Tag: Senate
Parliament elected on bogus votes will choose similar senators: Imran
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Monday that a parliament elected through 45 percent bogus votes would obviously choose senators similar to...
Senate body asks high-ups not to announce packages from PSDP
Urging the president and prime minister not to announce special packages from PSDP allocations of the National Highway Authority (NHA), the Senate Standing Committee...
Senate treasury joins Opp to slam ministers’ absence
A call for ‘long march’ from the Parliament House to the Prime Minister’s House echoed in the Senate on Saturday as Awami National Party...
Rs 100m allocated to Kurram Tangi Dam, Qamar tells Senate
Minister for Water and Power Naveed Qamar on Thursday said Rs 100 million has been allocated in the annual PSDP 2011-12 for the Kurram...
Profiteers, black marketers to get summary trial
The Senate passed a bill ‘The Islamabad Consumers Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2011’, on Thursday.The legislation provides for summary trials in the city’s limits, by...
Senate clears another pro-women bill
The Senate on Tuesday passed another pro-women bill to provide financial and legal assistance to distressed women languishing in various jails of the country....
Protecting our own
On the pro-women legislation
Law and society, they have a mutually affective relation. While the former reflects and/or codifies the changing attitudes of the latter...
Will Imran’s tsunami fall short of Senate?
Imagine a political scenario in which Imran Khan comes to power with a thumping majority in the National Assembly, maybe two-thirds if we stretch...
Pro-women bills sail through Senate
Following the National Assembly, the Senate also unanimously passed a landmark legislation on Monday to provide protection to women against centuries-old brutal traditions and...
Opposition embarrassed as it fails to manage Senate quorum
The opposition in the Senate on Wednesday faced embarrassment when it failed to ensure quorum for a session it had requisitioned, with the presiding...
Azam Swati resigns from JUI-F, Senate
Azam Khan Swati has resigned from the JUI-F and the Senate.
During a press conference, Swati said national institutions such as PIA and Pakistan Railways...
Opp senators doubt govt’s resolve
The opposition senators on Friday doubted the government’s resolve to partially withdraw the country’s support to the allied forces fighting terrorism in Afghanistan in...
Senate condemns barbaric, intolerable NATO strike
The Senate on Friday adopted a unanimous resolution, condemning the NATO attack on border posts over the weekend which killed 25 soldiers and injured...
US Senate ties strings to Pakistan aid
The US Senate voted on Wednesday to tie strings to military aid to Pakistan as they advanced a massive annual defense spending bill. Senators...
Senate seats for sale
According to a news report in an Urdu daily, in the wake of the upcoming Senate elections, the price to become a Senator in...
PPP to contest Senate polls jointly with ‘Q’
The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has decided to contest Senate elections in Punjab jointly with the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) while adopting a tough...
Recommendations on fuel levy adopted by Senate
The Senate on Friday adopted recommendations of the Standing Committee on Finance Revenue and Economic Affairs on the Petroleum Products (Petroleum Levy) (Amendment) Bill,...
