Posts tagged as: Syed Khurshid Shah

Opposition proposes reduction in government tenure from 5 to 4 years

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Opposition leader in Pakistan National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah has suggested the solution for the current crisis in Pakistan is to reduce the the period of government tenure to 4 years instead of existing 5 years while talking to media outside Parliament House in Islamabad this Tuesday July 8, 2014. Shah also said that Constitution […]

ECP to review by-polls arrangements on Monday

The Election Commission meets in Islamabad on Monday to review arrangements for by-elections to be held on August 22.  Acting Chief Election Commissioner Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani will preside. The main agenda of the meeting is to discuss security‚ deployment of army in and outside the polling stations and the situation created by rains and […]

Almost 70% Pakistani parliamentarians don’t file tax returns

Highlighting deep flaws in a taxation system that has drawn repeated criticism from Western aid donors, a report claimed that almost 70 percent of Pakistani parliamentarians didn’t file income taxes last year.   The Center for Investigative Reporting in Pakistan (CIRP) in collaboration with Umar Cheema, an Investigative reporter of The News, released the report […]

PML-N refuses to add more names for Chief Election Commissioner

Rejecting the request of the government to give more names, Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said that he would stick to the names he had already proposed to a parliamentary committee for appointment of new chief election commissioner (CEC). Terming the government’s proposal to add more names to broaden the […]

Joint session on US engagement on 17th March: Khurshid Shah

Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Syed Khurshid Shah on Wednesday said that the joint session of Parliament would be convened on March 17 to discuss new terms of engagement with the U.S. and NATO in the light of recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS). The minster while speaking in the meeting of […]

Government tables 20th amendment in parliament

In order to give legal cover to the elections of 28 legislators of the national and provincial assemblies who were elected in by-polls held after passage of 18th Amendment of the Constitution, the government tabled the 20th Constitutional Amendment bill in the National Assembly, the lower house of the parliament. Syed Khurshid Shah, the Minister […]

Supreme Court seeks Presidnet’s reply on memogate scandle

Supreme Court seeks Presidnet’s reply on memogate scandle The Supreme Court Monday resumed the hearing of controversial memogate, which ignited waves in Pakistan’s politics, seeking reply of President Asif Ali Zardari within three days. A nine-member bench of the Supreme Court, which met under the chair of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, sought the replies […]

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