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The country’s security establishment will today (Friday) brief a joint in-camera session of parliament on the Abbottabad incident and the post operation situation in...

KARACHI - Pakistan is likely to reaffirm its willingness for a Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) with Turkey, which will lead to a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), in the forthcoming fourteenth session of the Pakistan-Turkey Joint Ministerial Commission (JMC) in Istanbul. The session is scheduled to be held from May 04-05, 2011 after a break of over one year, sources said. An official delegation, led by Minister of Commerce Makhdoom Amin Fahim, is also likely to attend the impending

KARACHI - The Sindh government has decided to revise the textbooks to ensure that the students benefit from a better set of course books in the academic session 2012-13 and beyond.
The Education Department has already requested the textbook board to proceed with the revision.
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LAHORE - The Pakistan People's Party (PPP)-led opposition in the Punjab Assembly (PA) submitted another requisition to summon a fresh session of the House on Friday and said that the opposition would not allow the treasury to escape their questions.
A day earlier, the PPP had proved its strength by having a session on its requisition and also foiled the treasury's attempts to point out the quorum thrice. The party decided to move another requisition when its request to let the

KARACHI - The KSE-100 witnessed a lackluster trading session as investors remained largely sluggish due to the absence of encouraging market factors. Hence, the KSE-100 closed down 37 points at 11,869 with volumes falling by 11 percent from Friday to 60 million shares.
The upcoming result season is expected to revive investor interest and increase market participation. Second tier stocks dominated the volume chart today with NICL, DGKC, PACE and JSCL making up 24 percent of the

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly has been summoned to meet on April 11 at 4pm to discuss President Asif Zardari's fourth speech to the joint session of the parliament. A heated debate on the controversial release of Raymond Davis is likely to take the centre-stage while a long list of adjournment motions, privilege motions and some important bills will also be taken up during the session.
PML-Q MNAs, Marvi Memon, Faisal Saleh Hayat, Engr Amir Muqam and Humayun Saifullah Khan,

KARACHI - Despite the government managing little business of note during the last Sindh Assembly session, the provincial legislature returns in session from today after Governor Ishratul Ebad issued a notification to convene the Assembly. The new session comes sooner than expected, as parliamentary year requirements have already been met and the days of business will be counted in the current year. The new Sindh Assembly year will officially begin from April 6.
Tuesday will be a

LAHORE - Punjab Assembly (PA) Deputy Speaker Rana Mashhood has barred all the legislators in the house from passing controversial remarks against Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. On a point of order, PML-Q backed MPA Abdullah Yousaf Warraich drew the attention of the house over the remarks of Sheikh Alla-ud-Din against Quaid-e-Azam. He said that Law Minister Rana Sanaullah also remained silent on the issue. Rana Mashhood, who was chairing the assembly's session on Monday thus passed

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari has summoned the Senate to meet at the Parliament House on March 28 (Monday). The session starting at 4pm would be the Upper House of the Parliament's first in the new parliamentary calendar year and 69th in the total. An official in the Senate Secretariat said the Senate would discuss the presidential address to the joint sitting of the Parliament in detail.
Earlier, Senate was supposed to remain in session for 90 days in a calendar year

ISLAMABAD - Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) will attend a joint session of parliament scheduled to be held tomorrow (Tuesday), contrary to the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q)'s decision to boycott parliament proceedings.
According to a source in the party, the party top leadership will meet today (Monday) with JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman in the chair to devise a strategy viz-a-viz the joint session and will reach a decision on what to do next. However, he hoped that the

LAHORE - The 23rd session of the Punjab Assembly (PA) will be held on Friday (today) under the chair of PA Speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal amidst strict security arrangements. The house proceedings will start at 3:00 pm and soon after the recitation of the holy verses from the Quran and Naat, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will make its maiden entry as opposition after being a part of the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N)-led government for the period of over three years.