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March 30, 2022
Race for Punjab chief ministership: Elahi dares to accept tough challenge
ISLAMABAD: The burden to produce at least 186 lawmakers in his favour to get himself elected as the Punjab chief minister lies on the shoulders of...
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March 28, 2022
Creation of south Punjab province
ISLAMABAD: Knowing well that it doesn’t have a two-thirds majority in the National and Punjab assemblies, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has staged...
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March 26, 2022
No-confidence resolution: Speaker may delay final vote for another 10 days
ISLAMABAD: If Speaker Asad Qaiser’s brazenly partisan approach against the opposition parties persisted in the no-confidence resolution against...
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March 25, 2022
Vote on no-confidence: Gripping episode concludes next week
ISLAMABAD: The gripping events that kicked off with the submission of a no-confidence resolution by the opposition parties against Prime Minister...
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March 24, 2022
Rules for no-trust resolution: What Asad Qaiser can and cannot do
The rules do not provide for the postponement of the day’s sitting after offering ‘dua’ for deceased members
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March 23, 2022
Revised R3 project to cost more than aborted original plan
ISLAMABAD: With Prime Minister Imran Khan recently laying the foundation stone of the revised Rawalpindi Ring Road , the most critical element of...
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March 22, 2022
Presidential reference forced by shock of PTI desertions
The points raised in the presidential reference refer to the gaps in Article 63A that it wants to be filled through its interpretation.
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March 21, 2022
NA session notification: Asad invokes rare constitutional provision to justify delay
The wordings of the notification clearly indicated that he admitted his inability to summon the session within fourteen days as enshrined in the...
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March 20, 2022
Threat to speaker: Opposition wants to prevent four-day delay in voting on no-trust resolution
ISLAMABAD: The opposition’s threat to Speaker Asad Qaiser--claiming that it will move against him if he did not follow the rules on Monday-- is...
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March 19, 2022
Timeline for voting on no-trust resolution can’t be changed
ISLAMABAD: The filing of a reference by the federal government through the president in the Supreme Court seeking an interpretation of the defection...
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March 13, 2022
Moonis Elahi had warned Imran of desertions from PTI
ISLAMABAD: Senior Pakistan Muslim League-Q leader and Federal Water Resources Minister Chaudhry Moonis Elahi has disclosed that he told Prime...
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March 12, 2022
Speaker, parliamentary party have no authority to disqualify ‘defectors’
ISLAMABAD: Neither National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser nor a parliamentary party has any power whatsoever to disqualify or debar an MP from...
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March 10, 2022
No-confidence resolution: Imran Khan can no longer dissolve National Assembly
ISLAMABAD: With the submission of the no-confidence resolution by the opposition parties, Prime Minister Imran Khan has instantly lost the power to...
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March 09, 2022
Countdown starts: Speaker can consume three weeks for final vote
ISLAMABAD: It is not mandatory for a National Assembly session voting on a no-confidence motion to be held in the specified debating hall of the...
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March 08, 2022
Planned no-confidence resolution: Numerous positive, negative scenarios for contending parties
ISLAMABAD: Different scenarios could materialise in the run-up to the planned no-confidence resolution against Prime Minister Imran Khan. Like the...
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March 03, 2022
Possible no-confidence motion against speaker: Open vote to be held unlike secret ballot against PM Imran Khan
ISLAMABAD: Unlike an open vote in a no-confidence motion against the prime minister, a secret ballot is held on a resolution to de-seat the National...
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February 28, 2022
Invocation of floor-crossing clause: ECP real decider if an MP defects in no-trust resolution vote
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan has a decisive role to play in declaring that an MP has defected from his party even after the...
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February 25, 2022
Planned no-trust motion: Open vote to be held before a time-consuming process
Time is the essence for the movers of the motion, considering the possibility of a reversal in the change of loyalties
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February 23, 2022
No level playing field in LG polls
ISLAMABAD: The assertiveness of the Election Commission of Pakistan in implementing the polls law in letter and spirit has driven the government to...
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February 12, 2022
No ministry headed by junior partners of ruling coalition among top 10
ISLAMABAD: Not a single ministry headed by the representatives of the junior partners of the ruling coalition could make it to the “top ten best...
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February 08, 2022
Preparatory to directory retirement: 19 senior bureaucrats issued show cause notices
ISLAMABAD: At least 19 senior bureaucrats have been issued show cause notices in preparation of their directory retirement under the rules framed by...
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February 04, 2022
Key nominations: Appointment of NAB chairman, ECP members in limbo
ISLAMABAD: Three key appointments have been stalled for a long time due to the lack of any meaningful communication or contact between Prime...
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January 31, 2022
SCBA plea against lifetime ban: Nawaz, Tareen, Musharraf, others to benefit from judgment
ISLAMABAD: Deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, disgruntled Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Jahangir Tareen and former President Pervez Musharraf...
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January 29, 2022
Bill proposes right of appeal in Article 184(3)
ISLAMABAD: A set of constitutional amendments, proposed by an opposition lawmaker, seeks significant changes in Article 184, which has been...
