One and a half decade after Vajpayee demitted office, he is today remembered as a leader who took forward India's telecom revolution, laid the foundation for massive infrastructure projects - road, rail and air, in a size and scale that matched the Nehruvian-era.

Imran Khan's priority will be to get the economy back on track.

Jailed former PM Nawaz Sharif's PML-N won 43 seats and was leading in 18 constituencies while PPP led by former president Asif Ali Zardari won 18 seats and its candidates were leading in 22 seats according to the latest unofficial results.

Pakistan's National Assembly comprises a total of 342 members, of which 272 will be directly elected whereas the rest 60 seats reserved for women and 10 for religious minorities are selected later through proportional representation among parties.

Officials from Pakistan's anti-graft body, who were present at the airport, took them into custody as they came out of the plane. The two were convicted on July 6 in the Evenfield properties case linked to the Sharif family's ownership of four luxury flats in London.

Nawaz's son-in-law Capt (retd) Safdar was also given a one-year sentence. While Sharif was fined 8 million pounds ($10 million), his daughter Maryam was handed down a 2 million pound ($2.6 million) fine.

The format the 2+2 Dialogue had been agreed upon when Prime Minister Narendra Modi met US President Donald Trump for the first time in the White House last June.

The move comes after the country's Supreme Court conditionally allowed Musharraf to return from Dubai, where he has been living in self-exile to avoid arrest on criminal charges. Musharraf's party said he will campaign for a seat representing the northern town of Chitral.

Lieutenant General (retd) Durrani, who headed the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency from August 1990 till March 1992, along with Dulat has written \"The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace\". The book was released on Wednesday.

At the 84th plenary session of the Congress, Singh described the government's demonetisation move as ill-considered and GST as hastily implemented. \"The BJP-led government messed up the Indian economy. The ill-considered demonetisation and hastily implemented GST have destroyed small scale enterprises,\" he said.