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ISLAMABAD: A Petition has been filed with Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) seeking restoration of Nawaz Sharif government which was dissolved on October, 12, 1999. The petitioner had taken the plea in his application that following the declaration of all the steps taken by former president Gen (Retd) Pervez Musharraf as unconstitutional and illegal by [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Sharif brothers have finally appointed the officer they wanted to be as their Chief of the Army Staff in 1999, Gen Ziauddin Butt as the Chairman of the Punjab Chief Minister’s Inspection Team. A senior official of the Punjab government confirmed the appointment to The Statesmen and said that the hassle-free job suits [...]
ABBOTTABAD: Seven people were killed and over 100 sustained injuries on Monday when police used force to break up a protest here against the renaming of NWFP as Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The peaceful headquarters of Hazara division turned into a battlefield when the police used batons and fired teargas shells to disperse protesters who fought back with [...]
ISLAMABAD: The wave of violence that has emerged within the Hazara division on the renaming of the NWFP as Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, echoed on the floor of the Senate on Friday. ANP assured the house that no discrimination would occur on the basis of race or language in the province. Senator Afrasiyab Khattak of ANP told the [...]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s national assembly on Thursday unanimously approved reforms stripping President Asif Ali Zardari of key powers in a move to bolster parliamentary
ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday submitted to parliament a package of landmark constitutional reforms, which strip President Asif Ali Zardari of key powers in a move to bolster parliamentary democracy. The 18th amendment, which reverses constitutional changes adopted by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, is easily expected to secure the two-thirds majority from parliament required [...]
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary committee agreed on a constitutional amendment Wednesday that strips the president of powers inherited from the military rulers
ISLAMABAD: Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms has reached consensus on renaming NWFP as Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa. The committee held a crucial
ISLAMABAD: A High level meeting jointly presided over by Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and President Asif Ali Zardari had decided that the PPP government would go ahead with the tabling of the constitution reforms package before the parliament despite hurdles. The meeting deliberated upon current political situation in the country in the backdrop [...]
LAHORE: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif asserted his earlier stance about judges’ appointment and said individual should not appoint judges and Chief Justice of Pakistan must head the Judicial Commission. He was addressing the media here in Lahore. He rejected the impression of taking a U-turn in judges’ appointment. Earlier dismissing talk of a political crisis [...]
ISLAMABAD: The parliamentary committee on constitutional reforms rejected on Friday a proposal by Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif for Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to discuss with the chief justice of Pakistan proposed amendment to the Constitution pertaining to appointment of superior court judges. The 26-member panel recognised the renaming of the NWFP [...]
ISLAMABAD: The government and the opposition appear to be at loggerheads over the Pakistan-US strategic dialogue as PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday his party had not been consulted about talks. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani announced that he would take the nation into confidence after conclusion of the dialogue. Talking to reporters here, [...]
ISLAMABAD: Moments before the scheduled signing of the amendment bill by the all-party Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms, the Pakistan Muslim League-N on Thursday backtracked from its stance on the issue of judges’ appointment and renaming of the NWFP, stalling the much-awaited reforms package for an indefinite period. At a time when the nation was eagerly [...]
LAHORE: Yet another controversy hit the provincial government on Saturday when the official website of Punjab Police carried a statement of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif praising former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf for his police reforms. “The government has wholeheartedly embraced President Musharraf’s vision to revamp the police and make it responsive to the needs [...]
ISLAMABAD: The continuing tussle between Awami National Party and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz over renaming the NWFP threatens to scuttle the almost agreed constitutional
ISLAMABAD: The Constitutional Amendment Package, being finalised in collaboration with 27 political parties, would be tabled in the National Assembly during March. The National Assembly stretched its calendar on Thursday to begin what is billed to be a historic spring session in which the government said it intended to bring promised constitutional amendments to restore [...]
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-N won the by-polls for NA-123 in Lahore and PP-82 in Jhang, while PML-Z secured PP-284 in Bahawalnagar after polling for the three seats was completed in a peaceful manner on Wednesday. Although PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif had replaced himself with Pervaiz Malik for the NA seat in Lahore, the electoral [...]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has pledged to restore the 1973 Constitution to its original form and said his government
It was called the ‘New Left.’ Emerging in Britain in the 1950s, the New Left was the left’s disparaging response to the authoritarian tendencies of Marxism mainly symbolised by so-called ‘Stalinism’. The New Left revisited Marxist doctrines and attempted to bring them more in line with concepts like liberal democracy. The New Left criticised both [...]
ISLAMABAD: A speakers’ moot of the National Assembly, provincial assemblies (PAs), Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan councils, starting from March 1, may take some crucial decisions, including seeking exemption of criminal proceedings against the Senate chairman, deputy chairman, the NA speaker, PAs speaker and their deputies. A source at the National Assembly Secretariat told ‘The Statesmen’ [...]
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