LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq said on Friday that a lobby in the government was active to abolish articles from the Constitution relating to Khatm-i-Nabuwwat...
He said the masses were now sick of the friendly opposition and the deal between the government and the Pakistan Peoples Party...
The government has decided to amend Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution, Minister for Law and Justice Zahid Hamid said on Tuesday...
According to the bill, the president will have to consult the Election Commission of Pakistan before announcing a date for general elections...
The matter came up during debate on amendments proposed by Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) lawmaker Sheikh Salahuddin who sought an amendment to section 231 of the bill, which reads: “The qualifications and disqualifications for a person to be elected or chosen or to remain a member of the parliament or a provincial assembly shall be such as provided in Articles 62 and 63 [of the Constitution]...
”He wanted to add the words “but the...
It was during the confirmation of her candidacy for a reserved seat in the Punjab Assembly back in April, 2013, that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) nominee Sadia Sohail Rana and her husband received an unsolicited lesson in family ethos and parenting at the hands of provincial election commissioner Mehboob Anwar...
“Do you want me to rec…?”Article 62 and Article 63 of the Pakistan Constitution are once again in the limelight after...
LAHORE: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Wednesday called on former prime minister Nawaz Sharif at his Jati Umra residence but declined to support his endeavour to have Articles 62 and 63 expunged from the Constitution...
While he did not face the media after meeting Mr Sharif, sources say Fazlur Rehman did not give his consent to support the PML-N in removing Articles 62 and 63...
So, this gap must be filled proactively even if Articles 58 and 62 differ in potency...
The writer is a senior fellow with UC Berkeley and heads INSPIRING Pakistan, a progressive policy unit...
PESHAWAR: Awami National Party (ANP) chief Asfandyar Wali Khan says Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Nawaz Sharif has become victim of the articles of the Constitution the ANP wanted to change but the former prime minister vehemently refused...
“Articles 62 and 63 relating to sagacity and righteousness of a parliamentarian as in the 1973 Constitution could not be misused but later Gen Ziaul Haq made them dangerous through changes,”...
The anti-smuggling squad of Sialkot Customs under the supervision of Deputy Collector Asdaq Afzal seized the smuggled articles being supplied to Gujranwala from Afghanistan, Iran, China and India...
MITHI: A compilation of the literary works and published articles by known journalist, social worker, writer and poet of Tharparkar Prem Shivani was launched at a well-attended ceremony held in Malhan Har Veena village near here on Sunday evening...
Later, speaking to local journalists at the residence of late singer Sadiq Fakeer, he said he was seriously considering to return to Pakistan and carry forward his father’s mission... ...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said on Tuesday that Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution should be enforced in letter and spirit, regardless of how many parliamentarians would be affected adversely by it...
At a press conference, the PTI chairman said Articles 62 and 63 should be enforced even if each and every parliamentarian was disqualified as a result...
ISLAMABAD: Members of the country’s three major political parties — the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, Pakistan Peoples Party and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf — on Wednesday accused each other of changing their stance and backtracking from commitments to amend controversial Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution...
Briefing reporters after presiding over an in-camera meeting of the sub-committee of the Parliamentary Committee on Electoral...
Quoting Articles 62 and 63, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's counsel, Makhdoom Ali Khan, said that the requirements for the conviction and disqualification of the premier have not been met...
The counsel was referring to a September 2015 Supreme Court ruling wherein the apex court had suspended a decision made by an election tribunal to de-seat Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate Muhammad Siddique Khan Baloch...
Senior counsel Makhdoom Ali Khan, who is defending the prime minister, also cited a 2015 Supreme Court case in which Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Ishaq Khakwani had sought disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for his alleged misstatement of facts in the National Assembly on Aug 29, 2014...
Against the backdrop of the PTI-led 126-day sit-in in 2014, the prime minister had stated that his administration would never ask the...
Alphabet Inc's Google and subsidiary Jigsaw launched on Thursday a new technology to help news organisations and online platforms identify abusive comments on their websites...
The technology, called Perspective, will review comments and score them based on how similar they are to comments people said were "toxic" or likely to make them leave a conversation
UPPER DIR: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has warned the government against doing away with Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution and said such a bid would be a ‘suicide attack’ against the entire Constitution...
Mr Siraj also came hard on US President Donald Trump for threatening Pakistan and said if the US couldn’t defeat Afghanistan, how it could challenge Pakistan, which had a well-trained army and 200 million people...