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  Pakistan - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pakistan's two largest mainstream parties are the Pakistan Peoples Party and the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (supported by the military establishment of Pakistan), which obtained a plurality in the October 2002 elections.
Pakistan, a developing country, is the sixth most populous in the world and is faced with a number of challenges on the political and economic fronts.
Pakistan's economy, once thought to be highly vulnerable to external and internal shocks, was unexpectedly resilient in the face of adverse events such as the Asian financial crisis, global recession, drought, the post-9/11 military action in Afghanistan, and military tensions with India.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /pakistan.htm   (3764 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: West Pakistan
Pakistan was created, and gained independence on August 14 1947 following the end of British rule over the subcontinent, in order to form a separate Muslim nation.
The 1971 conflict included a full-fledged conflict with Pakistan and India's navy was engaged in blockading the West Pakistani port of Karachi thousands of miles from the the epicentre of East Pakistan.
With the independence of East Pakistan, this province was abolished and the previous territorial organization was reestablished.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/West-Pakistan   (1101 words)

  
 Pakistan Muslim League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pakistan Muslim League refers to any of five political parties in Pakistan:
Pakistan Muslim League (F), the Functional Muslim League or Pagara group.
Pakistan Muslim League (N), the Nawaz Sharif group.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pakistan_Muslim_League   (106 words)

  
 Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam) ? PML (Q)
Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam) — PML (Q) Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam) — PML (Q) The PML (Q) is the undisputed ‘King’s Party’.
The PML (Q) started as a small group of half a dozen like-minded people in the PML, including Mian Azhar, Khurshid Kasuri, Abida Hussain and Fakhr Imam in defiance of Nawaz Sharif and his family's monopoly on the party.
PML(Q) leaders individually have offered variations on the theme: there can be a National Security Council (NSC) but it should be presided over by the prime minister and not the president.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/pakistan/pml-q.htm   (345 words)

  
 Muslim League on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
An early leader in the League, Muhammad Iqbal, was one of the first to propose (1930) the creation of a separate Muslim India.
The Council Muslim League, which had brought about the founding of Pakistan, was virtually eliminated from the political scene in the elections of 1970.
The Muslim League survived as a minor party in India after partition, and since 1988 has splintered into several groups, the most important of which is the Indian Union Muslim League.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/MuslimL1e.asp   (723 words)

  
 Articles - Pakistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Main article: Foreign Relations of Pakistan Pakistan was an ally of the United States for much of its early history as a modern nation-state, from the 1950s and as a member of CENTO and SEATO.
Pakistan is the second largest Muslim country in terms of population and its status as a declared nuclear power—the only Islamic nation—also plays into its role on the international scene.
Pakistan's religious demographics were altered by the partition of British India, which led to the fleeing of 7 million Muslims into Pakistan from India and 6 million Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan to India and led to a larger Muslim majority than had previously existed.
www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Pakistan   (4839 words)

  
 Pakistan Times | Top Stories: 'Missile Test not risking India, Pakistan Talks'
Pakistan and India are nuclear weapons states, they must also elaborate and implement a strategic restraint regime and other nuclear risk reduction measures, he remarked by adding; "last month as part of composite dialogue, Pakistan and India have agreed to hold expert level talks on nuclear confidence building measures in May this year".
Speaking at a point of order, ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Q) Senator Muhammad Ali Durani congratulated his fellows in the house as well as the entire nation on the test fire of ballistic missile.
He was of the view that the test fire was an amicable proof that Pakistan had no intension to roll back its nuclear program under foreign pressures as it was being pretended by opposition.
www.pakistantimes.net /2004/03/11/top5.htm   (625 words)

  
 Exiled Pakistani politician eyes comeback - (United Press International)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau has also stated that Shahbaz is wanted in a case involving a bank default of Rs1.06 billion.
Whether or not the government actually allows Shahbaz, who is the president of Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N, a leading opposition party in Parliament, to return unhindered and without deportation upon arrival is a question that is being debated across the country.
Ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q President Shujat Hussain, who also once belonged to Nawaz's party, recently told the press in Pakistan that he was absolutely sure that Shahbaz Sharif had no plans, whatsoever, to come to Pakistan.
www.washtimes.com /upi-breaking/20040428-111807-3059r.htm   (1065 words)

