Tag: Opp

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

The split in the opposition’s ranks came to the surface on Friday when the JUI-F, PPP-Sherpao and PML-Q Likeminded distanced themselves from the PML-N...

Politicians from the ruling alliance praised the annual budget 2011-12 and said it was an ideal financial document while politicians from the opposition parties...

As the government’s mysterious silence over reports of a “selective military operation” in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) is fuelling speculations and concerns in the...

Giving four days to the government to form an independent commission for investigating the Abbottabad incident, Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Nisar Ali...

parties are set to give a tough time to the coalition government in the upcoming budget session, for which a strategy will be...

The Pakistan Muslim League-Likeminded (PML-Likeminded) formally announced on Saturday its support for Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)’s Senator Ishaq Dar for opposition leader in the...

The Salim Saifullah-led Likeminded group of the PML-Q on Friday put its weight behind the single largest opposition party in the Upper House of...

The Chaudhrys felt another shock on Tuesday after the formation of a PML-Q dissident bloc in the Senate, as two PML-Q MNAs decided to...

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE - Demanding the government introduce drastic cuts in non-development expenditure and plug loopholes in the existing tax collection system to manage financial troubles, the government's coalition partners - the Awami National Party (ANP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) - as well as opposition parties strongly condemned the hike in petroleum prices on Friday.
In a statement issued from London, MQM chief Altaf Hussain rejected the increase in POL prices, calling

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif seems to have burnt his fingers after revisiting the issue of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor Raymond Davis' release upon his return from London as the opposition in the Punjab Assembly grilled him on Tuesday for saying he was not involved in Davis' release.
PPP deputy parliamentary leader Shaukat Basra said that the opposition accepted the CM's challenge to prove his involvement in the CIA spy's release. The house

ISLAMABAD - The opposition parties have decided that they will give a tough time to the government for disobeying verdicts of superior court in the future, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Nisar Ali Khan said on Tuesday.
Nisar said all opposition parties would also pressurise the government to clarify its position regarding drone attacks in the coming NA and Senate sessions. He demanded formation of a high-level judicial or a parliamentary commission to probe

ISLAMABAD - Opposition parties on Tuesday called their walkout from parliament during the president's address to the joint sitting "a positive achievement that could bear fruit in future", however, they did not directly hit out at President Asif Ali Zardari's speech.
Talking to Pakistan Today after his party's walkout, PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain pointed out that his party legislators had walked out to protest the skyrocketing prices, unabated drone attacks, hasty

LAHORE - The Treasury faced harsh criticism from the opposition on Thursday over Raymond Davis' release and the doctors' strike, but managed to proceed with official business by tabling 6 bills in the house.
Opposition parties in the Punjab Assembly blamed the Punjab government for "ensuring the safe release of Raymond Davis" and asked why Law Minister Rana Sanaullah visited Kot Lakhpat Jail before Davis left the prison. Assembly proceedings began an hour late at 11am under the

QUETTA - The spokesman of the Balochistan government criticised the political parties of all-parties conference (APC) for their undemocratic attitude towards Balochistan issues. In an official statement, the spokesman said that some political parties had no vote bank and yet their electoral constituency were criticising the elected provincial government, asking it to step down.

KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly on Friday passed a unanimous resolution, expressing displeasure at National Assembly opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar, who had filed a petition against Justice (retd) Deedar Hussain Shah's appointment as the chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
The resolution stated that Nisar's double standards and biased attitude could harm provincial harmony and pose a threat to democracy. The house appreciated the role of Shah, who had served as

SANAA - Yemen's opposition coalition vowed on Monday to escalate protests that have swept the country demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, after he rejected a plan that would have him step down in 2011.
Tens of thousands of protesters are camped out in major Yemeni cities, staying awake through the night to hear speeches and sing national songs, as their tone against Saleh hardens. Saleh, a US ally against al Qaeda's Yemen-based wing, rejected a plan