Tag: farhatullah babar
Bilawal slams PIA privatisation move, says there is conflict of interest
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Thursday said that the party will never permit the privatization of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)...
Achieving SDG targets necessary to become welfare state: Farhatullah Babar
ISLAMABAD: The achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted unanimously by the UN member states is critical to transforming the country from a security...
Farhatullah Babar calls for legislation to make state agencies accountable
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader, Senator Farhatullah Babar, has asked the civil society organisations to play their role in persuading the government to...
Swat protests outcome of humiliation at army check posts: Farhatullah Babar
PPP senator says peaceful people are being tried on terrorism charges while actual terrorist are enjoying state’s hospitality
Questions land allotment to retired generals
ISLAMABAD:...
Bilawal meets Congressman Brad Sherman
KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari called on Congressman Brad Sherman of Democratic Party in Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
PPP Spokesperson Senator...
Draft of protection of journalists bill finalised
A Journalists Safety Fund will be introduced to assist the journalists under attack, ascertain and address causes of impunity of crimes against journalists
ISLAMABAD:...
Senator seeks amendments in FATA reforms bill
ISLAMABAD: Senator Farhatullah Babar said Thursday that the piecemeal extension of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court (SC) and Peshawar High Court (PHC) at...
Parliament be taken into confidence over mainstreaming of militant organisations: Farhatullah...
ISLAMABAD: Senator Farhatullah Babar demanded that the parliament is taken into confidence about the not so secret moves to mainstream militant organisations in the...
Let’s call 2018 ‘year of children’: Farhatullah Babar
Child commissioner suggests linking DNA test with NADRA
Calling for compiling credible data on incidents involving child abuse, Senator Farhatullah Babar, while addressing a...
Farhatullah Babar questions if anti-terrorism fatwa applies to cross-border jihad
ISLAMABAD: Senator Farhatullah Babar has questioned whether the anti-terrorism fatwa of religious scholars, declaring private jihad as well as suicide bombings as un-Islamic, also...
Serving army officers cannot be DG Military Lands, says PPP senator
ISLAMABAD: Senator Farhatullah Babar on Monday said that continued posting of serving army officers as Director General (DG) Military Lands and Cantonments is a...
Farhatullah Babar for criminalising enforced disappearances
Says those challenging state's security narrative risk disappearance, but ones purveying hate speech go free
ISLAMABAD: Former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf’s admission in...
PPP warns against secret moves to mainstream militants
Senator Farhatullah asks govt to come out clean, place facts before parliament for discussion, debate
'Entrusting task of NGOs registration to police or...
PPP calls for shift of military’s businesses to private sector
Senator Farhatullah proposes military to restrict their commercial, industrial activities to weapons, defence sectors
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Senator Farhatullah Babar called for...
National emergency voters’ registration drive proposed
ISLAMABAD: There is a need for a national emergency voters' registration drive, if necessary through legislation, to make national identity cards for all the...
Senators calls for judicial probe of Faizabad protest
ISLAMABAD: The senators from both treasury and opposition benches on Thursday demanded setting up a judicial or parliamentary commission to probe the reasons behind the...
Broken criminal justice system core issue in violence against women
ISLAMABAD: The broken criminal justice system and misrepresentation of religion, as witnessed in the ‘dharna’ last month at Faizabad, were the core issues perpetrating...