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January 28, 2022
Murree tragedy: Buzdar asks ED to suspend four negligent officials
CM Punjab orders in the light of the recommendations of an inquiry conducted by a committee into the Murree tragedy
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January 25, 2022
‘Omicron, super spreader variant of coronavirus, is less lethal’
ISLAMABAD: The Omicron variant of Covid-19 is less lethal, causes far fewer deaths but is a super spreader compared to previous variants, experts...
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January 24, 2022
Parties struggle amid rising political temperature
ISLAMABAD: The four principal political parties that are likely to have a major share in terms of seats in the next general elections, are...
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January 22, 2022
Rawalpindi Commissioner Gulzar Shah meets his Waterloo
ISLAMABAD: Zulfi Bukhari, the former Special Assistant to the Prime Minister, expressed satisfaction as Gulzar Shah as the Rawalpindi Commissioner...
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January 22, 2022
KP govt brings about massive bureaucratic changes
ISLAMABAD: On the very day the Election Commission of Pakistan issued the schedule for local government polls in the remaining districts of Khyber...
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January 20, 2022
Rs30 bn R3 project: Merger plan of ring road traffic into motorways, federal capital left undecided
ISLAMABAD: A key element of the proposed Rawalpindi Ring Road – the merger of its traffic into the Lahore-Islamabad Motorway and its further...
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January 18, 2022
Who owns the Margalla Hills National Park?
The notification shows that the MHNP is a large whole with 33 compartments of Margalla Reserve Forests as its component along Northwest of Islamabad
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January 14, 2022
ECP scrutiny committee turns to 2017 SC judgment
ISLAMABAD: The scrutiny committee of the Election Commission of Pakistan drew its mandate and scope of work in dissecting the funding and...
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January 10, 2022
Top judicial appointment: Justice Bandial to become CJP after three weeks, to serve for 19 months
Justice Bandial will continue as the chief justice till his retirement on September 18, 2023
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January 09, 2022
Ordinance to lapse in a few days: No forward movement on NAB chairman’s appointment
ISLAMABAD: With no forward movement on the selection of the next National Accountability Bureau chairman, the presidential ordinance that altered...
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January 07, 2022
PTI funding report: Scrutiny body bemoans helplessness for not getting full info
ISLAMABAD: The scrutiny committee of the Election Commission of Pakistan has repeatedly expressed its helplessness and inability to get full...
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January 06, 2022
Opposition victors face challenge of working in harmony with KP govt
ISLAMABAD: In a departure from the practice of the present and previous administrations, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government in Khyber...
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January 03, 2022
Influential duo rules Neeli Bar
Hassan Khawar rejects outside interference in the postings and transfers of bureaucrats in Okara, Sahiwal and Pakpattan districts
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December 29, 2021
PTI’s new structure: A surprise omission, a good addition
ISLAMABAD: There is a big omission and a positive inclusion in the new organizational structure of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf that Prime Minister...
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December 27, 2021
Rawalpindi Ring Road: Federal decision-making forum puts forward two conditions
The project will cost Rs23.606 billion with the condition of acquiring the concurrence of the Planning Commission and inclusion of axle load...
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December 25, 2021
First phase of LG polls in KP: PTI, opposition parties’ gains translated into NA seats would overturn 2018 outcome
ISLAMABAD: Twenty-five out of a total of 29 National Assembly seats which fell in the 17 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where the local council...
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December 23, 2021
Fazl’s performance in KP silences his critics
Regardless of the increase or decrease in his vote-bank in the KP since 2018, JUI-F has delivered satisfactorily in the local elections
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December 13, 2021
ECP members’ appointment: Deadlock in parliamentary panel; once again informal efforts on to break stalemate
The parliamentary committee on ECP appointments has equal representation of the government and the opposition.
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December 12, 2021
Only officers of three federal service groups can be posted to Gilgit-Baltistan
ISLAMABAD: Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Khalid Khurshid has sought the appointment of certain federal officials in GB in violation of the rules...
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December 11, 2021
Rs40 bn alleged irregularities in Covid operations: PAC, not govt, competent to scrutinise, settle, reject audit paras
ISLAMABAD: Only the Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly is empowered to take up and settle-- or refer to a concerned investigating...
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December 09, 2021
Hundreds of thousands of EVMs required unavailable: How can EVMs be used in Punjab local elections to be held in three months?
ISLAMABAD: When electronic voting machines are not currently available in bulk or even in a small quantity for use in general elections, they will...
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December 08, 2021
NA-133 result: PPP optimistic about its revival in Punjab
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party performed well in the by-election for the NA-133 Lahore constituency compared to its showing in the city...
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December 07, 2021
Sweeping amendments to accountability law: Two months left for appointment of next NAB chief under ordinance
ISLAMABAD: Sweeping amendments inserted in the National Accountability Bureau law have either been made operational, are in the process of being...
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December 06, 2021
Lahore NA-133 by-election: PPP desperate for revival in Punjab
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party is treating the contest for the NA-133 Lahore seat as an opportunity to kick-start its efforts to revive...