  
 Pakistan Politics
Bhutto’s People’s Party of Pakistan (PPP), under the banner of the People’s Party of Pakistan Parliamentarians (PPPP), and Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) [PML (N)] are contesting elections and hope to draw upon residual support for the exiled leaders.
The Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, led by the slain Azam Tariq, was reincarnated as Millat-e-Islamia Pakistan.
Pakistan also secured agreements with several tribes by successfully balancing military action with negotiations and rewards to encourage cooperation and limit domestic backlash.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/pakistan/politics.htm   (2332 words)

  
 Asia Times - The time's ripe for Pakistan and Israel
In an interview with a private television channel in London, Pakistan Muslim League (Q) president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said that recognition of Israel could be considered once there is peace in the Middle East and an independent and sovereign Palestinian state is established.
Pakistan, under the military dictatorship of Zia ul-Haq, was eager to comply.
Pakistan's president sent such a letter affirming that his country's nuclear program was aimed solely at achieving a balance of such weaponry with India, and that Pakistan would not help enemies of Israel to acquire such weaponry.
www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/EG26Df01.html   (2272 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Pakistani parliament selects Musharraf loyalist as new prime minister
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, the head of Pakistan's ruling party and a loyal ally of the nation's military ruler, was elected caretaker prime minister in a rubber-stamp vote in parliament on Tuesday.
Aziz is credited with salvaging Pakistan's near-bankrupt economy after international sanctions were imposed in 1998 in reaction to the testing of nuclear missiles.
Pakistan Muslim League-Q party officials have said Aziz, a member of the Senate, will be nominated as premier once he secures a seat in the lower house, a requisite for any candidate as prime minister.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040629-0652-pakistan-primeminister.html   (596 words)

  
 Pakistan Elects Musharraf Ally New Prime Minister Amid Strife   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pakistan’s new parliament chose a prime minister from the main pro-government party Thursday, rejecting the candidate of fundamentalist Islamic parties and ending a protracted struggle over the shape of a new ruling coalition more than five weeks after national elections.
Fazlur Rahman, a Muslim cleric opposed to Pakistan’s cooperation with the United States in the war on terrorism, ran a distant second with 86 votes.
The runner-up in the contest, Rahman, was the candidate of a six-party religious alliance known as the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, or MMA.
www-tech.mit.edu /V122/N58/pakistan-58.58w.html   (555 words)

  
 Pakistan Link Headlines
Ijazul Haq as to how his party came into existence on 3rd August, 2002 when he was still a member of PML (Q) on 4th August, 2002, to which he replied that on 30th July, 2002 he filed his nomination and thereafter differences arose between him and the leadership of PML(Q).
He next argued that in view of the overwhelming provision of constitutional guarantee that the petitioner could leave or join a political party at his will and that the fact that a political party is essentially a voluntary association, no body can be forced to remain a member of any party.
Muhammad Azeem Ch., Organizing Secretary, of Pakistan Muslim League (Q) argued that on 3rd August, 2002 the petitioner was still member of the PML(Q) as he had not resigned from his position as Senior Vice President of the party under Article 13 of the Constitution of Pakistan Muslim League, 1996.
www.pakistanlink.com /headlines/August/19/05.html   (1042 words)

  
 South Asian Week in Review
Pakistan's cabinet and National Security Council unanimously approved President General Pervez Musharraf's plan to hold a referendum in May 2002 on extending his term in office by five years.
Pakistan Muslim League (Q), also known as the King's party, Farooq Leghari's Millat Party, Tahirul Qadri's Pakistan Awami Tehrik and Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf have already announced support for the referendum.
However, the Pakistan Muslim League, the Pakistan People's Party, and most major religious parties - Jamaat-i-Islami, both factions of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, and Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan of Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani - have stated their opposition to the plan.
www.himalmag.com /week_in_review/5_april.htm   (657 words)

