Category: Pakistan

LAHORE: Amid sloganeering by the opposition, finance minister Hashim Jawan Bakht on Friday presented the PTI government’s first full-fledged budget in the Punjab Assembly. Unlike the past practice, the budget session started almost on time. It was also for the first time in the recent history that almost half of the members, a majority belonging […]

PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Saturday invited PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari for a meeting on June 16 (tomorrow). According to PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb, Bilawal has accepted the invitation and he will arrive at Raiwind tomorrow afternoon. It has further been confirmed that a few important leaders from both sides will attend the meeting […]

As the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) heard the references against Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court and Justice Karim Khan Agha of the Sindh High Court on Friday, a large number of lawyers — representing the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) and other bodies — held a sit-in at […]

Members of both the opposition and treasury benches tried to defend themselves after general pandemonium in the National Assembly’s budget debate session on Friday resulted in yet another adjournment. The budget session had started with disorder in the morning and ended in chaos in the afternoon after loud protests and verbal exchanges between lawmakers prevented proceedings. Leader […]

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Thursday directed the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to cancel a tender notice that invited companies to offer bids for the construction of new bird cages for parrots in Aiwan-i-Sadr at the cost of Rs2 million. The tender remained a news item in social media, which attracted the president’s attention. […]

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday announced the appointment of Ali Jahangir Siddiqui as ambassador-at-large for investment “in an honorary capacity”. An ambassador-at-large is given special duties and not appointed to a particular country. It is pertinent to mention here that Siddiqui’s appointment as Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States in the previous government had been […]

Balochistan National Party (BNP-M) President Sardar Akhtar Mengal on Friday said his party was ready to join the opposition if it accepted the BNP-M’s demands. Mengal made the remark while addressing a press conference following a meeting with a delegation of senior PPP leaders, who had called on him to invite him to join the […]

The National Assembly budget session started with disorder on Friday morning and ended in pandemonium in the afternoon after loud protests and verbal exchanges between lawmakers prevented the proceedings from beginning in earnest. As the day commenced, PTI MNAs created a ruckus while former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf tried to address the assembly. This […]

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting announced on Friday that Aamer Manzoor has been appointed as the managing director of Pakistan Television (PTV). On May 12, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) had warned the information secretary to appoint a managing director within three months or face the consequences. In April, former managing director Arshad Khan was removed from his […]

PESHAWAR: The Pesha­war High Court (PHC) on Thursday suspended the appointment of three advisers and two special assistants to the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A bench comprising Justice Ikramullah Khan and Justice Mussarat Hilali issued the order after the preliminary hearing of a petition filed by Awami National Party MPA Khush Dil Khan, stating […]