Portal:Pakistan/news

• October 6, 2007 Security in Pakistan as the nation goes for its 14th presidential election. (AndhraNews.net)
• October 2, 2007 More than 80 opposition MPs have resigned from Pakistan's national parliament in protest at Saturday's presidential election. They insist that President Pervez Musharraf is ineligible to stand.(BBCWorld)
• October 1, 2007 Pakistan Supreme Court orders suspension of Islamabad DIG and Dy Commissioner during a suo motto hearing of recent violence that injured over 50 lawyers and journalists. (AndhraNews.net)
• September 29, 2007 Election officials in Pakistan have approved President Pervez Musharraf's nomination for re-election, despite efforts to have him disqualified. The election commission approved Gen Musharraf and two rivals to contest the 6 October poll. (BBC World)
• September 24, 2007 Former Pakistan Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto arrives in Washington beginning her last visit to USA before ending her self-exile. (AndhraNews.net)
• September 23, 2007 35 leaders of All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) on charges of disrupting public order against Pervez Musharraf (AndhraNews.net)
• September 20, 2007 al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden declares war on tyrant Pervez Musharraf (AndhraNews.net)
• September 20, 2007 Election Commission of Pakistan has announced to hold presidential elections on October 06. President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said he will give up his post of army chief if he is re-elected for another term.(BBC World)
• September 18, 2007 President Musharraf to doff uniform after his re-election says Sharifuddin Pirzada, the president's councel at the Supreme Court. (The News International)
• September 16, 2007 Election Commission of Pakistan amends Presidential Election Rules 1988 ahead of the elections so that Article 63 of the Constitution no longer applies to the President.
• September 14, 2007 Pakistan Peoples Party unanimously decides that Benazir Bhutto will return back to Pakistan on October 18, 2007 (AndhraNews.net)
• September 13, 2007 Pakistan Cabinet unanimously decides to re-elect President Pervez Musharraf in uniform from the present assemblies. (AndhraNews.net)
• September 11, 2007 Suicide bomber kills 18 in Dera Ismail Khan of Pakistan. (AndhraNews.net)
• September 11, 2007 Nawaz Sharif was sent back to Saudi Arabia in a special plane after his six-hour stay at the Islamabad airport when he arrived here on Monday from London on a PIA flight. (Business Recorder)

• September 09, 2007 Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto says her new campaign will be for food, clothing, shelter for the people once she returns back to Pakistan. (AndhraNews.net)

• September 08, 2007 Pakistan Government takes decision to arrest former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif when they land in Islamabad. (AndhraNews.net)

• September 06, 2007 Pakistan's Liquid foreign reserves have crossed 16 billion-dollar mark, reaching historic level of 16.0789 billion dollars despite the outflow of some 133 million dollars in portfolio investment. The central bank on Thursday issued the latest figures of liquid foreign reserves, which depicted an increase of 260.7 million dollars in overall reserves from 15.8182 billion dollars to 16.0789 billion dollars during the last week. (Business Recorder)

• September 04, 2007 Twin-blasts in Rawalpindi, one in a bus another in a market area kill many; several injured; (AndhraNews.net)
• September 01, 2007 Six people were killed and some others were feared dead when a part of a key bridge of the Northern Bypass in Karachi collapsed on Saturday afternoon. Two trailers, one with a container and the other with a cement tank, were on the Shershah bridge at around 1.20pm when the 70-metre Baldia loop of the structure buckled. (Daily Dawn)