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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday congratulated Vladimir Putin for winning the Russian presidential election and expressed hope of working together to ...
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Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said that the Sunni Ittehad Council — the new home of PTI-backed winning candidates — has the right to reserved ...
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US consul general Kristin Hawkins has congratulated Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz on becoming Pakistan’s first woman chief minister ... Show more
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Pakistan PM congratulates Asif Ali Zardari on re-election as president with 255 votes
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Quick Glance: Pakistan: Zardari Elected President for Second Term
  • Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of Pakistan's first female leader Benazir Bhutto, was elected president for a second time on Saturday, following elections tainted by rigging claims.

  • Zardari was elected with 411 votes, while the opposition-backed candidate received 181 votes.

  • Lawmakers of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) voted Zardari into the largely ceremonial post, backed by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party in an alliance formed after the February 8 polls.

  • Under the coalition agreement, which also includes a few smaller parties, PML-N's Shehbaz Sharif was sworn in as prime minister on Monday.
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir at the Prime Minister’s House, the PML-N said in a post on social media site X ... Show more
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Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal has said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered a continuous joint team between the federal and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ... Show more
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Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Babar Sidhu has called on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif at the PM House in Islamabad, PTV reports ... Show more
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PML-N Supremo Nawaz Sharif has arrived at Parliament where the presidential elections are currently underway.#DawnToday
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Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has said that she had to put in great efforts for more than a decade to “make space” for herself in the PML-N ... Show more
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President Asif Ali Zardari has administered the oath of office to a 19-member cabinet, which Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif proposed earlier today ... Show more
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PML-N leader Shehbaz Sharif has been sworn in as the 24th prime minister of Pakistan. Shehbaz was administered oath by President Arif Alvi at the Aiwan-i-Sadr ... Show more
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PML-N Senator Ishaq Dar has formally assumed his role as the 39th foreign minister of the country. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed the development ... Show more
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Imran Khan's party conspiring to get Pakistan's GSP+ status withdrawn: Interior minister - News | Khaleej Times
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19-member cabinet of Pakistan's newly-elected PM Shahbaz Sharif sworn in: Familiar faces returning include ex-defence minister Khawaja Asif ...
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19-member cabinet of Pakistan's newly-elected PM Shahbaz Sharif sworn ...
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The ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Pakistan, Nawaf bin Saeed Ahmad Al-Malkiy, congratulated prime minister Shehbaz Sharif on his re-election as prime minister ... Show more
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Hussain and Hassan, sons of PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif, returned to the country on Tuesday, six years after they left for London to avoid arrest in ... Show more
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Imran Khan says he supports army's demand to punish those involved in May 9 violence - News | Khaleej Times
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Lawmakers pick Pakistan’s leader, but Khan’s shadow looms from prison: Shehbaz Sharif’s election comes after months of turmoil. His party has no absolute ...
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Lawmakers pick Pakistan’s leader, but Khan’s shadow looms from prison
Quick Glance: Sharif New Premier of Pakistan Amid Allegations of Election Fraud
  • Pakistan's National Assembly elected Shehbaz Sharif as prime minister, despite Imran Khan's allies alleging rigging.

  • Sharif won with 201 votes, defeating Omar Ayub who got 92 votes.

  • Khan, imprisoned and barred from office, was replaced by Sharif after a no-confidence vote.

