LGs empowered to impose 5pc tax on immovable property on February 1, 2017LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Wednesday passed a bill empowering legal governments (LGs) to impose five percent tax on urban immovable property to mop up revenue independently. While opposing the bill, opposition benches termed it a burden on poor masses, who were already paying taxes in 41 different categories. Opposition members were of the view […]
Opposition walks out of PA demanding ‘corrupt’ CM’s ouster on January 27, 2017LAHORE: Opposition parties, while demanding the speaker to take action on the disqualification reference against Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, jointly walked out of the Punjab Assembly on Thursday. Both sides – opposition and the treasury benches – shouted slogans against each other’s leadership, which created fuss in the House. Defending the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) […]
PML- N opposes renaming hospital after Edhi on January 24, 2017LAHORE: A resolution has been passed in the Punjab Assembly to rename a government-run eye hospital after the name of Mian Shujaur Rehman, father of MPA Mian Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman. The resolution was moved by a female legislator elected on a reserved seat from the treasury, Shazia Kamran, saying that the House had earlier recommended […]
PML-N opposes renaming hospital after Edhi on January 24, 2017LAHORE: A resolution has been passed in the Punjab Assembly to rename a government-run eye hospital after the name of Mian Shujaur Rehman, father of MPA Mian Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman. The resolution was moved by a female legislator elected on a reserved seat from the treasury, Shazia Kamran, saying that the House had earlier recommended […]
Bilawal kicks off Go Nawaz Go campaign from Punjab on January 20, 2017LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari kicked off the anti-Sharif’ campaign in Punjab, leading his first ever protest caravan from Lahore to Faisalabad. Bilawal also confirmed, while addressing the participants of the caravan that his party was still standing with its four point demands that would be fulfilled, come what may. He […]
Bilawal to lead first-ever caravan in Punjab today on January 19, 2017LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is all set to lead his first-ever caravan from Lahore to Faisalabad on Thursday (today). To press the Nawaz-led government for implementing his four-point demands, the PPP chairman would lead the SUV caravan from Bilawal House at around 10am. PPP’s top leadership will also join him. […]
PPP to release preview of mega rally today on January 18, 2017LAHORE: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) workers belonging to Lahore district has planned to hold a special rally in the city today (Wednesday) to pave the way for party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s planned protest campaign against the sitting government for not accepting his four demands. In the first leg of his anti-government campaign, Pakistan […]
Corruption has become cancer for Pakistan, says Sarwar on January 16, 2017LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf (PTI) leader Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar has said that state’s institutions have failed to deliver and Pakistan has become ‘Masailistan’. Addressing a gathering at a medical camp here on Sunday, Sarwar, who has also served as Punjab governor, said corruption and bad governance had become cancer for Pakistan and the country could not […]
PTI files resolution on successful test of Babur-III missile on January 12, 2017LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday filed two separate resolutions in the Punjab Assembly Secretariat; one hailing the Pakistan Army for its successful test-fire of Babur-III cruse missile. PTI legislator Shoaib Siddiqui submitted the resolution about the missile, in which he – on behalf of the Punjab Assembly – congratulated the nation as well […]
PPP white paper points out 25 major scandals of PML-N on January 7, 2017LAHORE: Elected members of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) have issued a white paper on “administrative failures” of the federal and Punjab governments during 2016, listing 25 major scandals of the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N). The white paper was issued by PPP-backed legislator MPA Faiza Malik on Friday. The white paper said that the central […]