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LAHORE - The Punjab Assembly (PA) on Friday witnessed uproar over Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) member of the provincial assembly (MPA) Imran Zaffar remarks that hooliganism exists in Gujrat and he is receiving death threats and the Chaudhry brothers would be responsible if he or his family is harmed. Opposition MPAs chanted slogans and started thumping desks on Zaffar's remarks.
PA Deputy Speaker Rana Mashood, who was chairing the session, asked women MPAs to calm down

ISLAMABAD - Acceding to the demands of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the government on Thursday formed two committees to make the petroleum products pricing formula transparent and rationalize the power and gas outage management suggesting that it was willing to implement most of the PML-N's reforms.
Talking to media after talks with the PML-N, Finance Minister Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh said that there was broad consensus on strengthening the national economy.

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has failed to meet the four deadlines it had set for the party's reorganisation by electing its office-bearers at all tiers and till date the affairs of the party are being run through the organising committees.
After failure to meet three deadlines earlier set for party's reorganisation, the PML-N has again failed to complete intra-party elections process from Primary Unit to Central level by January 15 which was announced as

ISLAMABAD - Disappointed with the government's lack of commitment to implement the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's (PML-N) proposed reforms agenda within 45 days, the party's leadership has asked its committee to get a positive answer from the government's team or end cooperation if it seems that the government is reluctant to act swiftly.
The PML-N committee, led by Senator Ishaq Dar, told PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday that the government was using "delaying tactics" and

BADIN - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz knows who the perpetrators of the current wave of assassinations in Karachi, party chief Nawaz Sharif said on Monday.
"We will not allow public mandate to be ambushed at any cost," Nawaz said, adding that time had come to leave party politics and talk about Pakistan. "The government must expose the faces of these culprits," he said.
"Politics for someone's own interests is sinful, but the politics the PML-N practices is for the sake

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan People's Party asked its coalition partner Awami National Party (ANP) to review Mian Nawaz Sharif's ten point agenda along with the PPP's parliamentarians.
The ANP, on Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani's request, formed a four-member parliamentary committee in Senator Haji Adeel's headship, while senators Afrsiyab Khattak, Zahid Khan and Bushra Gohar would be the other members of the committee. Haji Adeel told the Online that Finance Minister AbduL Hafiz

ISLAMABAD - The understanding reached between the PPP and the PML-N over the implementation of a national agenda has frustrated the PML-Q unification bloc's strategy to revolt against the Chaudhrys, as the group is disappointed with the reconciliatory move by the federal and provincial governments. Changing its position, the PML-Q unification bloc in the Punjab has decided to postpone their plan to form a separate parliamentary group in the provincial assembly, adopting a cautious

ISLAMABAD - Expressing serious concern over unabated spate of killings of innocent people and political workers in Karachi, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz central spokesperson Ahsan Iqbal has demanded the government take the National Assembly into confidence and apprise lawmakers of the details of the tragic incidents.
In a statement on Friday, Ahsan Iqbal demanded a comprehensive briefing on killings that, he said, have shaken the entire nation.
"It is a matter of grave

ISLAMABAD - Senator Ishaq Dar, head of the four-member PML-N committee formed by chief Nawaz Sharif to facilitate the government in implementing its 10-point agenda, is likely to meet Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani alone or with his team in a day or two to brief the prime minister on the feasibility of the plan.
A source in the PML-N told Pakistan Today that the party officially handed over the 10-point agenda to Gilani on Tuesday. The document was in the form of a letter from

LAHORE - The fixed match between the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) would continue until the next budget session, Punjab Opposition Leader Chaudhry Zaheeruddin said on Monday. He was talking to journalists outside the Punjab Assembly. The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader said that the next match between the two allies would start after the 2011 annual budget. He termed the political mayhem between the PPP and the PML-N as a "fixed

ISLAMABAD - The PML-Q unification bloc in Punjab is divided on whether to support the PML-N in case the party loses majority in the provincial assembly if its partnership with the PPP ends.
While one group in the unification bloc is suggesting the PML-N sit on opposition benches and let the PPP and the PML-Q form a government, the other group has extended its full support to Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif in case the PPP is out of the coalition.
A source in the unification

ISLAMABAD - The PML-N has opposed the parliament's approval to the Defence Housing Authority Bill, saying the bill had replicated an ordinance issued by General Pervez Musharraf in 2007.
"Indeed, this ordinance is a child of dictatorship and could have been framed under no other dispensation. It has no place in a democracy and should never have been allowed to come before the National Assembly," said Ayaz Amir in his dissenting note attached with the report of the National

ISLAMABAD - As the government on Thursday accepted one of the 12 demands of Nawaz Sharif by reverting the petrol prices, the PML-N has forwarded another demand - the appointment of a non-controversial person as the Punjab governor - for the party's continued cooperation with Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani. A source in the PML-N told Pakistan Today that the demand regarding appointment of an 'impartial governor' had been conveyed to the prime minister.
"Gilani has also been

LAHORE - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will not support the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)-led federal government if it loses its majority in the National Assembly, PML-N Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Pervaiz Malik said on Thursday. Talking to journalists after attending slain Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer's qul at the Governor's House, Pervaiz said that safeguarding the national interest was the PML-N's slogans and the party would not support the PPP in its

ISLAMABAD - Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Nisar Ali Khan on Monday categorically ruled out the possibility that his party would shoulder the falling government of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, who has lost majority in the House.
"Let me clarify the impression or ambiguity that the PML-N will come forward to save the government if it loses majority in the National Assembly and consequently collapses," Nisar told reporters outside the Parliament House.

ISLAMABAD - After the government lost majority, the opposition parties which now outnumber the strength of the PPP-led coalition, are also not on the same page because of their differences with each other leaving the PML-N to still continue holding the office of leader of opposition in the National Assembly as the PML-Q, JUI-F and MQM, all put together, cannot defeat the PML-N numbers in the House.
In the house of 342, the collective strength of opposition parties, including the

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) members of the provincial assembly (MPA) staged a protest in the Punjab Assembly's courtyard against petrol price-hike, corruption, electricity and gas load shedding.
The legislators were wearing black arm bands and chanted slogans including, "Stop corruption, reduce petrol prices and end electricity and gas load shedding".
The protest was lead by PML-N MPA Zaeem Qadri while Chaudhry Shahbaz, Allah Rakha, Yasin Sohal, Chaudhry