  • Sharif emphasized reconciliation and economic challenges, while Khan's party continues to protest alleged vote-rigging.
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Speaking in the National Assembly after losing the election for prime minister, Omar Ayub Khan lamented the situation of law and order in the country ... Show more
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Shehbaz Sharif has been sworn in as Pakistan’s PM almost one month after coming second to independent candidates in a controversial election ⤵️
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Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has said the Pakistan-China All-Weather Strategic Cooperative Partnership is indispensable for the progress and prosperity of the ...
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PTI’s Barrister Gohar Ali Khan says incarcerated leader Imran Khan has chosen Omar Ayub Khan as the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly ... Show more
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PML-N leader Khawaja Saad Rafique has decried recent chaos in the National Assembly, saying it has been turned into a “lunda bazaar” (flea market) ... Show more
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Editorial: A big positive is that the cabinet is not as bloated this time as it was during the PDM government. The new government would be well-advised to keep ... Show more
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The Punjab government on Tuesday imposed a two-week ban on all public visits, meetings and interviews at Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail citing “security” threats — a ... Show more
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A mix of young and experienced players were sworn in on Monday as President Asif Ali Zardari administered the oath of office to 19 members of the federal ... Show more
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PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal has said that he supported the demand for a judicial inquiry into the May 9 riots as long as other similar incidents involving the PTI ... Show more
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Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal has also expressed his positivity on the talks between Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and KP CM Ali Amin Gandapur ... Show more
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A PPP delegation led by former president Asif Ali Zardari and chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari called on Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad ... Show more
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PM Shehbaz Sharif has thanked the prime minister of Nepal, Pushpa Kamal Dhamal, for his letter of felicitations on his election as premier ... Show more
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Pakistani lawmakers pick Asif Ali Zardari as president for second time: Pakistan's lawmakers elected Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday as the country’s president for ...
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Pakistani lawmakers pick Asif Ali Zardari as president for second time
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PTI-backed Amir Dogar, who lost the vote for speaker of the National Assembly to PML-N’s Ayaz Sadiq, said he would have received 225 votes today had Form 45 ... Show more
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Former interim prime minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar was presented with a guard of honour on Monday. He strode down a red carpet to the sound of trumpets ... Show more
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PML-N Senator Ishaq Dar has called for the competition of the “unfinished agenda” of the 2006 Charter of Democracy. Speaking in the Senate, he said ... Show more
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PTI-backed MNA Omar Ayub Khan has said that the lawmakers who took oath today on reserved seats committed “contempt of court” and their swearing-in should be ... Show more
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UAE leaders congratulate prime minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif on election - News | Khaleej Times
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Pakistani PM appoints 4-time former finance minister Ishaq Dar as foreign minister
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PTI leader Asad Qaiser has lamented the “180 seats stolen” from the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC), the new home for PTI-backed lawmakers ... Show more
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Punjab Governor Balighur Rehman has administered oath to the 18-member provincial cabinet. The ceremony was held at the Governor House in Punjab where the ... Show more
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A day after assuming office, newly elected prime minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday visited flood-affected areas in Gwadar ... Show more
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PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal has said that no one party, leader, or institution can solve Pakistan’s current challenges. “The way forward for the country is in ... Show more
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MQM-P, during the proceedings at the National Assembly today, unexpectedly walked out, boycotting the speaker polling. PML-N leaders ... Show more
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The president of the Ahmadiyya community in Bahawalpur’s Hasilpur district was shot dead by unknown assailants on Monday morning, police said. Tahir Iqbal, 54 ... Show more
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New Pakistan Gov’t Marks Return of “Bourgeois Old Guard” as Jailed Imran Khan Looms Large
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Pakistani PM appoints 4-time former finance minister Ishaq Dar as foreign minister. https://arab.news/y46mt
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How Nawaz Sharif And Imran Khan Are Sailing In The Same Boat: The ground reality facing PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif may be differently constructed ...
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How Nawaz Sharif And Imran Khan Are Sailing In The Same Boat
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"The scene appeared surreal as Asif Ali Zardari took oath as president just a few days after Shehbaz Sharif returned as the country’s prime minister ... Show more
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PML-N leader Khawaja Asif has said that there is a possibility of Nawaz Sharif taking over the party’s presidency after being acquitted in all the cases ... Show more
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A number of newly elected lawmakers on reserved seats in the National Assembly have been sworn in. They were administered oath by NA Speaker Ayaz Sadiq amid ... Show more