Tag: Prime

Civil servants urged to demonstrate integrity‚ discipline and impartiality

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has urged the civil servants to demonstrate integrity discipline and impartiality to serve the cause of the people. Addressing...

A storm over the Supreme Court

Whenever, there has been an accusation of corruption against the current president, PM or ministers, there were loud voices calling for their resignations. Why...

SC to hear petitions against NA speaker’s ruling

The Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan has admitted the petitions filed by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) against the...

Shahbaz holds PM, President accountable for $400 billion circular debt

Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif Friday said they would hold the Prime Minister and the President accountable for 400 billion dollars circular debt....

PM takes notice of torture on Saudi official

The top government functionary has come into motion over the clash between Saudi official and ASF personnel at Islamabad airport. ASF personnel at Benazir International...

We cannot afford martial law: Gilani

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has said there will be no martial law in the country as it can not afford it and...

Demanding Gilani’s removal undemocratic move: Khosa

Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khan Khosa said on Thursday that Yusuf Raza Gilani will continue as the prime minister and that the people demanding...

Turkish prime minister to visit Pakistan from 20th

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay a three-day official visit to Pakistan from May 20 to May 23 on the invitation of...

Aitzaz submits reply in PM contempt case

Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s counsel Aitzaz Ahsan has submitted the reply on behalf of Prime Minister before the Supreme Court in contempt case,...

Balochistan needs your attention, Mr Prime Minister

Lawmakers of the Balochistan Assembly on Thursday urged Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to visit Quetta to ensure peace, help check targeted killing and...

India’s Prime Minister, anti-graft law face parliament test

India’s government and ruling Congress party faced a tough battle to pass its proposed flagship anti-corruption law on Thursday as the upper house of...

Bill Clinton aide confirmed as Haitian prime minister

Haiti's Senate late Tuesday confirmed the nomination of Garry Conille, an advisor to former US president Bill Clinton, to be the country's prime minister. Conille,...

Japanese prime minister vows nuclear-free future

A ceremony to mark the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing was Saturday dominated by national soul-searching on atomic power as Japan's prime minister pledged...

Prime Minister Gilani and his forgotten promises

ISLAMABAD - It took the PPP government three years to seek judicial review of the PPP founding chairman Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's case, although in his first address to parliament, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani had promised to bring a parliamentary resolution on the issue. In his first speech to the National Assembly after being elected unanimously, Prime Minister Gilani had asked the assembly to pass a resolution condemning Zulfikar's "judicial murder" - a rhetoric which was yet to

Interior secretary briefs prime minister on India talks

ISLAMABAD - Interior Secretary Chaudhry Qamar Zaman on Saturday took Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani into confidence on his forthcoming meeting with the Indian counterpart. He called Gilani at Prime Minister's House to seek guidance in connection with his meeting with the Indian counterpart. Proposed agenda of the scheduled meeting between interior secretaries of the two countries was also discussed during the meeting.

Gas outages to end by mid-March, says prime minister

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday announced that gas load shedding would end by the mid of March, adding that 1,100 megawatts (MW) of electricity were in the pipeline which would be inducted in the main system in the near future.
Talking to a delegation of the Federation of the Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), the prime minister said the government had already inducted more than 1,700 megawatts of additional electricity since coming into