Government should have registered a case on Bugti's murder: Nawaz

QUETTA: Pakistan Muslim league-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif on Friday said that the people of Balochistan were not satisfied with government’s Balochistan package and stressed adequate steps should be to solve the problems of the Baloch people.

Sharif was talking to newsmen after meeting Talal Bugti, the son of former Jamhoori Watan party chief late Nawab Akbar Bugti. He also asked why had the government failed to prosecute the murderers of Nawab Akbar Bugti.

Reacting to news that the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party was more concerned about pushing for early elections than Balochistan. Sharif added that early elections was “a demand of every Pakistani.”

Nawaz Sharif said Balochistan package was “ineffective for the healing of their wounds. National conference should be held soon to find a way to solve Balochistan issue.”

'There is no war,' Zardari allays concerns of clash of institutions

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari sought on Friday to allay concerns that tensions between his government and the powerful military could deepen, and a clash between the executive and the judiciary.  

The biggest pressure is from the memogate scandal over an unsigned memo that accused the military of plotting a coup after it was humiliated by the unilateral US special forces raid that killed Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil in May last year.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court is investigating who could have been behind the memo which the media and Zardari’s opponents have suggested was an act of treason.