Portal:Government of Pakistan/News

• March 24, 2008 Yousaf Raza Gilani becomes the Prime Minister of Pakistan and lifts the house arrest on the former Supreme Court Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry. (AP)
• March 22, 2008 The party of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto named former parliament speaker Yousaf Raza Gillani as its candidate for Prime Minister of Pakistan and is likely to be elected. (AP via Google)
• March 19, 2008

-Pakistan's parliament elects Dr Fehmida Mirza becoming the first woman speaker National Assembly (AP via Yahoo).

- President Musharraf delays execution of convicted Indian spy until April 30 (AP via Yahoo).

• March 18, 2008: The party of slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto nominated Fahmida Mirza, a businesswoman and three-time lawmaker, who will become the first woman speaker of the National Assembly. However divisions remained over who should be the next prime minister. (Yahoo News)
• March 17, 2008: New members take oath in inaugural session of 13th NA in ISLAMABAD: The inaugural oath-taking session of the newly elected National Assembly began here today with the outgoing Speaker, Chaudhry Amir Hussain in the chair, who took oath from 328 newly elected members of the 342-member National Assembly. (Jang News)
• March 7, 2008: Pakistan's Election Commission announces the completed results of parliamentary election. (Reuters)
• December 27, 2007 Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. (BBC World)
• November 15, 2007:Senate Chairman Muhammad Mian Soomro has taken oath as the caretaker prime minister on Friday morning after dissolution of the National Assembly on completion of its five-year term for the first time in the history of Pkaistan. The appointment of Mr Soomro as the caretaker prime minister, primarily meant to oversee the next general election, surprised political observers here as the government had all along been saying that a “non-political” and “non-partisan” person would be given the job to ensure free and transparent elections. (Daily Dawn)
• November 3, 2007:Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan, declares a period of emergency rule amid rising militant violence.(BBC)(Reuters)
  • Television channels and telephone lines in many cities are blocked.
  • Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returns to Karachi, cutting short her Dubai visit.
  • Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar takes an oath as the new Chief Justice of the apex court.
  • Militants capture two police stations in Swat.
• October 25, 2007:The Election Commission of Pakistan has asked political parties to desist from criticizing the army or the judiciary ahead of assembly elections. (BBC World)
• October 20, 2007:Karachi police release a photograph of the suicide bomber who killed at least 130 people in the 2007 Karachi bombings. (BBC)
• October 18, 2007 Return of Benazir Bhutto:
  • Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan after eight years of self-exile, with a crowd of a million expected in Karachi to welcome her back. (CNN)
  • 2007 Karachi bombings: At least 124 people are killed and 320 injured as two bombs explode near a truck carrying Benazir Bhutto. (CNN)
• October 6, 2007 General Pervez Musharraf has easily won a vote to be re-elected Pakistan's president, even though it is unclear if his candidacy was legal. (BBCWorld)
• October 2, 2007 More than 80 opposition MPs have resigned from Pakistan's national parliament in protest at Saturday's presidential election. They insist that President Pervez Musharraf is ineligible to stand.(BBCWorld)
• October 1, 2007 Pakistan Supreme Court orders suspension of Islamabad DIG and Dy Commissioner during a suo motto hearing of recent violence that injured over 50 lawyers and journalists.
• September 29, 2007 Election officials in Pakistan have approved President Pervez Musharraf's nomination for re-election, despite efforts to have him disqualified. The election commission approved Gen Musharraf and two rivals to contest the 6 October poll. (BBC World)
• September 24, 2007 Former Pakistan Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto arrives in Washington beginning her last visit to USA before ending her self-exile.
• September 23, 2007 35 leaders of All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) on charges of disrupting public order against Pervez Musharraf