Tag: Politicians

QUETTA - The members of 'Joint Committee on Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)' have stressed the need of immediate reforms, which also include the economic packages.
They said the political parties agreed that the people of FATA deserved equal opportunities of freedom, safety and economic progress like the citizens living in other parts of Pakistan.
The demands were repeated during a joint press conference at the Quetta Press Club on Saturday by Hashim Babar of

HAFIZABAD - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Hafizabad President Malik Fayyaz Ahmad Awan's nephew was booked for torturing a police sub-inspector (SI) in the city police station. According to the first information report (FIR), SI Muhammad Inayat was investigating a gambling case when Malik Phool Awan stormed into the police station and tried to get three accused released who were allegedly involved in the gabling case.
He abused the sub-inspector, tortured him and tore his

WASHINGTON - First Lady Michelle Obama on Monday tops a new poll purporting to show how warmly Americans regard their leaders, besting even her husband President Barack Obama. Mrs Obama scored a chart-topping "warmth rating" of 60.1 degrees, three degrees hotter than the president, who came in fourth place in the Quinnipiac University "feeling thermometer" with 56.5 degrees. The survey asked voters to rate leaders from O to 100 degrees on the "feeling thermometer" with the highest

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that the parliamentary group of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q has improved the image of politicians by upholding democratic norms and values, rather than hankering after power. He said that the move would usher in a new era of politics of principles.
Addressing the PML-Q parliamentary group at the CM Secretariat, the chief minister said that the decision of the parliamentary group had not only enhanced their respect, but also

ISLAMABAD - Emphasizing on the need of taking decisive steps to wipe out growing intolerance in the country, various political parties on Wednesday strongly condemned the brutal assassination of federal minister for minorities' affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti.
PML-Q: Riaz Hussain Pirzada said that the time had come to take practical steps to curb growing extremism in the country.
MQM: Dr Farooq Sattar, MQM's parliamentary leader in the NA, said Bhatti's assassination was a

LAHORE - Politicians condemned the hike in POL prices and demanded its reversal before Pakistanis rises up in revolt like Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain and Libya.
PAKISTAN MUSLIM LEAGUE-NAWAZ: Nawaz Sharif warned the government to not test the public patience because if it will brim over once, rulers will not be able to escape the consequences. He demanded immediate withdrawal of the hike, saying if the government cannot decrease the public's miseries then it should at least avoid

BAGHDAD - Iraq's government on Tuesday proposed new legislation that would slash the salaries of politicians and top officials, just days after MPs approved smaller pay cuts in a bid to head off protests. The mooted changes are the latest attempt by authorities to respond to demonstrations that have taken place across Iraq in cities that are variously Sunni, Shiite or Kurdish, railing against corruption, poor public services and high unemployment.
"The cabinet has decided to

LAHORE - A Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench on Monday sought a reply from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) within three weeks on a petition challenging closure of 60 references against politicians and bigwigs on directions of the NAB chairman.
The bench consisting of Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry and Justice Ahmad Farooq Sheikh issued the orders on a petition filed by Rana Ilmddin submitting that according to media reports, criminal references against various

LAHORE - People are fed up of corrupt politicians who have only looted the national exchequer and pushed the country towards lawlessness and chaos, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Thursday while addressing a public gathering at Malikwal.
He said that politicians have succeeded in only increasing poverty, lawlessness, unemployment and corruption and now people are desperate for a change. Imran said that corrupt people will get "clean bold" on his one

ISLAMABAD - The chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Justice (r) Syed Deedar Hussain Shah has quietly directed his staff to close down corruption inquiries against almost 60 leaders of the ruling coalition - mostly from the Pakistan People's Party.
A source told Pakistan Today on Saturday that the decision was taken at the Executive Board meeting of the NAB on January 29. "During the meeting, the NAB chairman said that since these inquiries were politically

ISLAMABAD - The brutal torture meted out to Syed Kabir Wasti, senior vice-president of Pakistan Muslim League (PML)-Likeminded, on Saturday attracted criticism from politicians across the political divide. Condemning the incident, they demanded the government to hold a judicial inquiry for exposing the culprits.
Ijazul Haq, the head of his own faction of the PML, Ijazul Haq said, "It is regrettable that unknown persons in an official vehicle thrashed a senior politician," adding

LAHORE - Politicians belonging to various political parties gave a mixed response over President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani's decision to dissolve the federal cabinet. President Zardari's Punjab Coordinator Naveed Chaudhry welcomed the decision saying that it was a positive move.
He predicted that the decision would increase the party's efficiency and said that the change would be brought according to the 18th Constitutional Amendment. The PPP

ISLAMABAD - To maintain the rule of law, the political parties on Saturday asked the government to not to give in to pressure from the US government regarding the release of the American citizen who killed two Pakistanis in Lahore.
PML-Q: Reacting to the US demand of immediate release of Raymond Davis, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid group's Senator Tariq Azeem raised fundamental questions about the US embassy's reluctance to identify Davis' credentials and his assignment in

ISLAMABAD - The law enforcement agencies have arrested terrorists who wanted to kill political leadership as well as journalists, said Rehman Malik, the federal minister for Interior Affairs.
Speaking with media outside the Parliament House on Tuesday, he revealed that the security agencies have arrested terrorists who wanted to kill leadership of the Pakistan People's Party, Mutahida Qaumi Movement, Awami National Party, as well as journalists.
To a question, the Interior

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday asked the five-member committee formed for dialogue with all the parliamentary parties to immediately contact the leadership of the parties to ascertain their availability for consultation on national economic challenges.
"Since the budget was passed unanimously by the parliament, the financial challenges of the country also need to be shared to find solution through collective wisdom.
The people of Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - The killing of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer by his bodyguard has heightened security fears among Pakistani political liberals who say their voices are being drowned out by the rising religious extremism.
Mumtaz Qadri gunned down his boss last week outside an Islamabad coffee shop, and the ease with which he carried out his crime has frightened liberal politicians.
Salman Taseer's assassination has deepened a bitter divide between supporters of a liberal Pakistan

LAHORE - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Punjab President Ahsan Rasheed claimed on Monday that the corrupt politicians were in pursuit to curtail judiciary to restrict every voice raised for the betterment of the people of the country.
Ahsan said that the country was passing through severe crisis as almost every institution was depreciating owing to the corruption of the current government that was only striving to ensure its rule while the Supreme Court was over burdened with