Tag: Sovereignty

Osama raid an assault on sovereignty: Nawaz

The country’s sovereignty is at stake after the US operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif said on Monday. Describing the...

Workers’ Party mocks military’s claims of guarding sovereignty

The Workers Party Pakistan (WPP) office-bearers on Sunday said that the capture and killing of Osama Bin Laden proves hollow the military’s claims of...

The sovereignty excuse

Donald Trump must have had little idea that his fetish for documentary evidence, evidenced by asking for President Obama’s birth certificate, would find its...

Musharaff slams US

Former president Pervez Musharraf has slammed the United States for violating Islamabad’s sovereignty in carrying carry out the raid that killed Osama bin Laden,...

Musharraf warns India of dire consequences in case of aggression

Former president Pervez Musharraf has said that India should not have any misconception to carry out a US-like operation in Pakistan. In an interview with...

Senators question role of security agencies

The Senate on second day continued debate on the killing of Osama Bin Ladin and operation by US Forces within Pakistan territory without informing...

Pakistan warns against further raids inside its territory

Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said on Thursday that any country that again seeks to raid its territory would face consequences from Pakistan's military....

PML-Q defends sovereignty bill in Senate

ISLAMABAD - After facing defeat in National Assembly Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs on its proposed bill, the Pakistan Muslim League-Q has decided to get the Pakistan Sovereignty Bill 2010 passed by the Senate Standing Committee, as well as do lobbying in the lower house of the parliament for its passage.
The PML-likeminded is also supporting the legislation and its President Senator Salim Saifullah, who is also the chairman of senate body on foreign affairs, has declared

NA body rejects proposed Pakistan sovereignty act

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs on Friday rejected a proposed bill requiring the president to certify on an annual basis that no compromise had been made on the country's nuclear programme and the country's sovereignty. The bill called "Pakistan Sovereignty Act 2010" was moved by the PML-Q last year and was tabled in the National Assembly by PML-Q legislator Riaz Hussain Pirzada, who said it was in response to the US Kerry-Lugar-Berman Act,

GST imperative to economic sovereignty: analysts

ISLAMABAD - The lobby of the rich within and outside the parliament is providing stern resistance on the imposition of reformed General Sales Tax (GST) in an attempt to evade taxes at the cost of the poor, independent analysts said.
They believed that the government should keep a vigilant eye on such elements and take steps for the passage of the reformed GST Bill from the parliament. This, they believed, was necessary for the economic sovereignty of Pakistan. Reformed General

Unity can help maintain Pakistan’s sovereignty: minister

GUJRANWALA: Provincial Minister for Food Abdul Ghafoor has said that the menace of sectarianism is over in the province due to sincere efforts of religious clerics and now it is time to eradicate the scams designed against sovereignty of the country.
He stated this while addressing a meeting held at circuit house to review security measures in Gujranwala division. The meeting was attended by religious clerics, MNAs, MPAs, DCOs and DPOs of all six districts of the division.

Drone attacks violate country’s sovereignty: Malik

KARACHI: Drone attacks are violating Pakistan's sovereignty and the government is negotiating with the United States on the issue, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday.
Talking to reporters at the airport, he said that a covert operation had been launched against the killers involved in the Karachi killings. Malik said every murder cannot be called target killing until police confirms it as a target killing.
He said that the security had been beefed up around Sher