Tag: Senator

First US senator to give birth in office

WASHINGTON: US Senator Tammy Duckworth is pregnant with her second child and is on track to become the first US senator to give birth...

No-trust movement is punishment to Nawaz: Senator Kakar

BY YASIR HABIB KHAN   LAHORE: No-Trust movement that is whipping up a chaotic storm in Baluchistan as well as the entire country is spineless and will...

PPP calls for shift of military’s businesses to private sector

Senator Farhatullah proposes military to restrict their commercial, industrial activities to weapons, defence sectors ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Senator Farhatullah Babar called for...

ECP orders ex-senator Yasmeen Shah to reimburse salary, allowances

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission Pakistan (ECP) on Monday declared ex-senator Yasmeen Shah’s Bachelors of Arts degree as fake and has ordered her to reimburse the salary...

Pakistan needs ‘intellectual infrastructure’ to fight extremism: senator

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Farhatullah Babar said on Friday that there is a need to create an intellectual infrastructure and a space for...

Senator proposes recovered missing persons depose before HR Committee

ISLAMABAD: Senator Farhatullah Babar today proposed that the recovered missing persons be allowed to depose before Senate Committee in confidence and also replace the six...

Two more witnesses submit bank record in Dar reference

NAB court continues eight-hour-long hearing against key federal minister ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday presented two witnesses – Shahid Aziz of the...

PPP demands probe of spy agencies over ‘terror links’

-- Senator Babar says some ‘invisible forces’ protecting some militants -- Suggesting govt to revisit Afghan policy, senator says govt will have to change its...

Twitter suspends 200 Russian-linked accounts, US senator slams steps as insufficient

Twitter said on Thursday it had suspended about 200 Russian-linked accounts as it probes online efforts to meddle with the 2016 US election, but...

PPP’s rally to ‘break all records’: Dhamrah

  HYDERABAD: Sindh PPP Information Secretary Senator Aajiz Dhamrah, while addressing the public gathering - organised by PPP Hyderabad, expressed that loud welcome slogans were...

PML-N vote bank increasing: Javed Abbasi

LAHORE: Senator of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Javed Abbasi on Tuesday said that his party vote bank was increasing due to development works being completed...

Peace and development in FATA linked to peace in Afghanistan: Farhatullah...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Farhatullah Babar has said that peace and development in tribal areas will remain elusive unless proper reforms are introduced...

Senator calls for probe into sinister anti-press ordinance

--Senator also raises the issue of forcible eviction of Loaralai residents by Cantt authorities ISLAMABAD: Senator Farhatullah Babar on Monday asked for an inquiry into the...

Senate panel to debate how to prevent misuse of laws

A Senate committee is set to debate how to prevent blasphemy laws being applied unfairly. Senator Farhatullah Babar told media that the Senate Committee on...

Govt to form ‘independent commission’ to oversee NAB actions: senator

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government has decided to form an independent commission to oversee functioning of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Senator Mushahidullah...

Senator questions constitutional status of Council of Islamic Ideology

Babar says matter be referred to Law and Justice Committee Senator Farhatullah Babar on Tuesday questioned the constitutional and legal status of the Council of...

No security for senator

A report on security was provided by the Interior Ministry to Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif, President Mamnoon Hussain, federal ministers, judges of Supreme...