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PPP tables bill in Senate for south Punjab province

ISLAMABAD: Former senator Farhatullah Babar has said that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) on Saturday tabled a constitution amendment bill in the Senate to create...

Babar warns against backdoor centrist governance

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Senator Farhatullah Babar has warned that if a centrist or presidential form of government was imposed through back door,...

Babar calls for legislation to determine limits of suo motu powers

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) Secretary-General and former senator Farhatullah Babar, expressing disappointment over the rejection of the review petitions in the benami accounts...

Babar says awarding contract of Mohmand Dam to Descon unethical

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Secretary General Farhatullah Babar, criticising the government for awarding the contract of construction of Mohmand Dam to Adviser to...

PTI wants to introduce presidential form of govt: PPP

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leaders have alleged that the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) wants to introduce a presidential system in the country, adding...

Law criminalising enforced disappearances to be drafted soon: Farhatullah Babar

PPP leader says govt had no idea at that time detention centres would become Abu Ghraib prisons of Pakistan DHRPK Chairperson Amina Masood Janjua says...

State agencies involved in enforced disappearances: Farhatullah Babar

ISLAMABAD: Former senator and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Farhatullah Babar has said that after General (r) Musharraf's admission of secretly handing over hundreds of...

Farhatullah Babar demands review of Qisas laws, questions role of CII

ISLAMABAD: Former Senator Farhatullah Babar has called for a review of the Qisas (retribution) and Diyat (compensation) laws so that pardon can be granted...

PPP demands forensic audit of Forms 45 to be uploaded on...

The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has demanded that the forensic audit of all Forms 45 should be uploaded by the Election Commission of Pakistan...

Uniform regulatory body for all media ‘provocative’, says Babar

ISLAMABAD:  Former senator and Secretary General of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Farhatullah Babar on Friday condemned the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government's decision to abolish Pakistan...

PPP terms media trial of Zardari, Faryal as political victimisation

--Army officers pressurised candidates to change loyalties, Farhatullah Babar alleges LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) central leaders have described the latest spate of media trial against...

UN report on Kashmir opportunity to alleviate people’s sufferings: Farhatullah Babar

ISLAMABAD: Former senator Farhatullah Babar on Sunday said that the report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights presented last month offered an...

PPP’s Farhatullah Babar to be part of jirga holding negotiations between...

KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday forwarded the name of former Senator Farhatullah Babar to be made a part of a...

Employing trade as tool of security policy hurting economy: Senator Babar

ISLAMABAD: Senator Farhatullah Babar said on Tuesday that the national economy will not become strong as long as regional trade is employed as a tool...

Farhatullah Babar predicts nationwide movement against enforced disappearances

ISLAMABAD: Farhatullah Babar said on Thursday that protesting voices against the extra-judicial killings, mysterious disappearances of citizens and Guantanamo Bay-like centres in the tribal areas...

Farhatullah Babar calls for protecting rights of Pakistani workers in CPEC...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader, Senator Farhatullah Babar, has said that there is a need for transparency in all the infrastructure projects under...

Farhatullah slams cut in indigenous production of oil and gas

--Demands probe into manipulating LNG imports at public expense   ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarian (PPPP) General Secretary Farhatullah Babar condemned the unexplained reduction in the indigenous...