Category: Pakistan

• Bilawal endorses PTI call for inquiry into May 9; PTI-backed MNAs suggest investigation into alleged rigging, cipher issue • Speaker intervenes after opposition riled up by PPP chief’s remarks ISLAMABAD: Amidst fiery spee­ches, the National Assembly on Mon­­day witnessed a glimmer of hope as members sitting on the opposition and treasury benches seemed to...

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Monday approved Rs159 billion funds for the provincial government’s expenditure for the current month. On Oct 26 last year, the then caretaker government unveiled its Rs529.11 billion spending plan from November to February. The caretaker cabinet was de-notified on March 1, a day after the expiry of those four...

In his maiden speech during a session of the newly elected National Assembly, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday endorsed the PTI’s call for a judicial inquiry into the May 9 riots. He passed these remarks in reference to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur’s recent call for the formation of a judicial commission to probe...

ISLAMABAD: Members of the National Assembly (MNAs) belonging to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) claimed on Sunday that the ‘journey to progress’, which was halted in 2018, would resume after Shehbaz Sharif was elected the prime minister. However, MNAs from the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), who had joined the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC), were of the view...

ISLAMABAD: Ever since former prime minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani took oath as a National Assembly member a day earlier, speculations have been rife over Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) nominee for the seat of Senate chairman, as curiosity has increased regarding who will assume the coveted legislature post, The News reported on Friday. Gilani had resigned from...

PESHAWAR: Ali Amin Gandapur, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader who contested the recently held polls as an independent candidate from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was elected as the province’s new chief minister on Friday after voting concluded in the KP Assembly. Polling to elect the KP CM began earlier today with PTI’s Gandapur and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)...

Raising serious reservations over the 2024 election results, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Emir Maulana Fazlur Rehman has announced that his party would not participate in forthcoming elections for the top political slots — president, prime minister, and the National Assembly (NA) speaker. The cleric, speaking to journalists in Islamabad on Thursday, said his politico-religious party would...

Newly elected members of the 16th National Assembly were sworn in on Thursday in a session marred by mainly pro-Imran Khan sloganeering. Outgoing NA Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf administered the oath to the MNAs-elect. The session was originally scheduled to begin at 10am but was delayed by more than an hour. Notable politicians who were...

ISLAMABAD: An as-yet ‘incomplete’ National Assembly — short of reserved seats claimed by the PTI-Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) alliance — will hold its inaugural sitting today (Thurs­day) after President Arif Alvi relented from his earlier stance and assented to a summary seeking the summoning of the maiden sitting of the lower house. Earlier, the NA...