Former Law Minister Doctor Babar Awan said on Wednesday that Sharifs plan of dissolving the Punjab Assembly (PA) has completely failed. Former Law Minister Doctor Babar Awan expressed these views while talking to media at Islamabad High court. He said that PML-N during its tenure never generated ...

LAHORE - The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution with majority vote seeking legal cover for Panchayat System in rural areas of Punjab to ensure prompt dispensation of justice to the people at the local level. The resolution, moved by Humaira Awais Shahid of PML-Q, demanded of the ...

LAHORE - The PPP has requisitioned Punjab Assembly session to discuss the issue of Shahbaz Taseers adduction and overall law and order situation in the province. PPPs Deputy Parliamentary Leader in Punjab Assembly Shaukat Mahmood Basra submitted the requisition with the signatures of 103 party ...

QUETTA - Debate on cattle smuggling to neighbouring countries and hike in meat prices dominated the Balochistan Assembly session on Saturday. Balochistan Assembly Speaker Muhammad Aslam Bhootani chaired the session that started 30 minutes late from its scheduled time. Sheikh Jaffar Khan Mandokhail ...

LAHORE-The 28th session of Punjab Assembly convened on Oppositions requisition only lasted for one-day, but it cost the exchequer over Rs 12 million in terms of daily allowance for Assembly members and its staff which is also given additional payment during the period it remains in session. ...

KARACHI The Sindh Assembly on Wednesday took about an hour to pass three important bills amidst noise and commotion created by MQM legislators who were told that they would not be given seats on the opposition benches as their resignations have not been accepted. This was the worst ever rumpus ...

LAHORE The legislators kept the tradition of creating rumpus at the Punjab Assembly though at the fag end of the Fridays proceedings, which brought spice to the sitting to an otherwise 'matter-of-the fact day. The House proceedings were going on smoothly when at the closing moments PPPs ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The Punjab Assembly on Wednesday approved 43 Demands for Grants worth Rs 764.380721 billion, which has exceeded total provincial fiscal outlay 2011-12 of Rs 654.67 billion by Rs 109.70billion. As expected, the Treasury also voted out five cut motions moved by the ...

Taking a complete U-turn, members of Pakistan Muslim League- Quaid (PML-Q) Unification Bloc on Saturday refused to resign as heads of standing committees of the Punjab Assembly. According to a private television channel, on March 6, 11 members of the Unification Bloc announced their decision to ...

KARACHI Pakistan Peoples Party forgot its own benefactor Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto when the session of Sindh Assembly was prorogued on Thursday without passing resolution on the 32nd death anniversary of the founder of the party which falls on April 04. On a day when five different resolutions ...

LAHORE - The 'jumpy session of Punjab Assembly on Friday witnessed a new kind of lodging protest against PML-N by the members of PML-Q and PPP for accepting the members of Unification Bloc into the ruling partys fold, as the opposition members played soccer with 'plastic lotas outside the ...

LAHORE The PML-Q leadership is indecisive in shaping up its new political strategy in Punjab Assembly after handing over Oppositions lead role to the PPP, as some PML-Q leaders proposed to the partys high command to back the PPP on the floor of the House for playing a strong Oppositions role, ...

S FARHAN MUSTAFA On October 2, 2009, the UN Human Rights Council was widely expected to pass a resolution supporting the Goldstone Report, the UNs probe of war crimes committed during Israels war in Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009. The Council instead agreed to delay a vote on the report ...

LAHORE Taking notice of marking of fake attendance of legislators from across the political divide, Deputy Speaker Rana Mashood Ahmed directed placement of register in front of his desk in the House that initiated arguments at the Punjab Assembly floor on Wednesday. When the proceedings started, ...

LAHORE Taking advantage of absence of 'major heads of the PML-N at the Punjab Assembly floor, the PPP ministers and a vocal legislator of their coterie blasted the coalition partner by asserting that the former was ignorant of the public issues, and even creating hurdles if anything was being done ...

