aid package for the drought-affected people of Tharparkar district in the country's Sindh province.Sharif made the announcement during a briefing
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Pak PM Sharif visits GHQ, pays tribute to martyrs
World | Nov 12, 2013, 07:03 PM ISTIslamabad: Days after the powerful Pakistan Army lashed out at the Jamaat-e-Islami for describing the slain Taliban chief as a martyr, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited the military headquarters today and paid tribute to soldiers
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Sharif could have been aware of Kargil aggression: Jaswant
India | Nov 04, 2013, 04:18 PM ISTNew Delhi: Former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh believes that Nawaz Sharif could have been aware of Pakistan army's aggression in Kargil in 1999 despite the insistence by the then Pakistan Prime Minister that he
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Pakistan not epicentre of terrorism says Nawaz Sharif
World | Oct 22, 2013, 11:12 PM ISTWashington: Claiming that Pakistan is “neither a source nor an epicentre” of terrorism, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today said the US was in a position to help his country resolve its differences with India, including
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I never called Manmohan Singh a 'village woman' says Nawaz Sharif
World | Oct 01, 2013, 05:53 PM ISTIslamabad: In an attempt to end a controversy over his purported remarks about his Indian counterpart, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that he never called Manmohan Singh a “village woman”.Sharif also denied charges
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A shocker for Pakistan PM: No accountability for ISI's actions
World | Jul 04, 2013, 04:05 PM ISTIslamabad, July 4: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was in for a shocker earlier this week when he learnt that the country's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Frontier Corps (FC) had never been questioned about
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PML-N nominates Nawaz Sharif for Pakistan PM
World | May 27, 2013, 07:14 AM ISTIslamabad, May 27: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Sunday nominated its chief Nawaz Sharif for the post of prime minister, two weeks after the party won the general elections, reported Xinhua.The PML-N has secured the simple
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Pak PM prays for peace at Ajmer shrine, meets Khurshid over lunch
India | Mar 09, 2013, 11:16 PM ISTJaipur, Mar 9: Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, on a private visit to the Ajmer shrine of Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti, Saturday met Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid over lunch here, but no official
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Investigating officer probing Pakistan PM Raja Pervez Ashraf found dead
World | Jan 18, 2013, 04:48 PM ISTIslamabad, Jan 18: A senior Pakistani investigator probing graft charges involving Premier Raja Pervez Ashraf was found dead in mysterious circumstances at his official accommodation here on Friday, police said, amid reports that he was
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Official refuses SC order to arrest Pakistan PM
World | Jan 17, 2013, 12:52 PM ISTIslamabad, Jan 17: The head of the Pakistani government's anti-corruption wing has refused an order by the country's top court to arrest the prime minister in a graft case.Fasih Bokhari, chief of the National Accountability
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Musharraf Has No Chance Of Staging Comeback : Pakistan PM
World | Jan 20, 2012, 10:01 PM ISTLahore, Jan 20: In a veiled attack on former president Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani today said dictators who made tall claims of eradicating poverty and corruption have failed and there is
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Pak PM Gilani Offers To Resign : Report
World | Jan 16, 2012, 06:37 PM ISTIslamabad, Jan 16: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani today offered to resign shortly after the Supreme Court served him a notice for contempt of court for failing to reopen graft cases against the President,