Tag: Differences

KARACHI - Tazeen Qayyum's work comments on aggressive global politics and the subsequent suppression of differences. She uses insects as motifs, her favourite being dead cockroaches that are repeated in a pattern and are simultaneously rendered as compelling and repulsive.
Through these dead insects, she comments on human rights violations and human fatalities in the current wartime environment. The paintings have an attractive appeal, but only when the works are looked at

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly's Standing Committee on Law and Justice is likely to meet during the upcoming session of the Lower House to thrash out differences between the PPP and the PML-N on a new accountability bill particularly on the qualification of the chairman of the accountability commission. The PPP and the PML-N are struggling since April 2009 to develop consensus on the proposed accountability commission and the meetings between the PML-N four member committee and the

LONDON - Serious differences have emerged in the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) over the establishment of a separate chapter of AJK PML-N in the UK. A lobby in the party headed by President UK Zubair Gul is try their best to convince the party top leadership to reject the proposal of AJK PML-N leaders for their own branch in Britain, a party source informed Pakistan Today. A PML source said that Zubair Gul wanted a complete hegemony over the party affairs and was not willing to

KARACHI - Though the MQM members had returned to the Sindh Assembly on Thursday after ending their boycott, the differences between the MQM and the PPP on major issues still persisted. Assembly Speaker Nisar Ahmed Khuhro prorogued the session without waiting for a consensus between the two parties.
It was the second continuous session of the Provincial Assembly that was convened on Tuesday, a day after prorogation of the earlier session. The previous session had started on

LAHORE - Former Pakistan captain and wicketkeeper Rashid Latif believes that the 'disagreements' within the Pakistan Cricket Board have led it to withhold the name of the captain for the next month's World Cup.
"Other boards have named their skippers with the squad, yet the Pakistan Cricket Board has chosen not to select a captain which is extremely strange. However I think the reason for this is down to the disagreements within the Board and the fact that the team management and

ISLAMABAD - MQM, PPP become coalition partners: The relationship between the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has not been as pleasant as was forecast when the coalition was formed although the MQM, along with other political parties, gave the vote of confidence to PPP-nominated Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani in March 2008.
The appointment of Suddle as IG Sindh: The first instance of serious differences emerged soon afterwards when the PPP

ISLAMABAD - Information and Broadcasting Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira denied reports of differences between President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani over the removal of Hamid Saeed Kazmi and Azam Swati from the federal cabinet, a private TV channel reported on Tuesday.
Talking to journalists, the minister defended the sacking of Hamid Saeed Kazmi and Azam Swati as federal ministers, saying that it was the demand of the judiciary and the media. He quoted the

KARACHI: In a bid to resolve the ongoing dispute between Sindh and Punjab over five major potential port services, an inter provincial meeting has been called in the federal capital today (Monday), likely to be chaired by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani.
Pakistan Today has learnt that both provinces seemed reluctant to compromise on their stance, which was delaying the implementation of the reformed general sales tax (RGST), a condition set by the International Monetary Fund

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