Kayani throws weight behind Nawaz Sharif ahead of govt. transition

Pakistan News.Net - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Pakistan Army Chief, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has met Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president and expected prime minister for the next parliamentary tenure Nawaz Sharif at his residence, and exchanged views on internal and external security issues confronting the country. According to PML-N sources, Kayani held a three-and-a-half-hour-long discussion with Sharif and both discussed ...

Musharraf should leave Pak before elected govt. takes charge PML-N tells Kayani

Pakistan News.Net - Sunday 19th May, 2013

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), which is set to lead the government at the Centre, has reportedly told Army Chief Ashfaq Pervez Kayani that Pervez Musharraf should leave Pakistan before the elected government takes charge from the caretakers. The PML-N, which has reportedly pardoned the former president under the pressure of international guarantors now desires that Musharraf should ...

Top Pakistani Politician Gunned Down in Karachi

Pakistan News.Net - Saturday 18th May, 2013

A top Pakistani politician has been shot and killed in Karachi. Police say Zahra Shahid Hussain was shot twice in the head Saturday during an attempted street robbery outside her home. She died on the way to the hospital. A spokesman for Hussain's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, or PTI, calls her killing an act of terrorism. Hussain was a senior vice president of PTI, which ...

Top Mumbai cop says phones used to contact IPL bookies in India Dubai and Pakistan

Pakistan News.Net - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Mumbai, Himanshu Roy revealed on Saturday 30 phones were used during the spot-fixing episode in the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). He said these phones were used to connect with bookies in India, Pakistan and Dubai via conference calls. "We raided premises in the Kalbadevi area on 14 May and arrested bookie Ramesh Vyas. 92 mobile phones ...

Pak judge appeals for online submissions from Indian nationals on Sarabjit case

Pakistan News.Net - Saturday 18th May, 2013

A judge in Pakistan, who is investigating the murder of Sarabjit Singh, has appealed to Indian nationals having information about the case to file written submissions with relevant documents within seven days. Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi of the Lahore High Court is investigating the death of Sarabjit after he succumbed to his injuries following a brutal assault by prisoners in Kot ...

Pakistans Imran blames rival for killing party figure

West Australian - Sunday 19th May, 2013

KARACHI (AFP) - Pakistani politician Imran Khan Sunday blamed a rival political leader for the killing of a senior member of his party, who was gunned down outside her home in the violence-plagued city of Karachi.The killing of Zohra Hussain, 59, vice president of the women's wing of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Sindh province, came on the eve of a partial re-run in the ...

Gunmen kill senior female Pakistani politician

MSNBC - Sunday 19th May, 2013

By By Katharine Houreld, Reuters ISLAMABAD - Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist party in Pakistan on Saturday night, the latest violent incident in a bloody election campaign and one that set off a war of words between two major opposition parties. It was not immediately clear who killed Zohra Shahid Hussain, a senior member of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. The PTI ...

Gunman kills senior member of Imran Khans political party as row over Pakistan election vote rigging continues

The Independent - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Police officer Sarfaraz Nawaz says Zohra Shahid was gunned down outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. She was the vice president of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party in Sindh. No one has claimed responsibility for the killing. Mr Khan's party has claimed it was the victim of vote rigging in several areas of ...

Pakistan throws down gauntlet at the US

Asia Times - Sunday 19th May, 2013

By M K Bhadrakumar The return of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to power in Pakistan after a hiatus of 14 years electrifies the regional politics of South Asia. Signals passing back and forth between New Delhi and Lahore underscore a subtle change having already appeared in the political vibes. Typically, even as the results from the previous day's parliamentary poll were pouring ...

Take gradual initiatives Kayani tells Nawaz on ties with India

Times of India - Sunday 19th May, 2013

The report said Kayani called on Sharif to congratulate him on the PML-N's success in the general election and informally talked "about all national security ...

Pakistan politician shot dead in Karachi

RTE - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed a senior member of a leading Pakistani political party. Zahra Shahid Hussain was shot dead outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. Ms Hussain was the vice president of former cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (Movement for Justice) in Sindh. No one has claimed responsibility for the killing. ...

