Tag: Resign

Zardari should resign: Shahbaz

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif called upon President Zardari to resign while addressing the PML-N anti-government rally at Bhati Gate on Friday. The rally...

PML-Q ministers ‘resign’ en masse

Expressing a lack of confidence in the Pakistan People’s Party-led coalition government, the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid ministers on Tuesday submitted their resignations to PML-Q...

Chidambaram offers to resign

Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram offered to resign on Monday, several TV channels said, days after a document emerged that suggested he failed to...

‘Q’ leaders resign from Sindh cabinet

Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Sindh leaders have resigned from the Pakistan People’s Party-led Sindh cabinet following discriminatory attitude of the ruling party’s leadership. However,...

ANP Sindh decides its minister will not resign

The Awami National Party (ANP) Sindh chapter decided on Monday to allow its provincial minister Amir Nawab to continue working on his post, as...

Altaf asks PM to resign as PPP-MQM talks collapse

Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Monday demanded Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani resign from his office for failing to stop the...

Japan PM says will quit after disaster issues settled

Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Thursday that he would resign after getting a nuclear crisis and other disaster-related matters under control, raising...

Mohsin Khan threatens to resign

Mohsin Khan, Pakistan’s chief selector, is on the verge of resigning from his post after differences developed with fellow selectors over the selection of...

Doctors threaten to resign

QUETTA - The Balochistan chapter of Pakistan Medical Association Wednesday threatened that all the doctors working at government-run hospitals would tender their resignations in protest over the abduction and murder of their colleague Dr. Mumtaz Haider. They however said that final decision in this raged would be taken by the PMA's academic council meeting being held on April 22. Citing poor security for doctors, the PMA members said they felt insecure while performing their duty. The

Complicity in Raymond Davis case – ‘Prove me guilty and I’ll...

LAHORE -Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Monday offered to resign if accusations of his involvement in Raymond Davis' release were proven right. Addressing a press conference in Lahore, Shahbaz said the Punjab government would continue its probe into the sudden release of Davis. However, he said the federal government and the victims' families should be asked questions concerning the blood money that was paid and the deal that was struck to ensure Davis' release. The chief

Davis deal – I would resign if proven involvement: Sana

LAHORE - Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has said he would resign from office if allegations of his involvement in Raymond Davis' release were proven true. Talking to reporters on Thursday, Sanaullah ruled out Chaudhry Zaheer's allegations that he visited the court for Davis' immediate release.
He said that the PML-N respected the nation's sentiments and represented the nation's feelings during the course of the case. He said the court released Davis because the legal heirs of

Dalai Lama to resign as Tibetan political leader

DHARAMSHALA - The Dalai Lama announced on Thursday he would step down as political head of Tibet's exiled government, but continue to push the Tibetan cause in his key role as its spiritual figurehead. In a speech on the anniversary of a failed uprising in 1959 against Chinese rule, the Dalai Lama said he would seek an amendment allowing him to resign his political office when the exiled Tibetan parliament meets next week.
"As early as the 1960s, I have repeatedly stressed that

Unification members resign from 14 slots

LAHORE - The Unification Bloc in Punjab Assembly on Sunday formally resigned from 11 slots of standing committees and 3 positions as Punjab Assembly political assistants.
They submitted their resignations to Provincial Law Minister Rana Sana Ullah who confirmed that he had received the same, sources said. They said that Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif had suggested that they should not resign from offices of standing committees as those slots had nothing to do with politics. However the

Ch Zaheer will resign from opposition leader’s slot for PPP

LAHORE - Punjab Assembly Opposition Leader Chaudhary Zaheer-ud-Din has announced that whenever Pakistan People's party (PPP) will join opposition benches, he will resign from the post following the Pervaiz Elahi's precedent. While talking to the journalists on Monday outside Punjab Assembly building, Chaudhary Zaheer-ud-Din said that lotacracy was a menace and added that the party had prepared references against the lotas of the party as they had not responded to the show -cause

EPTB head threatens to resign

LAHORE - Evacuee Property Trust Board (EPTB) Chairman and leader of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Syed Asif Hashmi threatened to resign in protest by March 7 over differences with the federal minister and the secretary for minorities. He said the party needed to take his demands seriously if they wanted him to stay.
It is reported that on Monday,his first working day, Asif Hashmi reached office per routine but after spending some time he informed his colleagues and staffers

PPP ministers should resign before staging sit-ins

LAHORE - PML-N Senator Pervaiz Rasheed has said that PPP ministers should resign and then stage a sit-in as long as they want. "The Punjab government will remain unhurt as it has majority in the House," he told Pakistan Today. He said that the Punjab government was safe and in no danger.
Rasheed said PPP Senior Minister Raja Riaz was a "hilarious man and his 19-point agenda is a joke as well". To a question, he said Nawaz Sharif had not yet received any agenda from PPP ministers.