By Ijaz Kakakhel

ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq on Tuesday did not allow PTI’s Asad Umar to speak over Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s contradictory statement in the Assembly and in Supreme Court. While the PTI legislators continued their protests, shouting against the PM and his government, the ruling party was in defensive mode in today’s proceeding of […]

ISLAMABAD: The Lower House of Parliament on Monday again witnessed a rumpus, among the parliamentarians of PTI and PML-N and also called PML-N’s Danyal Aziz a ‘stooge’. The PTI legislators demanded of the government that the Prime Minister should come to the House and clarify his position over his contradictory statement given by him in […]

ISLAMABAD: Opposition in the Lower House on Friday demanded the resignation of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan over a report by the Supreme Court on Quetta Civil Hospital attack that was issued a day ago. Opposition leader Khursheed Shah moved the adjournment motions against the interior minister over the Quetta massacre report. “This is […]

ISLAMABAD: The Lower House of Parliament on Thursday again turned into a fish market by PTI and PML-N members when the PTI leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi stood up and addressed the speaker as Ayaz Sadiq. Shah Mahmood Qureshi also asked the prime minister to come to the house and explain the contradictions in his speech […]

ISLAMABAD: Disturbance, uproar and sloganeering against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif marked Wednesday’s session of the Lower House, as Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers returned to parliament to see their privilege motions on Panamagate ripped to pieces. Chaos ruled the National Assembly (NA), as Speaker Ayaz Sadiq rejected the opposition’s privilege motions, angering opposition members belonging to […]

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice considered various bills, including the Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2016 (Amendment to Article 209), the National Commission for International Law and Commitments Bill 2016 and the Civil Courts (Amendment) Bill, 2016, introduced by senators Zaheeruddin Babar Awan, Karim Ahmed Khawaja and Muhammad Azam Khan Swati, respectively. The […]

ISLAMABAD: A legislative body of Upper House on Friday decided to make legislation for transgender people. In this regard, their representative, along with NADRA officials, will attend the next meeting to discuss the issue of Computerized National Identity Cards (CNICs) to them. The provincial and federal representatives of the transgender community will attend the next […]

 ISLAMABAD: A legislative body on Friday decided to carry forward conversation on blasphemy law in the light of a 1991 Senate report making critical recommendations, but which was confined to the archives for unknown reasons and remained untraceable for a long time. The decision was made by the Senate’s Human Rights Committee after Senator Farhatullah […]

ISLAMABAD: A legislative body of the Upper House of parliament was informed on Thursday that the local textile industry was in a “dilapidated condition”, and its exports were experiencing a declining trend due to a number of issues, including high prices of gas and electricity, high tariffs on import of input materials for industries and […]

ISLAMABAD: The government on Wednesday succeeded in getting the controversial Inquiry Commission Bill 2016 passed from the National Assembly as the opposition staged a walkout. Earlier, the government failed thrice to get the bill passed due to a lack of quorum. However, the treasury managed to bring in the required number of lawmakers and passed […]