National Assembly Speaker Rejects Resignations, Standing Committees to Continue Islamabad – The National Assembly Speaker has rejected a move to accept resignations from members of the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) and directed that standing committee meetings continue as scheduled, sources confirmed on Friday. According to the National Assembly Secretariat, despite 52 SIC members submitting resignations, […]
A letter from the Speaker’s office says: “I have nothing to do with the salary increase and I’m not interested in it.” The letter also says that only the federal cabinet and the prime minister can decide on raising salaries. “Don’t raise my salary, I don’t want it,” it adds. Although the letter doesn’t directly […]
The speaker was targetted when he was heading to Kakliyot, his constituency, to attend a ceremony organized to welcome several well-known political activists into the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) ranks. Speaker Chaudhry Latif Akbar remained unhurt in the incident while two PPP workers sustained injuries. In his statement, the President termed the attack on the […]
The National Assembly’s Speaker in his letter to the Supreme Judicial Commission has nominated the Leader of Opposition Omar Ayub and PML-N’s Shaikh Aftab from the NA, while Farooq Naik and Shibli Faraz from the Senate for the commission that will appoint the judges. The Speaker has nominated former senator Roshan Khurshid Barrucha for the […]
The Opposition has decided to jointly move a no-confidence motion against National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser, sources said Wednesday, after two days of ruckus in the Lower House. The development came during a meeting of Opposition party leaders in Islamabad, where they decided to form a committee that would draft a plan of action to […]
