Tag: Punjab assembly

New law regulating Sikh marriages to be introduced in Punjab Assembly:...

LAHORE: A new draft of law regulating the marriages of Sikh community in Punjab is being made to replace the one already introduced in...

PTI devises strategy to counter DMG officers’ strike

bureaucrats LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) devised a strategy to counter the strike of officers from District Management Groups (DMG) in favour of former Lahore Development...

Ruckus in PA over Ahad Cheema’s promotion

Opposition threatens to protest against bureaucracy PML-N to table anti-NAB resolution LAHORE: The promotion of former Lahore Development Authority (LDA) director general (DG) Ahad...

DMG officers go on strike against Ahad Cheema’s ‘unlawful’ arrest

NAB to file four additional references against Cheema as probe reveals offshore accounts in Turkey and Portugal LAHORE: Officers belonging to the District Management...

PA adopts resolution for ban on prohibited injections for buffaloes

LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday adopted two private members’ resolutions sponsored by Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) lawmakers recommending the government to ensure ban...

Imran Khan’s third marriage stirs controversy in Punjab Assembly

Minister advises every lawmaker to get married three or four times Public health engineering minister admits south Punjab is ‘deprived region’   LAHORE: The third...

Punjab Assembly rejects resolution against petroleum price hike

Govt to accomplish 131 new sports development schemes, parliamentary secretary tells PA   LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday rejected a resolution against the recent increase...

PA fails to discuss Asma Jahangir in first session after her...

LAHORE: Punjab Assembly failed to discuss the demise of eminent lawyer and human rights activists Asma Jahangir, in the very first session that took...

Absence of concerned minister, secretary wraps PA session within minutes

Opposition members stage walkout over unaddressed queries 34th session of PA to last till Senate polls   LAHORE: The session of the Punjab Assembly on Monday...

Some powers are using Dr Shahid Masood as a pawn: Sanaullah

LAHORE: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on Monday said that Dr Shahid Masood is being used as a pawn by some powers. Addressing a press conference...

PNA’s Punjab Assembly sit-in enters third day, thoroughfares remain clogged

LAHORE: Major thoroughfares of the city remained clogged with traffic on Saturday, as the School Health and Nutrition Programme supervisors under the banner of the Punjab...

Five burn units in Lahore ensuring quality treatment to patients, PA...

LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Friday was told that five burn units were operating in the Lahore city where latest treatment facilities were being ensured...

Timely payments being made to sugarcane growers, PA told

LAHORE: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan told the Punjab Assembly session on Thursday that farmers were being paid Rs180 per 40-kg sugarcane crop...

Mehmood criticises Rana Sana for using Asma’s name for political gains

Calls him personal drum-beater of Sharif family Opp leader accuses Rana Sana of being behind Punjab government’s conspiracy to defame KP government LAHORE: Punjab...

Govt employees occupy The Mall

Separate protests of health and literacy departments’ employees choke Mall Road leading to massive traffic jams. Protesters demand increase in salaries and regularisation...

Desperate PTI gears up for Senate polls

Seeks JI’s help for Sarwar’s victory Imran Khan calls meeting of PTI Punjab MPs   LAHORE: With the isolated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) gearing up for the...

PA special session on Kashmir marred by MPAs lackluster attitude

Thin attendance mocked both treasury, opposition PPP remained absent from house Resolution for Kashmiris unanimously passed by lawmakers LAHORE: A special session of the Punjab Assembly...