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Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is a federal party with strong roots in all four provinces, including Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani stated in a message on the occasion of the party's 45th founding day. He emphasized the party's core
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Tensions between the Pakistan government and the powerful army have reached a boiling point, with the government issuing a showcause notice to the Defence Secretary over his affidavit in the Supreme Court on the memo scandal. The move comes after Defence Secretary Lt Gen (retired) Khalid Naeem Lodhi submitted an
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Iraqi parliament's leader of the Sadrists' bloc, Bahaa al-Aaraji, has called for new elections, citing the country's worst political crisis in years. This move comes as Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi faces an arrest warrant on charges of running hit squads against government officials. Meanwhile, a
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The sudden departure of the last US troops from Iraq marks a symbolic end to the nearly nine-year US military presence in the country. However, the day of Iraqi unity and celebration was overshadowed by a confrontation between Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, a Sunni politician,
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A senior European official, Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, has said that Britain's demands for measures to protect its financial services industry were impossible to meet and directly responsible for the collapse of a Europe-wide agreement meant to help save the euro. Barroso's
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Liberal Democrat Energy Secretary Chris Huhne called on Prime Minister David Cameron to return from Brussels and consult with his party before wielding the veto in a bid to join a group of up to 26 EU countries. Huhne's intervention was seen as a "hissy fit"
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A major lobbying firm has been caught on secret recordings boasting about their ability to directly influence senior Coalition figures, including Prime Minister David Cameron. The recordings were made by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which posed as representatives of the repressive central Asian state of Uzbekistan. The firm'
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Iain Duncan Smith's comments on a potential EU referendum may further complicate David Cameron's dealings with European leaders, who are considering a full "fiscal union" between eurozone members. The British government has lawfully legislated for referendums on treaties, but the Prime Minister has not
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Tensions are running high between the governments of Kerala and Tamil Nadu as a row over the 116-year-old Mullaperiyar Dam escalates. Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy recently met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who directed him to meet with Water Resources Minister Pawan Bansal to discuss the issue further. The
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Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister J Jayalalitha has been urged by MDMK Supremo Vaiko to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh along with 39 Members of Parliament from Tamil Nadu to prevent the construction of a new dam at Mullaperiyar. Vaiko, who is leading the campaign against the Kerala government&
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Hussain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, has tendered his resignation amidst the ongoing 'Memogate' scandal, which has strained relations between Pakistan and the US. Haqqani's resignation was accepted by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who stated that an inquiry into the affair
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Despite media reports suggesting Hussain Haqqani's departure from his position as Pakistan's ambassador to the US, his smiling-face photograph remains on the US embassy website, indicating that his resignation has not been officially accepted. Haqqani had resigned after a Pakistani-American claimed he had been asked to