  
 Pakistan Facts - Terrorism is a product of mindset
During their recent visit to Pakistan, Indian Members of Parliament warmly embraced and shook hands with the President of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Q), Chaudhuri Shujaat Hussain, who was the Interior (Home) Minister in Mr Nawaz Sharif?s government.
Pakistan exploited disaffection in Kashmir following what many young Kashmiri politicians believed were the flawed elections in 1987 and the abject surrender of the V.P. Singh government to extortionist demands by Kashmiri terrorists in December 1989.
Pakistan exploited communal tensions in India in 1993 and after the Gujarat communal carnage last year to incite and assist disaffected Indians to resort to terrorism.
www.pakistan-facts.com /article.php?story=20030910183726209   (1299 words)

  
 Dhimmi Watch: Pakistan's PM: "No un-Islamic changes in Hudood laws"
Technically a Muslim men can enter a non-Muslim home and rape the women in front of her family members and none of the non-Muslims’ testimony will be valid in the hudood court.
Rape and adultery in Pakistan are zina (sexual crimes) and to convict a man of rape, the testimonies of four Muslim males of good character are needed.
Muslim women have pointed out that if the Muslim men witnesses were of good character, they would have stopped the rape in the first place.
www.jihadwatch.org /dhimmiwatch/archives/002273.php   (2502 words)

  
 DAWN - Cowasjee Corner; 03 November, 2002
With the revival of politics, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has emerged triumphant in the October 10 elections and is the parliamentary leader of the party largely formed by the opportunistic defectors and deserters from the Muslim League of Nawaz Sharif to which and to whom they all owe two rounds in power.
Yesterday, it was announced to a patient nation that the Kingmaker Chaudhry had nominated as his party's candidate for primeministership an equally able man, Mir Zafrullah Khan Jamali of the under populated, neglected, barren land mass that forms 43 per cent of the area of this country.
The two Chaudhrys obtained another loan from the Muslim Commercial Bank Limited for their Punjab Sugar Mills Limited and in 2000 a sum of Rs 22.792 million was written off, which fact is recorded in the annual report of the Bank for that year.
dawn.com.pk /weekly/cowas/20021103.htm   (966 words)

  
 Pakistan's prime minister resigns - (United Press International)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hussain heads the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Q) party, which also announced in Islamabad that Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz will be elected the new regular prime minister in three months.
Aziz was a senior official at the City Bank in the United States before he went to Pakistan to become the finance minister three years ago.
Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Riaz Khokhar arrived in India Saturday for talks with his Indian counterpart.
www.washtimes.com /upi-breaking/20040626-120058-6892r.htm   (907 words)

  
 Pakistan's premier quits / Musharraf's ally apparently lost president's confidence
Domestically, the military is locked in a battle of guns and wits with al Qaeda and Taliban fugitives in the troublesome tribal areas along the Afghan border.
Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, remains on high alert after a series of deadly terrorist attacks in May. And Pakistani and Indian foreign ministers kicked off a two-day summit in the Indian capital New Delhi on Saturday to discuss the thorny issue of Kashmir and other security issues.
For advocates of democracy in Pakistan, Musharraf's refusal to let Jamali finish his term was a blow, emphasizing again that parliament has less power than the president.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/06/27/MNG4T7D1K21.DTL   (769 words)

  
 Pakistan Facts - Pakistani Women Lawmakers Battle Bias
Pakistan's original Constitution of 1973 had reserved just ten seats for women for the next 20 years.
For instance, two of them are the nieces of former Pakistan President Farooq Leghari, while one is the wife of the press secretary of the King's Party.
Another happens to be the wife of the Pakistan Prime Minister's former press secretary.
www.pakistan-facts.com /article.php?story=20030806140411160   (741 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article on Pakistan [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1971, East Pakistan seceded from Pakistan after a 9 month long bitter and savage war inititated by the Military junta in power, in which between 200,000 and 3 million Bengalis died, and with the aid of Indian troops became the independent state of Bangladesh.
Pakistan has also had a dispute - relatively dormant since the Cold War ended after the withdrawal of Soviet forces - with Afghanistan over the Durand Line.
Pakistan ranks 46th in the world on the Kearney/FP Globalization index (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_marapr_2004/countrydetail.php).
encyclozine.com /Pakistan   (3570 words)

