"30 June 2004. Mr. Shaukat Aziz was elected the leader of the house on 27 August 2004 and was administered oath of the Prime Minister of Pakistan on 28 August 2004. National Assembly of Pakistan completed its Constitutional tenure on 15 November 2007. After the resignation from the post of Chief of Army Staff, Mr. Pervez Musharaf administered the oath of President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan on 29 November 2007. The date of next General Election was fixed for 28 January 2008. After the assassination of Muhatarma Benazir Bhutto on 27 December 2007, date of election was rescheduled for"
"Assassination of Benazir Bhutto The assassination of Benazir Bhutto took place on 27 December 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto, twice Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996) and then-leader of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party, had been campaigning ahead of elections scheduled for January 2008. Shots were fired at her after a political rally at Liaquat National Bagh, and a suicide bomb was detonated immediately following the shooting. She was declared dead at 18:16 local time (13:16 UTC), at Rawalpindi General Hospital. Twenty-four other people were killed by the bombing. Bhutto had previously survived a similar attempt on her life"
"Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting and unanimously condemned the assassination, a call echoed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Assassination of Benazir Bhutto The assassination of Benazir Bhutto took place on 27 December 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto, twice Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996) and then-leader of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party, had been campaigning ahead of elections scheduled for January 2008. Shots were fired at her after a political rally at Liaquat National Bagh, and a suicide bomb was detonated immediately following the shooting. She was declared dead at 18:16 local time (13:16 UTC), at Rawalpindi"
"a man-hunt. Authorities said they believed that the militants were short of ammunition and would be captured soon. On 28 December 2007 the Pakistan government claimed that it had strong evidence regarding Baitullah Mehsud as the man behind the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on 27 December 2007. The Pakistani government released a transcript it asserted was from a conversation between Baitullah Mehsud and Maulvi Sahib (literally ""Mr. Cleric""). According to the transcript Maulvi Sahib claimed credit for the attack, Baitullah Mehsud asked who carried it out, and was told, ""There were Saeed, the second was Badarwala Bilal"
"Saad Akbar Babrak Said Akbar Khan Babrakzai (died 16 October 1951) was possibly an Afghan Pashtun, according to the government sources, and an ultra-Pashtun nationalist, an assassin who assassinated the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaqat Ali Khan, in Rawalpindi Punjab Province, on October 16, 1951. On October 16, 1951, during a public meeting, Sayed Akbar Khan shot Liaqat twice in a park in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The assassin was fatally shot by police officers seconds later. Liaqat was rushed to a hospital where he died. Biographical details of Sayed Akbar and the reasons why he killed Liaquat Ali Khan are"
"2007 Pakistan's government renewed its call for the UK to withdraw the honour. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Sher Afghan Niazi told the parliament ""The British government has not withdrawn the title which has not only disappointed the entire Pakistani nation but has also hurt it. This august house again calls on the British government and its Prime Minister Tony Blair to immediately withdraw the title... and tender an apology to the Muslim world."" Niazi's resolution passed unanimously. Khwaja Saad Rafiq a legislator from the party of exiled former premier Nawaz Sharif called for Rushdie's execution saying ""Whosoever kills him will be"
"five-year term on 15 November 2007, the new elections were called by the Election Commission. After the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in 2007, the PPP secured the most votes in the elections of 2008, appointing party member Yousaf Raza Gillani as Prime Minister. Threatened with impeachment, President Musharraf resigned on 18 August 2008, and was succeeded by Asif Ali Zardari. Clashes with the judicature prompted Gillani's disqualification from the Parliament and as the Prime Minister in June 2012. By its own financial calculations, Pakistan's involvement in the war on terrorism has cost up to ~$118 billion, sixty thousand casualties and"
"Liaqat National Bagh Liaqat National Bagh (Park), usually just referred to as ""Liaqat Bagh"" (Urdu: لیاقت باغ), is a famous park on Murree Road in the city of Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan. Two Prime Ministers of Pakistan Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan and Benazir Bhutto have been assassinated in this park. On the 1st March 2016, a mass gathering of people for the funeral prayer of Punjab governor assassin Mumtaz Qadri was also seen here. This funeral prayer was attended by an estimated 100,000 people. The majority of whom were ""religious"" clerics and youth. The park was formerly known as Company Bagh"
