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Pakistan court adjourns PM contempt hearing to Feb 1
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned until February 1 a contempt hearing against the embattled prime minister over his refusal to re-open graft cases against the president.
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Musharraf may delay return to Pakistan: Aide
Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf may delay his planned return from self-imposed exile after Islamabad warned that he would be arrested, a close aide said on Thursday.
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43 Pakistanis held by pirates released: Minister
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Tuesday told the Senate that 43 Pakistani nationals taken hostage by pirates in four different incidents have been released by paying ransom.
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Zardari takes on Pak SC, Gilani may face new case
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday decided to appoint Babar Awan law minister minutes after his licence as lawyer was suspended by the Supreme Court, a move that may further escalate tension betw-een the executive and the judiciary.
No MFN status yet for India: Pakistani minister
Two months after the proposal was cleared, Pakistan is yet to accord Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India, a minister has said.
Commerce Minister Amin Fahim said on Tuesday said that Pakistan i
Ijaz gets Pakistani visa; to travel on January 24
Controversial Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, who made public the mysterious memo that triggered a row between the government and the military, has been issued a visa so that he can trave
Gilani in no mood to tone down battle with judiciary
Beleaguered Pakistan government appears to be in no mood to tone down in the battle of attrition when Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani appears before the Supreme Court on Thursday in compliance with
Gilani gets SC contempt notice, may lose PM job
Uncertainty prevailed in Pakistan as the coalition partners discussed changing the Prime Minister hours after PM Yousaf Raza Gilani was on Monday summoned to appear in the Supreme Court on Thursday fo
Pak SC suspends lawyer's licence of Zardari's close aide
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily suspended the lawyer's licence of Babar Awan, a former law minister and the President's close aide, who is acting as the government's lawyer in several
Gilani holds meeting with Zardari and coalition leaders
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday held back-to-back meetings with President Asif Ali Zardari and the top leaders of the country's ruling coalition ahead of a crucial Parliament s
