Pakistan Politics

Kaira says survey based on presumptions

53 pc Pakistanis see India as biggest threat

Nawaz popularity rating 71pc
WASHINGTON: Only one in five Pakistanis view their president, Asif Ali Zardari, favourably while the country’s army chief gets a more positive rating, according to a new opinion poll released Thursday.

The US-based Pew Research Center said of about 2,000 adults interviewed in Pakistan in April, only 20 per cent saw Zardari positively, down from 64 per cent in a poll two years ago. The margin of error was plus or minus three percentage points. Read More »Zardari fares poorly, Kayani more popular: poll

Dubai—Former President Pervez Musharraf has said that Nawaz Sharif is foolish and mindless and when he talks sense then he would respond.

Talking to media here, the former President said that he wants to return to the country and play his role in the country’s politics and take the country out of challenges it is facing today

He said that it is not the people who have failed but it is the government, which has failed miserably to control the situation.
Read More »Nawaz is mindless: Musharraf