Politics

Nation celebrates 73rd Pakistan Day today

ISLAMABAD: The Day dawned with 31-gun salute in the Federal capital and 21 gun salute in the provincial capitals. The nation celebrates 73rd Pakistan Day today with the pledge to make Pakistan truly a democratic state. It was on this day in 1940 that...

Selection of caretaker PM in two hours: CEC

ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Fakhrudin G. Ibrahim has said that caretaker premier would be selected in two hours, media reported. Talking to reporters ahead of ECP meeting here Saturday, Fakhrudin G. Ibrahim said selection of interim ...

Opposition names for caretaker set up not acceptable: Shahbaz

LAHORE: Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif said that the two names suggested by the Opposition are not acceptable, media reported Friday. Pakistan Muslim League Balochistan leader Lashkari Raisani met with CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif to discuss t...

ECP to issue changed election schedule today: sources

ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has made changes in the general election schedule, which would be issued later on Friday after the approval of Chief Election Commissioner Fakhruddin G Ibrahim. According to the sources, the schedule h...

Kaira accuses Nisar of sabotaging democratic process

ISLAMABAD: Secretary Information of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Qamar Zaman Kaira Friday said that PML-N's Chaudhry Nisar was only trying to sabotage the democratic process, media reported. "Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader had a history of such ...

Interim PM: Ball falls on Election Commission’s court

ISLAMABAD: Parliamentary Committee formed to appoint a caretaker prime minister failed to reach consensus as the last session of the committee concluded inconclusively. ...

Caretaker PM: Third session of Parliamentary committee begins

ISLAMABAD: The third session of Parliamentary Committee formed to appoint a caretaker prime minister has begun as it failed to reach consensus during its first two sessions. A member of the committee Khursheed Shah expressing reservations on the PML-...

Proposed four names for interim PM slot are reputable: Saad

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Saad Rafiq has said that all the proposed four names for caretaker prime minister are reputable. Talking to media here on Friday, the member of the parliamentary committee, representing oppositio...

Defaulters to be ineligible to contest polls: ECP

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission on Friday categorically said that the candidates who are defaulters even on minor amount to any department including the parliamentary lodges would be ineligible to contest the elections. Talking to reporters outsid...

ECP issues election schedule

ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued general elections schedule after making several changes to the proposed schedule, media reported. Chief Election Commissioner Fakhruddin G Ibrahim granted final approval to the schedule, whi...

Committee decides to challenge new nomination forms in SC

ISLAMABAD: The special committee of the parliament on electoral reforms Thursday decided to challenge new nomination forms in the Supreme Court. A meeting of the committee was held here with its Chairman Jehangir Badar in the chair. The members of th...

Pakistani think tank warns ECP against pre-poll rigging

ISLAMABAD: A prominent Pakistani think tank on Thursday demanded strict action by the country’s election commission against attempts of pre-electoral rigging in run up to the general elections scheduled for May 11. Terming it as pre-poll rigging, th...

PML-Q alliance with PPP in jeopardy

ISLAMABAD: The PML-Q deferred its decision to part ways with the PPP after its chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain received a telephone call from President Asif Ali Zardari before the latter’s departure for Turkmenistan, sources in the two parties said on...

CM Balochistan orders regularization of contractual employees

QUETTA: Chief Minister Balochistan, Nawab Aslam Raisani Thursday ordered to regularize services of all the contractual employees in the province, a day after general elections were announced to be held across the country on May 11. Issuing the order ...

Akhter Mengal announces his return on 25 March

QUETTA: Chief of Balochistan National Party (BNP) Sardar Akhter Mengal has announced his return from Dubai on March 25 and convened the party’s central committee meeting on March 26 in Karachi, media reported. According to BNP sources, the party’s Ce...

Ghaus Baksh Barozai nominated as Balochistan caretaker CM

QUETTA: The government and opposition in Balochistan have reached a consensus on the name of Ghaus Bakhsh Barozai for caretaker chief minister, media reported. The announcement was made by Chief Minister Aslam Raisani and Opposition leader Nawabzada ...

Sindh interim CM indebted to PPP: Ghous

KARACHI: Pakistan Mulsim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Sindh President Ghous Ali Shah Thursday claimed that the interim chief minister of the province is indebted to Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) for their favors. During a press conference at his residence her...

ECP begins preparations for candidates’ scrutiny

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has kicked off preparations for conducting scrutiny of candidates planning to contest the next general elections scheduled to be held on May 11. In order to gear up its effort towards performing th...

Parliamentary Committee holds 2nd inconclusive meeting

ISLAMABAD: The second meeting of the Parliamentary Committee, entrusted with the task to nominate the caretaker prime minister, concluded without making any headway here on Thursday. The committee will next meet here at 10:30 AM Friday -- the last da...

SHC moved against lifetime privilege bill

KARACHI: The bill, adopted by Sindh Assembly that entitled lifetime privileges to the parliamentarians, has been challenged in Sindh High Court (SHC), media reported. The bill entitles chief minister, speaker and members of the provincial assembly fo...

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