Tag: Chief Minister

Mian Mohammad Shahbaz Sharif, Pakistan's prime minister-in-waiting and current chief minister of the powerful Punjab province, is considered the more ...

Pakistan's ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif named his brother Shahbaz, the chief minister of Punjab province, as his successor and ...

Pakistan's three-time premier Nawaz Sharif, whose power base earned him the moniker "Lion of Punjab", is a political survivor who ...

Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was Friday ousted from the top office by the Supreme Court, but as the head ...

A former arch-rival of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi aligned with the Hindu nationalist leader on Thursday to form a ...

The leader of India's eastern Bihar state resigned from his post on Wednesday in a surprise move widely expected to ...

Anger was growing in Pakistan Tuesday as the grief-stricken relatives of 26 people killed by a suicide bomber in Lahore ...

Indian censors have refused to certify a documentary film featuring Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen unless words like "cow" and ...

Indian leaders and Kashmiri separatists united Tuesday to condemn an attack on a bus that killed seven Hindu pilgrims and ...

Militants killed six Hindu pilgrims and wounded 14 others Monday in Indian-administered Kashmir, police told AFP, after their bus came ...

A dozen people have died after drinking toxic homemade alcohol in Uttar Pradesh state, police said Monday, the latest incident ...

Fresh violence erupted in Darjeeling Saturday after a separatist group accused police of killing a supporter, prompting forces to fire ...

India's leader Narendra Modi arrived in the US for his first meeting Monday with President Donald Trump, seeking to build ...

India's leader heads to the US this weekend for his first meeting with President Donald Trump, seeking to build on ...

An angry mob beat a police officer to death outside a mosque in Indian-administered Kashmir as tensions ran high in ...

An angry mob beat a police officer to death outside a mosque in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said Friday, as tensions ...

Huddled under umbrellas to escape a thundering monsoon downpour, dozens of Muslims stood in line at a Yangon mosque for ...

A western Indian state has agreed to write off loans to farmers estimated to be worth nearly $5 billion after ...

At least five farmers are dead after shots were fired during a protest in the central Indian state of Madhya ...

Arundhati Roy's eagerly-awaited second novel goes on sale Tuesday, two decades after her prize-winning debut "The God of Small Things" ...