Islamabad, Mar 8 : The wife of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's close friend has got a lucrative diplomatic posting abroad.
Observers alleged that Shehnaz Mazhar had won the position - a community welfare attaché in London - on political grounds.
Shehnaz is the wife of Pir Mazharul Haq, a senior minister in the Sindh cabinet and a close aide of Zardari.
"This is not a new appointment. It was made a couple of months ago," The Dawn quoted Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit, as saying.
Islamabad (dpa) - Pakistani troops killed at least 19 Taliban militants and injured scores of others in two overnight clashes in the country's troubled north-western tribal region that borders Afghanistan, government officials said Monday.
Islamabad, Mar. 8 : Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) is ready to mend ways with the PML-N in order to bring the present political blame game to an end, but the continuous verbal attack by PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has made the matter worse.
Islamabad, Mar. 8 : Last Tuesday's terrorist attack on the visiting cricket team from Sri Lanka is forcing Pakistan to look inward, making it more difficult to blame the U. S., India or other outsiders for a growing threat within its own borders.
Islamabad, Mar. 8 : Last Tuesday's attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team re- emphasizes the fact that the civilian government of President Asif Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is no more effective than the military rule promoted by President General Pervez Musharraf.
