Lahore, May 12 (ANI): PML-N leader and former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif will chair a joint meeting of his party's Central Working Committee (CWC) and parliamentary group in Lahore today to decide whether to continue his party's support to the PPP-led government or move out of the coalition.
Islamabad, May 12 (ANI): After failing to break the ice with the PPP on the judges restoration issue, the PML-N last evening gave enough indications that it will pull itself out of the PPP-led coalition, but would continue to support it from outside as it "doesn't want to destabalize the government".
Rezaul H Laskar Islamabad, May 12 (PTI) Pakistan's ruling coalition today appeared to be on the verge of a split after the PPP failed to reach an agreement with its key ally PML-N on the
Dharam Shourie New York, May 12 (PTI) The UN aid agencies have started dispatching relief supplies to Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta, hardest hit by cyclone Nargis, as reports said the survivors
Despite a last-minute US mediation, the leaders of Pakistan's ruling coalition on Sunday night failed to reach a deal on restoring deposed judges, increasing the probability that ministers belonging to former premier Nawaz Sharif's party might quit the cabinet on Monday.
Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis headed out of Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta in search of food, water and medicine, but aid workers said on Sunday that thousands will die if emergency supplies don't get through soon.
Singapore, May 12 (DPA) Foreign ministers from the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) are likely to meet in Singapore soon to discuss measures to support relief and recovery efforts in cyclone-hit Myanmar, The Straits Times reported Monday.
Singapore, May 12 (DPA) Nearly 2,000 people in Singapore have signed a petition calling on the international community to enter cyclone-battered Myanmar with or without the military government's permission, organizers said Monday.
YOUNG INDIA In India, the population in the 15-24 age group has grown from 175 million in 1995 to 210 million in 2005. India is expected to reap the benefits of its comparatively young workforce, through what is being called its 'demographic dividend'.
DESPERATE TO lead the government, Nepal's Maoist leader on Sunday started consultation with Terai-based political parties. With the aim to form a larger ruling coalition, the Maoist leadership offered the three Madhesi parties to join the new government. The Maoists are trying to unite all the pro-republic political parties.
Kathmandu, May 11 (ANI): Newly appointed Indian ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood on Sunday called on the Communist Party of Nepal- Maoist (CPN-M) leadership.
Kathmandu, May 11 (ANI): Madhesi People's Rights Forum (MPRF) on Sunday floated the proposal to form the new government prior to the first sitting of the Constituent Assembly (CA).
Colombo, May 11 (PTI) At least 17 Tamil Tiger militants were killed in fierce clashes with the security forces in the embattled north, the Sri Lankan Defence ministry said here today.
Kathmandu, May 11 (DPA) The Nepali police Sunday arrested more than 550 Tibetan demonstrators, most of them women, during anti-China protests in the capital Kathmandu.
Yangon, May 11 (Xinhua) The toll in Myanmar's cyclone disaster Sunday rose to 28,458 from the earlier figure of 23,335, the state-run television channel reported.
London, May 11 (PTI) Pakistan is poised to be readmitted into the Commonwealth-fold here tomorrow, sources said today.
Islamabad, May 11 (DPA) A senior US diplomat intervened Sunday to end the deadlock between Pakistan's governing coalition partners over the reinstatement of deposed judges that seriously threatens their month-old alliance.
Kathmandu, May 11 (PTI) With Nepal's main political parties unable to iron out their differences to form a Maoist-led government, India's new Ambassador Rakesh Sood today met CPN-M chairman
Colombo, May 11 (IANS) Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa Sunday hailed his coalition's victory in the maiden eastern provincial council poll as 'a mandate' for his government's approach 'to achieve peace through defeat of terrorism'.
Sri Lanka's ruling alliance won crucial elections in the island's war-ravaged east and hailed the result on Sunday as an endorsement of its war to defeat Tamil Tiger rebels.
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