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LAHORE - The Punjab Assembly proceedings were inflicted by quorum issue again on Monday and this time the Pakistan People's party (PPP) lawmaker Shaharyar Ali Khan pointed out the quorum just before the opening of the general discussion on price hike.
Meeting after a two-day break, under the chair of the Speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal, the proceedings started about an hour and 25 minutes late
Following the recitation of the holy Quran and a naat, PML-Q forward block MPA Dr

LAHORE - The Punjab Assembly, on its first day of the 22nd session, again faced the quorum issue pointed out by the opposition member Dr Samia Amjad at the time when the adjournment motions were being responded by the law minister on Friday.
Speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal asked for the counting and later directed to ring the bells for five minutes but the result was the same, owing to which, he adjourned the house till Monday afternoon.
At this point, the law minister said that

LAHORE - The Punjab Assembly's (PA) 22nd session will begin today (Friday) amid tight security arrangements with Deputy Speaker Rana Mashood in the chair. The speaker had directed strict security arrangements in light of intelligence reports warning that holding evening sessions could create security issues, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Special lights would also be displayed all around the building for countering security threats. The session's first day would start at 3pm and

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Punjab on Monday decided to observe a hunger strike in front of the Punjab Assembly to protest against inflation, lawlessness and Reformed General sales Tax (RGST) at 3 pm today. This was decided in a meeting held at the Punjab Secretariat of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf with PTI Punjab President Ahsen Rasheed in chair. The meeting was also attended by new party members Nadeem Abbas, Nasir Salim, and Rizwan Ahmed who joined PTI on Monday to

LAHORE - Punjab Assembly Speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal on Saturday wrote a letter to the prime minister urging him to advise the president to remove Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer from his office for violating the constitution by leaving the country without informing the authorities concerned.
The letter alleged that the governor remained away from the country from December 5 to 8. The speaker has also sent a copy of the letter to President Asif Ali Zardari. This is the first case

LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly courtyard turned into a battlefield on Wednesday when students from various government educational institutions trespassed four security barricades in an attempt to enter assembly premises and even tried pulling down the main door of the Punjab Assembly.
The students, led by the Joint Action Committee of Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association (PPLA), were protesting against the privatisation of public schools and colleges outside the Punjab

LAHORE: The mysterious absence of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer remained a hot topic in the Punjab Assembly on Wednesday, with members, as well as Law Minister Rana Sanaullah telling the House that no one had any idea about the governor's whereabouts.
The Punjab Assembly proceedings started around two hours behind schedule.
Soon after the recitation from the holy Quran, MMA parliamentary leader Ali Haider Noor Niazi said on a point of order that the Punjab governor was

LAHORE: Punjab Excise and Taxation Minister Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman on failed to satisfy opposition members on their queries during the question hour session in the Punjab Assembly on Monday. The opposition members gave the minister a tough time and finally the minister, while admitting the failure of the department to achieve target set for property tax collection for the fiscal years 2007-08 and 2008-09, claimed upward trend in revenue collection after the said years.
He said it

KARACHI: The Sindh government has announced that it would table a bill to establish International Sufi University in the next session of the Sindh Assembly. This university would be established in Bhit Shah, Matiari district.
"The Sindh government wants to immediately start ISU classes. A bill in this regard will be presented in the Sindh Assembly's next session for approval," Provincial Education Minister Pir Mazahar-ul Haq told the media in Bhit Shah after presiding over a

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With no apparent end to the drama, the Punjab Assembly (PA) proceedings on Friday perhaps set a new precedent by holding the general discussion on irrigation in the absence of the minister concerned and the parliamentary secretary as well, which resulted in the treasury's failure to give its policy statement to open the discussion.
However, the speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal allowed the leader of the opposition instead to speak over the general discussion on irrigation.

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Punjab Assembly Speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal advised the students to develop their association with books and said that to meet the challenges being faced by the country everyone should make joint efforts by forgetting all the internal differences.
He expressed these views while addressing students at the Superior University on Thursday. He said that the students were the true assets of the country and the Punjab government was doing it's best for the promotion of the

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The scuffle between the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) continued on Thursday in the provincial assembly over the issue of the PPP's tug of war with a media group with the members levelling allegations at each other.
Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah categorically announced in the House that the PPP should answer to the allegations levelled against it, adding that no individual could claim himself as the 'champion of

LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Wednesday was the scene of a uproar after a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) legislator made a derogatory comment against the Sindh government, while the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) reciprocated in the same coin.
The tense situation arose when the coalition partners - the PPP and PML-N - charged each other with corruption and some PPP lawmakers staged a token walkout from the House over the presence of Prosecution Secretary Rana Maqbool in the