“I have several secrets in my heart if disclosed, many friends won’t get party tickets,” National Assembly’s Speaker Ayaz Sadiq said while addressing the moot. He said the Speaker and Judge’s seats have maximum accountability. “It is good for the speaker to talk less”, he opined. “We have to talk over the issue not to […]
The UN General Assembly on Tuesday called on Israel to withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories and pushed for the creation of a Palestinian state, convening an international conference in June to try to jumpstart a two-state solution. In a resolution passed by a 157-8 vote, with the United States and Israel among those voting […]
The resolution condemned PTI’s ‘attacks’ on the Federation with organized mobs and accused the party’s leadership, including the provincial chief executive and the former first lady, of orchestrating and leading these assaults. The resolution highlighted that rioters and miscreants injured police personnel set vehicles ablaze, and caused extensive damage to public property. It alleged that […]
Sindh’s parliamentary affairs and home department minister Zia Lanjar tabled resolution in the house. Provincial legislature passed the resolution with 123 votes. Four members, PTI’s three and Jamaat Islami’s Mohammad Farooq, voted against the resolution. People’s Party and MQM’s MPA voted in support of the resolution. Earlier, the PPP had directed all its members to […]
Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb will present the budget in the National Assembly. Meanwhile, the PML-N parliamentary party meeting has recommended Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to raise government employees by 25 percent. Pakistan to present Rs18 trillion budget today The meeting also suggested the prime minister increase grade 17-22 employees’ salaries […]
The sources privy to the development said that the proposed law is aimed at protecting individuals and institutions from reputational damage through ‘false and misleading news’ The law is set to apply to ‘false and untrue’ news spread through print, electronic, and social media, and would replace the Defamation Ordinance 2002. The Punjab government tabled […]
