RIYADH : Saudi Arabia has decided to give Syria's opposition National Coalition the right to process applications of Syrians wishing to perform the Haj pilgrimage to Makkah, an official said on Monday.The kingdom handled last year's Haj visa applications without cooperating with Damascus. But ...

After remaining part of the successive ruling elites, the Mutthida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has now decided to sit on the opposition benches both in the National and Sindh Assemblies. Such a decision was highly unlikely since the general perception was that the MQM cannot afford to stay out of the ...

ISLAMABAD -The PML-N’s incoming government would be facing stiff opposition in the National Assembly and the Senate ostensibly because of unfriendly provincial governments of PPPP and PTI in Sindh and Khyber Pukhtunkhwa having more autonomy courtesy the 18th Constitutional ...

PESHAWAR  - In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa main opposition parties have yet to come whether or not to field candidates for three coveted positions, including chief minister, speaker and deputy speaker, of the KPK Assembly against the nominees of PTI having now 44 members strength in the house, which is ...

Senior Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Rehman Malik has said his party recognizes the mandate of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and wishes it to complete its five-year tenure. Talking to newsmen in Islamabad‚ he said the PPP will play a constructive and positive role as opposition.He ...

The PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain says his party will emerge as a strong and effective opposition at the center and the provincial assemblies.He was talking to newsmen after chairing a meeting of PML-Q ticket holders in Lahore on Saturday afternoon.He said he has directed the victorious ...

LAHORE -  Allies of the PTI have geared up efforts to install Imran Khan as the new opposition leader in the National Assembly. Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed, Awami Muslim League (AML) chief, Syed Munawar Hasan, Jamaat-i-Islami ameer, Aftab Sherpao, Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) chairman and Chaudhrys of ...

LahorePML-Q top leaders including party chief, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Punjab President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi on Monday visited Shaukat Khanum Hospital and inquired after the health of PTI Chairman Imran Khan.Chaudhrys of Gujrat during their meeting asked Imran Khan to play lead role of the ...

LAHOREPTI has emerged as the second largest political force in the country with 10 million ideological voters, with its candidates remaining runners-up in most of constituencies. This was stated here on Wednesday by PTI leader and former minister Malik Abdul Qayyum in a press release. He claimed ...

MULTANPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice chairman Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi declared on Sunday that his party would play the role of a strong, vibrant and effective opposition in the parliament.Talking to the journalists here, he added that the PTI was the party of the future and it would make ...

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak began a second term Monday after the coalition which has ruled for 56 years held on to power in elections branded as fraudulent by a bitter opposition.Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim called for a rally in two days’ time to protest at a victory ...

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - A Kuwaiti court sentenced opposition leader and former MP Mussallam al-Barrak to five years in prison on Monday after he was convicted of insulting the country’s emir. Barrak, a nationalist, was charged with making statements offensive to the ruler of the oil-rich Gulf ...

DHAKA  - Bangladesh police arrested the editor of an influential pro-opposition newspaper on Thursday after he was accused of sedition and inciting religious tension in the Muslim-majority nation.The arrests follow a nationwide crackdown on the opposition including the detention of more than ...

The opposition is considered to be indispensable part of parliamentary system of government. It has a crucial role to play in the same system. An efficient, vigilant and vocal opposition also ensures the smooth and effective functioning of the parliamentary democracy. The primary function of the ...

ISLAMABAD - Legislators from the Opposition in National Assembly’s Wednesday sitting cast doubts on the upcoming elections being transparent in Sindh because of President Asif Ali Zardari having sway over the provincial election commission. They even doubted that free and fair elections could ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Thursday said that the leader of the opposition would be contacted soon for developing consensus on the key decision of appointing a caretaker prime minister.Talking to media during a meeting with Federal Law Minister Farooq H Naek, he said that the ...

KARACHI - Chief Election Commissioner Justice (r) Fakhruddin G Ebrahim has once again refused of conducting fresh delimitation of electoral constituencies in Karachi before the next elections.During his meeting with the leaders of opposition parties protesting outside the provincial election ...

ISLAMABAD - The opposition parties have geared up activities for finalising the name for caretaker prime minister with JUI-F comes up with another two names in response to the half dozen names proposed by the PML-N, JI is still in the consultation process while PTI is yet to be approached for the ...

ISLAMABAD - Major opposition parties, including PML-N and JUI-F, are indecisive over participation in ANP's proposed All Party Conference (APC) on terrorism, largely because they seem unconvinced that the conference would make any difference at this point of time.Background discussions and ...

Tahirul Qadri’s long march has certainly helped at least a dozen opposition parties to gather at a platform and formulate a joint strategy to contest Asif Zardari’s Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and its allies in the forthcoming general elections. The joint opposition that held a meeting ...

LAHORE - The Opposition on Thursday submitted requisition in the Assembly secretariat to convene Punjab Assembly session to discuss the alleged conspiracies being hatched against democracy. Deputy Opposition Leader, Shaukat Mehmood Basra submitted the requisition bearing signatures of 95 members ...

The opposition parties Wednesday expressed thier resolve to curb any unconstitutional step and they demanded of the PPP-led coalition government to announce the date for upcoming elections and caretaker setup.Addressing a news conference after the meeting of the leaders of various opposition ...

ISLAMABAD - Opposition leader in the National Assembly, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said that his party, in consultation with other opposition parties, would demand changing governors of all the four provinces when the polls get closer as they have been appointed on political basis.About the change ...

A spokesman of the Punjab government said on Thursday all parties were free to hold political activities in the province and maximum security was being provided to the opposition parties whenever they arranged a public meeting or rally. “There is complete political freedom to hold public ...

ISLAMABAD - Opposition parties on Tuesday termed the Prime Minister's decision about implementing the NRO judgement of the Supreme Court as positive, but commented that country could have been saved from lots of chaos and confusion, had the government implemented the court order around three years ...

KARACHI – Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon has said that the PML-N chief’s criticism of the local bodies system in Sindh is tantamount to get weightage in the province. He should not adopt policy of criticizing for nothing but should mend his ways. This he said in a ...

LAHORE – The opposition parties including the PTI, the PML-Q and the Jamaat-e-Islami celebrated the Independence Day on Tuesday by hoisting the national flag at their respective party offices and holding other functions in this connection on Tuesday.The PTI (Women Wing) Punjab under the ...

LONDON - Ambassador on Polio Eradication Aseefa Bhutto Zardari has said that certain groups in the country are against the polio vaccination campaigns but their opposition to the drive is politically-motivated.In an interview with BBC‚ she said the polio vaccination campaigns in the country ...

ISLAMABAD - As the alleged support of some opposition parties to Shaukat Hayat Bosan could not bear fruit in the NA-151 by-election, the opposition parties considering it a matter of serious concern will soon start establishing contacts with one another to make a strategy for the upcoming ...

LAHORE - The Opposition in Punjab Assembly has requisitioned Assembly session to discuss the issue of strike by young doctors and the resultant deaths of patients taking place in various public sector hospitals. Bearing the signatures of PPP and PML-Q legislators, Opposition Leader, Raja Riaz ...