Category: Pakistan

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...

LAHORE: The newly-elected first female Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz will face huge challenges as her predecessors left a very high level of service delivery and presence in public. During the last 13-month tenure, Caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi has appeared as the fastest chief minister in terms of working. He broke the records of...

Newly-elected Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz took the oath of office Monday shortly after being elected as the first woman chief executive of the province. Over 1,000 guests including diplomats, celebrities, political leaders, journalists, and Sharif family members Nawaz Sharif, Shehbaz Sharif among others attended the swearing-in ceremony that took place at Punjab Governor House....