They have survived both the partition of the sub-continent after British rule ended in 1947 and Bangladesh's 1971 independence from Pakistan...
Around 50,000 people are thought to live in the landlocked islands and lack many basic services because they are cut off from their national governments...
MADRID: Bayern Munich destroyed Atletico Madrid’s dreams of winning the European Cup in 1974 and are out to wreck their hopes of reaching a second Champions League final in three years when they visit the Vicente Calderon Stadium for the semi-final first leg on Wednesday...
KARACHI: Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman said on Saturday that the enemies of Pakistan were hatching conspiracies against it but they would fail in their nefarious designs...
He was speaking at a ceremony held at the PAF Museum to pay tribute to retired Air Commodore Sattar Alvi, a celebrated fighter pilot of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) and veteran of the 1973 Arab-Israel war...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday asked Bangladesh to use the Tripartite Agreement of 1974 to address outstanding issues in the bilateral relationship...
Pakistani High Commissioner in Dhaka Imran Ahmed Siddiqui during a meeting with Bangladesh State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam handed over to the latter a copy of the Tripartite Agreement of 1974, according to a statement issued by the Pakistani mission in...
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly of Pakistan has got observer status in the Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA), says an official handout issued by the NA Secretariat here on Tuesday...
The approval to grant the observer status to Pakistan’s National Assembly was granted during the 42nd AIPA General Assembly meeting held in Brunei Darrusalam...
MUZAFFARABAD: The PML-N dominated joint sitting of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly and the AJK Council on Friday approved amendments to the AJK Constitution abolishing the council’s administrative and financial powers and reducing it to an advisory body...
The process had started on Monday, when the 13th constitutional amendment bill was tabled by the government in the Legislative Assembly amid objections by the...
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Speaker Asad Qaisar has stripped the assembly secretary of his administrative and financial powers in a spat over recruitments and other issues...
”In line with the notification, the secretary will look after matters related to legislation and meetings of the public accounts committee although the secretary has been declared the principal accounting officer of the assembly’s secretariat...
Ghani, from the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), polled 81 votes against 27 votes of Laiq Mohammad of the Awami National Party...
Newly elected members of the KP Assembly are now voting to elect the deputy speaker; the session is being presided over by new speaker Ghani...
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), which has already lessened the significance of its general body institution by drastically reducing its size, could not even form it under the new constitution introduced in August last year, thus also failing to hold its compulsory annual meeting...
After the PCB incorporated an amended constitution, with effect from Aug 19, 2019, it binds the Board to hold a general body meeting once in a...
Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, while referring to the proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), reiterated on Monday that the government will only talk to those who respect the Constitution and the law of Pakistan, saying "otherwise, we have battled before and will do again"...
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly is finally set to pass a crucial constitutional amendment bill on Thursday (today) seeking fresh delimitation of constituencies ahead of the upcoming general elections on the basis of provisional results of the population census...
Talking to reporters after presiding over a meeting of parliamentary leaders, National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq claimed that they had arrived at a consensus regarding...
The National Assembly on Thursday passed the crucial Constitutional Amendment Bill 2017, which seeks fresh delimitation of electoral constituencies ahead of the upcoming general elections on the basis of the provisional results of the 2017 population census...
Under the terms of the amendment, while the number of NA seats will remain the same, Punjab will lose out on seats as its share in Pakistan's population has fallen to 52pc in...
The government on Monday bulldozed the amended Election Bill 2017 through the National Assembly despite strong protests from opposition lawmakers...
The requirement that a party's chief be eligible to hold public office has been done away withNo MNA can be disqualified for more than 5 yearsPresident will be bound to consult the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) before announcing a date for general electionsECP will have the...
Parliamentary leaders on Tuesday proposed reducing the number of seats held by Punjab in the National Assembly by nine...
During Tuesday's meeting, which was chaired by NA Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, parliamentary leaders proposed a redistribution of seats among provinces without increasing or decreasing the total number of seats in the assembly...
ISLAMABAD: Members of seven National Assembly Standing Committees elected on Thursday new chairpersons of the committees...
Posts of the chairpersons of five standing committees fell vacant after their chairpersons were inducted into the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi whereas other offices fell vacant due to a change in the composition of the committees made by National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq...