Former law minister Babar Awan said the verdict of the Lahore High Court ordering President Asif Ali Zardari to stop political activities in Presidency was in violation of fundamental right and his<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/13/verdict-violation-of-fundamental-right-says-awan/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALNo headway was made on Thursday during the secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan on the controversial Wullar barrage on Jehlum River in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK), as Pakistan stuck to its stance<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/13/no-headway-in-wullar-barrage-talks/" title="Read more" >...</a>
The government has decided that the monetary expansion for the next fiscal year will be in line with the projected Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of 4.2 percent in order to encourage<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/13/govt-aims-to-keep-monetary-expansion-gdp-in-sync/" title="Read more" >...</a>
President Asif Ali Zardari’s political attachment is nothing new in the country’s history, as the presidency has always remained involved in political activities and most democratic presidents had strong affiliations with certain<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/13/presidency-a-hub-of-political-activities/" title="Read more" >...</a>
PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has said that wounds of May 12 massacre in Karachi were still unhealed despite the passage pf four years. “These wounds will remain unhealed unless those who spread<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/13/may-12-wounds-still-open-nawaz/" title="Read more" >...</a>
As politics of wheeling and dealing between the PML-Q, dissident group and the Unification Bloc continue at full throttle, the PML-N plans to stage a big show of power with 47 Unification<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/12/pml-n-gearing-up-for-grand-show-2/" title="Read more" >...</a>
SportsRafa Nadal flirted with a shock defeat at the Rome Masters as Novak Djokovic stretched his unbeaten run and Roger Federer eased through on Wednesday. After Nadal’s 37-match winning streak on clay<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/12/nervy-nadal-given-fright-djokovic-federer-win/" title="Read more" >...</a>
An apt example of poor bureaucratic planning surfaced during the meeting of National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance the other day when it was informed that after devolution, 171 projects worth Rs<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/12/171-projects-worth-rs-216b-face-axe/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ForeignIndia’s prime minister held talks in Kabul on Thursday on the fallout of Osama bin Laden’s death and boosting aid projects in a move likely to raise Pakistani fears about Indian influence<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/12/india-pm-in-kabul-for-talks-post-bin-laden/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ForeignQueen Elizabeth II on Thursday became the second-longest reigning monarch in British history, clocking up a total of 21,645 days on the throne. Only Queen Victoria, the current monarch’s great-great-grandmother, has reigned<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/12/queen-elizabeth-ii-becomes-britains-second-longest-reigning-monarch/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ForeignNATO-led air strikes hit Muammer Gaddafi’s compound Thursday, killing six people, the Libyan regime said as rebels celebrated the capture of Misrata airport and a British invitation to open their first foreign<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/12/nato-strikes-on-gaddafi-compound-kill-6-libya-govt/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ForeignUS President Barack Obama acknowledged in a television broadcast Thursday that many Americans were still feeling the pain of a slow economic recovery, but insisted his policies were working. “People still aren’t<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/12/obama-sees-americas-pain-on-economy/" title="Read more" >...</a>
