Tag: Provinces

The devolution of certain federal ministries to provincial governments after certain constitutional amendments is burdening the latter with additional administrative expenditures. This has changed...

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem warned the French and US ambassadors on Wednesday not to travel outside Damascus after they both visited the flashpoint...

Senior federal minister Pervaiz Elahi said on Tuesday that Pakistan Muslim League-Q and Pakistan People’s Party were agree to make new provinces in Punjab...

The time has come for the provincial machinery to be tested after the 18th amendment and NFC award augmented their autonomy and resource pool....

On the day remembered for abolishment of the one unit, provinces are formally taking over the control of 17 federal ministries devolved under the...

Addressing a pre-flood inter-provincial meeting of the Federal Flood Commission (FFC), Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar on Thursday asked all provinces...

Addressing a point of order during the Balochistan Assembly session on Wednesday, the Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani said that funds of...

The first quarter of the ongoing fiscal year will paint a pretty decent picture of whether or not the government is on track to...

Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and President Asif Ali Zardari have agreed to expand the coalition government to other parts of...

Members of the Sindh Assembly (SA) were taken aback when MQM’s parliamentary leader, Syed Sardar Ahmed, informed the house that the Federal government has...

As alarm bells have already started ringing in the PML-Q following reports of the devolution of the ministries it secured in the power-sharing deal...

Federal Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Sheikh said on Sunday that Pakistan was going through a big transition and provincial governments equally shared the responsibility...

ISLAMABAD - The federal government on Tuesday passed the buck to the provinces on the issue of provision of safe drinking water to the people across country, with PPP chief whip and Minister for Religious Affairs Syed Khurshid Shah calling for a unanimous resolution by the National Assembly to the provincial governments to ensure safe drinking water provision to their people. Responding to a calling attention notice raised by PML-Q members Riaz Hussain Pirzada, Sardar Bahadur Seeher

LAHORE - Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has made it clear that his party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz will oppose formation of new provinces. In an exclusive chat with a private TV channel, the provincial law minister said that Punjab cannot be divided and if formation of new provinces is mandatory then Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa should be divided. Answering a question, he said, there is no space of technocratic government in the constitution and law.
Any move

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD - The Indus River System Authority (IRSA) decided in a meeting chaired by its Chairman Rao Irshad held on Friday to allocate 45 percent of Punjab's share of water to other provinces.
It was decided in the meeting that Punjab would surrender its water share by almost half and the province would get 18,000 cusecs of water. The meeting indicated that Sindh would get about 50,000 cusecs of water from the Mangla Dam for Kharif crops.
The emergency meeting was

ISLAMABAD - The provincial and federal governments have once again failed to sort out their differences on returning provincial budget surpluses and the imposition of the Reformed General Sales Tax (RGST) on services, and the agricultural income tax, an official source said on Friday.
The Finance Ministry convened a meeting with provincial finance secretaries on Friday to synchronise levying of the RGST on goods and services, and the agriculture income tax from the start of the

LAHORE - The Punjab government is utilising all available resources for the socio-economic development of the province and provision of basic amenities to the masses and a special programme is being implemented for poverty alleviation and uplift of education, health and other sectors, Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif said on Monday.
He was chairing a meeting to review the implementation of ongoing development projects with the cooperation of the UK Department for International