Tag: Parliament

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Sunday that he was the Prime Minister of 180 million people and was only answerable to...

Cracking this nutcracker The PPP-led coalition is in all kinds of trouble, some of its own making. In a nutcracker situation, it is facing the...

Opposition leader in National Assembly, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Thursday that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) coalition government wanted to use parliament...

The federal cabinet decided in principal on Wednesday to use the forum of parliament to send a strong response to the judiciary and the...

Now it’s between the parliament and the judiciary. With the Supreme Court leaving no space for the government to further dilly-dally on the implementation...

The father of an Indian student shot dead in Britain pleaded on a visit to the Houses of Parliament in London on Thursday for...

Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar told the National Assembly on Wednesday that it was only parliament, which would take a decision regarding NATO supplies...

ANP chief Asfandyar Wali said on Saturday that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had gotten its identity, a private TV channel reported. Addressing a rally at Mardan College...

Things could get bad for the PPP President Zardari’s speech at the death anniversary of Benazir Bhutto was marked by a grim resolve. While the...

A lot of uproar, walk-outs, boycotts and protests over issues of load shedding of gas and electricity and ministers’ absence remained hallmark of parliament...

India’s government and ruling Congress party faced a tough battle to pass its proposed flagship anti-corruption law on Thursday as the upper house of...

Chief Justice (CJ) Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has termed the news running in the media regarding the Supreme Court’s remarks on parliament as incorrect and...

Members of the National Assembly would witness some of their colleagues saying good-bye to parliament as “defectors”, including Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, are going to...

But how to make that smell go away? Conventional wisdom says that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, talks like a...

Now, eyeball to eyeball Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani – usually soft spoken and compromise-seeking – thunderously declaring “there can be no state within a...

They run the show still… That the armed forces and the ISI constitute a state within a state is no secret. That they intend to...

The meeting of PPP core committee, co-chaired by President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, was held to look into current...