The National Assembly was informed on Thursday that the government has imposed ban on the issuance of new arms licenses in a bid to improve overall law and order situation in the country. Minister for Interior Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan informed the House during question hour that over seventy thousand arms licenses were issued by […]
Federal Minister for Interior and Narcotics Control, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said Saturday that the government wants to revamp FIA by removing all controversial officials and bringing in those with integrity and clean track record. He offered the remarks while presiding over separate meetings to review the performance and functions of FIA and NADRA […]
Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan says his party believes in democracy and will play the role of a strong opposition in the National Assembly. In a video message in Lahore on Wednesday‚ he said despite political differences with PML [N]‚ we will jointly move forward to resolve the major issues being faced by the […]
The Election Commission of Pakistan has expressed its inability to provide vote casting right to the overseas Pakistanis. The Election Commission of Pakistan submitted its report in this regard in the Supreme Court on Monday. The Commission opposed hurried evolution of a mechanism to enable overseas Pakistanis to exercise their right to vote. […]
The Election Commission of Pakistan Wednesday decided to make information public regarding assets‚ tax returns and loans of the candidate in general elections. The Commission also decided to make public other information which will help scrutinizing of nomination papers in a transparent way. Senior officials of Federal Board of Revenue and State Bank […]
Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan, Mr. Justice (R) Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim, on Thursday rejected calls from some parties for the dissolution of the Commission and termed their allegations as unfortunate. “Some political parties have recently expressed reservations against the Members and CEC of the ECP and demanded its dissolution. This criticism is most unfortunate […]
Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that he would reveal the names of the murderers of Benazir Bhutto and other little-known details of her assassination in his upcoming book. Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) chairperson and former two-time premier Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a gun and bomb attack outside Rawalpindi’s Liaqat Bagh in […]
Dec 4 2012 | Posted in
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In quite a shocking revelation, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has revealed that there were around 4.8 million voters included in the electoral lists without any physical verification. According to the reports, 3.2 million unverified voters are in Punjab, 0.662 million in Sindh, 0.583 million in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 0.167 million in the Federally Administered […]
Nov 17 2012 | Posted in
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Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Thursday announced that a committee has been formed to review the ban on video sharing website YouTube. The minister said that the committee will first ask for software to help monitor controversial content being uploaded on the website. Earlier on Tuesday, Malik had tweeted saying that he will […]
The system of the change of the prices of petroleum products has come under severe criticism of late and all the voices raised talk that the system the adjustment of fuel prices on a weekly basis suffers from a severe anomaly in. In the first instance, the National Assembly Standing Committee on Petroleum expressed its […]
Oct 29 2012 | Posted in
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Several things are taking place in the process of next parliamentary elections for the first time. The voter’s age has been lowered to18 years for the first and this is also the first time that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has prepared electoral rolls in coordination with the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) […]
Oct 29 2012 | Posted in
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A two-member team of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has failed to record statements of Ali Asad, the central character in the fake passport scam. The team returned from London with empty hands, saying it was unable to record statement of the key accused in the case. According to the media reports, the team submitted […]
Aug 30 2012 | Posted in
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