Zardari wants door-to-door campaign in Lahore on May 22, 2017LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Zardari has advised the PPP Lahore chapter to start door-to- door campaign. According to sources, Zardari on Sunday telephoned newly appointed Lahore District leadership and urged them to strengthen the party at grassroots, adding that it is important to get success and number of seats in the province […]
No new tax in next budget on May 19, 2017LAHORE: In a bid to avoid annoying voters in the last year of the five-year tenure of the government in Punjab, the ruling Nawaz League has decided not to impose any new tax in the next budget for fiscal year 2017-18. According sources in the ruling parliamentary party, their government is going to increase salaries […]
Rising circular debt will increase blackouts : opp on May 18, 2017LAHORE: Major opposition parties in the Punjab Assembly have showed their serious concern over the rising circular debt – currently standing at Rs 414 billion – and lashed out at the government for its poor financial policies and management. Mian Aslam Iqbal, a leader of the main opposition party in the House, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf […]
ECP declares PTI, PAT, JI ineligible to contest polls on May 17, 2017LAHORE: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has declared 25 political parties including Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Dr Tahirul Qadri’s Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and PPP-S of Ghanwa Bhutto ineligible for participating in the next general elections. The ECP said the parties had been declared ineligible to contest next general election for […]
PTI plans protest to press PML-N over power outages on May 9, 2017LAHORE: It seems that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will not let the government to take a sigh of relief as the party has decided to hold a protest against prolonged power outages. “The party will hold a protest camp on The Mall against power load shedding in front of the Punjab Assembly in the next […]
PPP protests against load shedding with fans in hands on May 5, 2017LAHORE: Main opposition party in parliament and second major opposition party in Punjab Assembly, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), succeeded in showing a good street power by holding a big protest rally in Lahore after a long time. Though Bilawal Bhutto or Asif Asli Zardari were not present, the provincial leadership managed to gather more […]
Opp leader says Imran has proof of Rs 10bn bribe offer on April 29, 2017LAHORE: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government in the Punjab Assembly Friday took a sigh of relief after the opposition benches seems to have retreated from the demand of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s resignation over the Panamagate. On Friday’s session, only seven lawmakers belonging to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid […]
Opposition retreats from formal protest in PA against PM on April 28, 2017LAHORE: Though some of the opposition as well as the treasury members shouted slogans against each other’s leadership in connection with the Panama case and the JIT on it, the opposition leader denied holding any formal protests like the previous days in the House. He put forward a suggestion before Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif: since […]
Govt slammed for arresting people chanting Go Nawaz Go slogans on April 27, 2017LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) legislators tabled two adjournment motions in the Punjab Assembly amid slogans of “Go Nawaz Go” during Wednesday session. Punjab Assembly session started one hour and 28 minutes late to its scheduled time at 10am. Soon after one-hour question hour session, Deputy Speaker Sher Ali Gorchani announced to take up adjournment motions […]
Opp disallowed to table resolution against PM, again on April 26, 2017LAHORE: The joint opposition members in the Punjab Assembly session on Tuesday tore agenda copies and chanted slogans of ‘Go Nawaz Go’ after Speaker Rana Iqbal once again did not allow them to table a resolution against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Interestingly, this is the first time in the four-year parliamentary history of the opposition […]