MIANWALI: PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Monday alleged that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif “comes into government only to do business”.
Politics
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Fata chapter has threatened to stage protest sit-in outside the Parliament if the government didn’t dismiss the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor by November 30.
LAHORE: Former army chief Gen Mirza Aslam Beg says the army and the political government have a clash of interests because of which the democracy is at the “tipping point”.
ISLAMABAD: Reacting to the statement of the ISPR on the government’s bad governance, the Senate on Thursday advised that no state institution had the right to act like a supervisor of the government and insisted that all state institutions should operate within their constitutional limits.
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Thursday nominated his Joint Secretary Kazim Niaz as the focal person of the recently formed committee on reforms in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), it is reliably learnt.
ISLAMABAD: Severely criticising a recent ISPR statement on poor implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) by the civilian set-up, several political parties — mainly the PPP — assured the PML-N government of their complete support in any eventuality.
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has once again lashed out at the government, saying that ‘better governance’ is demand of all Pakistanis and not just Pak Army.
KARACHI: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah said on Thursday if the system was allowed to work, governance would automatically get better. He said the time for martial laws and dictators were over in Pakistan.
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday re-issued contempt of court notice to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, directing him to submit a reply and explain his position for issuing statements about the cases pending before the court.
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah has remarked that Tuesday’s corps commanders conference had sought “better governance” and the government should understand this “important hint”.
ISLAMABAD: Former President Asif Ali Zardari could end his brief stint of self-imposed exile before the Pakistan People’s Party’s foundation day later this month, political sources said yesterday.
KASUR: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday asked the people to hold those accountable who had impeded the country’s development by resorting to sit-in politics.
ISLAMABAD: Sardar Ayaz Sadiq begins his second innings as Speaker National Assembly after being re-elected by a clear margin of 268 against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) nominee Shafqat Mahmood who got 31 votes. The result was expected but one wonders if the decision of PTI to contest in a political isolation, where even its allies are not on its side, was political or undemocratic.
PESHAWAR: Turmoil deepens within Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) as senior party members express feelings of distrust after MPAs and MNAs were expelled or reprimanded for misconduct and corruption.
PESHAWAR: The annoyed workers of Pakistan Peoples Party have rejected the idea to hold intra-party elections only in five districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and suggested that the process should be initiated at one time across the province.
