Tag: Parliament

As the largest opposition party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is determined to give the nation good news and sees no impediments in the...

Joint sitting of the Parliament on Saturday unanimously declared that unilateral actions could not help eliminate terrorism and Pakistan would not accept such steps,...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) termed government’s resolution on Abbottabad raid as weak, demanding the government to present the budget of secret agencies and army...

joint “in-camera” session of parliament on Friday unanimously passed a resolution condemning the US’ unilateral action in Abbottabad in violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty,...

In-camera joint session of the Parliament was held today in Islamabad. Pakistan's intelligence chief Ahmad Shuja Pasha and army chief of staff Ashfaq Kayani...

Nepal’s government proposed Thursday a second one-year extension in the life of the current parliament that was elected in 2008 to draft a new...

Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Monday rejected allegations that the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. troops in the country showed Pakistani...

The Muslim Brotherhood said on Saturday it will contest up to half the parliamentary seats in elections scheduled for September. But the group...

ISLAMABAD - After the Supreme Court (SC)'s dismissal of the government's review petition against the apex court's order overruling the Parliamentary Committee's decision to reject the Judicial Commission's recommendations on judges' appointments, the Parliamentary Committee may bring the final verdict of the apex court to parliament for debate. During the hearing of the review plea, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja remarked that the eight-member parliamentary committee did not have the status

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Standing Committee on House and Library expressed its reservations on Thursday with the security arrangements at Parliament House and Government Hostel. Committee members discussed security arrangements at Parliament House and the hostel and told Islamabad police to take stern measures to ensure foolproof security for both. The committee also told the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to make the arrangements necessary for the provision of shade and

ISLAMABAD - Demanding the government to take parliament into confidence over the mandate of the visit of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General Ahmad Shuja Pasha to the US, Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Nisar Ali Khan on Wednesday said it seemed parliament and the government had been made redundant and the ISI was running the country.
"It is the function of parliament to run a government, but the ISI DG is in the US and it seemed they are running the

JAKARTA - An Indonesian lawmaker faces an ethics investigation after he was photographed apparently watching porn on his tablet computer in parliament, an official said Sunday.
Arifinto, who represents the conservative Islamic Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), was caught on camera on Friday looking at a pornographic image on the tablet, which he held slightly under his table, during a plenary session.
The photograph, first posted on a local news website, was picked up by other

ASTANA - Kazakhstan's parliament voted on Friday to re-appoint Karim Masimov as prime minister, only hours after the entire cabinet resigned in a formality following the inauguration of President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
By law, Masimov must present a list of his nominees for ministerial posts to Nazarbayev for approval within 10 days.

ROME - One minister tells parliament's speaker to "go screw yourself", another hurls his electronic ID card at opposition benches and a coalition legislator calls a wheelchair-bound colleague "stupid cripple". Even by Italian standards, such angry scenes have raised fresh questions about how long Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government can survive and whether the only solution to a parliamentary paralysis is early elections.
"Parliament is in chaos. The president is

SARAJEVO - Bosnia's international peace envoy decreed on Monday a regional parliament representing the Muslim-Croat population can continue to function despite a ruling it was formed illegally. The decision by the international community's High Representative in Bosnia stressed the need for a functioning government in the Balkan nation still beset by divisions 15 years after Europe's deadliest fighting since World War Two.
The dispute concerns the parliament for the Muslim-Croat

OTTAWA - Canada's governor general dissolved parliament on Saturday after a vote of no-confidence in Tory Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government, setting up a May 2 election -- the fourth in seven years. From the steps of the official residence of Queen Elizabeth II's representative in Canada, Harper announced the official launch of the campaign, contrasting his Conservatives' economic recovery plan with the prospects of opposition parties forming a leftist coalition. "I have met

ISLAMABAD - Without naming the armed forces and the judiciary, President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday said the government would not let anyone undermine the supremacy of the constitution and parliament and invited all political parties for a national dialogue.
"We will not permit anyone to usurp the powers that rightly belong to parliament. We believe that all state organs should work within their parameters. We need to build a national consensus and tough decisions must be taken