"and an investigation launched into the incident. The unidentified assailants fired at Gillani's motorcade on a highway. At least two shots hit the Prime Minister's bulletproof vehicle, TV channels quoted officials as saying. State-run PTV beamed footage of the damage caused by the bullets to the window of the driver's door of the vehicle. Reports said the incident occurred at a spot where former premier and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif's motorcade was fired at on 27 December last year, shortly before Pakistan People's Party (PPP) chairperson Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a suicide bombing in Rawalpindi. According to Gillani's press"
"the Pakistani Taliban leader blamed by the government for the attack. On 20 August 2013 ex-President Pervez Musharraf, was indicted on three chargers for murder, conspiracy to murder, and facilitation of murder in connection with his alleged failure to provide adequate security for Bhutto – charges for which he is reportedly denying responsibility. In 31 August 2017, Pakistani anti-terrorism court has declared Musharraf as an fugitive in Bhutto's murder and acquitted five suspected Pakistani Taliban of conspiracy to murder for lack of evidence and two high-ranking police officer had been sentenced 17 years in prison, one for mishandling security at"
"to the Anti-Terrorism Court in Rawalpindi, and some supporters showered him with rose petals. On 1 October 2011, Qadri was sentenced to death by a Pakistani Anti Terrorist court at Islamabad for murdering Taseer. Qadri was executed on 29 February 2016. Salmaan Taseer Salmaan Taseer (; 4 January 2011) was a Pakistani businessman and a liberal politician, who served as the 26th Governor of Punjab from 2008 until his assassination in 2011. A member of the Pakistan Peoples Party since the 1980s, he was elected to the Punjab Assembly from Lahore in the 1988 election, however lost in 1990, 1993"
"government, in their development of and the military operations in Balochistan. He was spokesperson of province and media consultant to the Chief Minister of Balochistan Government. On 27 July 2007, about 4:15 PM; he was gunned down on Zarghon Road 200 metres from Chief Minister’s House in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, the same spot where several high-post government officials were attacked in the past; Justice Nawaz Marri, a High Court judge and Nisar Hazara former provincial minister survived assassination. Abdul Raziq Bugti was alone in his car when he was shot, he was shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta where"
"law and politics in Pakistan. Khan was married to Victoria Rikhy Noon, an Austrian, who was also a prominent politician and social worker. He died on 7 December 1970 in his ancestral village of Nurpur Noon, Sargodha District, where he is buried. Feroz Khan Noon Sir Malik Feroz Khan Noon (; 7 May 1893 – 9 December 1970), , best known as Feroze Khan, was the seventh Prime Minister of Pakistan, appointed in this capacity on 16 December 1957 until being removed when President Iskandar Ali Mirza imposed martial law on 8 October 1958. Trained as a barrister in England,"
"the government to sign a truce with the Taliban on 5September 2006 but sectarian violence continued. In 2007 Sharif made a daring attempt to return from exile but was refrained from landing at Islamabad Airport. This did not deter another former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, from returning on 18 October 2007 after an eight-year exile in Dubai and London to prepare for the 2008 parliamentary elections. While leading a massive rally of supporters, two suicide attacks were carried out in an attempt to assassinate her. She escaped unharmed but there were 136 dead and at least 450 people were injured."
"third such attempt during his four-year rule. On 25 December 2003, two suicide bombers tried to assassinate Musharraf, but their car bombs failed to kill him; 16 others died instead. Musharraf escaped with only a cracked windshield on his car. Amjad Farooqi was an alleged mastermind behind these attempts, and was killed by Pakistani forces in 2004 after an extensive manhunt. On 6 July 2007, there was another attempted assassination, when an unknown group fired a 7.62 submachine gun at Musharraf's plane as it took off from a runway in Rawalpindi. Security also recovered 2 anti-aircraft guns, from which no"
"former Balochistan Chief Minister of Balochistan Taj Muhammad Jamali. In 2009 he went to Karachi on an unofficial visit; on 6 August 2009, he was assassinated in the Gulistan-e-Jauhar neighborhood of Karachi. He was shot three times; the bullets hit his jaw and neck. His burial place is Rojhan Jamali. Rustam Jamali Mir Rustam Jamali (1963–2009) was the Excise and Taxation Minister of Balochistan, assassinated in August 2009. He was born in the village of Bakhra near Usta Mohammad in Balochistan, the son of Mir Yar Muhammad Jamali of the Jamali tribe. He finished his early education in Balochistan. After"
