ISLAMABAD – The government is preparing to table the 27th Constitutional Amendment for approval in both the Senate and the National Assembly, requiring a two-thirds majority in each house — 64 votes in the Senate and 224 in the National Assembly. In the 96-member Senate, the ruling coalition, led by the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) […]
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Pakistan ruling coalition has a crack that is getting bigger
President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday called Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi to Karachi for an urgent meeting as tensions continued to rise between the Sindh and Punjab governments, with the PPP staging a walkout from the National Assembly and Senate. The PPP and PML-N are coalition partners in the Centre. A post on X from […]
Ruling coalition secures two-third majority after supreme court verdict
Following a key Supreme Court verdict, the ruling alliance in Pakistan’s National Assembly has increased its seat count and now holds a two-thirds majority. The Supreme Court’s constitutional bench approved review petitions related to reserved seats, overturning its earlier July 12 decision and upholding the Peshawar High Court’s ruling that denied reserved seats to the […]
Ukraine ruling coalition breaks up, may lead to snap election
Ukraine’s ruling coalition broke up on Friday after the People’s Front party quit outgoing President Petro Poroshenko’s faction, potentially paving the way for incoming President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to call a snap election. “We declare our withdrawal from the current coalition, the cessation of its activities … and the initiative to form a new coalition with […]