Questioning Musharraf’s martial law puts Zardari’s oath under threat: Former Pak AG

October 6th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - The Malaysian Silambam Association has decided to push for the Indian traditional martial art as an Olympic sport. As the first step in this direction, silambam would be promoted in 10 countries by next year, the association's president R.C.

October 2nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Supreme Court's detailed judgement on Pervez Musharraf's emergency declaration binds the Gilani government to prosecute the former president under Article 6. The country's apex court has pointed out that Musharraf should be punished for the crimes he committed on Nov 3, 2007, and thus made the government bound to act in accordance with the Constitution.

September 2nd, 2009 KATHMANDU - The rift in Nepal over the use of Hindi for official work continued to widen Wednesday with new ministers from a regional party taking their oath of office in that language as Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal expanded his cabinet for the sixth time. Already accommodating 33 ministers, the coalition government, which includes 22 parties, Wednesday added nine more - two ministers, six ministers of state and an assistant minister.

August 13th, 2009 KATHMANDU - The use of the Hindi language for official work was dealt a second blow by the Nepal government Thursday with most of the ruling parties saying that Vice President Paramananda Jha, who triggered a controversy by taking his oath of office in Hindi, should be sworn in again in the Nepali language. Ahead of his five-day visit to India starting from Aug 18, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal had Thursday called a meeting of the 22 parties in the coalition government to discuss political developments.

August 5th, 2009 LONDON - PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has urged the Pakistan Army to pledge never to violate the constitution by declaring martial law and seizing power. "And the time has now come for the army to give a pledge to the nation that it would never ever violate the constitution or declare martial law," The Dawn quoted him, as saying.

August 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Former President Pervez Musharraf could be tried by simple majority resolution of Parliament, Pakitan's Attorney General Latif Khosa has said. Replying to a question about action against former President Musharraf, the Attorney General said Parliament is supreme in this issue.

August 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Attorney General Pakistan Sardar Latif Khan Khosa on Monday said that Parliament could approve the trial of former president Pervez Musharraf by passing a simple majority resolution against his November 3, 2007 acts. Talking to reporters here after the oath-taking ceremony of Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Khosa said that if a resolution for conducting the trial of Musharraf was moved in Parliament, the federal government would be bound to act as Parliament was the country's supreme law making body.

July 31st, 2009 WASHINGTON - A former American expert believes that the US has attained little success in changing Pakistan's attitude towards India. Former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Teresita Schaffer said while Washington has repeatedly asked Pakistan to focus more on the internal threat posed by the Taliban rather than considering India as a major threat to its interests, it has failed to redirect Islamabad's concern towards the real danger.

July 30th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Thursday said that the Supreme Court is competent to declare Pervez Musharraf's steps as unconstitutional, but it cannot award punishment because it falls under separate rules of law. During the hearing of judges appointment case, the CJP said the court wants to dispose of the case by tomorrow.

July 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - : President Zardari's statement that India no longer remains a threat to the country, were his 'personal views', Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf aza Gilani has said. Talking to media persons after returning from Sharm-el-Sheikh, Gilani said there is a need for a more 'careful' approach while talking about the relations between the two neighboring countries.

July 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on Thursday said that the confession by Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on nurturing of terrorists in his country has justified India's stand about terrorists originating form the neighbouring country. Krishna said that India has repeatedly maintained that Pakistan's soil was being used for terrorist attacks on India.

July 6th, 2009 LONDON - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari says targeting the Taliban rather than India does not rankle his army because the two nuclear armed countries no longer pose threats to each others territories. "It rankles the small mind," he told the Daily Telegraph in an interview published Monday.

June 30th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan leadership seems to lack consensus when it comes to talking about the country's relations with India, with the Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira saying that President Asif Ali Zardari's statement that India was no more a threat for Pakistan, was blown out of context. Addressing a joint press conference with the ISPR spokesman, Major General Athar Abbas here, Kaira asserted that Zardari's statement was reported out of context, and what he really meant was that there was 'no immediate threat of war'.

June 22nd, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian Kung Fu expert has entered record books after puncturing four young unhusked coconuts with his index finger in 30.81 seconds. Ho Eng Hui, 55, got into the Malaysia Book of Records by piercing three young coconuts within one minute, but managed to add one more to strengthen his record-breaking feat.

May 12th, 2009 NEW YORK - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's recent claim that he does not consider India as a threat to his country, is not at all supported by a majority of Pakistanis, an opinion poll has shown. According Washington based International Republican Institute poll, there is an intriguing split in attitude towards India, with 45 percent favourable towards India, and 52 percent unfavourable.