Former premier Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday said Pakistan should "seriously" consider the evidence handed over by India on the Mumbai attacks and highlighted the need to keep the direct communication channel between the two countries open to avoid "misunderstandings".
Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif, who is poised to become Pakistan's new prime minister, on Monday said he wanted to strengthen his country's testy ties with the United States but insisted that the Central Intelligence Agency's controversial drone attacks must end as they posed a "challenge" to national sovereignty.
The deposed prime minister was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of preventing the plane of General Pervez Musharraf from landing in October 1999, Advocate General Mallik Qayyum said.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif is keen to visit Jammu and Kashmir to trace his ancestral roots, the former Pakistani premier told visiting People's Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti. Mufti, who travelled to Islamabad last week to participate in a conference, had met Sharif in Lahore on Thursday.
Police arrested over 100 Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf protesters trying to reach party chief Imran's residence. Police also baton-charged protesters in the Pakistan Chowk area.
Shehbaz, 72, who was the consensus candidate of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), received 201 votes, 32 more than what was required to become leader of the House in the 336-member Parliament.
Sharif, who forced the PPP to reinstate judges sacked during the 2007 emergency by leading a massive protest on the issue earlier this week, said the government should also look into a Supreme Court judgment that barred him and his brother Shahbaz Sharif from electoral politics.
Pakistan's Supreme Court will take up former premier Nawaz Sharif's petition seeking a probe into the secret memorandum sent to the US military on December 1, officials said on Tuesday.
Three new victors -- the Pakistan People's Party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Awami National Party have shown their majority many days ago, but President Pervez Musharraf is playing delaying games and using secret agencies to break the majority party PPP from the PML faction of Nawaz Sharif.
Sharif, who had described the killing as the most tragic event in the history of Pakistan, had earlier planned to travel to Larkana in Sindh province to join the funeral at Bhutto's ancestral graveyard in Garhi Khuda Buksh. But when Sharif spoke to Bhutto's husband today morning on the phone, Zardari advised the Pakistan Muslim League-N chief not to travel to Larkana in view of security concerns. PPP workers have already staged violent protests in Larkana.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday briefly interacted with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Paris on the sidelines of a United Nations summit on climate change.
A much-awaited meeting between Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif concluded without any major breakthrough on Monday.
Sharif was sent on exile to Jeddah after he was sentenced for life by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan for preventing the plane of General Pervez Musharraf from landing before the military coup of October 1999.
Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has said that former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's efforts to make peace with India at the cost of 'selling Kashmir' had resulted in the 1999 Kargil war.
The Pakistan Muslim League-N will retain Shahbaz Sharif as chief minister of Punjab for a record fourth term, after briefly toying with the idea of giving him a slot in the federal government.
Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif has asked his countrymen to take to the streets for reinstatement of the judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf.
Imran Khan on Wednesday promised to cooperate with Nawaz Sharif to tackle key challenges like terrorism despite "serious political differences" with the Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz chief who is set to become Pakistan's next prime minister. "We have serious political differences but we decided that we will work together to solve the country's problems, including terrorism," the cricketer-turned-politician said in a video message aired at a news conference.
Former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif and cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan will participate in the "long march" organised by the lawyers' movement to press for the reinstatement of judges deposed by President Pervez Musharraf.
Our top leaders want to see Sharif as the Prime Minister in case our party does badly in the upcoming general elections," the Dawn quoted the ruling party sources as saying in Islamabad.
While Sharif and his daughter, Maryam, have been sent to jail on corruption charges, a designated terrorist, Saeed, is not only free but actively seeks votes for the elections while targeting India and the United States.
Former Afghanistan foreign minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta reportedly described former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif as 'the author of Islamic radicalism'.
The Panama verdict will decide how Pakistan handles its leadership problems.
"The proof of the pudding is in the eating," Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Sunday, emphasizing that he would love to see what Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will do to improve ties with India.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Monday 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.
The former prime minister said President Musharraf has been doling out concessions to India.
According to the latest revelations made by whistleblower website WikiLeaks, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi described Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari as 'dirty but not dangerous' and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif as 'dangerous but not dirty'.
Officially confirming Sharif's deportation hours after he landed in Islamabad from London after a seven-year exile, Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said "It is in the supreme interest of the country".
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has called opposition PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif a "confused" person who is confusing the people over the premier's conviction of contempt by Pakistan's supreme court.
Political tensions in Pakistan rose on Monday with opposition leader Nawaz Sharif openly asking people to come to the streets and the government warning the former prime minister that his anti-government speeches amounted to sedition.
Pakistani Taliban chief has ordered militants to hit the leaders of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's ruling party after the government lifted a moratorium on death penalty and set up military courts to try terrorists.
Among the political parties, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) emerged as the largest party, winning 227 seats, followed by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) with 160 seats.
A major controversy erupted on Sunday over Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif purportedly calling his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh a "village woman" with Narendra Modi terming it as the "biggest insult" of the prime minister.
Sharif's statement comes a day after Musharraf expressed his willingness to drop cases against Nawaz Sharif as well as leaders of other political parties under the National Reconciliation Ordinance. Benazir Bhutto was also offered amnesty by Pakistan.
Pervez Musharraf has expressed willingness to drop the cases pending against Nawaz Sharif and other political leaders as part of his national reconciliation efforts. His comments came a day after former premier Benazir Bhutto was offered amnesty.
A senior police officer said that the leaders were taken into custody as they may disrupt law and order by organising a reception for the deposed premier.
"They say that I should return before the beginning of month of Ramadan. I think it's about maybe two or three weeks away," Sharif, who recently won a Supreme Court order to return home, said in an interview to PBS in London over the weekend.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday removed a senior Pakistani official from his post for issuing advertisements to the media to congratulate the Pakistan Muslim League-N on its victory in the May 11 general elections.
UN chief Antonio Guterres, US President Donald Trump, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney were among scores of world leaders who offered condolences to the people of India in wake of the tragic plane crash in Ahmedabad on Thursday.
Union minister Farooq Abdullah on Monday hailed the invitation extended by India to Pakistan prime minister-in-waiting Nawaz Sharif, saying that such initiatives would help the two countries come together and resolve all outstanding issues, including Kashmir.
Pakistan's main opposition leader Nawaz Sharif along with his brother Shahbaz was placed under house arrest on the eve of a major anti-government sit-in outside Parliament on Monday in Islamabad, plunging the country into a deeper political turmoil.
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