KABUL  -  The Afghan parliament on Saturday cut short a debate on a bill to protect women from violence after complaints from some traditionalist MPs that it was against Islamic teachings.The Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW) law, which was passed by a presidential decree in ...

LONDON : One quarter of British lawmakers believe there is an "unhealthy" drinking culture in the Houses of Parliament, according to a survey published on Friday.Some 26 percent acknowledged concerns, rising to 36 percent among female MPs, according to the ComRes survey of 150 lawmakers.Eric ...

KABUL  Afghanistan's finance minister on Monday named in parliament several lawmakers whom he said were guilty of corruption, triggering wild cheering and applause during a televised session of the lower house.Corruption is one of the key challenges facing Afghanistan as it tries to establish ...

QUETTA - Upholding the judgment of Election Tribunal, the Balochistan High Court has disqualified former parliamentarians for upcoming general lections.At least 15 former parliamentarians had move the Balochistan High Court  against the tribunal verdict about their disqualification. A 3-member ...

ISLAMABAD - Chairman National Accountability Bureau Admiral (Retd) Fasih Bokhari on Sunday said that after general polls, the NAB would investigate into any concealment of facts made by the election candidates in their nomination papers and the guilty ones would face disqualification."If someone ...

ZAGREB - Croatians elected European MPs for the first time Sunday but, with full EU membership three months away, low turnout suggested that euro-enthusiasm was already fading in the Balkan country. Officials in the former Yugoslav republic insisted that the vote to select the 12 lawmakers was ...

LONDON - An Afghan-led peace deal with the Taliban is needed to stop Afghanistan sliding into civil war after British troops leave, a group of MPs has said, reported BBC on Wednesday.The defence select committee said the UK had a responsibility to ‘make Afghanistan work’ after ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Balochistan government to furnish the details of the money received through National Finance Commission (NFC) from 2008 to 2013 and where these funds were spent.Observing that the practice of allowing special grants to the elected representatives ...

ISLAMABAD  - The Election Commission of Pakistan has issued orders for filing criminal cases against the fake degree provider Parliamentarians.According to media reports, eight more former MPAs and three Senators degrees have been declared fake by the HEC and the Election Commission has ...

Peshawar  - Peshawar High Court (PHC) has accepted the bail plea of three former Parliamentarians including ex-Provincial Minister Syed Aqil Shah in fake degree and dual nationality cases.  In other cases of dual nationality and holding fake degree, the court awarded punishment to former ...

ISLAMABAD - The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Sunday declared fake/invalid the degrees of eleven former MPs including three ex-senators and eight MPAs and ordered the respective Sessions Courts to initiate criminal proceedings against them.The eleven former MPs included Rehana Yahya ...

KARACHI  - Degrees of 77 out of 189 former parliamentarians on Saturday were proved genuine as the time allowed for the ex-legislators to get their degrees verified was expired.A list of dubious degrees will be forwarded to the Election Commission of Pakistan.According to reports, 80 former ...

ISLAMABAD - The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) could not make public on Saturday its anxiously awaited decision on the fate of 14 ex-lawmakers suspected to be fake degree-holders, apparently due to the ‘complexities’ involved in the matter.Earlier on Friday, the commission had ...

ISLAMABAD - Members of the Senate Standing Committee on National Harmony have stressed that people levelling false allegations in blasphemy law, should be faced the legal consequences under the country’s laws.The members were attending Senate body meeting held here to receive briefing on the ...

ISLAMABAD - The deadline given by the Supreme Court to parliamentarians to get their academic credentials verified ended Friday midnight. As many as 77 out of the total 183 lawmakers got their academic certificates verified by the given time.“Degrees of as many as 77 parliamentarians have ...

 ISLAMABAD - Members of the Senate Standing Committee on National Harmony have stressed that people levelling false allegations in blasphemy law, should be faced the legal consequences under the country’s laws.The members were attending Senate body meeting held here to receive briefing ...

ISLAMABAD - Troublesome times possibly await 12 ex-lawmakers whose educational credentials were reconfirmed to be fake on Friday, following which, the Election Commission of Pakistan reserved its decision, to be announced today (Saturday).Furthermore, the degrees of nine ex-lawmakers were confirmed ...

Chairman Higher Education Commission (HEC) Javed Leghari has said that deadline for degree verification has ended and the commission’s doors for former MPs have been closed.Talking to media here in Islamabad, Javed Leghari said the apex court had ordered verification of degrees of 189 MPs, ...

LAHORE – After the sentences to lawmakers for fake degrees a couple of days ago, it has become a challenge to caretaker government as how to deal such PIA officials.A wave of anxiety has been running among the PIA officials having fake educational certificates who are not less than 2,000, ...

ISLAMABAD  - Supreme Court has refused to delete the names of former Parliamentarians holding dual nationality from disqualified members list and directed them to resort to respective forum. A three-member bench of Supreme Court presided over by the Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court has said that lawmakers holding fake degrees could face criminal cases and it gave 189 ex-lawmakers time until April 5 to submit their educational certificates for verification.Heading a three-member bench hearing the suo moto notice, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad ...

ISLAMABAD - Amid fiery speeches from treasury and opposition benches in the National Assembly on proposed new provinces in Punjab, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Thursday introduced the ‘ National Counter-Terrorism Authority Bill-2013’. After a barrage of points of order ...

ISLAMABAD – A parliamentary panel Wednesday gave approval to reduce the tenure of Chairman of Higher Education Commission (HEC) and its governing commission members and to withdraw the status of federal minister from him through legislation.The National Assembly Standing Committee on ...

LAHORE - Robbers on Tuesday held up the lady MPA of the PML-N in the Islampura police precincts and snatched away her purse at gunpoint in daylight, police sources claimed. Member of the Punjab Assembly, Zamurd Yasmin, told the police that two gunmen riding on a motorcycle intercepted her car and ...

LAHORE - Three former parliamentarians, 20 former nazims and naib nazims among others announced joining the PPP during a meeting with Central Punjab PPP President Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo here Monday.Among the new entrants in the PPP include former MNA Amjad Yaseen, former MPA from Layyah, Syed Fazal ...

ISLAMABAD - The National Standing Committee for Information and Broadcasting on Thursday asked the government to impose a ban on telecasting Indian dramas during prime time transmission and make amendments in PEMRA rules to take action against such TV channels. The committee, which met here under ...

ISLAMABAD - Besides questioning ‘beyond the limits interest’ of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in the Capital Development Authority’s affairs, a parliamentary penal on Friday directed the city managers to consult NAB authorities ...

PESHAWAR – Additional Chief Secretary FATA Dr. Tashfeen Khan, while presenting a review of FATA Annual Development Programme (ADP) 2012 to FATA Parliamentarians on Tuesday, said that no stone would be left unturned to ensure the implementation of development projects in FATA and Frontier ...

ISLAMABAD – Whether it was ‘request’ of their fellow parliamentarians - who were benefited the most from the fixed balloting of the Park Enclave - or they really think that re-balloting of plots will open another Pandora’s box, a parliamentary panel Wednesday stopped the ...

MARDAN – Speakers at a seminar on Wednesday demanded of the government and lawmakers to take measures to control acid violence in the province and in this connection Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa lawmakers should pass a bill in the assembly. Speaking at a seminar organized by Acid Survivors Foundation ...