Articles from the author

Indigenous submarine's launch today

Benazir lawyers file amended petition

MQM elects office-bearers

Sanam Bhutto, the youngest sibling of the late prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, has refused to lead the Pakistan People's Party in the October 10 elections at a time when the political career of her sister hangs in the balance.

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) yesterday appointed an acting convener to lead the party - a day after its self-exiled supreme leader Altaf Hussain ordered a major organisational shakeup and suspended his deputy, Dr Imran Farooq.

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) yesterday announced it was withdrawing support to the four-day-old government of Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali

Another 'Indian agent' arrested

On the Campaign Trail: Lower middle-class woman in the fray

A senior leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party-Parliamentarians, which has won the second highest number of seats in the National Assembly, yesterday expressed hope his party would lead a coalition government at the Centre, sending out a clear message it was keeping its options open on unity moves.

With the election commission announcing official results six days after the polling, the main alliance of the religious parties lost several seats in the National and Sindh Provincial Assemblies in recounting in the port city of Karachi.

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement said yesterday that the Pakistan People's Party and the Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam) have contacted its leaders for the formation of the government at the centre and Sindh province, but the party is keeping all options open.

Three of eight small parcel bombs exploded in rapid succession in high security government buildings in the restive port city of Karachi yesterday, injuring at least nine people, mostly police officials.