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Aitzaz to quit as senator
LAHORESenior leader of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Aitzaz Ahsan has decided to step down from his Senate seat, reported a private TV channel on Tuesday.Aitzaz Ahsan forwarded his resignation to the PPP leadership on Tuesday after his wife Bushra Aitzaz lost elections from NA-124 ...
Senator’s counsel seeks time
ISLAMABADIslamabad High Court (IHC) Monday adjourned the hearing in a petition seeking disqualification of Awami National Party (ANP) Senator Muhammad Azam Khan Hoti after he sought some time to submit his reply.A single-member bench of IHC comprising Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui heard the ...
IHC moved for Senator Azam Hoti’s disqualification
islamabad - A petition seeking disqualification of Awami National Party (ANP) Senator Muhammad Azam Khan Hoti was filed in Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday.A single bench of IHC comprising Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui heard the petition and issued notices to Election Commission of ...
Ricin found in letter to US senator's office
WASHINGTONAFPUS authorities intercepted a letter that contained the deadly poison ricin and was bound for Senator Roger Wicker's office, officials said Tuesday, triggering new security concerns a day after the terror attack in Boston.The tainted letter was detected during a routine mail inspection ...
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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 ...
Senator Azeem asks SC, ECP to take notice of pre-poll rigging
LAHORE-Accusing the PPP of doing pre-poll rigging, senior PML-N leader Senator Tariq Azeem has called upon the Supreme Court and the Election Commission of Pakistan to take notice of these irregularities ahead of the elections. “As the elections are drawing near day by day, the PPP has also ...
Senator Salahuddin Dogar laid to rest
MULTAN - PPP Senator Salahuddin Dogar, who died on Saturday, was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard. Earlier his funeral was performed at Multan Cricket Club Ground on Sunday. Thousands of people from all walks of life attended the funeral. Jamaat Ahle Sunnat Chief Allama Mazhar Saeed Kazmi ...
Senator Sehar Kamran recuperating, says doctor
ISLAMABAD–Pakistan People’s Party Senator Sehar Kamran, who incidentally took extra dose of sedatives late Thursday night, is on her road to recovery, her doctor told TheNation on Friday.The doctor who was part of the team that attended the senator when she brought to the hospital said ...
Rehman Malik still senator and minister, says Anwar Mansoor
Rehman Malik’s counsel, Barrister Anwar Mansoor, on Thursday said that the Supreme Court had not disqualified his client through its verdict on the dual nationality case, adding that, it was up to Senate Chairman Nayyar Hussain Bukhari to decide on Malik’s membership.Speaking to media ...
Senator Gravel’s lament
There was Raymond Davis – the stereotype of a burly highwayman, who had shot to death two innocent Pakistanis – but his country rushed to have him back in the safety of the US mainland and here is our own government that has been so indifferent to one of its less threatening citizen, Dr ...
Senator Kerry chided over Raymond Davis saga
NEW YORK - A US newspaper Wednesday chided John Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, over the case of Raymond Davis, the CIA contractor who killed two Pakistanis last year, saying so far no results of an investigation he promised during his negotiations in Pakistan have ...
Mushahid elected senator unopposed
ISLAMABAD - The returning officer for elections to the Senate from the Federal Capital has declared Mushahid Hussain Syed and Osman Saifullah Khan, the only nominated candidates from the Federal Capital in the Senate, to have been duly elected uncontested against a technocrat and a general ...
US Senator Rand Paul detained
WASHINGTON - Republican Senator Rand Paul, son of presidential candidate Ron Paul, was detained on Monday by security officials at an airport in Nashville, Tennessee, an aide said. Press secretary Moira Bagley wrote in a Twitter message that the senator told her at 10am EST, that he was being ...
US must apologise if strike in error: senator
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States should apologise to Pakistan if an official investigation shows weekend NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani troops were 'a mistake, a key US senator said Tuesday. Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinsteins comments came as her panel was about to ...
Top US senator warns Obama on debt talks
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The top US senator, a key White House ally, warned President Barack Obama Friday not to drop possible tax hikes on the rich from negotiations on a deal to avert a disastrous early August debt default. Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, noting that Obama was in talks ...
'Mafia' sitting in Parliament created sugar crisis:'N' Senator
ISLAMABAD It was a dull day in the Upper House on Monday and the lack of seriousness on the part of legislators was visible as out of the 22 items, which were on the agenda, only one could be discussed before the House was adjourned without doing any legislative business. It was a private members ...
Senator Kazim elected PBC Vice-Chairman
ISLAMABAD Senator Muhammad Kazim Khan was unanimously elected as Vice-Chairman Pakistan Bar Council in a meeting held in Councils office, Supreme Court Building, here on Saturday. Kazim Khan has replaced Abul Inam, whose term as vice-chairman has expired. The new PBC vice-chairman earlier held ...
Senator claims to have contacted ICC over fixing claims
LAHORE Chairman of Pakistans Senate Standing Committee on sports, Ghaffar Qureshi, claims to have contacted the ICC for discussion over allegations of match-fixing in Pakistan cricket. But Qureshi didnt elaborate whether the Senate committee got in touch with the ICC directly or through the ...
Key US senator 'not convinced' of Shahzad-Taliban link
WASHINGTON - A top Republican lawmaker on the Senate Intelligence Committee says he hasn't seen the evidence to support Obama administration claims that the Times Square bombing suspect was linked to the Pakistani Taliban. In a written statement released on Wednesday, Senator Kit Bond of Missouri ...
US intel's ability to sway events in Iran low: senator
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US intelligence has not meddled in the mass protests sweeping Iran, and its ability to get in there and change the course of human events is very low, the head of the US Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday. Senator Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the committee, said ...
Top US senator calls for $US5bn aid for Pakistan
WASHINGTON: An influential US senator has called for up to $US5 billion in urgent non-military aid be provided to avert chaos in Pakistan resulting from the war on terror. Sen. John Kerry, who chairs the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the aid, part of $US7.5 billion in ...
Senator defends honour-killing
ISLAMABAD- A Baloch tribal lord caught the upper house by surprise here on Friday when he came forward defending the honour killing of five women in Balochistan saying 'these are our norms which should not be highlighted negatively'. Baloch Senator Israr Ullah Zehri while aggressively ...
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