"Miangul Asfandyar Amir Zeb Miangul Asfandyar Amir Zeb (Pashto:میانگل اسفندیار امیرزېب) was a Pakistani politician and a member of the royal family of the former Princely State of Swat, who was killed in an assassination attack by the Taliban during the 2007 skirmishes in Swat. His assassination was the first high-profile killing by the Taliban militants of Swat, occurring just a day after the killing of Benazir Bhutto. Amir Zeb was the grandson of the former ruler of the Swat, Miangul Jehanzeb, and the former president of Pakistan, Ayub Khan Khatri. He was the son of Miangul Amir Zeb (who"
"expressed their shock and condemnation of his killing. Shahbaz Bhatti Clement Shahbaz Bhatti (9 September 19682 March 2011), popularly known as Shahbaz Bhatti, was a Pakistani politician and elected member of the National Assembly from 2008. He was the first Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs from November 2008 until his assassination on 2 March 2011 in Islamabad and the only Christian in the Cabinet. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for his killing and called him a blasphemer of Muhammad. In March 2016, five years after the death of Shahbaz Bhatti, his cause for beatification was formally opened by the Roman Catholic"
"involved in an alleged plot to kill her: current Intelligence Bureau (IB) Chief Ijaz Shah, former chief minister of Punjab Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, former chief minister of Sindh Arbab Ghulam Rahim, and the former ISI chief, Hamid Gul, as those who posed a threat to her life. British newspaper ""The Times"" suggested that elements within the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence with close ties to Islamists might have been behind the killing, though it asserts that Musharraf would have been unlikely to have ordered the assassination. October 2007 emails from Bhutto saying she would blame Musharraf for her death if she were"
"Mumtaz Qadri Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri (1985 – 29 February 2016), better known as Mumtaz Qadri (, ), was the assassin of Salmaan Taseer, Governor of Punjab. Qadri was a commando of the Elite Police and, at the time of the assassination, a member of the squad of personal bodyguards assigned to protect Salmaan Taseer. A follower of the Barelvi version of Sunni Islam, he assassinated Taseer on 4 January 2011. He claimed to have killed the Governor because Taseer spoke in defense of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death. Qadri was convicted"
"but it would not deter him from fighting against extremists. On 9 January 2014, he died along with two other officers, his guard and driver, when a bomb targeted his convoy on the Lyari expressway in Karachi. The Mohmand Agency chapter of the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack. Sajjad Mohmand, a spokesman for the militant group, said Aslam was targeted for carrying out operations against the TTP. ""Aslam was involved in killing Taliban prisoners in CID cells in Karachi and was on the top of our hit-list,"" he said. Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif praised SP"
"but it may actually ricochet on them."" On the second day after the attack, the moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in terror-related cases by Nawaz Sharif after which Mohammed Aqeel along with Arshad Mehmood, the convicted for a failed assassination attempt on the previous President, General Pervez Musharraf, were executed on the 19th of December. Protesters in Pakistan's capital Islamabad surrounded a pro-Taliban mosque and reclaimed the space. A series of candle vigils were held throughout Pakistan in solidarity with the victims. A number of international communities recorded their protest to condemn the attack. On 30 December 2014, Pakistani"
"2018 Mastung and Bannu bombings On 13 July 2018, ahead of the Pakistan's general election, two bombings took place at election rallies in Bannu and Mastung. In Bannu, a remotely exploded bomb planted in a motorcycle left 5 people dead and 37 others wounded in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Akram Khan Durrani. Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen, an extremist organization, claimed responsibility for the attack. In Mastung, a suicide bomber blew himself up during a rally for the Balochistan Awami Party's Siraj Raisani, the brother of former Balochistan chief minister Aslam Raisani. One of the deadliest terrorist attacks"
"good restaurants such as McDonald's papa salis and Diva restaurant. There are few cricket pitches and big COSMO cash and carry store. Jinnah Park Jinnah Park is a park in the centre of the city of Rawalpindi in Punjab Province, Pakistan located on Jail Road, next to the Rawalpindi District Courts. The park was the former site of the District Jail Rawalpindi for close to a century. Most notably it is where former President and Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was hanged to death on April 4, 1979, around the corner from his official residence and office (then known as"
"Ahmed Malik, Muzafar Ahmad Bhat and Naveed Jatt. Soon after, they named Naveed Jutt, the top Pakistani terrorist who made a dramatic escape from a Srinagar hospital in February, as the killer. Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh termed the killing ""an act of cowardice"". Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba was quoted as having ""strongly condemned"" the killing and blaming it on the ""enmity"" of ""Indian agencies"" towards every individual who is ""loyal to the freedom movement"". Reporters Without Borders was quoted saying that Shujaat Bukhari escaped a murder attempt by armed men in June 2006, at which time Bukhari had told"
