Jamali to join PML-F

Zafarullah Khan Jamali is one of the politicians who have been around the block — from the PPP, the party with which he started his political career in the 1970s, to Gen Ziaul Haq's government, the Pakistan Muslim League and later the Pakistan ...

Today I would like to discuss the book Senator SM Zafar ki kahani unki apni zubani (Zafar's story in his own words) published by Sager Publishers and available from Ziaul Quran Publications, Urdu Bazaar, Lahore, (Tel. 042-37247350). The book covers ...

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court released a short order of cancelling appointments and transfers of officers made by the caretaker government in the three months of their tenure based on a petition filed by PML-N leader Khawaja Mohammad Asif , reported ...

QUETTA: The interim government of Balochistan announced the creation of two more districts — Sohbatpur and Lehri — days before its departure. According to sources the reason behind the action is not administrative, but political. Dividing the ...

LAHORE, May 20: Akhtar Rasool is considering quitting as Pakistan hockey team's head coach-cum-manager to concentrate on his political career, Dawn learnt on Monday. The former Olympian is likely to table his resignation at Tuesday's meeting of the ...

Poll rigging: ECP decides to verify voter thumb impressions, summons NADRA chairman PA, NA seats: Another 13 independent candidates announce to join PML-N PTI may nominate Khyber Pakhtunkhwa CM today , JUI contacts political parties and independent ...

A chronology of key events in Pakistan's history: —Aug. 14, 1947: Pakistan is founded when British rule over the region ends and the Asian subcontinent is partitioned into Islamic Pakistan, divided into East and West, and predominantly Hindu ...

40 candidates are contesting while tribal alliances favour different party candidates. In earlier elections, these have helped the JUI-F twice, the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad and the PML-N once each, and in 2008 sent the PPP's Sardar Omer Gorgage to ...

Quetta's NA-259 constituency is peopled by several communities, including the Pakhtun, Baloch, Hazara and those who have come from other provinces. Former prime minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali will be contesting NA-266 from Jaffarabad-Nasirabad, ...