Islamabaad, Sep 10 : Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who was ousted in a military coup in 1999, returned home from exile today to challenge President Pervez Musharraf's bid for a second term in office. Nawaz Sharif, left for Pakistan on Sunday after seven years in exile to challen...
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Islamabad, Mar 10, 2008 : Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on March 09 announced that he would join the late Benazir Bhutto's party, Pakistan People’s Party, in a coalition. Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz, or PML N, had earlier vowed to support the PPP but had not confirme...
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Islamabad, Nov 26, 2007 : Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif returned from exile on November 25. Sharif, who was overthrown by General Musharraf in a bloodless coup eight years ago, said he was determined to rid the country of dictatorship.. Sharif will lead his party in the January ...
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Islamabad, Mar 26, 2008 : Former Pakistani premier and Pakistan Muslim League (N) Chief, Nawaz Sharif has rejected an appeal from two senior Bush administrative officials to go soft in his anti-Musharraf stance. During the 55 minutes-long meeting with US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte ...
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New Delhi, September 4, 2008 : The relationship between Asif Zardari’s Pakistan People’s Party or PPP and Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League or PML, broke down completely after the National Accountability Bureau or NAB challenged a court's indefinite adjournment of a slew of cases against the former...
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The captured Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative Sarfaraz Nawaz has revealed his designs to target heavily populated localities in Bangalore. The LeT operative told the Bangalore police that places like the Majestic Bus Terminus and the popular KR Market were on the radar of the LeT. But Nawaz and hi...
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New Delhi, March 25th 2008: Pakistan's new Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani will be sworn in on March 25 by President Pervez Musharraf. However, top leaders including co chairman of the Pakistan People's Party, PPP Asif Ali Zardari, his son Bilawal and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Chief Nawaz S...
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Karachi/Lahore/New Delhi, Feb 19, 2008 : Initial results indicate a neck and neck race between the two main opposition parties - the Nawaz Sharif led PML (N) and the PPP of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. However, Nawaz Sharif's party is slightly ahead of the PPP, because of th...
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Lahore, Nov 25 : There were no extra security arrangements or deployment of security personnel in Lahore today, as the city prepared to welcome home, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Sharif was deposed by Musharraf in a coup eight years ago. Large posters of Nawaz Sharif and prominent figures ...
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Lahore, Sept. 9 : Pakistan put airports on high alert, on the eve of defiant former premier Nawaz Sharif's planned return to challenge President Pervez Musharraf. Sharif, the premier whom army chief and president Pervez Musharraf ousted in 1999 and sent into exile in Saudi Arabia the following y...
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Lahore/ Larkana, Nov 27, 2007 : Former Pakistani Prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif signed up on November 26 to run in the general election. Both Sharif and Bhutto said they might yet boycott the January 8 poll, which is being organised under emergency rule imposed by President Musha...
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New Delhi, 29 Dec, 2007 : Speaking from an undisclosed location, Al-Qaeda-linked militant Baitullah Mehsud’s spokesman Maulvi Omar said on 29th Dec that Mehsud was not involved in Bhutto’s assassination. Speaking over the phone from an undisclosed location, Omar said, “Tribal people have their ow...
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