Whenever tenures of army chiefs were extended in the recent past, prime ministers were subsequently eased out of office by the same army chief, notes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at RA&W.
'If a handshake happens, you will get to see it. If a pull aside happens, you will get to see it'
Amid simmering tensions between the two countries, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif sent a bouquet of flowers to United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi when he learnt of her visit to hospital last week, a media report said on Wednesday.
According to a report in the Dawn newspaper, 22 constituencies with a greater number of rejected votes than the margin of victory fell in Punjab, with one each in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh province.
'Will Imran compromise with the army? We are all human beings. We all compromise.'
Sharif approved an inquiry committee's recommendation to remove his special assistant on foreign affairs Fatemi from his post.
'The generals couldn't care less about political corruption, being complicit themselves.' 'Coup d'etats are out of fashion.' 'Their only desire is backroom control,' says Sunil Sethi.
Lt Gen Haroon Aslam of the Pakistan Army on Thursday resigned a day after he was superseded by his two juniors who were made the new army chief and the chairman joint chief of staff committee.
The measure was taken to let the peace process move forward after being set in motion this month.
Pakistan's ruling coalition leaders on Friday held hectic consultations to resolve differences over the restoration of deposed judges, which are threatening to split up the alliance, even as the Pakistan Peoples Party said that it would take steps to resolve the issue through a debate in parliament.Former premier Nawaz Sharif, whose Pakistan Muslim League-N is the second largest party in the ruling coalition, has threatened to pull out of the alliance.
The Pakistan government on Saturday sacked Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid over the recent "leaked" media report about a rift between the civilian and military leaderships on support to militancy.
Khan said the events of May 9, 2023, in which military installations were targeted, were in fact a part of the "London Plan"- the sole purpose of which was to "eliminate Pakistan's largest political force, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf".
Once formulated, this will be the fifth case against the ousted premier by the NAB.
Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday demanded formation of a caretaker government after the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif which holds fresh elections.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday chaired a high-level meeting of top security and civil officials ahead of holding talks with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on the sidelines of a regional conference in Islamabad.
It is the first time in nearly nine years that India's foreign minister travelled to Pakistan even as the ties between the two neighbours remained tense over the Kashmir issue and cross-border terrorism emanating from Pakistan.
The court also refused to suspend the conviction in the case until the appeals were decided.
The United States of America sought Pakistan's help in 1998 to prevent Osama bin Laden from launching an Al Qaeda attack against it, with then President Bill Clinton asking Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to personally use his influence to prevail over the Taliban in averting the imminent strike.
With the killing of five Indian soldiers by Pakistan Army along LoC looming large over the fate of a meeting between their Prime Ministers next month in the US, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Thursday said it was not the "appropriate" time now to comment on possibility of such a meet.
'General Bajwa is believed to consider the internal threats to Pakistan's security as far more serious than the bogey of the Indian threat.' 'This doesn't mean that he is soft on India, only that he is more rational and sensible than his predecessor who had a bit of a chip on his shoulder about India,' points out Pakistan expert Sushant Sareen.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has asked US President Barack Obama to take up the Kashmir issue with the Indian leadership when he travels to India in January next year.
The first on the list is Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy, a Bengali politician from then East Pakistan who served as the fifth prime minister. He was arrested in January 1962 and put in jail on bogus charges of "anti-state activities". His actual crime was his refusal to support military ruler General Ayub Khan.
PM Modi spoke to Pak PM Nawaz Sharif in an effort to revive suspended diplomatic dialogue.
Days ahead of his meeting with President Barack Obama, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday sought United States' intervention in resolving the Kashmir issue.
Pakistan's Premier Nawaz Sharif till late on Friday night gave no indication on attending Monday's swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as prime minister amidst reports that he was facing opposition from hardliners in the establishment.
India's permanent membership in the reformed UNSC is unacceptable to Pakistan
Khan is now our enemy and he will be treated like that," Pak's Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah declared.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has sent a letter to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to protest against the brutal attacks on journalists by security personnel during the arrival of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has vowed to have the name of his three children cleared in the 'Panama Papers' issue.
Shortly after Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif raked up Kashmir issue once again in his address at the UN General Assembly and termed his country as a victim of terrorism, India, in perhaps its harshest ever response, said de-militarising Kashmir was not the answer for achieving peace but "de-terrorising" Pakistan is.
Sadness and fear prevailed as Pakistan is mourning the loss of precious human lives in Gulshan-e-Iqbal suicide attack on Sunday in Lahore.
A tense standoff continued in Pakistan on Saturday as overnight talks between the government and protesters demanding Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's resignation made little headway in breaking the political logjam.
The 5-day political stand-off between the Pakistan government and anti-Sharif protestors intensified on Monday as efforts by the ruling PML-N to reach out to Opposition leader Imran Khan and cleric Tahir-ul Qadri failed with both the leaders remaining adamant on the ouster of the embattled prime minister.
The US has refused to be drawn into the latest uncertainty in Pakistan following Nawaz Sharif's decision to pull out PML-N ministers from the government and said political parties in the country will have to address the issues pertaining to coalition politics.
