Tag: Pakistan Peoples Party

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court will take up petitions filed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) seeking action against two mainstream political parties, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz...

MIRPUR KHAS: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will celebrate the 90th birth anniversary of party founder and former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto with a rally...

LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) on Wednesday stated that the meeting between its chief Dr Tahirul Qadri and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali...

ISLAMABAD:  As the reports of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) seeking Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)’s assistance in passing of the already delayed legislation for delimitation...

Supreme Court summons CM, Mustafa Kamal in pollution case KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari shared on social media that he is...

KARACHI: Provincial lawmaker and former information minister Sharjeel Memon challenged his arrest in an accountability court on Monday, saying that his arrest warrants weren’t...

NOWSHERA: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Monday said conspiracies were being hatched to weaken the PPP but the party was not...

Women bag all top spots in PILDAT’s assessment of MNAs for 2015-16 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan, Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz member and Punjab...

Senior leader of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and former chief minister Punjab Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo has said that the shocking revelations about the offshore...

Calls for setting up Victims Support Fund to support the victims of militancy and their families throughout the country Directs party to appeal Peshawar High Court's decision to uphold election in Lower Dir even though women were denied vote in polls Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Monday called for reverting the party to its ideological moorings‎ in a “systematic, sustained and forceful” manner to regain the party’s original ideological position, which makes it distinct from the orthodox, conservative and regressive parties in the country. However, the party chairman did not say why the party had indulged in realpolitik and had left its ideological path in the first place. It is interesting to note that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi have also slammed the PPP leadership for giving up the ideological footing of the party. The young PPP leader expressed these views while talking to a five-member delegation of the party's senators hailing from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) who called on him at the Zardari House. Those who called on him included Senators Farhatullah Babar, Saifullah Bangash, Ahmad Hassan, Rubina Khalid and PPP KP President Khanzada Khan. Former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, former Senate chairman Syed Nayyer Hussain Bokhari, Information Secretary Qamar Zaman Kaira, Vice President Sherry Rehman, Political Secretary Jamil Soomro and others were also present on the occasion. PPP spokesperson Senator Farhatullah Babar said that the PPP chairman said that the people of KP had suffered grievously as a result of the war on terror as it had left tens of thousands martyred and injured and had called upon the federal government to immediately set up a Victims Support Fund to support the victims of militancy and their families throughout the country and particularly in KP. The Fund is also needed to lend greater force and ownership to the existential fight that Pakistan is waging, he said. Bilawal asked the KP senators to raise issues of concerns to the province including CPEC alignment and industrial zones, the net hydel profit issue and the Gas Infrastructure Development Cess (GIDC) inside as well as outside the parliament through seminars, public discussions and addresses to bars and press clubs. The PPP spokesperson said that Bilawal Bhutto also expressed concern that the KP government was resorting to dilatory tactics on the adoption of legislation for women's protection and asked the KP chapter of the Party to work out a strategy to persuade the provincial government to adopt the law aimed at protecting women without any further delay. Recalling that the Sindh Assembly had recently passed the Child Marriage Act as well as Hindu Marriage Law Bilawal Bhutto called on the KP chapter to raise the issue of women's protection in the province at all available forums. LOWER DIR VERDICT: Elaborating on the ideological moorings, he said that women empowerment, integration of the non Muslim brethren in the mainstream, politics of anti-status quo and empowering the common people and elected institutions as opposed to unelected elements are the key features of the party’s ideology, which must be pursued vigorously through public discourse as well as positive political action. Bilawal also sought a briefing on the verdict of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) the other day, overturning the judgment of the Election Commission in a case where women were denied vote in elections in Lower Dir. Farhatullah Babar quoted Bilawal Bhutto as saying that the PHC verdict setting aside the judgment of the Election Commission to cancel the by-election in Lower Dir for the KP Provincial Assembly due to disenfranchisement of women voters was a setback in the struggle for women's empowerment. Bilawal asked the party to file an appeal against the verdict in the Supreme Court. He said that the party must utilise all legal and constitutional means to restore the space that the women of Dir seemed to have lost as a result of the verdict.

PPP MPA Sania Naz, was interrogated by Rangers about her suspected ties with gangsters in Lyari, according to reports. She was called to the Rangers...

The National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) has warned that Karachi could drown Karachi in the next 35-45 years. The NIO has warned that parts...

  Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Pervaiz Rashid on Monday said that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) would rid the people of Azad Jammu and...

  Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Monday that the return of the internally displaced persons of tribal areas to their...

  The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Friday demanded that the government publish the enquiry report of the attack on Army Public School in Peshawar. Speaking...

  The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday adjourned the hearing of a plea filed against the detention of former federal minister and Pakistan Peoples...

Pakistan People’s Party Punjab President Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo has demanded deployment of judicial officers as returning officers and presiding officers for free, fair and...