Nawaz Sharif

Nawaz Sharif ousted by court

Pakistan's Supreme Court disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from office yesterday over undeclared assets, plunging the nuclear-armed South Asian nation into political turmoil after a period of relative stability.
28 July 2017, 18:00 PM

The technicality that led to Nawaz Sharif's disqualification

Just one key technicality emerging from a discovery the JIT made in the UAE gives the judges reason to disqualify Sharif directly. It is based on an allegation that Sharif's counsels are not been able to deny.
28 July 2017, 14:38 PM

Modi wishes best for Nawaz’s surgery

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extended “best wishes” to his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif who will undergo an open-heart surgery.
28 May 2016, 07:06 AM

Panama papers: I will resign and go home if proven guilty, vows Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, in his address to the nation today, said he will resign and go home if proven guilty by the Panama Papers probe.
22 April 2016, 16:07 PM

Suicide bomber kills 65, mostly women, children in Pakistan park

A suicide bomber kills 65 people and injures more than 280 others, mostly women and children, at a public park in the Pakistani city of Lahore, striking at the heart of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's political base of Punjab.
27 March 2016, 15:53 PM

Will Sharif and Modi pass the new test?

Nawaz Sharif is treating the attack in Pathankot as a direct challenge for him. He is aware of the domestic consequences, but he is confident that all the opposition parties in Pakistan will stand behind him if evidence against the culprits is strong.
12 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Will Pathankot derail Indo-Pak dialogue?

No one had expected that the Modi-Sharif Lahore dialogue on December 25, 2015 would be challenged so soon.
10 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Peace with Pakistan?

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surprise visit to Lahore, Pakistan, on Christmas Day brought his hyperkinetic year of global diplomacy to a headline-grabbing close.
5 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Fresh gunfire, blasts at raided Indian air base

Gunfire and blasts are heard at an Indian Air Force base attacked by militants a day earlier, as security forces hunted two gunmen still at large in the sprawling facility near the border with Pakistan.
3 January 2016, 06:31 AM

6 killed in India air force base attack

Four gunmen and two guards are killed when unidentified militants attack an Indian Air Force base near the Pakistan border in an apparent challenge to attempts to revive a dialogue between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
2 January 2016, 04:22 AM

Modi's Christmas gift to Sharif

One is too familiar with the complicated love-hate relationship between India and Pakistan. But over the past three weeks, some dramatic developments have taken place between these two countries.
27 December 2015, 18:00 PM