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Rift among Q legislators over portfolios

By: Maqsood Termizi | June 23, 2012

ISLAMABAD - Differences among the PML-Q legislators have reportedly erupted on the portfolios in the new Cabinet as none of them except Ch.Pervaiz Elahi took oath on Friday.Sources told The Nation ...

Nisar comes down hard on Fazlur Rehman

By: Maqsood Termizi | June 15, 2012

ISLAMABAD—- Criticising the other opposition parties’ role during the budget debate, PML-N leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Thursday specifically grilled Maulana Fazlur Rehman for his ...

PML-N marchers gatecrash Presidency

By: Maqsood Termizi | June 12, 2012

ISLAMABAD - Leading a good number of parliamentarians and workers, the opposition leader in the National Assembly Ch Nisar Ali Khan on Monday marched from the Parliament House to the Presidency and ...

PML-N boycotts but fails to protest

By: Maqsood Termizi | June 07, 2012

ISLAMABAD - The PML-N on Wednesday boycotted the National Assembly session and preferred to sit in the side lobbies, while members from the treasury benches and other opposition parties took part in ...

Opp ready with cudgels for budget show performance

By: Maqsood Termizi | June 01, 2012

ISLAMABAD - With a countywide crisis of electricity, unending gas shortages, increasing inflation and poor law and order situation in most parts of the state, the federal government is going to ...

Cabinet forms bodies on Karachi, missing persons

By: Maqsood Termizi | May 24, 2012

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani the federal cabinet meeting Wednesday formed two separate committees to look into the issues of law and order situation in Karachi and the Baloch missing ...

Verdict may reignite PPP-MQM tussle

By: Maqsood Termizi | May 19, 2012

ISLAMABAD - The directives of the Sindh High Court to hold LB elections in the province may ignite a tussle between the ruling PPP and MQM, as the PPP is in favour of the magistracy system.The debate ...

PM props up sagacity on Nato supplies

By: Maqsood Termizi | May 17, 2012

ISLAMABAD - The Federal cabinet Wednesday welcomed the invitation extended by Nato to President Asif Zardari for attending Chicago summit.Chairing the cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza ...

National economy improving, Hafeez tells NA

By: Maqsood Termizi | April 27, 2012

ISLAMABAD – Federal minister for Finance Revenue, Planning and Development Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh has informed the National Assembly that the overall economic situation of the country is ...

National economy improving, NA told

By: Maqsood Termizi | April 27, 2012

ISLAMABAD – Federal minister for Finance Revenue, Planning and Development Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh has informed the National Assembly that the overall economic situation of the country is ...

Govt decides $2500 levy per Nato container, NA told

By: Maqsood Termizi | April 26, 2012

ISLAMABAD - Minister of State for Communication, Dost Muhammad Mazari, on Wednesday informed the National Assembly that estimated rehabilitation cost of roads being used by Nato containers is $1500 ...

Nadeem Afzal Chann wins PAC crown

By: Maqsood Termizi | April 26, 2012

ISLAMABAD - Applauding the role of former Chairman Ch Nisar Ali Khan, the members of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly on Wednesday unanimously elected MNA Nadeem Afzal Chann ...

Secy NA may get 7th extension

By: Maqsood Termizi | April 25, 2012

 ISLAMABAD - Secretary National Assembly Karamat Hussain Niazi is likely to get the 7th extension consecutively on Wednesday (today) as his contract has ended on April 24, 2012.Sources in the ...

PAC meeting on 25th to elect new chairman

By: Maqsood Termizi | April 21, 2012

ISLAMABAD - The PPP-led Federal government has finally decided to summon the meeting of PAC on April 25th to elect its Chairman as the slot was lying vacant after the resignation of Ch Nisar Ali ...

Ministerial berths doled out to new entrants

By: Maqsood Termizi | April 19, 2012

ISLAMABAD - Reshuffling the cabinet, the PPP-led government on Wednesday allocated portfolios to the newly inducted federal ministers and ministers of state. The portfolios have been given to ...

