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Senators surprised at World Bank’s role in drafting Pakistan’s oil exploration...

ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani on Wednesday directed the petroleum ministry to submit a written response about the extent to which the World Bank...

Senator lambastes move to deprive provinces of developing upstream petroleum sector

ISLAMABAD: Senator Farhatullah Babar on Wednesday said a mysterious move is afoot to deprive the provinces of their rights to develop upstream petroleum sector...

Guantanamo Bay like prisons operated in FATA, Balochistan: Farhatullah Babar

ISLAMABAD: Senator Farhatullah Babar said Tuesday that the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and parts of Balochistan have become black holes for detainees held by...

Saudi-led Islamic alliance: Babar tells defence minister not to make commitments...

ISLAMABAD: Ahead of the formal launch of the Saudi-led ‘pan-Islamic’ coalition, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) lawmaker Farhatullah Babar on Friday asked Defence Minister Khurram...

Farhatullah Babar warns against creeping Talibanisation of tribal areas

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Senator Farhatullah Babar has warned against the creeping Talibanisation of the tribal areas on one hand and denying the...

Senator suggests legislative framework for journalists’ safety

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Senator Farhatullah Babar on Tuesday urged the media persons to avail the two recent opportunities that opened up last...

Farhatullah Babar says ‘Gitmo, Bagram-like torture cells’ present in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Senator Farhatullah Babar claimed on Friday that there were secret torture cells operating throughout the country. He said that investigation...

Farhatullah Babar says commission on enforced disappearances failed to fix responsibility

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Senator Farhatullah Babar has said that during the past six years the commission on enforced disappearances had failed...

Senator expresses concerns about human rights on eve of UN’s periodic...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Farhatullah Babar on Saturday said that it was a grim thought to realise, on the eve of human rights...

Pakistan needs ‘intellectual infrastructure’ to fight extremism: senator

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Farhatullah Babar said on Friday that there is a need to create an intellectual infrastructure and a space for...

PPP leadership has ruled out helping Nawaz, says Farhatullah Babar

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Senator Farhatullah Babar has said that PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Co-chairman Asif Zardari have ruled out helping former...

PPP says govt helpless in missing persons’ issue

KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Senator Farhatullah Babar has said that the government is helpless in solving the issue of missing persons and Senate’s...

PPP senator urges interior minister to take notice of Turkish educationist,...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Senator Farhatullah Babar has urged Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal to take notice of the "enforced disappearance" of a Turkish educationist and his...

Back seat driving syndrome new threat to democracy: Babar

ISLAMABAD: Senator Farhatullah Babar has called for deeper reflection on new emerging threats to democracy and to contain them. Speaking in the Senate on the...

Decision of Benazir’s murder case extremely disappointing: Farhatullah Babar

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Farhatullah Babar, while speaking on a private TV show on Thursday, said that the decision to acquit 5 in...

Interior ministry accuses PPP of issuing misleading statements

The interior ministry has alleged that it has become a habit of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leaders to distort issues by ‘frequently indulging in...

Generals, judges, journalists must also be held accountable

Senator Farhatullah Babar has said that fundamental issues in corruption namely exempting sacred cows from accountability, turning a blind eye to institutional corruption, and...