ISLAMABAD: Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan on Saturday tendered his resignation, officials said, after a controversial interview with the BBC in which he claimed the country’s former spy chief had conspired to stage a military coup last year.
Politics
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) spokesperson Dr Shireen Mazari Saturday accused the government of continuously hurling baseless accusations on the party over its peaceful dharna, trying to link it to some grand conspiracy involving the military, specifically the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement has adopted a wait-and-see policy after its lawmakers submitted their resignations from three legislatures, the National and Sindh assemblies and Senate.
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and the parliamentary parties’ leaders on Thursday decided against accepting the resignations of MQM lawmakers from the assemblies. The decision came after two meetings in the prime minister’s chamber at the Parliament House.
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement has decided to quit both provincial and National assemblies to protest against the ongoing operation in Karachi, which the party (MQM) said was targeting its workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, TV channels reported.
ISLAMABAD: Justice (retd) Wajihuddin Ahmad is set to address a press conference in Lahore on August 14 along with many other PTI leaders to announce a mass-contact movement and a future strategy to restore the PTI’s image.
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Monday said the Karachi targeted operation, launched with the consensus of all political parties, was not MQM-centric.
QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly on Monday unanimously approved a condemnation resolution against the provocative speeches of the MQM chief Altaf Hussain.
KARACHI: An attempt to read out a resolution against the anti-army statement of former president Asif Ali Zardari by the lawmakers of the opposition Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in the Sindh Assembly on Monday resulted in the abrupt adjournment of the session.
KARACHI: While the Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Monday announced that the party would take up resolutions against PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and PTI chief Imran Khan in the Tuesday assembly session again, the ruling party said the move indicated the MQM had become isolated.
