by Khaleeq Kiani | Malik Asad in Dawn, December 12th, 2020ISLAMABAD: Though the cabinet reshuffle may take some pressure off the government in light of the Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) recent judgement stating that unelected advisers cannot hold executive responsibilities, the working of important official functionaries remains clouded in uncertainty……. After Dr Shaikh’s elevation as a federal minister, the government is left with four advisers — Abdul Razak Dawood (Commerce), Dr Ishrat Hussain (Institutional Reforms),…
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by Mayed Ali in The News, Dec 12, 2020LAHORE: The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) may decide to extend the final date for submitting legislators’ resignations to the first week of February, The News has learnt. This proposal was floated and pondered upon during a meeting between PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto and PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz here on Friday at the latter’s residence at Jatti Umra. The fresh proposals become a necessity in view of the…
by Rizwan Shehzad in the Express Tribune, Dec 12, 2020In yet another rejig of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday elevated his Adviser Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh as the full-fledged Minister for Finance and brought high-profile political ally Sheikh Rashid Ahmed to the interior ministry’s helm. The prime minister picked Azam Khan Swati, who was serving as the minister of counter-narcotics, to replace Rashid as the railways minister, while Rashid’s…
by Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, December 12th, 2020LAHORE: PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari called on PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz at her Jati Umra residence on Friday and declared that the 11-party Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) would not create such a situation through its protest drive that the ‘third force’ could intervene and take advantage of it. At a joint media talk after the meeting, Ms Nawaz claimed that some ministers had “contacted the PML-N and…
report in the Express Tribune, Dec 12, 2020LAHORE: Some sitting ministers are contacting the opposition parties for holding a dialogue with the government, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz claimed during a media talk along with Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Friday. Bilawal, who reached the city the other day ahead of the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) anti-government rally on Sunday, visited Maryam to condole the death of her…
by Iqtidar Gilani in The Nation, Dec 12, 2020LAHORE – Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that role of establishment in forming governments should have come to an end. Talking to media alongwith PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz after meeting the latter at Jati Umra on Friday, he said both the government and its facilitators will have to honor verdict of the masses. Ruling out possibility of any compromise with the present…
report in Dawn, Dec 12, 2020ISLAMABAD: Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Ali Amin Gandapur while levelling serious charges against Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) chief told a presser on Friday that Maulana Fazlur Rehman had contacts in British intelligence agency MI6 and was allegedly involved in anti-state activities besides corruption. Addressing the press conference, which revolved around the convener of the opposition’s Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), Mr Gandapur along with federal Minister for Information Senator Shibli…
by Amir Wasim in Dawn, December 12th, 2020ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has never held any in-house consultations on the issue of handling the opposition’s anti-government protests and the matter is being dealt directly by Prime Minister Imran Khan and some of his close associates, background interviews with some senior PTI leaders, including cabinet members, revealed on Friday. According to some ministers, the issue also never came under proper discussion during meetings of the…
report in Dawn, Dec 12, 2020ISLAMABAD: Amid rumours that PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s chief spokesman Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar has quit the party in protest against some decisions taken from the platform of the Pakistan Democratic Movement, informed sources confirmed to Dawn on Friday that Mr Khokhar was “unhappy” and “uncomfortable” with the party leadership for quite some days. According to a PPP leader, Mr Khokhar has not tendered his resignation and is attending party…
Report in the Nation, Dec 11, 2020ISLAMABAD – The threat of en-bloc resignations by parliamentary opposition parties is not anything new in parliamentary history of Pakistan. The only significant difference of current political move by opposition factions is the ‘timing of tendering resignations’ from the parliament. The previous government, in its government era, had faced en-masse resignation issues almost near the completion of their tenure. Taking advantage of the timing of threats, the ruling clique…
report in The News, Dec 11, 2020Karachi: Sindh Women Development Minister Syeda Shehla Raza has lamented that only a small number of women is working with the police force. At least 10 per cent of police should comprise of women as per the constitution, she said Thursday, while addressing a programme to promote the ‘1094 helpline service’ of the Sindh government to report the cases of gender-based violence. The provincial minister said women should be…