Tag: Sindh Assembly

MQM to be back in the House after PM’s nod

Govt agrees to demand for formation of national grievance redressal committee to take up complaints regarding anti-criminal and anti-terrorism operations across Pakistan and in...

Sindh govt unveils Rs 739b budget for 2015-16

Amidst protests by opposition members of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F), Sindh Finance Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah unveiled Sindh Budget 2015-16 in the provincial assembly with a total outlay of Rs 739 billion, Rs 10 to 15 billion as budget deficit and allocation of Rs 200 billion for development projects.

Sindh Assembly censures its opposition leader

Sindh Assembly Tuesday adopted a censure motion against the opposition leader Muhammad Shaharyar Khan Mahar. The censor motion was not on the agenda of the...

MQM stages walk out from Sindh Assembly during CM’s address

KARACHI- Sindh Assembly members form Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Tuesday staged a walkout from an assembly session in protest of an address by Chief...

Sindh Assembly speaker accepts PTI members’ resignation

KARACHI-  Speaker Sindh Assembly Agha Siraj Durrani on Wednesday accepted resignations of four provincial assembly members from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), private media reported. The resignations by PTI...

Govt patronising criminals allege Sindh Assembly legislators

Legislators say govt’s support to criminals is cause of deteriorating law and order in Karachi PML-F MPA Mahar alleges ‘wanted thief’ was present in political...

Sindh Assembly demands revival of abandoned rail services

Parliamnetarians allege local rail system closed on behest of private transporter mafia House passes resolution to establish breast cancer diagnostic centers in every district, mammography...

Governor Sindh approves resignation of two MQM ministers

KARACHI-   Governor Sindh Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan on Tuesday accepted the resignations of two ministers from Mutahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM), a private news channel reported. According to...

CM Sindh says no child died of hunger in Thar

KARACHI- Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Monday denied allegations of  government’s negligence over Tharparkar district's drought spell while quashing reports that more...

MQM planning to pull the plug on PPP in Centre too!

The bitterness in relations between the Muttahidda Qoumi Movement (MQM) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) following MQM’s announcement to abandon PPP in Sindh government boiled over Monday when MQM legislators walked out of the Sindh Assembly after tendering their resignations from provincial ministerial positions while MQM National Assembly members moved a resolution for the removal of PPP leader Khursheed Shah as leader of the opposition in the House.

MQM ministers send resignations to Governor Sindh, file for allotment of...

KARACHI- Provincial ministers belonging to Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Monday sent their resignations to Governor Sindh Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan while the party submitted a request...

Sindh Assembly passes resolution against Sindh’s division

KARACHI- Sindh Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution against division of the province, moved by Pakistan People's Party (PPP) assembly member Sohail Akbar, a private...

PPP MPA Parveen Junejo accuses husband of forcing her to resign...

KARACHI- Pakistan People's Party (PPP) member Parveen Jun­e­jo has denied that she resigned from the seat of Sindh Assembly on her own accord, adding that...

Four PTI-backed lawmakers tender resignations in Sindh Assembly

PTI member says resignations were tendered on directives of PTI chief Alleges that Sindh Assembly is ruled by political mafia Four Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed members of...

Sindh to tax agriculture income from next fiscal year

Proposed tax ranges from Rs 100 to over Rs 1 million depending on nature of cultivable land and size of income   The Sindh government is...

Sindh Assembly approves resolution against Geo

A resolution has been approved in the Sindh Assembly against Geo Television on Friday for leveling allegations on Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The resolution was presented...

When friend of friend is a foe…

Sindh Assembly fails to condemn PPO as PPP leaves MQM in lurch on controversial anti-terror law     The provincial lawmakers from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM),...