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Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has suspended the membership of 14 MPAs, including three provincial ministers, belonging to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for not submitting the...

A heated Punjab Assembly session on Monday witnessed an array of allegations over the abduction of Shahbaz Taseer, the son of slain Punjab governor...

A full bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday dismissed several petitions of the elected parliamentarians and members of provincial assembly (MPAs)...

Pakistan People’s party (PPP) parliamentarians from Punjab Assembly have asked Prime Minister Yusaf Raza Gillani to provide development funds to them from federal government...

Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)’s Members Provincial Assembly (MPAs) have condemned reported issuance of monthly bills with excessive charges by the Karachi Electric Supply Company...

Passage of a condemnation resolution in the Senate against Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah for his obnoxious remarks against women members of the provincial...

The general discussion on budget 2011-12 in the Sindh Assembly continued on Monday with lawmakers belonging to different parties calling for increasing their departmental...

Expressing concern over the prevailing law and order situation, especially in Karachi, several Sindh Assembly (SA) members, during the ongoing budget discussion, demanded that...

For the first time in the recent history of the Sindh Assembly, special arrangements were made for the budget speech in the House on...

In retaliation to the humiliation caused to Federal Finance Minister Senator Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh during the budget session during which bangles and rotis...

KARACHI - Sindh Minister for Information Sharjeel Memon has set up a hunting range of protected and endangered deer in Nangarparkar area of Tharparkar district for five influential provincial ministers and MPAs, sources told Pakistan Today on Monday. All arrangements have been made to arrange this VIP hunt, including special jeeps and trained staff, as well as provision to keep the activity hidden from the local residents and the media.
Sources said Memon had invited Sindh

LAHORE - The Punjab Assembly (PA) on Thursday concluded its ongoing 23rd session and parliamentary year, as privilege motions were moved by members of the provincial assembly (MPA) against their female colleagues. All the three privilege motions were moved by treasury members against opposition MPAs including Samina Khawar Hayat of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) and Azma Zahid Bokhari of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP). The movers were Sheikh Allauddin of the newly-formed

LAHORE - A friend of PML-N MPA Asad Ullah Arain was found dead under mysterious circumstances at the MPA's room in Peoples House located in front of the Punjab Civil Secretariat in the Islampura police precincts on Monday afternoon. Police have yet to ascertain whether the gun was triggered accidentally or he had committed suicide. The police are also investigating murder possibilities, said a senior police officer adding that it was too early to ascertain the motive or cause of

LAHORE - Minority members of the provincial assembly (MPA) from both the treasury and the opposition benches on Friday protested against the Holy Quran's desecration by US Pastor Terry Jones and labeled him a terrorist. They also demanded a formal apology from the US and urged the federal government to summon the US ambassador to Pakistan and seek an explanation on the issue. The minority MPAs were wearing black armbands and said that the incident had brought a bad name for all

KARACHI - The Human Rights Commission for South Asia (HRCSA) on Monday moved a petition in the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan, Karachi registry seeking disqualification of the PPP's Sindh Assembly members, who are involved in protesting and criticising the SC's order that set aside the notification for the appointment of the NAB chairman. The petition was filed by HRCSA representative Syed Mehmood Akhtar Naqvi under Article 184(3) of the Constitution of Pakistan, pleading that the

ISLAMABAD - To many's shock, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly has two of the richest male and two of the poorest female legislators and a chief who has all his wealth under his wife's name.
A through study of the details of assets declared by KP to the Election Commission of Pakistan for the year 2010 reveals that Shazia Aurangzeb Khan, elected on a reserved seat, has no property, no vehicle, no jewelry, and even no cash in her only bank account no 75202-0. MPA Zarqa also has

KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a private resolution to ascertain the root causes of domestic violence against women. PPP's Aisha Khoso presented the resolution that demanded constituting a special committee comprising female members of the assembly, eminent female social workers and legal experts for conducting a study to find out the root causes of domestic violence against women. Various MPAs expressed concern over the situation of women in Sindh and