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The myopic policymakers have been unable to plan prior to making policy decisions. The level of incompetence of the rulers could be judged by...

The Punjab Cabinet which met at Civil Secretariat on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif unanimously rejected the proposal for enhancing...

The Punjab Cabinet which met at Civil Secretariat on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif unanimously rejected the proposal for enhancing...

The Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT) demanded immediate right-sizing of the federal cabinet on Wednesday as it will be a burden...

The incompetence and corruption of former education ministers and other high-ups of the Federal Education Ministry and National Education Foundation (NEF), who held offices...

Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah on Thursday met with ministers from the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) at the CM House, primarily to tell...

ISLAMABAD - The PPP core committee on Monday resolved to induct another five PPP leaders into the federal cabinet in the second phase of cabinet formation, with Sherry Rehman, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Faisal Raza Abidi, Raja Parvez Ashraf and Sardar Aseff Ahmed likely make it to the cabinet. A source told Pakistan Today that names of two former information ministers - Kaira and Sherry Rehman - were being considered for the foreign minister, while Sardar Aseff might also be considered for

ISLAMABAD - Farooq Sattar has said that Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has asked the federal ministers to review the recent hike in POL prices as public is unable to bear this additional burden caused by the high prices of the petroleum products.
A delegation of the MQM headed by Dr Farooq Sattar called on the Federal Finance Minister Hafiz Sheikh and Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik here on Sunday and discussed the matter.
Talking to media, federal Finance Minister

ISLAMABAD - Showing rare unity, senators from all parties on Saturday staged a token walkout from the Upper House against the absence of ministers from the proceeding of the House. No minister was present in the House to answer questions raised by members, who wanted to grill them on issues like the hike in petroleum prices and power outages in Balochistan's 16 districts for the past 22 days. "We want to speak on issues like the 22-day power outage in 16 districts of Balochistan, hike

KARACHI - The personal security guard of Sindh Local Government Minister Agha Siraj Durrani was gunned down on Wednesday by two unidentified men in Azizabad. Thirty five-year-old Imran Manzoor alias Jangi was near Jamia Masjid Almas in Muhammadi Colony when two men on a motorcycle arrived on the scene and opened fire on him.
Azizabad SHO Habibullah Qureshi said that the victim suffered six bullets wounds and died on the spot. His body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital

KARACHI - The personal security guard of Sindh Local Government Minister Agha Siraj Durrani was gunned down on Wednesday by two unidentified men in Azizabad.
Thirty five-year-old Imran Manzoor alias Jangi was near Jamia Masjid Almas in Muhammadi Colony when two men on a motorcycle arrived on the scene and opened fire on him. Azizabad SHO Habibullah Qureshi said that the victim suffered six bullets wounds and died on the spot.
His body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed

ISLAMABAD - Board of Investment (BoI) Chairman Saleem H Mandviwalla has met with four Malaysian Ministers and held discussions regarding the promotion of bilateral trade between the two countries.
The chairman who is heading a 30 member Pakistan delegation of top representatives of private sector and official of BOI is on a three-day official visit of Malaysia to woo Malaysian investors to invest in Pakistan. High Commissioner for Pakistan in Malaysia, Masood Khalid, Dato

MUSCAT - Oman's Sultan Qaboos has replaced two ministers, days after protests erupted demanding an end to corruption and reforms in the normally placid Gulf state, official media reported on Saturday.
The sultan has appointed Khaled bin Hilal bin Saud al-Bousaidi as a minister of the royal court, replacing Ali bin Humud al-Bousaidi, the state ONA news agency said.
He also appointed Sultan bin Mohammed al-Numani as minister in the sultan's office, replacing Ali bin Majid

KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly on Friday passed a unanimous resolution condemning the murder of Federal Minority Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti and declaring it "another attack on disturbing peace and progress of Pakistan". The resolution was jointly moved by PPP, MQM and PML-F members including PPP's Sindh Electric Power Minister Shazia Marri, Dr Sikandar Mandhro, Pitambar Sewhani, and Dr Ahmed Ali Shah, MQM's Khawaja Izharul Hassan and PML-F's Nusrat Saher Abbasi.
Speaking on

GENEVA - The government on Thursday called on other countries not to link Wednesday's killing of its only Christian government minister, Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, to the wider issue of blasphemy. Bhatti, who had called for changes to the blasphemy laws, was shot in broad daylight in Islamabad.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan said they had assassinated him as a punishment for blasphemy. "We believe it would not be helpful to link the highly regrettable killing squarely in

LAHORE - Punjab Governor Latif Khosa on Monday signed the summary sent by Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif for the ouster of PPP ministers from the Punjab cabinet. With signatures on the advice, the role of the PPP ministers and 13 parliamentary secretaries in the Punjab government has ended, and the new cabinet is all set to have fresh faces.
Sources in the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) claimed that the announcement regarding the new cabinet would be made on Thursday.

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has sent a summary to Governor Latif Khosa for the ouster of ministers belongs to the Pakistan People's Party from the Punjab cabinet. However, sources in the Governor's House denied receiving any such summary.
As per details, Chief Minister Shahbaz on Saturday sent an advice to the governor for the ouster of six PPP ministers from the provincial cabinet. A private TV channel reported Governor Khosa as saying that he would act in