Tag: Political

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE - In a significant political move, President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani telephoned heads of all major political parties, including PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, and took them into confidence on the right-sizing of the federal cabinet. The cabinet downsizing was on top of the PML-N's demands. President Zardari talked to Nawaz after the PPP CEC on Friday gave a go-ahead to the prime minister's decision to restructure his cabinet.
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ISLAMABAD - Having announced the lifting of ban on political activities in the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on the Independence Day in 2009, President Asif Ali Zardari is yet to sign a presidential order to give effect to his announcement. "Today I am announcing the permission of political activities in the Fata to bring them into the main political stream," he had said.
Talking to Pakistan Today Akhanzada Chattan demanded of the president to issue presidential

KARACHI - Although the Sindh government sent back 47 officers of different grades to their original departments on January 27, around 30 officers of grades 18, 19 and 20 are still working in irrelevant departments on important positions.
A constitutional petition has also been filed in the Sindh High Court (SHC) against these irregularities and all proceedings of the petition have been completed. The decision has been reserved by the SHC single bench of Justice Shahid Anwer

LAHORE - More than 70 political workers of the Union Council-138 belonging to the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) and other parties have joined the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI).
Talking to Pakistan Today, PTI UC-138 President Arif Mehmood Sheikh alias Koku said that prominent local residents including Syed Zaheerul Hassan, Nadeem Warsi, Akram, Hafeez and Imran Mahmand along with 70 other political workers expressed full confidence on

KARACHI - A new social and political contract between the State and provinces is the need of the hour and the only way out of the myriad of societal problems that afflict the country today, claimed political leaders, intellectuals and civil society representatives at a seminar organised by the Indus People's Forum on Sunday titled 'Survival of the State: Ideology, Economy and Governance'.
"Religious extremism is being patronised within Pakistan," said National Party leader

HYDERABAD - Senior politician and former chief minister and water and power minister Liaqat Ali Jatoi announced the launch of his own political party on Saturday.
"The Awami Ittehad Party is a patriotic party that is against hereditary politics, which is the hallmark of almost all political parties in the country," Jatoi said while addressing a press conference held at a hotel.
Describing the salient features of his party constitution, he said that it would allow the judges

ISLAMABAD - Refusing Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz group's leaders Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif's claims, Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said their statement alleging that federal government wanted to implicate them in the assassination of former governor Punjab Salman Taseer was "really puzzling."
In a statement, Kaira also rejected the notion that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani had came to their rescue. "This government is led by the PM. The government and the PM

ISLAMABAD - Perhaps for the first time ever, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani hinted at the seriousness of the country's economic meltdown, saying the government was seeking guidance from all political parties to evolve a strategy to tackle the economic challenges the country was facing.
Talking to reporters after inaugurating the groundbreaking ceremony of the Parliament Lodges' phase-II, the prime minister urged the media and the masses not to doubt the commitment of the

PESHAWAR - The administration of Peshawar University has requested the government to stop political intervention at Azakhel Botanical Garden by a specific lobby who want to disturb the academic and recreation environment at the garden.
Through a press release on Wednesday, the administration informed the reporters that the university has started exclusive BS degree program in which hundreds of students were enrolled and more than ten PhD students were doing their research at the

LAHORE - Finance, Planning and Development Provincial Minister Tanvir Ashraf Kaira has said that the telephonic contact between Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Chief Nawaz Sharif would bring political stability. He said this when he was talking to a delegation of MPAs at his office here on Monday. He said that Pakistan People's Party-led federal government's reconciliation policy would be maintained and the political fog would disappear

ISLAMABAD - US Vice President Joe Biden is coming to Pakistan with a "strong message" of support from the Obama administration to the political set up in Pakistan coupled with a warning of deep negative impact on Pakistan-US relations in case of any derailment of democracy.
"The US vice president, who arrives on a daylong visit on Wednesday, will deliver a strong message to all stakeholders in Islamabad including the military leadership that President Obama and his

LAHORE - Prime minister's 'yes' to Nawaz's agenda is a temporary relief to the Pakistan People's Party government but it is a trailer for the horror movie that is to follow.
"This is not stability, it is showoff. We know PPP well enough to know how they will take it from here," Pakistan Muslim League-Q senior leader Faisal Saleh Hiyat said, adding that PPP was following a fixed agenda. PML-Q President Shujat Hussain was of the opinion that crisis was still lurking and had only

KARACHI - The index sustained the upward trajectory despite enormous political warfare among political parties. PML-N has tried to dictate their terms and conditions to the government which can be termed as a face saving effort by the so called opposition party. Killing of governor Taseer on Tuesday led to further complications.
During the due coerce of time, index gained around three percent or 366 points, with an average daily volume of 155 million shares, well above the

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) swings back to the treasury benches, the coalition survives and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani stays in office. The chances of a no-confidence motion against him had already diminished as the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the only party that could have unseated the government, decided not to act decisively and just presented a 12-point interim agenda to the prime minister with a 72-hour deadline to say a categorical "yes" or "no" to.