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Former federal minister Senator Muhammad Ali Durrani has said that the statement of the prime minister is conflictive with the constitution of Pakistan and...

The President House had succumbed to the pressure by Sindh Home Minister Manzoor Wasan after he threatened to resign if former Sindh inspector general...

The Supreme Court on Monday returned a petition filed by PML-Q former federal minister Senator Muhammad Ali Durrani seeking the recovery of billions of...

The Anjuman Talba-e-Islam (ATI) held a protest against Tehmina Durrani for writing a book against pirs titled Blasphemy. Protesters chanted slogans against the writer and...

Declaring 2011 as the year of restoration of provincial status to Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur National Awami Party (BNAP) Secretary General Senator Mohammed Ali Durrani accused...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Law Minister Dr Babar Awan Wednesday said that government was fully determined to uplift living standards of people in southern Punjab and to bring them at par with the rest of the country. He told this to Senator Mohammad Ali Durrani who called on him to discuss the issues of southern Punjab, with a specific reference to Bahawalpur.
Senator Mohammad Ali Durrani discussed various legal and administrative issues regarding the development of less developed areas

LAHORE - Senator Muhammad Ali Durrani has demanded the prime minister to inform the people of Bahawalpur about the geographical demarcation of a Seraiki province within 48 hours. Addressing a press conference at the Lahore Press Club on Monday, Durrani said that instead of making political statements for garnering support for next election, the prime minister should announce the plans that the PPP government had in mind for creating the Seraiki province.
He said the people of

ISLAMABAD - Chief of Muttahida Mahaz Bahawalpur (MMB) and former information minister Senator Mohammad Ali Durrani Saturday warned the Punjab government of a long march if the 'loot sale' of Bahawalpur state lands is not stopped.
Addressing a press conference, Senator Durrani warned those who had acquired the state lands to vacate the lands or be ready to face public wrath. "Those who have bought these lands as front men of the influential will be tagged as 'traitors' of the

LAHORE - WAPDA Chairman Shakil Durrani has directed the Chinese contractor Messers Dongfang Electric Corporation to accelerate work on Jinnah Hydropower Project, so that it could start electricity generation by August this year. He expressed these views during his visit to Jinnah Hydropower Project.
The project is a part of the least-cost energy generation plan, being executed by WAPDA, to harness the indigenous hydropower resources of the country. Speaking on the occasion, the

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Industries and Production Dr Ayat Ullah Durrani, on Friday, informed the Upper House of the Parliament that the government has taken timely measures to meet domestic fertiliser requirement. He claimed that sufficient fertilisers are present in the country.
He stated that the country has adequate urea stock as it is producing about 5.4 million tonnes, while the total demand is around 6.4 million tonnes. He stressed that the demand gap is being filled

LAHORE - Former information minister Muhammad Ali Durrani called on the Jamiat Ulema Pakistan (JUP) Secretary General Qari Zawar Bahadur in his office and asked to support the Bahawalpur's movement as a separate province.
Zawar announced to support the movement for the establishment of further provinces in order to improve administrative matters and to facilitate people. He said that the restoration of Bahawalpur's status as a province was a part of their manifesto.
He also

ISLAMABAD - Minister of state for industries and production Ayatullah Durrani on Thursday made a startling disclosure that Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) had trained 25 professors teaching in Balochistan to misguide the students against Pakistan by brainwashing them.
The minister said this during a meeting of a delegation of professors from Balochistan with Education Minister Sardar Aseff Ahmed Ali.
"RAW has trained 25 professors to misguide our

ISLAMABAD - Five small dams having a power generation capacity of 225 MW would be completed during next eight months to help mitigate power shortage in the country. The projects to be completed during the period include Sattpara dam, Gomal zam and Jinnah Hydel Power projects, Chairman Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA), Shakeel Durrani said while addressing the two-day seminar on `Land Acquisition and Resettlement of Mega Hydropower Projects in Pakistan, on Friday.