New law will empower GB Assembly, says PM[caption id="attachment_245675" align="alignnone" width="800"] GILGIT: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi inaugurates Gilgit Baltistan Assembly Building. INP PHOTO[/caption] GILGIT: Prime Minister Sh...
‘Make people powerful, not PM’, PPP slams GB reforms packageKARACHI: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Sunday strongly criticised the reforms package for Gilgit-Baltistan. "Giving powers of legislation to the bureaucracy in Islamaba...
Pakistan seeks $1-2bn fresh loans from ChinaISLAMABAD: Pakistan expects to obtain fresh loans from China worth $1-2 billion to help it avert a balance of payments crisis, government sources said, in another sign of Islamabad's growing reliance...
FATA — one faultilne fixed, nearly!The Federally Administered Tribal Areas ( FATA ) and the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas ( PATA) represented both an aberration as well as one of Pakistan's major faultiness.The 31st Constituti...
ECP to hold consultative meeting of ‘all political parties’ on ThursdayThe Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has planned to hold a consultative meeting of all political parties having representation in the parliament on Thursday. According to ECP, the meeting will fi...
Talks on interim Balochistan CM fail to reach consensusThe government and opposition failed to reach a consensus over the name of an interim chief minister of Balochistan, even at the third meeting held Sunday. The meeting to finalise a caretaker chief mi...
Six suspected terrorists killed in CTD shootout in GujratSix suspected members of a banned outfit were killed during a shootout with the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) personnel, says CTD official on Saturday. The suspects were reportedly involved in th...
GB Order is not acceptable, says Awami Action Committee leaderThe Awami Action Committee (AAC) and the joint opposition parties will meet on Monday to formulate a strategy to continue their protest against the draconian Gilgit Baltistan (GB) Order of 2018 on Mon...
Islamabad, Kabul call for measures to reduce violencePakistan and Afghanistan on Sunday called for bilateral security cooperation and to undertake measures that can assist both sides in reduction of violence at the hands of terrorists, the military said...