Chink in PML-N ranks laid bare in Punjab Assembly on March 6, 2018LAHORE: Following the failure of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to keep intact party members against opposition candidates in the recently held Senate election, chink in PML-N ranks widened further on Monday when a group of three women MPAs led by Ayesha Javed left their fixed seats and sat in the chairs at upper […]
N-backed independents sweep Punjab on March 4, 2018LAHORE: The ruling PML-N backed candidates won 11 seats and opposition managed to secure a seat. The election saw a 100 percent turnout as all 368 legislators casted their votes. Three votes were declared invalid. The ruling Nawaz League’s candidates were contesting as independent after their party head Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification as per decision of […]
Brouhaha in PA over resolution against NAB on March 3, 2018LAHORE: All hell broke loose on Friday in the Punjab Assembly after opposition leader Mian Mehmoodur Rasheed of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) tore the Rules of Procedure book before throwing it in the air and declared it a trash as a protest against the speaker’s act of allowing an ‘anti-NAB’ resolution tabled by the ruling […]
Victory as N-backed independent wins Nehal Hashmi’s seat on March 2, 2018LAHORE: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz clinched an expected victory on Thursday in an election for the Senate seat vacated on disqualification of its leader Nehal Hashmi. Held just a couple of days before Senate elections scheduled for March 3, the contest between Dr. Asad Ashraf, who was supported by the Nawaz League, and PTI’s […]
Punjab urges centre to rationalise NAB’s powers on March 1, 2018LAHORE: In the absence of the opposition in Punjab Assembly on Wednesday, the provincial government passed a resolution against the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) days after the arrest of Ahad Cheema, former director general of the Lahore Development, on corruption charges. The resolution was moved by Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan. The House expressed […]
Hullabaloo in PA keeps govt from completing agenda on February 28, 2018LAHORE: Joint opposition in Punjab Assembly on Tuesday created rumpus once again over the alleged corruption in the Multan Metro Bus project, forcing the government to adjourn proceedings without completing the agenda. On Monday, the Punjab Assembly’s session was adjourned without completing its agenda due to a strong protest and chanting of slogans by opposition […]
It’s time for PML-N legislators to prove loyalty to the king? on February 24, 2018LAHORE: Some of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) legislators in the Punjab Assembly were seen fuming on Friday over the removal of Nawaz Sharif as party’s head by the Supreme Court a few days ago. Also, some of them held a protest outside the Punjab Assembly building and threatened to resign from the provincial assembly […]
Opposition walks out of PA over Ahad Cheema’s promotion on February 24, 2018LAHORE: Opposition parties in the Punjab Assembly Friday strongly protested against the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government for promoting arrested bureaucrat Ahad Cheema, who is facing corruption charges, to grade-20. Punjab Assembly session started 49 minutes late to its scheduled time at 9am with Speaker Rana Iqbal in the chair. The proceeding of the assembly […]
Nawaz in trouble, not democracy: Bilawal on February 23, 2018LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto has said that Nawaz Sharif wanted to create a constitutional crisis in the country. Talking to reporters at party’s provincial secretariat in Model Town on Thursday, the PPP chief believed that there was no threat to the democratic system in the country and that the election process […]
Resolution against privatisation of PIA and PSM filed in PA on February 22, 2018LAHORE: A resolution against the proposed privatisation of the national flag carrier Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and the Pakistan Steel Mills was submitted in the Punjab Assembly Secretariat on Wednesday. The resolution was filed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) legislator Dr Noshin Hamid. In the resolution, it was stated that the privatisation of both public entities […]