The governing coalition of Pakistan split on Monday after Nawaz Sharif, former Pakistani Prime Minister, pulled his party, the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N), out of the government.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is in Dubai for urgent talks with coalition partners on the fate of Pakistan's sacked judges, the month-old government's deadline to reinstate the judges ends on Wednesday.

Salman Siddiq requested Nawaz Sharif and all other important political leaders to co-operate with government for fully ensuring their foolproof security cover to avoid any untoward incident in future.

Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who returned to the country on Sunday after eight years exile, has applied for registration to run in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif has returned from exile and demanded that his rival, President Pervez Musharraf, scrap emergency rule.

Shahbaz Sharif says he will contest elections from APDM platform of the All Parties Democratic Movement. General visiting Jeddah reaching amicable settlements with Nawaz which may result political harmony and balancing act with respect to former PM Benazir going berserk for coming election advocating to boycott the elections. Nawaz falling in mainstreams of Pakistan politics may involve more majority actions in coming elections.

Exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the man President Pervez Musharraf deposed, is set to return to Pakistan within days, aides said, after a deal to lift his exile in Saudi Arabia.

A lawyer for Pakistan's former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, has filed a legal challenge against the government for deporting him from Pakistan. The government, however, has argued Mr. Sharif was not forcibly deported but instead chose to return to exile rather than face arrest on corruption charges.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrived in Saudi Arabia hours after he was was deported from his country. A diplomat based in Saudi Arabia said Saudi officials, whom he did not name, received Sharif at Jiddah's royal terminal, where his plane landed.

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been reportedly deported to Saudi Arabia after he was arrested by police on returning to Islamabad Monday morning after seven years in exile.

The Pakistani government has reopened a corruption case against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and a court has ordered the arrest of Mr. Sharif's brother. The reopening of the case comes just three days before Mr. Sharif was due to return to Pakistan to challenge General Pervez Musharraf for the presidency.

In yet another setback for embattled President Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif can return home after seven years in exile in Saudi Arabia.