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Continue reading...Tuesday, August 19, 2008
The decision of President Pervez Musharraf to resign has sent a wave of jubilation across the country. Reports pouring in from different areas speak of spontaneous celebrations by people. They expressed joy that the era of dictatorship is now over and the democracy will get an opportunity to flourish. The immediate reaction in Pakistan’s corridors of [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 18, 2008
PM congratulates coalition partners on Musharraf’s resignation Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has congratulated the participants on resignation of President Pervez Musharraf and said that 17th amendment in the Constitution would be undone as per commitment of the coalition partners to ensure supremacy of the parliament. He stated in the joint parliamentary party meeting of [...]
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ISLAMABAD: National Assembly suspended its rules regarding question hour and started debate on the resignation of the President. The National Assembly resumed its session in Islamabad on Monday. Sardar Mehtab Abbasi pointed out that the resignation had a positive impact on Karachi Stock Exchange index which rose by about 500 points. Similarly, rupee [...]
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has congratulated the nation over the end of dictatorship and said the Parliament has become sovereign and supreme. Speaking in the National Assembly this evening, he said today there is rule of law and supremacy of the constitution and there is no dictatorship. He said people rendered sacrifices [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 18, 2008
ISLAMABAD: With Pervez Musharraf’s departure from the scene, a long era of dictatorship, spread over nine years, has ended but it also presents a challenge to the elected representatives to come up to the expectations of the masses who voted them to power in February 18 elections hoping for a change in their life. Pervez [...]
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KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman and son of former Premier slain Benazir Bhutto on Monday hailed the resignation of Pervez Musharraf, saying the next president would be from his party. “After the martyrdom of my mother I said that democracy was the best revenge - and today it was proved true,” said 19-year-old Bilawal [...]
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President Pervez Musharraf announces his resignation, while addressing the nation today on media. “My resignation will go to the speaker of the National Assembly today,” he said in a televised address. Musharraf made the shock announcement after denying that any of the impeachment charges against him could stand and launching into a lengthy defence of [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 16, 2008
President George W. Bush’s administration refrained from directly commenting on the fate of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf amid reports he may resign to skirt impeachment or criminal charges. A key US senator meanwhile cautioned the Bush administration against taking any steps that could be interpreted as propping up Musharraf, a key US “war on terror” [...]
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Sherry Rehman has said that the impeachment of the President will be carried out in accordance with the Parliamentary rules and regulations. she said all the constitutional, legal and democratic ways would be adopted to complete the process of the impeachment. She said after the passage of resolutions by the Provincial Assemblies, the President should [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 11, 2008
RAWALPINDI: President Pervez Musharraf said Monday that he would prove the allegations of PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari false. He made these remarks in meeting with three-member delegation of Pakistan Muslim League-Quid-e-Azam (PML-Q) comprising Marvi Memon, Amir Muqam and Sheikh Waqas Ahmed. The meeting lasted for an hour in which allegations leveled by Asif Ali [...]
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