ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Monday passed the State Bank of Pakistan (Amendment) Bill, 2015, to further amend the SBP Act of 1956...
In order to further the role of Islamic banking in Pakistan, it is necessary for the bank to engage in Shariah Compliant Instruments...
ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Thursday passed the 22nd amendment bill, changing the eligibility criteria for the chief election commissioner (CEC) and four members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)...
As many as 71 members voted for the constitution amendment bill after a number of senators, both opposition and treasury members, lashed out at the government for not giving them sufficient time to review the law, which had already...
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain approved on Wednesday the 22nd Constitution Amendment after which bureaucrats, government officers and technocrats have become eligible for appointment as the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and members of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in addition to serving or retired judges of apex courts...
A notification issued by the Presidency said: “On a summary initiated by the Senate Secretariat,...
ISLAMABAD: In a significant move in terms of dispensation of justice, the government on Friday introduced in the National Assembly the 24th constitution amendment bill seeking for the right of appeal in suo motu notices taken by the Supreme Court...
Two other bills and an ordinance were also introduced on the first day of the fresh NA session seeking imposition of cost of litigation to prevent false and vexatious cases, providing for...
ISLAMABAD: Law Minister Barrister Dr Farogh Naseem has said that the proposed Section 46B(8) in the State Bank (Amendment) Bill 2021 is violative of the Constitution...
The legislative power has been conferred by the Constitution on the parliament, and the Constitution does not provide for any consultation with the SBP prior to passing of any legislation, he explained, adding the proposed section introduced a stipulation which was...
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice is set to take up a heavy legislative agenda that includes 11 private member’s Constitution amendment bills in its meeting here on Wednesday (today)...
Through the bills, mostly tabled by the opposition members, the movers have suggested some crucial changes to various provisions of the Constitution related to the promulgation of ordinance, increase in the powers of the...
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"...
LAHORE: Human rights organisations of South Asian countries have welcomed the adoption of a new constitution by Nepal’s Constituent Assembly and expressed their utmost anguish at the unofficial blockade of the country by India...
In a statement issued from the platform of Forum-Asia, these organisations, which held a meeting in Kathmandu on Nov 5, lauded inclusion of all communities and shades of opinion in the constitution-making...
ANKARA: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called for reforms and the creation of a new constitution in the next four years, steps that would move the country closer to the executive presidency he has long sought...
The ruling AK Party founded by Erdogan swept back to single-party rule at a snap election on Nov 1, taking 317 of the 550 seats in parliament, just shy of the 330 seats required to hold a referendum on changing...
LAHORE / QUETTA: Instead of removing Articles 62 and 63 from the Constitution, these should also be applied on judges, generals and bureaucrats, said Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) chief Sirajul Haq on Sunday...
Speaking at a press conference, he said such an equal application of the Constitution for all was necessary to cleanse the system of corruption...
KARACHI: The president of the Pakistan Disabled Cricket Association (PDCA) and former Test captain Rashid Latif have urged the Pakistan Cricket Board to include disabled cricket in its constitution...
KARACHI: A day after Nawaz Sharif rejected the possibility of a technocrats’ government, Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani on Saturday echoed the ousted prime minister’s remarks, saying the Constitution did not allow such a set-up...
The moot pertained to challenges of provincial autonomy after the adoption of the 18th Amendment in the country...
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Monday challenged the Election Reforms Act 2017 in the Supreme Court (SC)...
The application — submitted in the SC under the PTI chairman's name — challenges the Act under Article 184/3 of the Constitution...
TOKYO: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, buoyed by a huge election win for lawmakers who favour revising Japan’s post-war, pacifist constitution, signalled a push towards his long-held goal on Monday but will need to convince a divided public to succeed...
Abe said he wanted to get other parties on board, including Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike’s new conservative Party of Hope, and was not insisting on a target of changing the constitution by...