Opposition members demand speaker to apologise for using unparliamentary words on March 9, 2017LAHORE: Joint opposition, comprising Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League Quaid (PML-Q) members, Thursday continued their boycott of the Punjab Assembly (PA) proceedings forthe second consecutive day and held a parallel session in protest outside the assembly’s building. The protest came after the PA Speaker Rana Iqbal – the other day […]
Govt asked to give details of Rs 110m spent for minorities on March 9, 2017LAHORE: Zulfiqar Ghori, member of the Punjab Assembly on the reserved seat for minorities, Wednesday disclosed that there was no record of Rs 110 million allocated for the uplift of minorities in the provincial annual budget for fiscal year 2016-17. Ghori, member of ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) demanded the government to provide details of […]
Lawmakers laud PCB, LEAs on successful holding of PSL final on March 7, 2017LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly Tuesday passed a resolution congratulating the nation on holding of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) final in Pakistan successfully. The resolution, filed by Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, appreciated the role of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and law enforcement agencies in this regard. However, opposition benches strongly opposed the resolution and […]
Lawmakers laud PCB, LEAs on successful holding of PSL final on March 7, 2017LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly Tuesday passed a resolution congratulating the nation on holding of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) final in Pakistan successfully. The resolution, filed by Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, appreciated the role of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and law enforcement agencies in this regard. However, opposition benches strongly opposed the resolution and […]
PA legislators have no time for lawmaking on March 7, 2017LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly session was adjourned till today (Tuesday) over lack of quorum on Monday. The government even failed to start the pre-budget discussion in the House owing to lack of required attendance. Punjab Assembly’s 27th session was started two hours and 36 minutes late to its scheduled time at 2pm on Monday with […]
PSL security plan finalised on March 3, 2017LAHORE: To avoid any security risk and any other kind of untoward incident, it has been planned that the teams of Pakistan Super League (PSL) final match will arrive at Gaddafi Stadium in a helicopter from Pearl Continental (PC) Hotel. Reliable sources told Daily Times on Thursday that the government after consulting law enforcement agencies […]
Punjab Assembly wakes up to screams of teenager on March 1, 2017LAHORE: A calling attention notice was Tuesday filed in the Punjab Assembly against a harrowing incident in which a 15-year-old boy – suffering from a psychological disorder – was allegedly put on burning coals by a female ‘faith healer’ trying to get a “monster” out of the boy in a remote village located just 40km […]
Punjab Assembly wakes up to screams of teenager on March 1, 2017LAHORE: A calling attention notice was Tuesday filed in the Punjab Assembly against a harrowing incident in which a 15-year-old boy – suffering from a psychological disorder – was allegedly put on burning coals by a female ‘faith healer’ trying to get a “monster” out of the boy in a remote village located just 40km […]
Punjab Assembly wakes up to screams of teenager on March 1, 2017LAHORE: A calling attention notice was filed Tuesday in the Punjab Assembly against a harrowing incident in which a 15-year-old boy – suffering from a psychological disorder – was allegedly put on burning coals by a female ‘faith healer’ trying to get a “monster” out of the boy in a remote village located just 40km […]
Punjab Assembly wakes up to screams of teenager on March 1, 2017LAHORE: A calling attention notice was filed Tuesday in the Punjab Assembly against a harrowing incident in which a 15-year-old boy – suffering from a psychological disorder – was allegedly put on burning coals by a female ‘faith healer’ trying to get a “monster” out of the boy in a remote village located just 40km […]