"together setting off the explosives killing himself and Hamidi.The target killing or assassination was blamed on the Taliban insurgents, who are guided and supported by foreign elements such as Pakistan's ISI spy agency and Iran's Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force. Two other associates of Afghan President Hamid Karzai – his half brother Ahmad Wali Karzai and Jan Mohammad Khan – were assassinated in the weeks that preceded Haider's killing. Two of Hamidi's deputies and a police chief were previously assassinated. Hamidi himself survived a 2009 bomb attack on his car. Ghulam Haider Hamidi Ghulam Haider Hamidi (, also spelled Ghulam Haidar"
"contact group on Afghanistan. Naik, who also served as High Commissioner to India, played a pivotal role in the back-channel talks during the 1999 Kargil War between India and Pakistan. He was also instrumental in the back-door negotiations on behalf of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif with R. K. Mishra, an aide of then Indian Prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Naik was found murdered in his house in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on August 8, 2009. A postmortem revealed that Naik may have been tortured before he was killed. Four ribs and the jaw bone were fractured and his lungs"
"elder sister of famous Bangladeshi Singer Runa Laila who later died due to cancer. Faheem died on 21 November 2015 from leukemia after being admitted to a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan under ICU at the age of 76. Makhdoom Amin Fahim was mentioned as a possible chairman for the PPP, in the wake of the 27 December 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto, but Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Asif Ali Zardari were named party co-chairs and he was considered the party's probable candidate for Prime Minister. However, the PPP hesitated to name Mr. Makhdoom as its candidate following its victory in"
"Hussain, was shot and killed in Karachi just before re-election was due to be held. Three days later, it was announced that the PTI had taken the Karachi seat in re-polling. Imran Khan alleged that Altaf Hussain, a leader of MQM, was responsible for inciting violence and was responsible for the murder. Few days later, British Police raided Altaf Hussain's house in London. The PML(N)'s key strategist, Sartaj Aziz, announced in news media the next day that the independents candidates were in negotiation process with the PML(N) to join the party to form the government and to work out ""a"
"in Islamabad when Police's special forces conducted an armed raid in the Mosque. The general elections were dealt with a great shock on 27 December 2007 when Benazir Bhutto was assassinated while leaving a rally in Rawalpindi. Bhutto's assassination raised many questions as to whether the general election would be postponed. Following the fatal attack, Pervez Musharraf held an emergency meeting with other government officials, but stated that ""no decision had been made on whether to delay the national elections."" Benazir Bhutto had ""become an appealing solution"" to United States officials frustrated with President Musharraf's failure to restore democracy to"
"Pakistan. Liaquat Ali Khan, prime minister of Pakistan, is assassinated, calling forth from Kabul a sympathetic message and a tribute to his ability. The Pakistan government on its side is careful to stress the point that, although the assassin is stated to be of Afghan origin, there is no sinister significance in that fact, especially as he has been an exile in Pakistan for some time. 1951 in Afghanistan The following lists events that happened during 1951 in Afghanistan. As in the previous year, relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan are not happy, because of charges and countercharges regarding border incidents"
"Front was led by Mullah Adbul Qayoum Zakir, also known as Abdullah Gulam Rasoul, a former detainee of Guantanamo Bay who was released in 2007. The Dadullah Front claimed responsibility for 14 May 2012 assassination of Afghan High Peace Minister Mullah Arsala Rahmani, who was shot in traffic within Kabul. Spokesman Qari Hamza, speaking to the ""Express Tribune"", stated that the Dadullah Front would ""target and eliminate"" all persons allowing ""[non-Muslim] occupation of Afghanistan."" Rahmani was the second Peace minister to be killed within the year, following the assassination of Burhanuddin Rabbani by a suicide bomber on 20 September 2011."
"support for Musharraf declined when Nawaz Sharif successfully made a second attempt to return from exile, this time accompanied by his younger brother and his daughter. Hundreds of their supporters were detained before the pair arrived at Iqbal Terminal on 25November 2007. Nawaz Sharif filed his nomination papers for two seats in the forthcoming elections whilst Benazir Bhutto filed for three seats including one of the reserved seats for women. Departing an election rally in Rawalpindi on 27December 2007, Benazir Bhutto was assassinated by a gunman who shot her in the neck and set off a bomb. The exact sequence"