Tag: Senate
ALL PSO dues to be cleared by month end, minister tells...
Admitting that alternative resources to natural gas were being controlled by a cartel in the country, Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Dr...
President expresses anguish over ministers’ absence from Senate
President Asif Ali Zardari, while taking a strong notice of the ministers’ absence from the Senate session during the parliamentary year, sought a detailed...
Senate finance body approves two key bills
The Senate Standing Committee on Finance approved two bills on Thursday for the imposition of gas infrastructure development cess and petroleum levy on compressed...
Senate sees three walkouts in one day
Irked by ministers’ absence from Senate proceedings on Friday, parliamentarians from the Awami National Party (ANP), opposition benches and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)...
SME Bank waived over Rs 363m loans, Senate told
The Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Bank has waived loans of around Rs 363.848 million since 2008, Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Sheikh told the...
Senate Committee to reopen probe into NAECHS scam
Expressing disgust over habitual absence of Interior Minister Rehman Malik from the meetings of the parliamentary bodies, the Senate Standing Committee on Interior decided...
The plans of men
The political cauldron is on the boil again, some may say prematurely, for there is still some time to go between now and the...
March Syndrome likely to dominate till Senate polls
Though Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has been blaming the opposition of being driven by ‘March Syndrome’, he himself seems to have been caught...
Rind gets re-elected in Senate by-poll
Leader of Balochistan National Party-Awami Mir Muhammad Ali Rind has won senate by-election by securing 27 votes beating the candidates of Jamiat-e-Ulema-Islam and Pakistan...
Obama jobs bill falls at Senate hurdle
US President Barack Obama's jobs plan slid to defeat Tuesday against a wall of Senate Republican opposition, but he vowed to fight on amid...
Senate demands recovery of $2.5b Coalition Fund dues
The Senate Standing Committee on Finance on Tuesday directed the government to take a firm stance on the recovery of $2.5 billion dues under...
Obama urges Senate to pass jobs bill
President Barack Obama on Saturday urged the US Senate to pass his jobs bill this week, boosted by a non-partisan group's report that the...
China says ‘firmly opposes’ US Senate currency bill
China said Tuesday it "firmly opposed" a US Senate bill aimed at punishing Beijing for its alleged currency manipulation, which is expected to make...
Senators express reservations over pro-capitalist economic zones bill
The Senate Standing Committee on Saturday expressed reservations over the draft ‘The Special Economic Zones Bill, 2010’, saying the proposed legislation might be misused...
$350m required for development projects: chairman senate
As per initial estimates, Pakistan is in dire need of more than 350 million dollars immediately to carry out much needed mitigation, recovery and...
Senate body warns against any misadventure inside Pakistan
The Senate Standing Committee on Defence Tuesday warned against any misadventure inside Pakistani territory by the US, with the members of the committee stating...
Senate committee discusses NHA projects
Senate Standing Committee on Communications on Monday discussed the work progress on Hasanabdal Manshera Expressway; Project E- 35. The NHA chairman told that expressway,...