  
 Pakistan Daily News Brief   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kabeer Ali Wasti, president of Pakistan Muslim League (Q), said Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has lost the confidence of Parliament and demanded he should seek a fresh vote of confidence.
Sources said recent diplomatic ‘skirmishes’ between Pakistan and the US with reference to April 24 agreement between the Pakistani government and tribal Taliban leaders led by Nek Muhammad would especially be discussed.
Heads of five factions of Pakistan Muslim League and the Imtiaz Sheikh faction of Sindh Democratic Alliance on May 10 decided to go ahead with their planned unification into Pakistan Muslim League without suffixes.
www.observerindia.com /cps/from_pak/pb040511.htm   (2148 words)

  
 Kashmir: Pak differs from ruling party
Pakistan on Monday distanced itself from the views of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q, which said clinging to United Nations resolutions on Kashmir would be "hypocrisy".
The Pakistan government said it considers the resolutions "sacrosanct" but is willing to show "flexibility" to resolve the issue without "compromising on the basics".
Pakistan can show flexibility in its approach while dealing with the issue but there can be no compromise on the basics," Foreign Office Spokesman Jalil Abbas Jilani said.
in.rediff.com /news/2005/apr/04pak1.htm   (222 words)

  
 ICCI Delegation Meet Muslim League (Q) Leaders
Former Presi-dent of ICCI Mr.Munawar Mughal introduced the delegation to the Muslim League leaders.
The delegation appreciated the efforts of the Muslim League leaders to unite the different Leagues under the banner of Quaid-e-Azam's Muslim League.
They also ex-pressed their gratitude for the tiring and unflinching efforts of the political leaders for focusing on future development and various measures for the reduction of poverty in Pakistan.
www.icci.com.pk /pml.html   (135 words)

  
 Recognition of Israel on condition: Pakistan
"Pakistan is today in a position to play this role in view of its growing stature in the international community and in the Islamic world," he said in a statement.
However, Pakistan will not recognise Israel until the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, he said, allaying fears expressed by hardliners in the country that the meeting between the two fortegn ministers was a prelude to establishing diplomatic relations with Israel.
Pakistan, Musharraf said, took leaders of the Islamic countries in the Middle East into confidence before the meeting.
inhome.rediff.com /news/2005/sep/03pak1.htm   (352 words)

  
 DAWN - Front Page; October 21, 2002
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: Pakistan Muslim League (N) has demanded fresh elections on 90 seats of the National Assembly and 184 seats of all the four provincial assemblies.
ISLAMABAD Oct 20: Pakistan Muslim League (Q) president Mian Mohammad Azhar has allayed the fears of western diplomats about the imposition of another martial law if the ongoing deadlock continued and...
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: Pakistan Muslim League (Q), despite having won 77seats in the National Assembly and emerged as the single largest parliamentary group in the Punjab Assembly...
www.dawn.com /2002/10/21   (556 words)

  
 Kyodo World News Service: Pakistan Muslim League@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pakistan Muslim League factions to merge into one party+
ISLAMABAD, Sept. 18 (Kyodo) All but one of the six independent factions of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) announced Wednesday they are merging into one party under the unified Pakistan Muslim League banner with Chaudry Shujaat Hussain, the head of the ruling PML faction, serving as the new leader.
The five PML factions -- known as PML (Q), PML (Junego), PML (Functional), PML (Zia) and PML (Jinnah) -- command 132 seats in the 342-member National Assembly.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:80372332&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (205 words)

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