Tag: Consensus

In a bid to evolve consensus on the draft accountability law between the PPP and the PML-N, parliamentarians have decided to review how they...

Urging political parties to evolve a consensus over all national issues, former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Saturday that the country is...

Taking his own constituency – the military cadres – into confidence over the killing of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden by US forces...

Opposition parties in the Upper House of parliament are still indecisive to bring a consensus opposition leader in the House, with the JUI-F claiming...

ISLAMABAD - Realising that the economic and security situation in the country cannot improve without all political parties, in and outside parliament, being on the same page, the government is considering a proposal of forming a government of 'national consensus.'
A source told Pakistan Today on Tuesday that the government was seriously thinking about the proposal and if all political parties agreed to it, a government of national consensus could possibly be formed in May. Even

ISLAMABAD - Responding to a letter by President Asif Ali Zardari seeking consultation over the appointment of Justice (r) Deedar Hussain Shah as the NAB chairman, Opposition Leader Nisar Ali Khan on Monday proposed the formation of a panel of suitable candidates for the post for consolation purposes and to facilitate the development of a consensus amongst the consultants.
Nisar, however, avoided categorically rejecting the president's proposal of Justice (r) Shah's appointment

Continued from page 32 - The leader of the opposition has the highest respect and regard for the august court and is of the view that its order should have been accepted without demur and another suitable person appointed after meaningful and consensus-oriented consultation in accordance with paragraph above."
"The leader of the opposition considers it's strange that without waiting for the detailed order of the court, the president has again proposed the appointment of Justice

LAHORE - Going back on the statement that he made on Saturday after meeting Jamaat-i-Islami leader Munawar Hassan at Mansoora, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman said on Sunday he will not allow Shahbaz Bhatti's assassination to become a reason for allowing any review of the blasphemy law.
Addressing the workers convention of JUI-F, he said no consensus on blasphemy law is required. The government was using the cover of 'reconciliation' to take decisions to

ISLAMABAD - Apart from rhetoric and media statements for public consumption, none of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) factions has yet taken any practical step for creation of new provinces. In recent past, though PML-Q, PML-F and PML Like-minded have been vociferously demanding creation of Saraiki Province, Hazara Province and restoration of Bahawalpur Province, but no serious effort was made by them to create any political consensus.
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ISLAMABAD -The Senate Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Human Rights and Parliamentary Affairs could not reach a consensus over the Election Laws Amendment Bill 2011. The bill was introduced by Senator Syed Nayyer Hussain Bokhari on behalf of the law minister to the committee that met here under the chairmanship of Senator Kazim Khan.
Senator Jehangir Badar, Senator Abdul Haseeb Khan, Senator Raza Rabbani and officials of the law ministry attended the meeting. Senator Raza

LAHORE - Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khan Khosa has said that all dams, including Kalabagh, must be built, but after removing the reservations of all the provinces.
He was talking to media people during his first interaction with PPP beat reporters at the Governor's House on Thursday. He said the country was in dire need of new big water reservoirs but these should not be constructed at the cost of the national unity, but with the consensus of the provinces.
The governor,

KARACHI - The government will not implement the RGST until the process of building confidence and reforms inside institutions is not complete, said Federal Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira on Sunday.
He said this while talking to the media on his visit to the Karachi Press Club (KPC). "The government wants to get the confidence of political parties and coalition partners before implementing the RGST," said Kaira. He, however, said that the government has not withdrawn from

LAHORE: The founder of 'Khudi', a social movement against extremism, Majid Nawaz said, "Extremism has been existing since partition, and it cannot be washed away within days. Pakistan is considered as a failed state because of lack of ideological consensus, which needs to be promoted to build a peaceful and democratic Pakistan."
Quilliam Director Majid Nawaz expressed these views in an interview with Pakistan Today. He said Khudi had a comprehensive programme to eliminate

PESHAWAR: Pakistan People's Party-Sherpao Chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has said that the Pakistan People's Party and its coalition partners have differences on national and international issues.
Addressing a press conference at his house in Peshawar he said, "How it is possible for the coalition partners to resolve problems of the masses when they lack consensus."
Sherpao said the economic decline and deteriorating law and order situation was the outcome of government's

ISLAMABAD: As corruption goes unchecked across the country, there are bleak chances of the passage of a consensus accountability bill by parliament to ensure a strict and transparent mechanism to check corruption.
Although the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Law and Justice is scheduled to meet tomorrow (Monday), yet the members of the committee see no chances of consensus.
"The government introduced a toothless accountability bill 18 months back in the National

ISLAMABAD
Owing to the political polarisation and worsening law and order in the country, Special Parliamentary Committee for Constitutional Reforms is unlikely to reach the consensus it had at the time of the passage of the 18th Amendment.
In the wake of the Supreme Court's verdict on the 18th Amendment, the committee is again required to review the article 175-A in the Amendment and another amendment will again have to be passed by the parliament by two-third majority to