Tag: Parliamentary

The Parliamentary Committee on Judges’ Appointment on Friday deferred its decision until July 21 on the recommendations of Judicial Commission of Pakistan regarding appointment...

Poland's president said on Monday he planned to call a parliamentary election for Oct. 9, with opinion polls showing the ruling centre-right Civic Platform...

No serious effort is underway to replace the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q)’s parliamentary leader in the Senate Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, as cracks within the...

The parliamentary committee on the formation of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday unanimously approved the names of four retired high court...

In wake of the changing political scenario, the ruling PPP and main opposition PML-N on Monday agreed on the proposed nominees for the reconstitution...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Chief Nawaz Sharif has summoned parliamentary meeting of party legislators in National assembly and Senate on June 2 (Thursday) in Islamabad...

The Judicial Activism Panel (JAP) on Saturday demanded the federal government remove Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) members from the parliamentary committee on judges’ appointment,...

Parliamentary Committee on Judges’ Appointment approved the confirmation of 19 additional judges and appointment of 14 new additional judges of the Lahore and Balochistan...

The Parliamentary Committee on Judges Appointment Tuesday summoned the law minister and secretary besides the Attorney General of Pakistan (AGP) today (Thursday) to review...

With the PML-Q becoming part of the treasury benches, the parliamentary committees on judges and the Election Commission of Pakistan are going to be...

Members of the Special Parliamentary Committee on National Security expressed their “dissatisfaction and reservations” on Friday with the utility, effectiveness and direction of the...

ISLAMABAD - Justice Khawaja remarked on Wednesday that there is no room in the constitution to establish parallel institutions.
A four-member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice Shahid M Siddiqui, on Wednesday resumed the hearing of the review petition regarding judges' appointment case.
During the hearing, Justice Jawad S Khawaja remarked that the eight-member parliamentary committee did not have the status of parliament. Rather, he said, the parliamentary

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari has summoned the Senate to meet at the Parliament House on March 28 (Monday). The session starting at 4pm would be the Upper House of the Parliament's first in the new parliamentary calendar year and 69th in the total. An official in the Senate Secretariat said the Senate would discuss the presidential address to the joint sitting of the Parliament in detail.
Earlier, Senate was supposed to remain in session for 90 days in a calendar year

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and the parliamentary committee on appointment of judges are not on the same page over filing a review petition against the Supreme Court's decision of setting aside the decision of the committee.
According to a source in the government, it was still undecided whether to file a review petition against the Supreme Court's ruling, with Prime Minister Gilani being fully aware of the political cost of the procedure. Some legal experts

TASHKENT - Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani urging greater inter-parliamentary interaction between Pakistan and Uzbekistan. Said stronger "bilateral ties would benefit both countries' peoples."
Talking to Dilarom Tashmukhamedova, Speaker of the Legislative chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Uzbekistan - the parliament's lower house, at the Parliament building here, Gilani urged exchange of parliamentary delegations between the two countries.
Gilani who is here on a

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court in its detailed verdict on the petitions against the Parliamentary Committee's decision of rejecting extension in the service of six additional judges of the high courts recommended by the Judicial Commission, on Monday held that the decisions of the Parliamentary Committee were subject to judicial review by the apex court.
The 86-page detailed judgment authored by Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui held that the petitions were maintainable under

ISLAMABAD - Despite numerous sittings during the last three years, parliament's special committee on national security has practically failed to get its recommendations implemented on issues of national security, including the US drone attacks. Although the committee has a federal minister as its chairman, the government has turned a deaf ear to its successive recommendations.
The parliamentary committee time and again expressed grave concern over the rise in drone attacks inside