Tag: Coalition

No mean feat Despite the various failures and shortcomings of the PPP-led coalition, it goes to the government’s credit that it has managed to take...

Twentieth time’s the charm The ruling coalition and the opposition have both been successful with their agendas. The opposition wanted to ensure that the government...

The provincial lawmakers in Sindh Assembly on Monday responded differently to the Supreme Court (SC)’s conviction of Prime Minister (PM) Yousaf Raza Gilani in...

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani offered to step down from his post in the wake of the worsening political situation in the country and...

Coalition partners of the government, on Thursday, expressed complete unawareness about the much-talked resolution in the parliament, to show confidence and support for the...

Of pushing partisan agendas How different are the dynamics of people’s politics from the dynamics of electoral politics was clear by the turn the bill...

Under immense pressure from the PML-N backed public demonstrations across Punjab against gas outages, the top leaders of coalition government on Tuesday smartly played...

While the opposition parties inside and outside parliament are already up in arms against the government, the National Assembly on Monday witnessed an implosion...

A top ally of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh threatened to quit the ruling coalition on Friday unless he reversed a rise in gasoline...

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's fate hung by a thread on Friday and desertions from his crumbling centre-right coalition may have already robbed him...

The Senate Standing Committee on Finance on Tuesday directed the government to take a firm stance on the recovery of $2.5 billion dues under...

With the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) rejoining the Sindh government, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leadership is facing a quandary as to how to...

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday accused the allied parties of the government of being involved in the Karachi unrest, saying some parties...

Four service members from the NATO-led force in Afghanistan were killed in two separate attacks on Sunday, the coalition said, the day after 30...

Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain called for the army to be deployed in violence-ravaged Karachi on Wednesday, as coalition partners in the...

Leaders of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) have hinted that the latter might rejoin the government soon. Addressing...

Yemen's opposition is to form a coalition to unite its various strands ahead of the return of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is hospitalised...