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PA Fomme on gas outages

Temperatures flared at the Sindh assembly session on Friday as Treasury and Opposition MPAs closed ranks to voice strong objections to ongoing gas shortages in the province. The session was briefly disrupted when question hour was skipped due to the absence of lawmakers who had filed questions, allowing the house to adjourn early. The heated […]

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PTI’s Junaid Akbar elected PAC chairman

ISLAMABAD: After months of wrangling between the ruling coalition led by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) over the issue of chairmanship of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), PTI’s Junaid Akbar was on Friday elected chairman of the parliamentary watchdog unopposed. The position had been vacant since the government came

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The PTI offers the resumption of negotiations but with a reserve

Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf (PTI) has once again changed a tone on the already fragile negotiations with the government, suggesting that he could return to the table one day after announcing a dead end. Last Friday, the former ruling party declared that he could be opened in pursuit of negotiations, but only if the government met

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“The CEC can stay until its successor is named”

Islamabad: The Federal Minister of Law, Azam Nazeer Tarar, said that the current chief electoral commissioner (CEC), Sikander Sultan Raja, could continue to exercise his functions until the appointment of his successor, in accordance with the Constitution. “The new CEC will be appointed in accordance with the Constitution, which also allows a CEC to continue

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