Tag: Parliamentarians

Higher Education Commission (HEC) has received a report from universities according to which degrees of eight parliamentarians have been found fake. Among them is...

Parliamentarians from Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) member countries will arrive in Islamabad to attend a two-day meeting of ECO Parliamentarians, to be held from...

Minister for States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) Engr Shaukatullah Khan has said the incumbent government has put a great struggle for uplifting and development...

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Thursday said if parliamentarians were not prevented from holding dual nationality, the influx of imported prime ministers would...

Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has constituted three benches at the principal seat to hear a number of important cases in the...

President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday said British parliamentarians of Pakistani origin could play a very important role in further cementing the bilateral relations...

The elders of North Waziristan Agency (NWA) on Friday warned the current parliament against resuming NATO supplies, saying the tribesmen would besiege the parliamentarians’...

The international meeting of parliamentarians on climate change was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with a call for concerted efforts towards formulating global responses to...

God helps those who help themselves. Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has strictly followed this principle while advising his fellow parliamentarians to protect...

The parliamentarians from Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) were unable to supervise development projects in their respective constituencies because of the security threats in...

Children Parliamentarians demanded strict laws against child trafficking and special trainings for their self defence in this regard, in a session of Children Parliament...

Expressing fear that Pakistan might become a failed state, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Tuesday continued its tirade against civilian and military leaderships...

KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) parliamentarians on Wednesday condemned long and unannounced power outages in the city that have badly affected the normal life of the citizens. They said the long hours of load shedding have made the life of people miserable with business activities the worst-affected. The students are also facing problems as they have to prepare for their annual examination without electricity. The candidates are forced to take their examination in the hot

ISLAMABAD - Higher Education Commission (HEC) has decided to restart the pending process of verification degrees of parliamentarians before its proposed devolution to the provinces and called degrees of 254 members of the parliament form Election Commission.
According to sources HEC has written a letter to Election Commission of Pakistan demanding the metric and intermediate certificates of 254 members of parliament for verification. The letter added that HEC wants to act upon

ISLAMABAD - Members of the National Assembly from both sides of the divide on Tuesday emphasized the devolution of the Higher Education Commission to the provinces for a better education system in the country.
Speaking on point of orders, the members said that the Parliamentary Committee on 18th Amendment of the Constitution had unanimously recommended that the powers of HEC should be devolved to the provinces.
PPP-Sherpao chief Aftab Ahmed Khan Shepao appreciated the 18th

LAHORE - The Advisor to the Punjab Chief Minister Begum Zakia Shahnawaz has called upon the women parliamentarians to utilize their development funds to resolve women issues and end domestic violence on women. She was addressing a meeting titled 'One Day Consultation with Parliamentarians and Political Parties on Domestic Violence Bill in Punjab' organised by Mumkin EVAW Alliance on Thursday.
Zakia said that it was the duty of the women parliamentarians of national and

LAHORE - parliamentarians' caucus has been set up on Thursday with the collaboration of UNICEF and Punjab education department to make efforts at policy making level for the promotion of education without any gender discrimination. "After Nepal, Pakistan is the second country where such a caucus has been established with UNICEF's cooperation. According to UNICEF statistics only 20 students, out of a hundred enrolled in Pakistani schools, appear in Matric examination. After Nigeria and