Tag: Parliament

Three state ministers from southern India, including one holding a portfolio for women and child development, resigned on Wednesday after being accused of watching...

Legislators are not safe even in the parliament precincts! A treasury member, Ijaz Virk, on Tuesday dropped a bombshell in the Lower House by...

First things first Retracting yet another stand, Gilani told the media general elections could be held earlier in consultation with other parties. While in Davos,...

The Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) has categorised its 35 recommendations under three headings: review of foreign policy, respect to the country’s red...

Seven new federal ministries – Human Resource Development, National Harmony, Professional and Technical Training, National Food Security and Research, National Disaster Management, National Heritage...

Rejecting recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS), the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on Thursday threatened to besiege the Parliament House on February 3,...

Bygones be not bygones A majority of readers and viewers have a gripe with us analysts who write in the press and speak on the...

Civil society representative, intellectuals, legal activists, journalists, women, students, trade union activists, religious minorities and academia from all over the country on Monday shared...

Islamist MPs took centre stage on Monday as Egypt’s parliament met for the first time since a popular uprising ousted Hosni Mubarak, while their...

Votes mean something In the heyday of Taliban rule in Swat, Sufi Muhammad, the obscurant-in-chief of the TNSM, addressed a large gathering at the Grassy...

Iraq’s main Sunni-backed bloc should help resolve the country’s political crisis within parliament rather than stage a boycott, the UN’s envoy to Baghdad told...

The quality of justice should not be strained With so much to say and such little space to say it in, best to KISS –...

A judgement is a judgement It is actually not that complicated. Are the judges always right? No. Should their judgements always be followed in letter...

The leftists and progressive nationalists warned on Friday that the edifice of parliamentary democracy faced an existential threat and without a robust and uninterrupted...

Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Friday said the elections will be held on the appointed time. Talking to media,...

The parliament is the mother of all institutions and we should respect its resolution, Sindh Information Minister Shazia Marri said on Tuesday. She was...

The problem with the parliament The military has at its disposal all the muscle and money that it wants. The courts have at their disposal...