Tag: Parliamentary

ISLAMABAD - Women parliamentarians, actively participating in the parliamentary business, remained more assertive in comparison with their male counterparts in the National Assembly. According to FAFEN's direct observation of proceedings from March 11, 2010 to March 4, 2011, women members accounted for almost half of the parliamentary agenda conducted during the third parliamentary year of the thirteenth National Assembly.
In the National Assembly, 60 women were elected on

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court overturned on Friday a Parliamentary Committee decision rejecting a yearlong extension to six additional judges of the Lahore High Court (LHC) and Sindh High Court (SHC) and told the government to issue a notification granting the extension in line with the recommendations of the Judicial Commission in February.
A four-member bench comprising Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice

LAHORE - The Judicial Activism Panel (JAP) called for a Parliamentary Committee's apology on Friday for not accepting the Judicial Commission's recommendations and four Lahore High Court (LHC) judges' dropped extension. JAP also disapproved of the resolutions presented to the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) against Geo Group and demanded an investigation into matter. The panel meeting, presided over by Muhammad Azhar Siddique, said it was not morally appropriate that group

LONDON - The US must hold direct talks with the Taliban if it is to have any hope of ending the Afghan war, an influential British parliamentary committee said on Wednesday. The Foreign Affairs Committee said the military campaign was not working and urged the British government to use its influence in Washington to convince it to engage fully in direct talks with Taliban leaders.
"An Afghan-led, but US driven, process of political reconciliation is the best remaining hope that

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA) announced on Wednesday that it would move the Supreme Court of Pakistan against a parliamentary committee's decision whereby the proposal for extension of two Sindh High Court (SHC) judges was rejected.
The SHCBA took the decision at a meeting chaired by SHCBA President Anwar Mansoor Khan and attended by SHCBA office-bearers and senior lawyers. The participants of the meeting condemned the parliamentary committee's decision

ISLAMABAD - A committee comprising MNAs from all the parliamentary parties is to be formed in the next few days to ensure achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the country by 2015. In 2000, the leaders of 189 countries, including Pakistan, had signed the Millennium Declaration, agreeing to do everything in their power to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger and also promised to achieve other seven goals of the MDGs by 2015.
The remaining seven MDGs are: universal

ISLAMABAD - Accepting Judicial Commission of Pakistan's proposed one year extension of 20 additional judges of the Lahore High Court, the parliamentary committee on judges' appointment on Wednesday rejected extension of four additional judges of the High Court.
The committee which met here with Senator Nayyar Hussain Bukhari in the chair rejected JCP's proposal for granting one year extension to four additional judges of the LHC including Justice Mazhar Ali, Justice Yawar Ali,

ISLAMABAD - The parliamentary committee set up for judges' appointment on Tuesday confirmed Judicial Commission of Pakistan's nominations of Sindh High Court judges including Sarmad Jalal Osmany and Justice Amir Hani Muslim as permanent judges of the Supreme Court.
The parliamentary committee which met here with Senator Nayyar hussain Bokhari in the chair also endorsed JCP's nomination of Mushir Alam, the most senior judge of the SHC, as the new chief justice of the Sindh High

ISLAMABAD - Senate Standing Committee on Defence and Defence Production Chairman Javed Ashraf Qazi on Saturday said that the parliamentary oversight ensured transparency and promoted good governance, besides enabling the government to devise popular policies to achieve the goal of development and social emancipation of the common man.
He was addressing a group of 45 foreign services attaches and advisers during their visit to the Parliament House. Qazi said the role of parliament

ISLAMABAD - The parliamentary committee formed to settle the petroleum products pricing formula has expressed dissatisfaction over the Ministry of Petroleum's presentation, opposed any hikes and has sought replies on various queries by Thursday.
A source said the committee members criticized the government mechanism of passing on the increase in international oil prices to the consumers, without bothering to consider providing relief through the petroleum levy (PL) and general

QUETTA - All parliamentary groups in the Balochistan Assembly (BA) have expressed their complete confidence in the leadership of Chief Minister Aslam Raisani. A meeting of eight parliamentary groups was held at the CM Secretariat on Saturday with Raisani in the chair.
The participants expressed confidence in the performance of the provincial government and reiterated their resolve to continue the struggle for the development of the province and resolution of its problems. The

ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms (PCCR) has included a new clause into Article 68 of the constitution to empower the parliamentary committee on appointment of judges to discuss the conduct of a judge, Pakistan Today has reliably learnt.
The clause was not touched previously while drafting the 18th Amendment.
Under the new proposal, the bar on parliamentarians to discuss the conduct of judges would continue, but the parliamentary committee

ISLAMABAD: The parliamentary committee on judges' appointment could not reach a consensus on Wednesday on the Judicial Commission of Pakistan's nominations for the chief justice and other two judges of the Islamabad High Court (IHC). The committee, which met with Senator Nayyar Bukhari in the chair, approved the Judicial Commission's recommendations for granting one year's extension in the tenures of additional judges of the Sindh, Balochistan and Peshawar high courts.
The

CAIRO: Hundreds of Egyptian activists and members of opposition groups protested on Sunday against what they said were violations during a parliamentary vote that handed the ruling party a huge victory last month.
Opposition and independent monitors said the elections were fraught with ballot stuffing, voter intimidation and other abuses. Officials said the process was fair, all complaints were being checked, and any violations did not challenge the results.
"Void, void,

ISLAMABAD: Endorsing the Judicial Commission's recommendation, the eight-member parliamentary committee on judges' appointment on Wednesday confirmed the nomination of Justice Ejaz Chaudhry as new chief justice of the Lahore High Court (LHC).
The committee also elected PPP's Senator Nayyar Hussain Bokhari as the chairman of the parliamentary committee. Talking to reporters after the meeting, committee member Sabir Baloch said Bokhari had been unanimously elected on permanent

ISLAMABAD: In its maiden meeting scheduled today (Monday), the parliamentary committee on judges' appointment will consider Judicial Commission of Pakistan's nomination for the new chief justice of the Lahore High Court after framing rules of business of the committee.
On November 13, the JCP unanimously nominated Justice Ejaz Chaudhry as the new LHC CJ after incumbent Chief Justice Khawaja Sharif's retirement on December 8, 2010. The eight-member committee consists of four

ISLAMABAD: Already isolated by its allies on the issue of the reformed General Tax (GST), the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) on Tuesday ignited yet another controversy by nominating four treasury members for the parliamentary committee to appoint judges of the superior judiciary without consulting the Awami National Party (ANP), the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).
A statement issued by the President's House said the names of four