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Topic: Provinces
FSC again seeks reply from Centre, provinces
LAHORE - MIAN DAWOOD - Federal Shariat Court, taking up a 10-year-old plea against imported food items forbidden by Islam, has again sought reply from the federal and provincial governments on the issue.Advocate Irfan Masood Sheikh had moved the petition and pleaded that source composition and ...
New provinces vital for national solidarity
MULTANPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Makhdoom Javed Hasmi on Saturday said that his party considered new provinces vital for the solidarity of the country and vowed to chalk out a strategy with other political powers.Addressing lawyers at the District Bar Association here, the PTI ...
New provinces vital for national solidarity
MULTAN - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Makhdoom Javed Hasmi on Saturday said that his party considered new provinces vital for the solidarity of the country and vowed to chalk out a strategy with other political powers.Addressing lawyers at the District Bar Association here, the PTI ...
Iraq PM’s coalition leads in 7 of 12 provinces
BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s State ofLawcoalition won the most provincial council seats in seven of the 12 provinces that voted, according to results released on Saturday. However, no list won a majority of seats in any of the provinces. The vote for provincial ...
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Influential Khattaks in field to conquer Nowshera
PESHAWAR - Electioneering is picking up momentum in Nowshera as the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP-P), Awami National Party (ANP) and Pakistan Tahrik-e-Insaf (PTI) have fielded senior politicians from Khattak tribe to win elections from the NA-5 Nowshera-I ...
New provinces commission 'political drama': Ishaq Dar
PML-N Senator Ishaq Dar has described the formation of a new provinces commission prior to the elections as a “political drama.”He was addressing the media after the inaugural ceremony of blood bank and laboratory at Data Darbar hospital in Lahore on Sunday.Dar said, “If the ...
Provinces as panacea
The federal government’s attempt at carving out a new province from Punjab, oddly titled ‘Bahawalpur Janoobi Punjab’ (BJP), has raised a cacophony of voices either objecting to its composition, or calling for the creation of another province as well, or questioning the ...
New provinces dominate NA
ISLAMABAD - The new provinces issue dominated the National Assembly session on Wednesday as treasury and opposition benches kept giving assurances of their sincerity to form the provinces, but a clear line of divide was visible between the ruling alliance and PML-N on the matter.Though the main ...
More provinces, more corruption
The federal government’s appointment of a Parliamentary Commission for establishment of new provinces in Punjab is an outright conspiracy against the province’s size, strength, good governance, development in agriculture, industry and commerce, advancement in every walk of life and ...
2nd deadline for report lapses
ISLAMABAD - Parliamentary Commission for creation of new provinces in Punjab has lapsed its second deadline for the completion of its report, which led the chairman of the commission to approach the NA Speaker for another extension.“The Commission will request to extend deadline for the ...
New provinces commission set to prepare report
ISLAMABAD - Parliamentary Commission for creation of new provinces in the Punjab on Monday has completed the consultation process and would now initiate preparation of the report in the light of the gathered information in next few days.The Commission's meeting held here at the Parliament House ...
New provinces panel works out modalities amid PML-N boycott
ISLAMABAD - Parliamentary commission for creation of new provinces has worked out its rules and regulations amid continuing boycott by the PML-N. After remaining dormant for several months finally the parliamentary commission for carving out new provinces in the Punjab met here Monday and ...
Three provinces backpedal on KBD
LAHORE - The Punjab government had signed the 1991Water Accord after getting assurances from the other provinces that they would not oppose the construction of Kalabagh Dam, claimed a top official who represented the Punjab’s technical team in March 1991 Water Apportionment Accord and ...
Provinces reaffirm pledge to enforce Article 25-A
ISLAMABAD - Lauding the recently passed Bill in National Assembly guaranteeing free quality education for approximately 70,000 out-of-school children in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), all provincial governments reaffirmed their determination for enforcement of Article 25-A in their areas ...
New provinces commission hits snag
ISLAMABAD - The commission constituted with great pomp and show by Speaker National Assembly for carving out new provinces in Punjab hit the snags and now both the ruling Pakistan People’s Party and main opposition Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) are blaming each other for the fiasco, reducing ...
