Tag: Senate
Senate panel to discuss Pak-US stand-off today
The Senate Standing Committee on Defence and Defence Production will meet today (Tuesday) at the parliament house. Parliamentary sources said the meeting was convened...
Criminal Law bill awaits Senate’s approval
The Acid Control and Acid Crime Prevention Bill of 2010, later named the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill of 2011, has not lapsed, is very...
Senate committee for legislation to cripple KPT’s spending powers
The Karachi Port Trust (KPT) is in hot waters as a sub-committee of the senate’s standing committee on ports and shipping has started probing...
US blames ISI for Kabul attack, Senate aims to restrict aid
US officials said there was mounting evidence that Inter Services Intelligence directorate (ISI) had encouraged a guerrilla network to attack U.S. targets, while a...
KPT’s deep water port Senate body questions legitimacy
The sub-committee of the Senate’s Standing Committee on Ports and Shipping has questioned the constitutional legitimacy of Pakistan Deep Water Container Port (PDWCP), a...
Senate to probe into allegations against USF
Though the Senate Standing Committee on IT and Telecom is set upon chiding Universal Service Funds (USF), the charges being leveled against the funds...
Senate body joins Malik bashing
Lashing out at Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior Senator Talha Mahmood Tuesday said his ministry had become the mouthpiece...
Notification issued for 12 KP senate seats elections
Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announced it would hold elections for 12 senate seats instead of 11 in March next year from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
Senate body rejects Interior Ministry’s report on Balochistan
Rejecting the report of the Interior Ministry claiming increased kidnapping incidents and targeted killings in Balochistan, the Senate Committee on Human Rights decided to...
Senate body on SAFRON cancels meeting in protest
Protesting against the absence of federal minister for States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) and the government’s direction to the concerned secretary to not to...
Senate body defers three bills for further consideration
The Senate Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs decided during a meeting with Senator Kazim Khan on Wednesday to defer all three...
Senate chairman validates Haideri’s appointment
Senate Chairman Farooq H Naek validated in his ruling on Tuesday the appointment of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Senator Abdul Ghafoor Haideri as leader of...
Senate body suggests denying visas to Americans
The Senate’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs on Friday asked the ministries of Interior and Defence to refrain from issuing visas to US citizens....
MQM supports JUI-F for Senate opposition leader
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Friday backed up Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) for seat of opposition leader in the Senate.
Muttahida senator Tahir Hussain Mashhadi submitted an...
JUI-F seeks Senate session
The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) has submitted a requisition in the Senate Secretariat to summon the House, Leader of the House in Senate Maulana Abdul...
Jamaat-e-Islami woos journalists with lucrative bill in Senate
Senators belonging to the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) have submitted “Journalists’ Protection and Welfare Bill 2011” in the Senate, which proposes safety measures to be taken...
Senate to probe textile crisis
A high level committee of Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) is being nominated to represent the textile sector during an exploratory meeting...
