KARACHI - 'I do not foresee the likelihood of emergence of any bad effect on the countrys economic scenario, no matter whether the Kerry Lugar Bill is accepted by both the governments in its current shape or not, said Dr Ashfaq Hasan Khan, the former Economic Advisor to Ministry of Finance, in an ...

ISLAMABAD - Continuing the debate on the Kerry Lugar Bill, Senators across the political divide appeared on Wednesday categorically against the conditions attached to US aid under the said bill. While initiating the debate, Senator Abbas Khan, a FATA senator belonging to treasury benches, said that ...

ISLAMABAD - Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi failed to get any of the controverisal conditionalities altered in the Kerry-Lugar Bill. Instead, he succumbed to US pressure and termed the debilitaitng bill as historic, which it will be given how such extensively intrusive and micro management ...

US Congressional leaders sought to mollify Pakistan's concerns, on Wednesday, on a bill for providing USD 7.5 billion aid to that country, promising Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi they would issue an "explanatory statement," before the President signs it into law. Qureshi is in town for the ...

ISLAMABAD - An uproar and exchange of abusive language among the Treasury and Opposition members in the National Assembly on Tuesday forced the chair to adjourn the proceedings till Wednesday (today), undermining the debate on Kerry-Lugar Bill. Later, the Pakistan Muslim League(Quaid) Parliamentary ...

NEW YORK - A noted American columnist and author, citing the uproar in Pakistan over the stringent conditions set in the Kerry-Lugar aid bill, has criticised US lawmakers for shaping the measure with 'the tone of a diktat. The finger-wagging conditions in the bill illustrate a special form of ...

KARACHI - Federal Minister for Finance Shaukat Tarin has said that if the Kerry Lugar Bill is not approved by the parliament the government would have to approach the IMF to finance the countrys social sector spending and other projects. He stated this while talking to news personnel here on ...

ISLAMABAD After Cuba fought a successful war of independence against Spain, the US first occupied Cuba and after several years removed its troops but imposed the Platt Amendment on the Cuban people in 1903, through which it controlled Cubas foreign policy, its economy and its security policy. ...

ISLAMABAD - A high-level meeting of Pakistan Peoples Party on Friday night decided to allay apprehensions of all the stakeholders including Armed Forces on Kerry-Lugar Bill (KLB) and defend it in the Parliament with full force. Held at Aiwan-i-Sadr with President Asif Ali Zardari in the chair, ...

LAHORE - Terming Kerry-Lugar Bill a sensitive issue, Muthida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Quaid Altaf Hussain has urged the government to convene a round table conference for providing opportunity to political parties to express their views. In a telephonic address to the participants of a seminar here at ...

ISLAMABAD - PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain Wednesday said his party did not reject Kerry-Lugar Bill but rather they wanted a detailed debate in the parliament and removal of the controversial clauses of the bill which were contrary to Pakistans national interests. Flanked by Secretary ...

ISLAMABAD The Federal Cabinet Wednesday, inter alia, decided to present the controversial Kerry-Lugar Bill to the Parliament for debate while Information Minister Qamar-uz-Zaman Kaira told a media briefing that it did not came under discussion at all in the cabinet. While briefing the press after ...

ISLAMABAD - A few days back a senior official of the US Embassy explained to a select group of journalists about the much-trumpeted Kerry Lugar Bill that he claimed was an antidote to the unfair treatment given to Pakistan in the Pressler Amendment. But Information Minister Qamur-uz-Zaman Kaira, ...