ISLAMABAD - Showing serious reservations over government's proposal to give power to the tax department to get access to bank database, the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Revenue rejected the suggestion and asked the government not to incorporate it into the Finance Bill, 2013-14.The ...

National Assembly and Senate on Sunday separately passed a unanimous resolution condemning the inhuman and cowardly acts of terrorism in Balochistan.The Lower House passed a unanimous resolution condemning the inhuman and cowardly acts of terrorism in Balochistan. The resolution moved by Law ...

Islamabad- President Asif Ali Zardari exercising his the powers entrusted to him by the Constitution has summoned separate budget sessions of the Senate and the National Assembly for Wednesday (today) wherein the PML-N-led federal government will present its first annual budget for the fiscal ...

Farooq H Naek on Tuesday resigned as leader of the House in Senate.In a statement‚ Naek said is prerogative of new Prime Minister to nominate leader of the House‚ therefore there is no reason for him to continue as leader of the Upper House.

CAIRO - Egypt's highest court on Sunday invalidated the Islamist-dominated Senate and a panel that drafted the constitution, throwing the country into fresh political uncertainty.The Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) said the law governing the elections of the Shura Council was unconstitutional, ...

ISLAMABAD - The Senate Standing Committee on Interior headed by JUI-F lawmaker Senator Talha Mahmood has so far failed to prepare any report on the issue of passports' backlog ignoring Senate Chairman's directions in this connection.Some two months back, Chairman Senate Syed Nayyer Hussain Bokhari ...

WASHINGTON : A Senate panel has approved legislation to give millions of illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, setting up a spirited debate next month in the full Senate over the biggest changes in immigration policy in a generation.President Barack Obama, who has made enactment of an ...

IslamabadThe Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Senate chairman for not sending the reference against Rehman Malik to the Election Commission of Pakistan.The court on September 20, 2012 had disqualified the Senate membership of Rehman Malik for holding dual nationality. The court asked ...

    ISLAMABAD President Asif Ali Zardari has summoned a special session of the Senate for May 23 wherein the visiting Chinese premier Li Keqiang will address the lawmakers of the Upper House of the Parliament. It would be a one-day session and would be prorogued soon after the conclusion ...

ISLAMABAD - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will address the sitting of the Upper House of Parliament on 23rd of this month after his joint meeting with Senate Chairman Nayyer Hussain Bokhari and National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza, the Senate Secretariat said on Thursday. In his address to the ...

Islamabad - The former ruling coalition parties have said that battle lines have been drawn on ideological basis and complained they were being denied level-playing field to contest the elections.During a one-day Senate session, summoned to discuss prevailing law and order situation in the country, ...

A two-day fresh session of the upper house of the Parliament has been summoned for May 2 to discuss the situation arising out of the arrest of Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf in different cases as well as election matters ahead of the polling day. According to a handout issued by the Senate Secretariat, ...

LAHORE - The Pakistan People’s Party Senator Jehangir Badr has resigned as Leader of the House in the Senate amid reports that he was forced to quit the office by party leadership. He submitted his resignation in the Senate Secretariat on Monday. Talking to the media, Senator Jehangir Badr ...

Senate has passed a unanimous resolution condemning the escape of Pervez Musharraf from the court after cancellation of bail.The resolution moved by Senator Ishaq Dar on behalf of all the members demanded the government to remove portraits of Pervez Musharraf from all the public buildings.It also ...

ISLAMABAD - A senior PPP lawmaker Tuesday put a question before the Senate, saying why heavy state security was being provided to former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf when security was being withdrawn from the political leadership and termed it dual standards of the state institutions.PPP ...

ISLAMABAD  - President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday called the session of the Senate on Monday at 5pm.It will be the 90th meeting of the Senate and sources say that there will not be a question hour during the session.The meeting will discuss calling attention notices, adjournment motions, ...

ISLAMABAD - A shocking disclosure about the issuance of directives by former Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to initiate new gas development schemes worth Rs 48 billion for new towns and villages during his tenure surprised Senate Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Resources on Thursday. ...

WASHINGTON - The US Senate voted Thursday to debate the most ambitious gun safety legislation in nearly two decades, after a bipartisan group of lawmakers agreed on expanding background checks for firearm sales.With relatives of the 20 children killed in the Newtown massacre watching from the ...

ISLAMABAD - Senate Standing committee on National Regulation and Services (NR&S) directed Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) to finalise pricing policy at earliest to ensure provision of quality medicines at reasonable rates.Chairing the committee meeting here on Wednesday, Senator ...

ISLAMABAD - Senate Standing Committee on Interior Tuesday discussing the plight of Pakistani nationals languishing in foreign jails has recommended to the government for signing treaties of exchange of prisoners with at least three countries - US, China and Cyprus. The committee that met at the ...

ISLAMABAD - The Upper House of the Parliament Wednesday unanimously passed two important legislations - National Counter-Terrorism Authority (NACTA) Act amid reservations of a senior PPP leader and the Election Laws (Amendment) Act that struck off the Musharraf era amendment in the election ...

ISLAMABAD - The Senate Standing Committee on National Food Security and Research (NFSR) asked the Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) to take appropriate measures for disseminating information of agricultural research to the grassroots level.The committee met here Wednesday with Senator ...

ISLAMABAD - In a significant development, a parliamentary panel has recommended the appointment of the administrators at Defence Housing Authorities (DHAs) by the Ministry of Defence, instead of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS).Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed chaired the session of the Senate Standing ...

ISLAMABAD - AHMAD AHMADANI-  Senate Standing Committee on Water & Power on Monday decided to get back 650MW electricity from Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) and also constituted a sub-committee to probe issues pertaining agreement of KESC privatisation with Al Abraj group, taxes and ...

ISLAMABAD – President Zardari has summoned the session of the National Assembly and Senate at five o’ clock today (Monday). This session will be the 50th session of the fifth parliamentary year of the incumbent National Assembly and most probably the last, as its mandated tenure would ...

ISLAMABAD - Senator Farhatullah Babar, chairman, Commission on Creation of New Provinces, Tuesday rejected the proposal of PML-N to carve out two provinces in the Punjab, instead of one, and said how Bahawalpur could be restored as it never remained a province in the past.“The commission ...

ISLAMABAD - Controversial restoration and subsequent transfer of a high-priced commercial plot in Sector G-9 to a business entity allegedly owned by a member of the Parliament belonging to ruling Awami National Party (ANP) at a throwaway price caught the attention of the upper house of the ...

ISLAMABAD The Senate's Special Committee on Election Issues met here on Monday to discuss relevant electoral issues. The committee Chairman Jehangir Bader chaired the session to discuss recommendations proposed for legislation by the committee and the existing status of legislation on other ...

ISLAMABAD- Casting aside the opposition of PML-N and MQM, the Senate Standing Committee on Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs Friday approved the tax amnesty scheme bill.Committee Chairperson Nasreen Jalil presided over the meeting which approved the Tax Laws (Amendment) Bill 2012, introducing ...

WASHINGTON  - The State Department's decision to keep the US mission in Benghazi open despite inadequate security and increasingly dangerous threat assessments before it was attacked in September was a "grievous mistake," a Senate report said on Monday. The Senate Homeland Security Committee's ...