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Q doubts PPP intention

By: Usman Cheema | April 10, 2013

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Q has serious doubt about PPP’s intentions over seat adjustment as PPP candidates have filed nomination papers for almost all constituencies and whether or ...

Wattoo presents ‘valid’ degrees to media

By: Usman Cheema | April 04, 2013

ISLAMABAD - Mian Manzoor Wattoo on Wednesday responded to the rumours about his degrees being fake and presented his degrees to media. The degrees were more than 50 years old but were in a brand new ...

Growing loadshedding a great challenge for interim govt

By: Usman Cheema | April 01, 2013

ISLAMABAD - Circular debt of power sector is such a gift that former PPP-led government had left for interim government. It is a great challenge for any government to maintain even a reasonable ...

Reject political forces backing timber mafia

By: Usman Cheema | March 22, 2013

ISLAMABAD - Speakers at a consultation urged the people to use their vote for the change and reject such politicians/candidates who after coming into power strengthen the timber mafia in their area ...

Alliance with PPP behind PML-Q's members flight

By: Usman Cheema | March 20, 2013

ISLAMABAD - A senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim League Quaid-e-Azam (PML-Q) has confessed that his party's alliance with the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) is the major reason behind fleeing of its ...

Report on power sector flawed: Wapda officials

By: Usman Cheema | March 19, 2013

ISLAMABAD – Top officials of WAPDA have rejected the Planning Commission’s pessimistic report on power sector and declared the report flawed as it does not cover many very important ...

Pervaiz, Mukhtar to contest from NA-105

By: Usman Cheema | March 18, 2013

ISLAMABAD - The heavyweights of two political allies, Pakistan Muslim League-Q and Pakistan People’s Party, will contest election against each other while, as per their claim, keeping their ...

Dance at Q cultural event raises eyebrows

By: Usman Cheema | March 15, 2013

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid) made the day of the nation very interesting and gave many a topic to discuss by arranging a cultural event at the Central Secretariat office of the party ...

Minority MNA comes down hard on Punjab government

By: Usman Cheema | March 12, 2013

ISLAMABAD - “If we are considered as Pakistanis then tell us how many Hindus were inducted in Pakistan Army since the inception of the country,” said Mnouhar Lal in the National Assembly ...

Committee presents report on bill to broaden tax base in NA

By: Usman Cheema | March 08, 2013

ISLAMABAD - A report of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Finance about a bill designed to amend the tax laws with an aim to provide a mechanism for bringing potential taxpayers ...

India not granted MFN status yet, NA told

By: Usman Cheema | March 07, 2013

ISLAMABAD - Minister for States and Frontier Region Abbas Afridi Wednesday informed the Lower House of the Parliament that Pakistan had not yet granted MFN status to India. He said India had granted ...

Majority of MPs to quit Q bandwagon soon

By: Usman Cheema | March 04, 2013

ISLAMABAD - Chief of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has never sought consent of its other party members while making alliance with Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) ...

Bill to reform Ombudsmen institution sails through NA

By: Usman Cheema | March 01, 2013

ISLAMABAD - National Assembly of Pakistan Thursday approved two bills 'The Federal Ombudsmen Institutional Reforms Bill 2013' presented by Law Minister Farooq H Naek and secondly 'The Capital ...

AQK’s party forms electoral alliance with JI

By: Usman Cheema | February 27, 2013

ISLAMABAD – “I have given atomic bomb to a nation that could not produce a needle,” said Dr Abdul Qadir Khan on the occasion of its party’s formal alliance with ...

AQ Khan’s party forms electoral alliance with JI

By: Usman Cheema | February 27, 2013

ISLAMABAD – “I have given atomic bomb to a nation that could not produce a needle,” said Dr Abdul Qadir Khan on the occasion of its party’s formal alliance with ...

Riaz Fatyana quits PML-Q

By: Usman Cheema | February 27, 2013

ISLAMABAD - MNA Riaz Fatyana has announced to quit the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid while many others have been busy packing their stuff to leave this party which, in their view, is not able to ...

Non-provision of locomotives behind PR loss, Bilour tells NA

By: Usman Cheema | February 26, 2013

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Railways Haji Ghulam Ahmad Bilour Monday informed the Lower House of the Parliament that he has been demanding for 400 locomotives for railways since long and non-provision ...

PPP, PML-Q to field joint candidates in polls

By: Usman Cheema | February 21, 2013

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan People's Party and Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid) Wednesday decided to field joint candidates in the upcoming polls, PML-Q Central Secretary Information Kamil Ali Agha confirmed ...

Nisar to move SC against auction

By: Usman Cheema | February 19, 2013

ISLAMABAD – PML-Nawaz leader Chaudhry Nisar said on Monday the government had sold an island worth billions of rupees near Karachi and he would bring a lawsuit against it. Interacting with the ...

‘Opportunists’ drive self-styled Qadri to nowhere

By: Usman Cheema | February 15, 2013

ISLAMABAD – All of them had their interests, they were not brave enough to take the load so they encouraged him to confront Supreme Court and Election Commission but when he failed, they all ...

Qadri’s ‘allies’ leave him in the lurch

By: Usman Cheema | February 14, 2013

ISLAMABAD - Political parties, which were apparently supporting Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri’s stance on Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), now have disassociated themselves from Qadri’s move of ...

Many heavyweights set to quit Q bandwagon

By: Usman Cheema | February 13, 2013

ISLAMABAD - Troublesome times await Pakistan Muslim League Quaid as several party heavyweights including Riaz Fatyana are set to part ways with their party over irreconcilable differences, which is ...

Mushahid terms Guru’s hanging a judicial murder

By: Usman Cheema | February 11, 2013

ISLAMABAD - Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Chairman Senate Committee on Defence and Defence Production and Secretary General Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid), has strongly condemned and termed the ...

Pakistan to be declared least developed in 2014, NA told

By: Usman Cheema | February 08, 2013

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Textile Industry, Makhdoom Shahabuddin Thursday informed the lower house of the Parliament that Pakistan would be declared as least developed country in 2014 that will allow ...

Cane growers getting better prices

By: Usman Cheema | February 07, 2013

ISLAMABAD - After suffering from so many years of exploitation, sugarcane growers seem satisfied this season as they are getting better price of their produce from the sugar millers.Agri Forum ...

Govt talks with PSMA for 3,000MW power

By: Usman Cheema | February 04, 2013

ISLAMABAD - At the culmination of its term, the PPP-led government has initiated negotiations with Suger Mills Association for power generation through ‘bagasse’ to apparently overcome ...

Amin Fahim’s guards abuse biker’s family

By: Usman Cheema | February 01, 2013

ISLAMABAD - The worst example of violation of human rights was observed on Thursday as the guards of Makhdoom Amin Fahim abused a motorcyclist who was going on his way but came in front of Makhdoom's ...

Pakistan left with gas reserves for 18 years, NA told

By: Usman Cheema | January 31, 2013

ISLAMABAD - Parliamentary Secretary for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Rukhsana Jamshed Butter Wednesday informed the lower house of Parliament that the country was left with only 18 years reserves ...

Q men still undecided about fixing political track

By: Usman Cheema | January 28, 2013

ISLAMABAD - While defections from PPP side are inevitable, PML-Q members are in a fix to decide about where to reside to maintain there political career as many are not yet clear about PML-N and ...

Govt, private institutions ‘owe’ Rs57b to Wapda

By: Usman Cheema | January 27, 2013

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Water and Power Ch Ahmed Mukhtar Saturday informed the lower house of the parliament in his written reply that different private and government institutions owed Rs 57.152 ...

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