THE future of the newly installed PML-N government in Punjab looks more precarious after the impending notification of five PTI members on reserved seats for women and minorities. The outcome of the coming by-elections on 20 provincial assembly seats could well seal the administration’s fate that is hanging by a …
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THE dissenting opinion by three judges in last week’s landmark US Supreme Court decision on abortion spelt it out rather succinctly: “After today, young women will come of age with fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers had.” This is neither the first time the court has stripped US citizens of their …
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SAGGING under the weight of internal weaknesses, the political system once again seems to be wobbling towards disequilibrium. Monday’s proceedings in the National Assembly saw the government’s key coalition partners reacting angrily to being ‘ignored’ by the ruling PML-N. They accused the party of going back on promises that were made to …
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LAHORE: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) has launched an income beyond means investigation against the director (special branch) of the south Punjab police. An ACE official told Dawn on Monday that an investigation had been launched against Ameer Taimoor (director of the special branch in south Punjab), who is former chief minister Usman …
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ISLAMABAD: Justice Qazi Faez Isa, a sitting judge of the Supreme Court who is currently on vacations, on Monday took exception to the upcoming Judicial Commission of Pakistan’s meetings being called to elevate seven judges to the Sindh High Court and confirm 13 additional judges of the Lahore High Court. …
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AN individual occupying a position of power which carries with it considerable social responsibility could not be expected to make such bizarre, irresponsible statements. In a recent TV interview, the human rights minister, PML-N’s Riaz Pirzada, made the claim that some missing persons had been “engaged” by hostile foreign elements, including …
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Pakistan has received combined economic and financial targets for the seventh and eighth reviews of its International Monetary Fund bailout programme, finance minister Miftah Ismail said on Tuesday. “Early this morning, the Government of Pakistan has received an MEFP from the IMF for combined 7th and 8th reviews,” Ismail tweeted. …
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GENERAL elections may be 16 months away if the existing legislatures complete their full five-year term but election season seems to have already hit the country. This is partly so because local government polls, after years of postponement on numerous pretexts, are taking place on court orders and because of …
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LAHORE: Accusing the PML-N of using state machinery to win upcoming by-polls and alleging that the Lahore DIG operations and deputy commissioner are the ruling party’s collaborators, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) central Punjab President Yasmin Rashid on Friday sought the officers suspension from service. In a letter to the Chief Election …
Read More »FOR the last many decades, we learn, Pakistan has continued to face the same issues —current account deficit, barely sufficient foreign reserves, falling value of the currency, and so forth. Persons in the finance/banking and economics sectors are sought, preferably with long experience at the IMF or World Bank, to …
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