Asif Ali Zardari

PPP's Asif Ali Zardari tipped to become Pakistan president: Reports

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Asif Ali Zardari is poised to assume the presidency of Pakistan for a second term after the PPP agreed to form a coalition government with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) at the Centre, according to reports

Pakistan's army returns with more powers than before

Although not on paper, Pakistan's new cabinet signals return to martial law, empowers army

Global Watch | Why Pakistan is a fundamentally flawed nation-state

Pakistan, since its inception, has struggled to observe the basic norms of civility in its public life. Leaders and political parties hound each other as a bureaucratic-military nexus took over the state of Pakistan from the very beginning

As Imran Khan troubles Pakistan Army, India should fortify LoC, watch its neighbour descent into turmoil

The Pakistani military dispensation may attempt to divert attention from the country's fragile state by either increasing tensions along the Line of Control or carrying out terrorist attacks within India

Imran Khan’s endgame has begun: Supreme Court relief is momentary, political pain is permanent

Imran Khan may have got some relief in the Pakistan Supreme Court on Thursday, but it’s a temporary respite. This week’s protests and acts of vandalism aimed at the army have actually sealed his fate in Pakistani politics

Bilawal Bhutto should apologise for his Modi comments ahead of his scheduled India visit

Whatever may be India’s domestic controversies it is simply unacceptable that a foreign minister of another country should be allowed to spew such venom against an elected prime minister

Not Shehbaz Sharif, Asif Ali Zardari expresses desire to see THIS person as Pakistan PM

The ex-Pakistani president said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan’s removal was necessary to safeguard the nation

Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif accuses Imran Khan of taking country into bloodshed

The minister said the PTI had sought dissolution of the Assemblies of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Imran, himself, had said he did not want to sit with thieves and dacoits

Terror alert at Islamabad’s Marriott Hotel evokes memories of 2008 bombing

The US and the UK have issued an advisory to all its staff to avoid the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. This warning serves as a reminder of the 2008 blast in which a truck carrying approximately 600 kg of explosives blew up at the hotel’s entrance, killing more than 50 people and injuring another 266

Will Pakistan PM decide who will remain army chief?

Both the better part of the last seven decades, the generals of the Pakistan Army have either ruled directly by imposing martial law or have done so in a more indirect by controlling the civilian governments