LAHORE - The Punjab Local Government (Amendment) Bill 2010 on Wednesday was laid at the Punjab Assembly, and it was referred to the Standing Committee concerned. With the amendment introduced in the section 150, the Election Commission shall conduct the local government elections and the election ...

LAHORE - Speaker Punjab Assembly Rana Muhammad Iqbal on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of a mosque within the premises of the Assembly. The mosques upper portion would accommodate 250 faithful while the lower portion would have a capacity of 250 people. According to initial estimates, Rs 12 ...

LAHORE-In the context of Sasti Roati scheme of Punjab government, an opposition member on Thursday demanded initiation of Sasti Kashti scheme in view of the flooded streets in various cities of Punjab, a situation created by monsoon rains. Speaking on a point of order, PML-Qs Mohsin Leghari drew ...

LAHORE Certainly not for the first time, the Treasury on Monday at the Punjab Assembly could not carry the legislation through owing to inquorate House, which speaks volumes about lack of interest of the government benches towards law-making, which is the primary duty of the legislators. Because ...

After receiving huge condemnation from all sections of the society for its anti media resolution Punjab Assembly today adopted a resolution in favour of media, report said on Tuesday. The motion was moved by Law Minister Rana Sanaullah. PML-Q MPA Amir Sultan Cheema pointed out about the lack of ...

LAHORE - The Opposition of the Punjab Assembly is still continuing with its belligerence, and on Tuesday continued with its boycott-cum-walkout-cum-abstain posture when it 'abstained from voting for the Finance Bill 2010-11 after staging walkout from Assembly proceedings, while creating commotion ...

LAHORE - Speaker Punjab Assembly, Rana Iqbal has barred two PPP legislators, Sajida Mir and Fauzia Behram from attending the ongoing Assembly session for 15 days. The Speaker took the decision on the complaint of PPPs Parliamentary leader Raja Riaz who cited the recent brawl between the two ladies ...

LAHORE - The Punjab Assembly on Monday approved demands for grants worth Rs 677 billion sans any problem since the Opposition was on boycott, and resultantly, it was one of the easiest jobs accomplished by the Treasury, which did not bother to keep the quorum intact even. However, the Assembly ...

LAHORE (PPI) - Punjab Assembly secretariat has decided to make foolproof security arrangements for MPAs hostels and sent proposals for buying the security gadgets for the coming provincial budget session 2010-11. The assembly secretariat will purchase CCTV cameras, road blockers and other necessary ...

LAHORE Monday could have been a day of commotion and clamour at the Punjab Assembly, but the PPP and the PML-N devised a better way of diffusing a tense situation through their respective 'spokespersons, who vowed to make earnest efforts for strengthening democracy and continuation of the system, ...

LAHORE As expected usually, it was neither the Opposition nor the Treasury becoming clamorous about their claims of having better democratic credentials, rather it were the female MPAs of the Punjab Assembly on Tuesday, who tried to reinvent the wheel and dilated upon the ages-old debate about ...

RAMALLAH (AFP) - The global Palestinian population reached 10.9 million in 2009 with more than half living outside the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Authority said Tuesday. The survey by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics found some 1.5 million Palestinians live ...

KARACHI - The Sindh government on Thursday told the Sindh Assembly that studies on Surface Water Quality Monitoring (SWQM) have suggested that the water of Manchhar Lake is toxic and therefore unfit for human consumption. But despite having knowledge of outcome of cancer, respiratory diseases, ...

KARACHI - The Sindh government has recovered at least 4,300 child labourers during the period of one year, from May 1, 2008 to April 30, 2009, who were forced to work in industries, and handed over to an NGO with the aim to rehabilitate and admit them to educational institutions. According to the ...

Secretary Punjab Assembly has issued notification about resignation of Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) MPA Shumaila Rana's resignation on Saturday. Shumaila Rana had resigned her membership of the Punjab Assembly (PA) on Friday. Acting Speaker of Punjab Assembly Rana Mashood accepted the ...