Tag: FATA reforms

PM summons NSC meeting to discuss controversial book: reports

Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has summoned a meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC) on Tuesday in which the book co-authored by former...

FATA merger bill likely to be tabled in NA on Wednesday

--KP Assembly seats to increase from 126 to 147 ISLAMABAD: An amendment bill for the merger of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP)...

NSC meeting backs FATA reforms, autonomy for AJK and GB

--NSC meet backs structural reforms, devolution of power for the three federating units --Concerned ministries directed to work out constitutional, legal and administrative modalities for the...

PM briefs cabinet on meeting with political leaders over FATA reforms

Federal cabinet condemns attack on Ahsan Iqbal ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Tuesday chaired a meeting of the Federal Cabinet at Prime...

PM goes ahead with FATA mainstreaming plan

--National Security Committee approves plan ahead of the announcement --Modalities of the plan to be sorted out within next four weeks --Additional Rs1000 billion required for...

Nawaz felicitates nation on extension of superior courts’ jurisdiction to tribal...

Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday felicitated the nation on the passage of a bill in the National Assembly (NA) that has extended...

PML-N forced to seek help from JUI-F for CM Zehri’s rescue

Zehri loses two more lawmakers to opposition group  Fazl looking for bargain; wants FATA ISLAMABAD: Rebellion against Balochistan Chief Minister Sardar Sanaullah Zehri escalated...

NIC has already endorsed FATA-KP merger: report

PESHAWAR: The merger of tribal regions with northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has been endorsed by the high-powered National Implementation Committee (NIC) on Federally Administered...

Fazl discusses FATA reforms with army chief, says further talks needed...

ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam- Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Tuesday said that further consultations on the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) Reforms Bill will...

Credit of FATA reforms bill is solely PML-N’s: SAFRON minister

ISLAMABAD: Minister for States and Frontier Regions Lt Gen (r) Abdul Qadir Baloch on Thursday said that only Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) took the...

Govt serious about implementation of FATA reforms: Governor Jhagra

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Governor Engineer Iqbal Zafar Jhagra said Thursday that the government is serious about implementation of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)...

PM summons meeting of lawmakers to reach consensus on delimitation bill,...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has summoned an important meeting of the parliamentary leaders of all political parties to reach consensus on the...

Imran Khan, Sirajul Haq discuss FATA merger

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday had a chance meeting with Jamaat-e-Islami chief Sirajul Haq at Islamabad’s Benazir Bhutto International Airport...

JI sets Dec 31 deadline for govt to merge FATA with...

--JI chief Sirajul Haq says party will hold larger sit-in if govt fails to ensure merger by deadline --NA Opp leader Khursheed Shah assures protesters...

Ruckus in NA as FATA reforms bill dropped off agenda

--Government drops bill from agenda at the last moment --FATA, Opposition lawmakers tear copies of the changed agenda  ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly witnessed another day...

FATA reforms to usher new era of development: KP Governor

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra on Monday said that the implementation of FATA reforms will lead to initiating a new era...

PM assures implementation of FATA reforms

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for States and Frontier Regions Ghalib Khan along with FATA MNA Haji Shah Jee Gul Afridi called on Prime Minister...