More provinces in Pakistan
One of the biggest hurdles in the way of good governance and fair distribution of funds in Pakistan is the awfully less number of provinces. One of the most overriding priorities for any government in Pakistan is to create minimum 16 provinces in order to broaden the scope of development and nation ...
Provinces welcome resolution
LAHORE/KARACHI/QUETTA/PESHAWAR – The governments of Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have welcomed the adaptation of an MQM resolution – aimed at deweaponising the country – by the National Assembly, though the PML-N-led Punjab government has been at pains to affirm its ...
Provinces urged to focus more on edu
ISLAMABAD - Speaker National Assembly Dr. Fehmida Mirza on Thursday said that in the 18th Amendment of the Constitution the Ministry of Education has been devolved to provinces and share of the provinces in NFC Award also enhanced so that they could spend more in health and education ...
Provinces in urgent need of urban policy
KARACHI - Pakistan is in an urgent need for an Urban Policy so as to address the issues mushroom growth of slums, absence of proper City planning, vulnerability to natural disasters, unsustainable energy consumption patterns and growing socio-economic disparities.Addressing a seminar held ...
Provinces Commission will continue to work: Babar
ISLAMABAD - Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission for creation of new provinces in the Punjab, Senator Farhatullah Babar made it clear that the Commission would continue its deliberations despite PML-N boycott of the Commission.He expressed these views while talking to media persons after the ...
Provinces get special allocations
ISLAMABAD - A total of Rs 1,54,5546 million net transfer to provinces would be made, which is 22.1 per cent higher than the previous financial year’s revised budget allocation of Rs 1,266,044.Out of these allocations, the allocation to the provinces under the divisible pool would be Rs ...
Provinces, minister to get ball rolling
KARCHI - Although the Council of Common Interests (CCI) has invited a formula from the provinces as regards the collection and distribution of Zakat funds, a consensus is nowhere to be found since the recent talks between the provincial chief secretaries were marred by an awful difference of ...
Provinces not responding to proposal to cut GST: Asim
ISLAMABAD - SYED DANISH HUSSAIN - Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Dr Asim Hussain on Thursday informed the Senate that provinces being the biggest shareholders of General Sales Tax (GST) earned on petroleum products had not responded accordingly to government's proposal of ...
New provinces: MQM moves Senate, NA, SA
ISLAMABAD - After the adoption of the resolution in the favour of Southern Punjab province in the National Assembly, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader tabled the documents in the National Assembly, Senate and Sindh Assembly to form South Punjab and Hazara provinces. “The passage of ...
Provinces should formulate integrated health care services: PM
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has stated that after the 18th Constitutional Amendment, it is now upon the provincial governments to formulate integrated health care services with the concurrence of all relevant stakeholders. "Health is a provincial subject after the 18th Constitutional ...
Rana Sanaullah raps PM Gilani on new provinces
Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Tuesday said the democratically elected Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani should not speak of forming news provinces on the basis of regions, as doing so, he is fomenting ethnicities. Talking to media outside the premises of Punjab Assembly, he said senseless ...
BNAP opposes new provinces on lingual basis
BAHAWALNAGAR - Bahawalpur National Awami Party Chairman Nawab Salahuddin Abbasi has said that his party is not in favour of the creation of provinces on linguistic basis and the time has come to restore the provincial status of Bahawalpur which is a long cherished legitimate demand of the people of ...
Provinces asked to float proposals on ieds bill
ISLAMABAD - The Interior Ministry has sought proposals from all the provinces and Gilgit-Baltistan to have their input on the proposed draft of Counter and Control of Improvised Explosive Devices Bill, 2012 that will soon be tabled in the Parliament.In this regard, an important meeting was held in ...
Another 1971-like incident if new provinces not made, warns Farooq Sattar
Farooq Sattar warned of another incident like 1971 if new provinces were not made. Talking to the media in Multan, MQM leader Farooq Sattar asked that what to do when rulers of Punjab could not solve the problems of people. Sattar demanded referendum in various districts over inclusion in south ...
NA debate on new provinces unconstitutional: Rabbani
ISLAMABAD - Parliamentary Committee on National Security Chairman Raza Rabbani Friday opposed the idea of debate on new provinces in the National Assembly. Talking to the media outside the Parliament, Rabbani said the debate on new provinces in the National Assembly was reflective of a ...
