Tag: Prime Minister
Students’ unions await resurrection
Even though education was made a provincial subject in the 18th Amendment and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani also announced the restoration of students’...
No one should transgress limits: PM
Stability is essential for economic growth and democracy ensures it with all institutions performing their roles within their constitutional domain, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza...
PM snubs call for military courts
An unusually charged Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday lashed out at Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif, without naming him, for...
Non-political president
2012: the year when big things are supposed to happen in the political landscape of Pakistan. All parties bar the Pakistan Peoples Party have...
PQA to defy apex court by hiring 100 more people?
Although Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and the Supreme Court have restrained the Port Qasim Authority (PQA) from making any fresh recruitment, on political...
Recriminations over India’s stalled anti-graft law
India's government faced fierce criticism in the media and from the opposition on Friday after it failed to push through its flagship anti-corruption law...
Jamaican opposition wins landslide vote
Jamaica’s leading opposition People’s National Party won a landslide election, according to preliminary results, in a vote driven by concerns about crime, corruption and...
‘Give us gas and electricity!’
The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) and Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) came hard on their consumers on Wednesday by closing electricity and...
Prime Minister approves USF projects in Balochistan and Sindh
The meeting of the board of Universal Service Fund (USF) presided over by the Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday approved two...
Politics on memo issue
There is more to it than meets the eye
Interesting developments that raise uneasy questions took place before the memo case was filed in the...
On spin-doctoring
The role of a ministry
Cabinet meetings are probably never all fun and games, but the 100th meeting of the federal cabinet would have been...
Parliament supreme: Gilani
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Sunday that the government had completed 45 months and would go on to complete its five-year term,...
State within a state
With escape routes blocked, how comes the end?
The prime minister’s outbursts of December 22 have dashed any prospects that may still have lingered with...
Gilani directs railways to improve efficiency
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has directed ministries of finance and railways to settle the issue of subsidy as railways is short of...
Malala gets first National Peace Award for Youth
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday awarded the first National Peace Award for Youth to Malala Yousufzai for her courageous stance to promote...
Cabinet committee shelves privatisation plan for PSE’s
Setting aside proposed privatisation of eight national level organisations including Pakistan Railways, Steel Mills, PIA and WAPDA, the federal cabinet in its meeting held...
A ‘model’ public school without furniture, toilets
Believe it or not, there is a public school in the capital city that has no basic modern day facilities, yet the nameplate on...
