Slow internet speed triggers heated debate in NA body meeting
- 04-Feb-2025
ISLAMABAD: Issue of slow internet speed in Pakistan echoed in the standing committee meeting of National Assembly on Tuesday, ARY News reported. As per details, the slow internet speed in Pakistan continues to irk people belonging to various segemnets of the society. Committee member Ahmed Atique expressing his resenmnet over the internet connectivity issues said […]
Indian opposition leader vows lawmakers will not be silenced
- 26-Jun-2024
NEW DELHI: India’s new leader of the opposition Rahul Gandhi said Wednesday that his lawmakers would not be silenced, in his first speech since formally taking up a post vacant for a decade. Gandhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chief rival, was appointed by fellow opposition lawmakers to the post in a signal of a reinvigorated […]
Lawmakers urge govt to provide relief to salaried class, agriculture, IT sectors
- 21-Jun-2024
Lawmakers in the National Assembly on Friday urged the government to focus on people-oriented policies and provide relief to the salaried class, agriculture and Information Technology sectors in budget 2024. Muttahida Qaumi Movement (Pakistan) leader Muhammad Farooq Sattar, while participating in the budget debate, termed the budget for 2024-25 as traditional, reflecting a continuity of […]
ECP suspends lawmakers elected on reserved seats
- 13-May-2024
ISLAMABAD: After the Supreme Court verdict on reserved seats, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday suspended the lawmakers elected on seats denied to the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC). According to the notification issued here, 44 members of ruling PML-N have been suspended while 15 lawmakers from PPP, 13 from Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) […]
Disqualification law passed by Parliament challenged in LHC
- 11-Jan-2024
LAHORE: Law determining the disqualification of lawmakers for five years, has been challenged in the Lahore High Court (LHC). Plaintiff Mian Shabbir filed plea in the LHC through his lawyer Azhar Siddique. The Chairman of the Senate, the speaker National Assembly, the Election Commission of Pakistan and others have been made respondents in the case. […]
Acting President signs bill limiting lawmakers’ disqualification period
- 26-Jun-2023
ISLAMABAD: Acting President Sadiq Sanjrani, who has assumed the role as President Arif Alvi went on Haj, approved the Elections Act (Amendment) Bill, 2023 aimed at reducing the period of disqualification of lawmakers to five years, ARY News reported on Monday. The acting president gives assent to bill “as advised by Prime Minister (PM) […]
ECP suspends membership of 271 lawmakers
- 16-Jan-2023
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has suspended the membership of as many as 271 lawmakers over their failure to submit details of their assets and liabilities, ARY News reported on Monday. According to details, the electoral watchdog suspended the membership of 271 lawmakers after they failed to submit the statement of their assets […]
More U.S. lawmakers set to visit Taiwan, defying angry Beijing
- 25-Aug-2022
Another group of U.S. lawmakers will arrive in Taiwan on Thursday evening, Taiwan’s official Central News Agency reported the third such visit this month and defying pressure from Beijing for these trips not to take place. China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory against the strong objections of the democratically-elected government in Taipei, launched […]
Punjab Assembly: New lawmakers likely to take oaths today
- 07-Jul-2022
LAHORE: The new lawmakers of the Punjab Assembly are likely to take oaths today who had been notified by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) yesterday, citing sources, ARY News reported. Speaker Punjab Assembly Perviaz Elahi summoned the 41st session of the House today. The speaker exercised his powers to summon the PA session at […]
ECP notifies PTI lawmakers on five reserved PA seats
- 06-Jul-2022
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) notified the lawmakers on five reserved seats of the Punjab Assembly on Wednesday, ARY News reported. The seats for women and minority lawmakers in the Punjab Assembly had fallen vacant after the dissident legislators of the PA were denotified by the election commission. The ECP issued notifications for the […]