Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari has convened a meeting of the leaders of the ruling coalition parties to discuss the national political situation.

The President will hold consultations with the coalition partners over the issue of appointment of judges and other political matters, sources said.
The leaders of Awami National Party (ANP), Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) have been invited for the meeting.
- Staff Reporter

Islamabad: All pending issues among coalition partners in Sindh stand resolved as MQM’s reservations over amendments in the Local Government (LG) Bill, especially appointment of administrators, have been addressed, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said. “In fact, there is no more difference of opinion between Pakistan Peoples Party and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) as both have reached consensus to ensure functioning of the coalition,” Malik told mediapersons at Parliament House, on Friday.

“MQM had reservations over amendments in the LG Bill, including appointment of administrators; however, those stand addressed now,” he …

PESHAWAR: Veteran politician, former president of Awami National Party (ANP) and a well-known Pashto poet, Muhammad Ajmal Khattak, died in Akora Khattak, Nowshera, on Sunday. He was 85.

According to his son Aimal Khattak, his father breathed his last on late Sunday evening after protracted illness. He had been bedridden for sometime due to a host of diseases but was mentally alert.
Born in September 1925, Ajmal Khattak was a committed political worker who suffered imprisonment and self-exile for years due to his strong convictions. But he was also a literary man, …

PESHAWAR: Jamaat-e-Islami Naib Amir Sirajul-Haq has accused the infamous Blackwar and Indian spy agency RAW of carrying out twin blasts in Karachi on Friday.

Addressing a press conference in Peshawar today, he alleged the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Awami National Party want to pave way for Martial Law.
“Karachi is burning, he said, continuing out of 45 poor people, where were shot dead during the last five days in Karachi, 35 hail from NWFP. While the champions of Pakhtun are tightlipped on the killings of innocent people by becoming a …

KARACHI – The unabated wave of target-killing claimed another 7 lives on Monday, taking the death toll to 24, in last four days in a vicinity of Orangi Town and adjoining areas. The fourth consecutive day of political and ethnic violence claimed the lives of four more people while miscreants also torched two more vehicles. At least three persons were killed while another wounded in an incident of target-killing near Nazimabad Bridge in the remit of the Nazimabad Police.

Abbasi Shaheed Hospital Medical Superintended (MS) confirmed the death of three people, …

KARACHI: Fresh violence has claimed at least 15 lives in last 24 hours in separate incidents of target-killings in Karachi.

The deadly incidents of target-killings continued from Friday night in which two people were killed while some 13 more lost their lives on Saturday.
Panic gripped various areas including Orangi Town and adjacent localities where nine people have so far been killed in the recent wave of target killings.
According to the reports, tension escalated on Friday when activists of Awami National Party (ANP) were engaged in an opening ceremony of new …