Tag: Opp
Opp walks out against Karachi killings
A united opposition comprising legislators from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) staged a token walkout from the proceedings of...
Opp boycotts sessions to protest ‘agenda hijacking’
The opposition parties in parliament staged a token boycott of both houses on Thursday to protest the exclusion of issues they wanted to debate...
Opp set to whip govt for ‘incompetence, maneuvering’
The stage is set for the opposition parties to speak extensively in parliament on the government’s “incompetence and maneuvering” on various issues of national...
Bahrain says talks to continue despite Opp walkout
Bahrain's government expressed regret on Monday that the country's largest Shi'ite opposition group Wefaq planned to pull out of a national dialogue, but said...
JUI-F won’t become part of Opp alliance
If the purpose of making a grand alliance is merely to topple the government, the JUI-F would not become a part of any such...
Chaudhrys making sure opposition stays divided
In a bid to pre-empt the formation of a possible grand opposition alliance, PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and his cousin, senior leader and...
MQM lawmakers submit applications for Opp seats
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) legislators submitted formal applications on Thursday for allocation of opposition seats in the National Assembly and the Senate secretariats...
Rid foreign policy of GHQ: Opp
As the National Assembly rejected all cut motions submitted by the opposition on Monday and approved demands of grants of around Rs 17 billion...
Street protests follow speech, opp says ‘revolt’ must go on
Protesters took to the streets across Syria on Monday to denounce a speech by President Bashar al-Assad they said did not meet popular demands...
Nawaz, Fazl fail to resolve Senate opposition leader issue
Summit-level talks between the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) to reach an out-of-house settlement of the Senate opposition leader dispute...
Debate on Opp leader continues in Senate
Continuing their debate on the contentious appointment of the Senate opposition leader on Friday, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Senators SM Zafar and Wasim Sajjad...
Shahbaz steps in to calm Opp down
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif was on Wednesday forced into stepping in to handle the worsening situation in the wake of Rana Sanaullah’s remarks...
Opp, ANP senators disown ‘unanimous’ recommendations
The joint opposition and ANP senators on Monday disowned 66 ‘unanimously adopted’ recommendations by the Upper House to make amendments in the money bill...
Opp rejects Punjab budget as joke with masses
Rejecting the Punjab budget 2011-12 as a joke with the masses, Opposition Leader in Punjab Assembly Raja Riaz said the budget would only benefit...
Punjab Opp apprehensive, treasury praises budget
The Punjab opposition on Friday called the Punjab budget 2011-12 a jugglery of words while expressing reservations over budgetary allocations, as the treasury claimed...
Deadlock over Senate Opp leader continues to mar budget debate
The controversial appointment of the Senate opposition leader continued to mar the debate on the federal budget of 2011-12 in the Upper House of...
Haideri named Senate Opp leader amid protests
Senate Chairman Farooq Naik on Monday issued a notification naming JUI-F leader Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri as the new Senate opposition leader, but the...
