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Opposition parties on Monday staged separate walkouts from the Senate over the missing persons’ issue and privatisation of institutions. On the opening day of 98th...

The joint opposition in the Punjab Assembly (PA) joined hands against the increase in petroleum prices and staged a walkout from the assembly in...

  Opposition parties in the Senate on Tuesday strongly protested over the registration of an FIR against chief executive office and bureau chief of a...

The Punjab Assembly (PA) on Wednesday adopted the Punjab Local Government (LG) Bill 2013 with a clear majority amid the opposition’s walk-out from the...

  Opposition Leader in the Upper House Mian Raza Rabbani on Tuesday accused the government of confusing the imposition of two percent additional general sales...

The opposition parties in the National Assembly on Monday separately walked out of the house in protest over different issues. MQM lawmakers were first...

Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) and Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) staged a token walkout from National Assembly in protest of recent terrorist attacks...

Bahrain's government expressed regret on Monday that the country's largest Shi'ite opposition group Wefaq planned to pull out of a national dialogue, but said...

The opposition staged a walkout from Senate against non provision of security to the media men ,who prepared the footage of Kharotabad and...

Legislators from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) staged a walkout from National Assembly proceedings on Thursday over delay in a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)...

Opposition parties on Tuesday staged a walkout from the Senate session debating the budget, demanding reversal of Chairman Farook Naik’s decision of nominating JUI-F’s...

The Upper House of parliament on Friday witnessed an unusual agreement amongst the opposition and treasury members when some of them jointly staged a...

ISLAMABAD - Showing rare unity, senators from all parties on Saturday staged a token walkout from the Upper House against the absence of ministers from the proceeding of the House. No minister was present in the House to answer questions raised by members, who wanted to grill them on issues like the hike in petroleum prices and power outages in Balochistan's 16 districts for the past 22 days. "We want to speak on issues like the 22-day power outage in 16 districts of Balochistan, hike

SEOUL - Military talks aimed at easing high tensions between North and South Korea broke down Wednesday when the North's delegation walked out, Seoul's defence ministry said. The two sides had been meeting for the first time since the North's deadly shelling of a South Korean island on November 23, which briefly sparked fears of war.
A ministry spokesman told AFP the delegates even failed to discuss when to meet again. "Under the current situation, we can say the talks have

ISLAMABAD: The Senate passed recommendations of the Senate's Standing Committee on Finance on the Reformed General Sales Tax (RGST) Bill 2010 amid rumpus in the House on Friday.
Senate Chairman Farooq Naek clearly supported the number-weak PPP by rejecting the majority view, disallowing a vote on a note of proposal jointly put by the PML-Q, the JUI-F and the MQM. He rejected opposition parties' plea to count the votes, saying the voice vote was uncertain - thus undoubtedly

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Wednesday jolted the government by implementing a roadmap to pull out from the coalition by boycotting the proceedings of the Senate, National Assembly and Sindh Assembly as first step of the strategy.
The MQM legislators boycotted the proceedings of both Houses of parliament to protest against the government's failure to control the skyrocketing prices, particularly the recent increase in prices of petroleum products.