NEW DELHI: Congress’s failure to recognize the end of its charismatic leadership was one of many reasons for its defeat in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, according to the former president Pranab Mukherjee those who felt a lack of extraordinary leaders reduced the establishment to a “government of averages.” Mukherjee …
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The former prime minister was of the opinion that Nawaz Sharif had been misled by the Pakistani army led by General Pervez Musharraf into the conflict, says the new book on Vajpayee’s tenure at the forefront of affairs in India. Former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and former Pakistani Prime …
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran khan it has claimed that there is “a lot of anger” within the armed forces over the verbal “attacks” against senior military commanders by the leaders of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), an anti-government alliance of 11 opposition parties. In an interview with local …
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Pakistan’s military, its most powerful institution that has directly ruled the country for much of its seven decades of history, has been under heavy attack from a coalition of opposition parties expanding their speech against Prime Minister Imran Khan. The anti-government alliance, the Pakistan Democratic Movement, or PDM, was coined …
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Tensions are brewing between the Pakistani government and the US embassy in Islamabad after the latter retweeted a post by an opposition lawmaker, alluding to Prime Minister Imran Khan as a dictator and demagogue. Ahsan Iqbal, a former minister and leader of the opposition PML-N party, had commented on a …
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The headlines of the main news of the day and more. It is estimated that 54.06% of the total voters of 2.35 million rupees exercised their right to vote until 5 pm in the 78 seats of the Bihar Assembly. Votes will be counted on November 10. Joe Biden said …
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While addressing the third anti-government rally of Pakistan’s 11-party opposition alliance, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) supreme Nawaz Sharif said that some Generals were behind the 1999 Kargil War between India and Pakistan, and not the army. “The task of starting the Kargil war, which witnessed …
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“We are doing everything we can to get him deported,” Imran Khan (file) Islamabad: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that he is even willing to start talks with his British counterpart, Boris Johnson, to have the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Nawaz Sharif, deported from London. Citing an ARY …
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All the political analysts in Pakistan and their outside observers for a long time have been speaking about the recent events in the country in very sinister terms. Pakistan is at a crossroads right now. For everyone who matters in the country: its people, its acting prime minister, the opposition …
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is preparing for more protests after an alliance of opposition parties launched a series of demonstrations calling for Prime Minister Imran Khan’s resignation. The Khan administration faces its biggest political challenge yet, as it tries to handle a backlash over rising food prices. Pakistan is importing sugar, tomatoes …
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