PTI Leader Gunned Down in Karachi

Bahrain News Agency - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Islamabad, May 19 (BNA) - Just hours before re-elections in some polling stations of NA-250 were due to begin, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf central vice president was shot dead outside her house in Karachi. Zara Shahid Hussain was shot dead outside her house in Defence Phase IV late on Saturday evening, according to Pakistan's (Dunya News). The motive of the attack could not be immediately ...

Leading Pakistani politician killed

Irish Times - Sunday 19th May, 2013

The body of Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior female politician from cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party, is carried at a hospital in Karachi, in this still image taken from video footage. Photograph: Reuters ...

Alia Bhatts encounters on a Kashmir Highway

India Today - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Aru valley in Kashmir has a whiff of Bollywood in its air these days. Alia Bhatt is busy shooting for Imtiaz Ali's new film, Highway, at the picturesque locale.Highway is a road movie that will see Alia share screen space with Randeep Hooda. The film has been extensively shot across five other states besides Kashmir.The Kashmir leg of shooting is in fact the last stint for the unit. Imtiaz ...

Upmarket Pakistan district votes again as Imran Khan decries killing

Reuters - Sunday 19th May, 2013

The body of Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior female politician from cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party, is carried at a hospital in Karachi, in this still image taken from video footage, May 18, 2013. Hussain was shot and killed by unidentified assailants on Saturday, according to ...

Pakistan holds re-polling after election fraud claims

China.org.cn - Sunday 19th May, 2013

The Election Commission of Pakistan had ordered re-polling after political parties alleged that election officials had been forcibly stopped from reaching the polling stations on May 11 polling ...

Zara Shahid Hussain Senior Member Of Pakistan Party Led By Imran Khan Killed By Gunmen

Huffington Post - Sunday 19th May, 2013

ISLAMABAD, May 19 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist party in Pakistan on Saturday night, the latest violent incident in a bloody election campaign and one that set off a war of words between two major opposition ...

Chinese held in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir over Quran abuse

NDTV - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Muzaffarabad (Pakistan): A Chinese man working on an energy project in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) was being held today after hundreds of protesters attacked his company offices over the alleged desecration of a Quran, officials said.Lee Ping, administration manager of a Chinese consortium building the Neelum Jhelum Hydropower project, was accused by co-Pakistani workers of throwing the ...

Pakistan politician from Khan party gunned down

West Australian - Saturday 18th May, 2013

KARACHI (AFP) - Gunmen have killed a Pakistani politician from Imran Khan's party in the southern port city of Karachi on the eve of a partial re-run of May 11 polls that were marked by more than 150 killings.Zohra Hussain, 59, vice president of the women's wing of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the province of Sindh, was targeted by three gunmen on a motorcycle outside her home in ...

Hobbled once-grand railways reflect Pakistan’s decline

The Seattle Times - Saturday 18th May, 2013

RUK, Pakistan - Resplendent in his gleaming white uniform and peaked cap, jacket buttons tugging his plump girth, the stationmaster stood at the platform, waiting for a train that would never come. "Cutbacks," Nisar Ahmed Abro said with a resigned shrug. Ruk Station, in the center of Pakistan, is a dollhouse-pretty building, ringed by palm trees and rice paddies. Once, it stood at the ...

Pakistani lawmaker killed on election eve

CNN Asia - Saturday 18th May, 2013

-- Pakistani lawmaker Zahra Shahid Hussain, who alleged vote rigging in Karachi, was shot to death Saturday on the eve of a highly contested re-run of balloting in her district, sources close to the family told ...

Pakistan Woman Politician Gunned Down

Radio Free Europe - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Police in Pakistan say gunmen have killed a woman politician who was a member of former cricket star Imran Khan’s party. Police said Zohra Shahid Hussain was shot outside her home in the southern port city of Karachi on Saturday. The gunmen escaped, and there was no immediate claim of responsibility. Police said it was unclear whether the killing was a murder or the result of a ...