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ISLAMABAD: The Senate approved all 102 clauses of the 18th Amendment Bill, Geo News reported.
“It is a victory of democracy today,” Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said after the Senate passed the 18th Amendment Bill.
“Approval of this constitutional amendment is a landmark in the constitutional history of Pakistan,” [...]
WASHINGTON : Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani met with the world leaders including Japanese and Indian leaders here Tuesday at the Washington Convention Center on the occasion of Nuclear Security Summit.
Prime Minister Gilani and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh exchanged greetings and spoke informally for a few minutes prior to [...]
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-N Chief Nawaz Sharif condemned the riots that took place in Abbotabad on Monday, leaving behind eight people dead. Sharif reiterated that renaming the NWFP was a sensitive issue and should have been dealt with accordingly. In a statement issued by the PML-N, Sharif maintained that before renaming the province, all the [...]
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly today unanimously approved the 18th Amendment Bill 2010, restoring the 1973 Constitution to its original form.
The 18th amendment was approved by 292 votes in favour and no votes against, among those present in the 342-member national assembly, announced Speaker Fahmida Mirza.
The bill now needs approval [...]
LAHORE: Former Punjab Governor Ghulam Mustafa Khar made a stunning disclosure that a group of military generals had made an offer to save Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto from getting hanged. However, Benazir Bhutto had rejected the offer at that time.
Speaking at Geo TV program ‘Jawabdeh’, the former PPP leader said that a [...]
ISLAMABAD: Attorney General Anwar Mansoor Khan has resigned from his post as Attorney General of Pakistan over non-cooperative attitude of Law Minister Babar Awan. He pointed out that since I assumed the office of Attorney General Law Minister and Law Ministry is not cooperating with me and I apprised President [...]
ISLAMABAD: Awami National Party (ANP) chief Asfandyar Wali hailed the decision regarding the change of NWFP’s name to Khyber Pakhtoonkhaw, Geo News reported Thursday. Talking to media outside the Parliament, he aid the decision gave back to the Pakhtoons their identity after 63 years in Pakistan. Terming today a highly [...]
The Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms (PCCR) during its meeting approved Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa with consensus as the new name for NWFP.
PCCR met with Senator Raza Rabbani in chair to end the deadlock between Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Awami National Party (ANP) on the renaming of NWFP.
The consensus on the new name [...]
ISLAMABAD: The government of Pakistan has started implementing the verdict of Supreme Court (SC) regarding National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), Geo News reported Wednesday.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has written letters to the Swiss government for re-opening the Swiss cases and cases against Malik Qayyum in pursuance of SC’s NRO verdict.
The [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) warned the Chairman of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) that he may be put behind bars if the judicial orders delivered on National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), were not implemented, Geo News reported Monday.
Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday said in his remarks that it is unthinkable why [...]
The Obama Administration’s goal is to provide a multi-year security assistance package to Pakistan, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said and termed the demand for nuclear deal as one of the several “complicated” issues with Islamabad.
“I was pleased to inform the Foreign Minister (Qureshi) that our goal is a multi-year [...]
ISLAMABAD: The prosecutor of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Hasan Raza Bukhari has resigned from his office on Wednesday. Talking to Geo News, Hasan Raza said he was forced to appear in the court without providing record in Cotecna Reference case. He said application for the restoration of reference against Nawaz [...]
ISLAMABAD – Constitutional Reforms Committee of the Parliament (CRCP) on Friday finalised the preamble of the draft proposal of 18th Amendment giving brief description of the motives behind bringing the amendments in the Constitution.
Sources privy to the Committee’s meeting informed TheNation that by and large there was consensus on all the [...]
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau is sending its team to the United Kingdom to bring back 12 boxes containing records of President Asif Ali Zardari’s Swiss cases, sources told Dawn on Thursday.
The NAB team headed by its Chief of Staff, Islamabad, Muhammad Ashfaq will soon leave for London to take into [...]
