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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicPakistan Peoples Party (PPP)

Topic: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)

Pakistan’s new Chief Justice has a ‘spotless career’. His appointment is still controversial

The legal fraternity and the opposition in Pakistan are not against new Chief Justice Yahya Afridi. They object to the constitutional amendment that caused his appointment.

Pakistan’s 26th Constitutional Amendment bill has sparked a political storm. What it proposes

Controversial bill, now approved by the cabinet, intends to make sweeping changes to Pakistan’s judicial system. The PPP-led coalition govt struggling to find broad political consensus.

Bilawal Bhutto just gave Pakistanis more meme material on him. And this time, he knows it

From his Karachi floods reaction to the pronunciation of Toshakhana as ‘tocha khana’, the PPP leader never fails to entertain the nation, said a Pakistani.

President Zardari forgoing his salary but Pakistanis still remember him as ‘Mr 10 per cent’

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has decided to relinquish his presidential salary. But several people claim it is no sacrifice at all.

Pakistanis are rooting for Aseefa Bhutto Zardari. Her First Lady appointment is ‘historic’

It is the first time in Pakistan's history that the daughter and not the wife of the president will get the title of First Lady.

PPP and PML-N agree to form coalition government in Pakistan, Shehbaz to be PM, Zardari President

PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari hoped that the coalition govt with PML-N would lead to a positive market response as the Pakistan faced a hung Parliament after the elections.

Shehbaz Sharif set to be next Pakistan PM, Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam CM of Punjab

Former PM and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif nominates his younger brother for the top post after days of suspense over who would form the next government in Pakistan.

PPP to support Pakistan PM candidate from rival PML-N, Bilawal Bhutto rules himself out of race

Bilawal said PML-N was only party to reach out to PPP for govt formation & that PPP won’t take any ministries. He asserted he’d like to see his father Asif Ali Zardari as president. 

Pakistan Peoples Party nominates Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s name for PM candidate

Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said that after coming into power, he will abolish all those policies that allowed terrorism to resurface in Pakistan.

From 4-yr-old on horseback to outspoken Pakistani opposition leader — Bilawal Bhutto then & now

When his mother Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in 2007, Bilawal became the titular head of the Pakistan Peoples Party. Today, he is at the epicentre of a political churning in Pakistan.

On Camera

Trump’s 4,500 troops can topple Nicolás Maduro—not fix Venezuela

The US troops could dislodge the government in Caracas, but it won’t be enough to police a country ringed by drug cartels and insurgents.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.