Nadeem Gondal likely to be new PAC Chairman

By: Maqsood Termizi | April 17, 2012

ISLAMABAD - The PPP-led Federal Government has reportedly decided to fill the seat of Public Accounts Committee Chairman that is laying vacant after the resignation of Opposition leader in the ...

Q MPs-losing spree continues

By: Maqsood Termizi | April 09, 2012

ISLAMABAD - The PML-Q has, once again, lost its strength in National Assembly as well as in the provincial assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where a number of its MPAs have joined PML-N.With the ...

Hafiz Pak internal matter, says Gilani

By: Maqsood Termizi | April 06, 2012

ISLAMABD - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said the judiciary in Pakistan is independent and if the US has evidence against Hafiz Saeed, it should be provided to Pakistan. Responding to a ...

US trying to please India, says Mushahid

By: Maqsood Termizi | April 04, 2012

ISLAMABAD - PML-Q Secretary General Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed on Tuesday said that US has announced head money on Hafiz Saeed to please India and there was no legal justification for it.Terming ...

Q MPs target party minister for ‘corruption’

By: Maqsood Termizi | March 28, 2012

ISLAMABAD - PML-Q parliamentarians on Tuesday came down hard on the Minister for Housing and Works Faisal Saleh Hayat during the parliamentary party meeting and accused him of making corruption and ...

Q, N reach seat adjustment

By: Maqsood Termizi | March 24, 2012

ISLAMABD - The PML-N and PML-Q (Likeminded) have reportedly finalised seat adjustments on some national and provincial constituencies while decision on remaining seats is expected by the last week of ...

Reshuffle in Federal Cabinet soon

By: Maqsood Termizi | March 21, 2012

ISLAMABAD - The reshuffle in the Federal Cabinet is expected in next couple of weeks as the PML-Q is reportedly going to change two of its ministers in the incumbent setup.Sources close to the ...

Govt assailed over missing persons

By: Maqsood Termizi | March 15, 2012

ISLAMABAD - The legislators in the National Assembly on Wednesday unanimously adopted a resolution on the missing persons issue and authorised the speaker to constitute a committee to monitor the ...

Faisal seeks SC, NAB help in retrieving ministry lands

By: Maqsood Termizi | March 09, 2012

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Housing and Works Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat has urged the Supreme Court of Pakistan and National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to help out his ministry in curbing ...

PML-Q shrinks in upper house

By: Maqsood Termizi | March 03, 2012

ISLAMABAD – PML-Q, the second largest party in the Upper House of the Parliament, has lost majority of its seats in the Senate as more than dozen of senators, including Deputy Chairman Jan ...

Q to negotiate seat adjustment with PPP

By: Maqsood Termizi | February 22, 2012

ISLAMABAD - After the Senate election going to be held on March 2, the PML-Q leadership is likely to sit with ruling PPP Co Chairman Asif Ali Zardari to discuss the seat adjustment formula for the ...

Rs122b needed for repair, NA told

By: Maqsood Termizi | February 11, 2012

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Communication Dr Arbab Alamgir Khan on Friday informed the National Assembly that due to heavy-loaded NATO containers various roads of the country have deteriorated and ...

4,832 Pakistanis deported in two years, NA told

By: Maqsood Termizi | February 10, 2012

ISLAMABAD - Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs Palwasha Behram Thursday informed the National Assembly that 4,832 Pakistanis were deported from various countries during the last two years. ...

Corruption cases against 11 MPs pending in courts

By: Maqsood Termizi | February 09, 2012

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs informed the National Assembly on Wednesday that the corruption cases against 11 parliamentarians, including Hamza Shahbaz, Javed ...

Cabinet okays TFC plan for circular debt

By: Maqsood Termizi | February 02, 2012

ISLAMABAD - Chairing a meeting on Wednesday, Prime Minster Yousuf Raza Gilani took the cabinet and coalition partners into confidence on by-polls and the 20th Amendment Bill that will be tabled in ...

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