ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs on Tuesday directed the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) and Law Ministry to remove the overlapped articles in proposed drafts of Securities Bill, 2010 and SECP Bill before next meeting. The ...

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Committee for Law and Justice has declared the leasing of Shamsi Airbase by former President Pervez Musharraf as unconstitutional and sought advice from the Ministries of Law and Defence on a bill for getting Parliaments approval within 30 days of all defence ...

ISLAMABAD - Railways Minister Haji Ghulam Ahmad Bilour on Wednesday told the National Assembly that ministry had 170 locomotives and out of which only 11 were on tracks. During the question hour here in the Lower House, the minister said that Railways deficit of this year was more than the deficit ...

ISLAMABAD - National Assembly was informed on Tuesday that culprits involved in the killing of Hindu community members would be arrested soon, besides a report has been sought from police high-up regarding removal of security from the residence of Speaker National Assembly Fehmida Mirza. Besides ...

RAWALPINDI - Pakistan Railways authorities have retrieved 30.5 acres of land from the land grabbers in different areas of Rawalpindi division. However, a number of government departments still occupied over 155 acres of railways land in various areas of the division. The departments, occupied on ...

ISLAMABAD Members of National Assembly on Tuesday sought action against dual-nationality holder parliamentarians and also requested the chair to give its ruling in this regard. Former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on a point of order said that under the Constitution a parliamentarian could ...

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar on Monday told the National Assembly that the government has added 3,377 MW of electricity to the national grid since 2008, besides five hydroelectric power plants with capacity of producing 381 MW would be added by 2012-13. Responding to a ...

ISLAMABAD - Speaker National Assembly Dr Fehmida Mirza will embark on a 5-day visit to Tirana, Albania today from Karachi. She will be accompanied by a five member parliamentary delegation comprising of MNAs Qamar Zaman Kaira, Mrs Rubina Saadat Qaim Khani, Rana Mehmood-ul-Hasan, Nazir Ahmad Bughio ...

LAS VEGAS (AFP) - South Korean-born American Kevin Na won his first US PGA Tour title of an eight-year career, firing a six-under par 65 Sunday to win the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. Na, playing only a 10-minute drive from his home, had been winless in 210 US PGA events ...

Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD - Acting Speaker Faisal Karim Kundi chaired a meeting of Business Advisory Committee in the Parliament House to discuss the business of the House for the 34th Session of the National Assembly. The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) strongly opposed the prorogation of the ...

ISLAMABAD - National Assemblys Standing Committee for Cabinet Secretariat, Friday, grilled Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) over increasing corruption while issuing of licences of CNG stations which is causing billions of rupees loss to the national kitty. The members of this Parliamentary ...

ISLAMABAD - The PML-N legislators have submitted two separate adjournment motions in the National Assembly Secretariat to discuss the increase in electricity tariffs and incidents involving aircrafts of Pakistan International Airline. About the PIA, the submitted adjournment motion stated that they ...

ISLAMABAD - Although no fake degree case of the federal government employees has been reported in the degree verification process initiated on the directives of Prime Minister so far, yet a circular has been issued to 86 officers of National Assembly (NA) to send copies of their academic ...

ISLAMABAD - The spokesman for National Assembly Secretariat has said that original draft of 1973 Constitution, containing the signatures of all the members of the then National Assembly, is very much safe in the custody of the Legislative Wing while its copies and the computer images of the same ...

ISLAMABAD - Taking notice of several 'ghost welfare and development projects carried out by oil and gas exploration companies in Balochistan, National Assembly Standing Committee on Inter Provincial Coordination (IPC) has initiated a thorough probe into the matter to bring the whole truth before ...

ISLAMABAD - The crucial meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance and Revenue would be held on Thursday to discuss important issues including revenue collection figures fudging made by Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) during last month (July). The NA committee has taken a notice ...

ISLAMABAD - National Assembly Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Resources has expressed serious concerns over provision of gas to some sectors for the whole year against nine months Gas Sales Agreements (GSAs) leading to mounting energy crisis in the country. A meeting of the NA body was ...

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly on Thursday approved Rs 662,902,470,600 supplementary grants for the federal government against 131 demands to meet expenditure other than expenditure charged upon the consolidated funds for the year 2010-11. An amount of Rs 1,809,452,511,000 was appropriated under ...

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly on Saturday approved 31 demands for grants worth Rs 652 billion relating to the Cabinet Division and the Ministries of Communications and Defence for the next financial year. Eight demands for grants of over Rs 505 billion for the Defence Division were approved ...

ISLAMABAD - Appreciating the recommendations of the upper house on Finance Bill 2011, the parliamentarians from both treasury and opposition benches in the National Assembly on Thursday urged the government to give these a serious consideration. The Senate has forwarded 66 recommendations in the ...

ISLAMABAD The PML-N on Monday staged token walkouts from the National Assembly and the Senate against the governments policy on Karachi and Kharotabad incidents and the Abbottabad commission amongst other issues. In the Senate, the budget debate could not move ahead as the PML-N and allies ...

ISLAMABAD The National Assembly (NA) on Monday revealed that 27 parliamentarians, including NA Speaker Dr Famida Mirza, Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Finance Minister Hafeez Sheikh, have assets abroad. Among the 27 parliamentarians are ten senators, said Federal Minister for Law, Justice and ...

ISLAMABAD - National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights held meeting on Friday that recommended the ministry of defence and the chief of army staff to take up the issue of Parachinar, restore 73 educational institutions and arrange PIA or C-130 facility for victims. MNA Riaz Fatyana ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in a major development has traced the name of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) stalwart and Federal Minister for Commerce Makhdoom Amin Faheem as another beneficiary in Rs 5 billion mega corruption scam alleging that he pocketed Rs 24.4 million out of the ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) The angry National Assembly Speaker, Fehmida Mirza, has once again extended her foreign visit as she is annoyed over the forceful ouster of her husband Zulfiqar Mirza from the ministry. Sources close to the speaker told that Fehmida Mirza went to the US along with Zulfiqar ...

ISLAMABAD - After a brief verbal brawl among its members, the NA Standing Committee on Law and Justice rejected the bill with majority about giving status of national language to regional languages. With Begum Nasim Akhtar in chair, the committee met on Wednesday and took up several issues ...

ISLAMABAD - Crises-riddled Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) during last five years paid fines of Rs 71 million for transporting 667 passengers with forged visas and without relevant documents in connivance with national carriers staff and the officials of Federal Investigation Agency ...

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Economic Affairs and Statistics Dr. Abdul Hafeez Sheikh on Friday told the National Assembly that the total foreign loans outstanding against Pakistan at present are $57.967 billion. In these foreign loans, the minister in a written reply during the question-hour, said that ...

ISLAMABAD - State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hina Rabbani Khar said 65,831 Pakistanis were deported from United Arab Emirate (UAE) during the last five years (2006-2010) due to different reasons. Khar on Wednesday in her written reply informed the National Assembly that the deported Pakistanis ...

ISLAMABAD - There are over five million drug addicts in the country and among them 628,000 are an estimated opioid users (heroine, morphine, opium, codine, pentazocine, buprenorphine etc), says the latest report of the National Assessment Study, 2006. Federal Minister for Narcotics Control Haji ...