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    21st May, 2013
    Cafe Black: History of factional politics in Pakistan
    When asked by Hamida what that case was, he said, it was a bad case of the flu. ‘But mind you,’ he said. ‘Flu (Abdul Group).’ He was the only patient.
    1st May, 2013
    Asif Ali Zardari
    Asif Ali Zardari is the current and 11th President of Pakistan and a former co-chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). He was a federal minister…
    1st May, 2013
    Family business
    Known as Addi among PPP loyalists, Faryal Talpur is regarded as amongst the most powerful persons in the PPP.
    29th April, 2013
    PTI, PPP get a rap on the knuckles
    The PML-N has rapped PTI chief Imran Khan for clamouring about change despite having members who were previously members of Musharraf's govt.
    18th April, 2013
    Zardari expresses concern over election candidates’ security
    President Zardari said he wanted ECP to play an active role in providing security to candidates.
    16th April, 2013
    Fear and loathing in Karachi
    Minutes before sunset on Dec 27, 2007, television channels started airing news of the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi.
    14th April, 2013
    An overview of 1997 general elections: PML-N returns with a bang
    By the end of the third year of its second tenure, the PPP was in dire straits and for once it had no one to blame.
    12th April, 2013
    Chinese ambassador calls on President Zardari
    President Zardari observed that the Gwadar Port between the two countries would promote economic cooperation and enhance communication.
    11th April, 2013
    US Ambassador calls on President Zardari
    The US ambassador in a meeting with President Zardari said that bilateral cooperation with Pakistan in various fields will continue as it is.
    9th April, 2013
    Asif Ali Zardari
    Pakistan Peoples Party
    7th April, 2013
    ‘Independent’ Qureshi gets Pagara’s support
    PTI's vice-chairman, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, has said he has filed nomination forms for the May 11 general elections from two constituencies of Tharparkar district as an independent candidate.
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    3rd April, 2013
    The heir apparent stories: Bilawal Bhutto, Rahul Gandhi, and Justin Trudeau
    Justin's story is one of a smart electorate while Bilawal and Rahul's are of people who fall for personalities and not ideas.
    3rd April, 2013
    Caretaker PM allocates portfolios to interim ministers
    Caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has allocated portfolios to the federal ministers in his cabinet who took oath yesterday.
    3rd April, 2013
    Five-judge bench takes up intra-court appeal: CJ shouldn’t hear contempt case: Bokhari’s counsel
    The counsel for NAB Chairman retired Admiral Fasih Bokhari opposed a suggestion that CJ Chaudhry should hear a matter in which his son Dr Arsalan Iftikhar is called as a witness.
    2nd April, 2013
    NAB chief’s counsel questions notice
    NAB chairman told the SC that before issuing contempt notice to his client, the court should have determined how the media got hold of a confidential letter written by him to the president.
    31st March, 2013
    Zardari leaves for Dubai
    After the unexplained departure of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to Dubai, his father President Asif Ali Zardari also left Karachi for the UAE amid reports of a rift.
    30th March, 2013
    PPP, PML-N manifestos differ over constitutional court
    PPP and PML-N seem to have different views on the setting up of a constitutional court in line with the CoD.
    26th March, 2013
    Bilawal leaves Pakistan, not to lead campaign
    The PPP chairman has left for Dubai as a news agency reported he had a tiff with his father, President Asif Ali Zardari.
    26th March, 2013
    PPP, PML-Q to hold talks amid Gujrat row
    The PPP and the PML-Q will resume their talks on seat adjustment amid a controversy arising out of the latter’s decision to award party ticket to Chaudhry Parvez Elahi to contest the elections for his native National Assembly seat.
    25th March, 2013
    Right connections give officials lucrative foreign positions
    Deserving or not, people in federal bureaucracy need only to be well-connected in the ruling set-up to get prize postings.