ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today said Pervez Musharraf will be tried for high treason for subverting the Constitution twice, including when the former military ruler ousted him in a 1999 coup.If Musharraf is convicted of high treason, he could face a possible death sentence or life imprisonment.Sharif...
ISLAMABAD: Pervez Musharraf may become the first dictator in Pakistan's history to face trial for high treason as the new government has decided to go ahead with a case against him for abrogating the Constitution and imposing emergency rule in 2007, a media report said today.The government will support...
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa today dismissed reports that his government had flouted agreements reached in the 1987 Indo-Lanka Accord which created devolved administrative units, saying there had been no violation."We have not violated anything on the Indo-Lanka accord", Rajapaksa said, while responding to questions during a media...
DHAKA: Separatist ULFA leader Anup Chetia, imprisoned in Bangladesh, has sought his repatriation to India along with two other detained members of the outfit, officials said today."Mr Chetia has expressed his willingness to return to India and we have forwarded his petition to our home ministry for consideration," Tawhidul...
LAHORE: The government of Pakistan's Punjab province has justified its allocation of over Rs 61 million to the largest centre of the Jamaat-ud-Dawah, saying the funds are needed to continue the services being provided to people by the facility.A spokesman of the Punjab government said the Punjab government had taken...
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai today broke off crucial security talks with the United States, angry over the name given to a new Taliban office in Qatar that is meant to facilitate peace negotiations.The ongoing Afghan-US talks must reach an agreement if Washington is to maintain soldiers in Afghanistan...
ISLAMABAD: Militants today attacked a historic 121-year-old building in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province that was used by the country's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, killing a policeman and causing extensive damage to the structure.The militants targeted the Quaid-e-Azam Residency in Ziarat, a holiday resort located about 120 km from the...
LAHORE: For the first time in 16 years, a Hindu has entered Pakistan's Punjab Assembly as a lawmaker, less than a fortnight after the first ever Sikh became a member of the House since the country's creation in 1947.Kanji Ram is only the second Hindu to be part of...
ISLAMABAD: Former President Pervez Musharraf was today formally arrested and remanded to judicial custody for a fortnight over the 2006 killing of Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Bugti.Musharraf, 69, was arrested by a team from the Crime Branch of Balochistan Police.The team was sent from Quetta to Islamabad yesterday after...
ISLAMABAD: Former President Pervez Musharraf, currently detained over several high profile cases, may leave Pakistan a day ahead of Nawaz Sharif's election as the premier to visit his ailing mother in Dubai, according to a media report today.Musharraf could leave for Dubai tomorrow in the evening to see his...