By Siddique Sajid

ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is facing another challenge as a forward bloc is emerging within the party, sources told Daily Times. Over 80 ‘disgruntled’ parliamentarians of the PML-N often remain absent from the budget session, the sources said. It was the first time in the parliamentary history that government was defeated on […]

ISLAMABAD: The federal government, in consultation with the military leadership, has decided to give more powers to the National Command Authority (NCA), the most reliable national institution, which controls and regulates all affairs of Pakistan’s nuclear and strategic programme. In this regard, the National Assembly Standing Committee on Defence would take up the NCA Amendment […]

ISLAMABAD: Lieutenant General Asim Saleem Bajwa, director general of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), made it clear on Wednesday that Pakistan would not stop construction of a check-post at the Torkham border crossing, as it was 37 metres inside the Pakistani territory. Talking to the media on the completion of two years of the Operation […]

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has failed to maintain the quorum for the budget session despite the fact that one day of the National Assembly session costs the national exchequer Rs 25 million. Now the government has asked Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, who is still a strong candidate for the office of the prime […]

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has yet to initiate the process for appointment of ECP members in place of the incumbents who have retired after completion their service tenures. All the four members of the ECP namely Justice (r) Riaz Kiani from Punjab, Justice (r) Roshin Aisani from Sindh, Justice (r) Shahzad Akbar from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday demanded the US target banned Tehreek-e-Taliban and Mullah Fazlullah in their bases inside Afghanistan. Pakistan’s civil and military leadership had extensive talks with US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Olson, Senior Adviser and Director for South Asian Affairs at the National Security Council Dr Peter Lavoy and US commander […]

ISLAMABAD: Ministry of Defence and Foreign Office in a joint meeting of the parliamentary committees to be held today would present some important facts regarding the US drone strike in Pakistan territory in which Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed and disclosures of Indian spy arrested by the premier intelligence agency The parliamentary committees on Defence […]

ISLAMABAD: The parliamentarians’ dream of getting a 300 percent pay raise has shattered, as Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has refused to accept this demand of the elected representatives and told them that they would get only 10 percent raise like all government employees. Parliamentary sources told Daily Times on Tuesday that Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani […]

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has prepared another list of 138 bureaucrats and politicians allegedly involved in corruption, after initial investigations, sources in the corruption watchdog told Daily Times. “There are six to seven former and incumbent federal and provincial ministers and a big number of bureaucrats on our list because there are allegations […]

ISLAMABAD: Government is all set to get the approval of Rs 260.8 billion supplementary budget of the current fiscal year from the National Assembly as government failed to check and control of its expenditures despite all high claims, new vehicles purchased even it was ban, federal ministers travel and daily allowance met with additional amount. […]