ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif yesterday asked his ministers to go soft on the Pakistan People’s Party and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement. “The PM does not want tension. He has asked his team to show patience and do not respond to the hostile statements as this could damage the reconciliation bids,” a senior minister told The Nation after a cabinet meeting here.
Politics
ISLAMABAD: Veteran politician and spouse of late Khan Abdul Wali Khan on Monday approached the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) seeking registration of her new party and demanding that the election symbol currently used by Awami National Party (ANP) should be given to her party back.
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) provincial organiser Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar on Monday called for of a commission, consisting of Supreme Court judges, to probe allegations of corruption in development projects in the province.
ISLAMABAD: Former president and PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday said the first and foremost demand of establishing true democracy is that all the state institutions respect the limits imposed on them by the Constitution.
ISLAMABAD: A flat refusal by Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) to support the efforts of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) for requisition of the National Assembly session has really saved the day for the incumbent government otherwise it would be compelled to hold election for the slot of Speaker National Assembly before re-election in NA-122, the sources told ‘The News’ here on Sunday.
LAHORE: PML-Q President Ch Shujaat Hussain has said that he wants greater alliance of all opposition parties and leaders which should contest election together, in the establishment of one Muslim League name and personalities can also become obstruction, only our party registered with real name of Pakistan Muslim League and it has representation in all provinces as well as in the Senate and the National Assembly, our experienced political leaders are present in every party who will return to their party with the same speed.
KARACHI: In a bid to loosen the Pakistan People’s Party’s firm grip on Sindh in the upcoming local government elections, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan visited the northern districts of the province where the first phase of the polls is scheduled, but political analysts describe his trip as unsuccessful, saying that the “Kaptaan” was unable to achieve the desired results.
HYDERABAD: The Tameer-e-Hyderabad Ittehad, a 10-party alliance to contest the upcoming local government polls, has demanded deployment of army at the polling stations to prevent rigging in the elections.
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is in a quandary over a proposal whether to file a reference against four provincial members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) before the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) or take up the issue in the Parliamentary Committee of Electoral Reforms for the removal of the provincial members of the ECP through constitutional amendment.
KARACHI: A top-level important meeting of the Pakistan People’s Party ruling in Sindh is likely to be convened on 14 and 15th September in Dubai, the UAE.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif may find it difficult to address the grievances of the two major political parties, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), regarding “Karachi Targeted Action,” when he will preside the high powered meeting of the “apex committee” on National Action Plan today.
ISLAMABAD: PTI’s central leader Dr Arif Alvi has said when he met former ECP chairman Fakhruddin G Ibrahim before the 2013 general elections, he pointed out objectionable conduct of the ECP members and showed his inability to force them to follow the set rules and procedures to hold free and fair elections in the country.
LAHORE: PAT Secretary General Khurram Nawaz Gandapur has alleged that Punjab Election Commission members are playing the role of facilitators for the ruling party PML-N in the province.
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has expressed unhappiness over former president and PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari’s recent statement in which he accused the federal government of targeting leaders of his party in the name of anti-corruption campaign.
DUBAI: PPP leader Qamar Zaman Kaira on Tuesday said his party will neither tender resignations from the assemblies nor will it let the democratic system destablise.
