Tag: resignation
Babar Awan’s resignation set a precedent for others to follow
News Analysis | Adviser to the Prime Minister Imran Khan on parliamentary affairs Babar Awan resigned from his post on Tuesday, hours after the National...
Incumbent and potential lawmakers continue to ditch PML-N for PTI
News Analysis | The Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) is a party on the decline as more and more potential winners and exiting legislators are...
South Punjab lawmakers play gimmicks, refuse to verify resignations
News Analysis | The gimmickry in Pakistani style of politics has been its trademark, be at the local or state level, however, tactics such as...
Nehal Hashmi released from jail, declares NAB the most corrupt institute
News Desk | Former Senator Nehal Hashmi has been released from Adiala jail on Wednesday after completion of his one-month sentence awarded to him by...
Faizabad sit-in report submitted to IHC; contents remain a mystery
News Desk | The government has finally submitted the Raja Zafarul Haq report regarding the Khatam-e-Nabuwat clause in the Elections Act 2017 to the Islamabad...
Ishaq Dar among PML-N nominees for Senate elections
News Analysis | Former Finance Minister Ishaq Dar is among the shortlisted candidates of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) for the upcoming Senate elections as claimed...
Senator Nehal Hashmi punished for contempt of court by SC
News Analysis | The Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan on Thursday sentenced Senator Nehal Hashmi to one month in prison, fined him 50,000 rupees and...
Tehreek-e-Labaik starts ‘jail bharo’ movement for acceptance of demands
News Analysis | Chief of Tehreek-e-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLYRA) Ashraf Asif Jalali has announced on Monday his party will start a ‘jail bharo’ (fill...
Imran and Zardari to join PAT protest against Model Town massacre
News Analysis | Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) will join Pakistan Awami Tehreek’s (PAT) protest on 17th January. The leadership of both...
Quetta blast: were parliamentarians the target?
News Analysis | The police and intelligence agencies are still trying to assess the target of yesterday’s Quetta attack. They are of the opinion that...
Pakistani politics risks heightening regional tensions?
James M Dorsey | Self-serving Pakistani politics threaten to aggravate the country’s myriad problems that have strained its relations with the United States and could...
Why did Punjab Government force VC Punjab University to resign?
News Analysis | Punjab University Vice Chancellor (VC) Dr. Zafar Mueen Nasar resigned on Friday, apparently over a seminary land issue. He submitted his resignation...
Members of provincial assembly lose faith in Baluchistan Chief Minister
News Analysis | The political atmosphere in Baluchistan has been very peaceful for the past whole year but it was the calm before the storm....
Qadri-led multi-party conference demands Shehbaz and Sana resignations
News Analysis | A multi-party conference organized by the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) on Sunday demanded the resignations of the Chief Minister of Punjab Shehbaz...
Pakistani political parties join hands to increase pressure on Sharif family
News Analysis | Following the release of the Baqir Najfi report, political parties have joined hands to formulate a plan of action against the incumbent...
Pressure on Rana Sanaullah mounts as 15 lawmakers threaten to resign
News Analysis | Pir Hameedudin Sialvi, the custodian of Dargah Sial Shareef, has announced his dissociation with the ruling Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N). While addressing...
Imran demands Shehbaz and Rana Sanaullah resignation
News Desk | Imran Khan, Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) demanded that Punjab’s Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Law Minister Rana Sanaullah must resign immediately after...
Lahore High Court orders to make Model Town inquiry report public...
News Desk | On Tuesday, a three-member bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) ordered the release of the Model Town inquiry report within the...
Jalali announces resignation and concludes the Lahore sit-in after 7-days
News Analysis | On Friday, the Punjab government reached an agreement with the faction of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLP) which concluded the 7-day sit-in on the...
PML-N’s sheer incompetence
Shiffa Yousafzai | There are 206 bones in the human body. And all the bones in the body of PML-N have been fractured, leaving it...
Zahid Hamid finally resigns after pressure from protestors
News Analysis | PTV early this morning announced that the Law Minister Zahid Hamid has sent his resignation to the PM Shahid Khaqqan to take...
Protestors finally Leave Islamabad under an agreement
News Desk | The Tehreek-i-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLY), Pakistani hardline Islamist group whose supporters clashed with police over the weekend is to call off...
Islamabad Paralysis Syndrome(IPS): Thanks to fanatics & Incompetence
Shiffa Z. Yousafzai | The residents of Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan were already worried and disturbed about the possibility of dealing with the...
Ishaq Dar refuses to resign despite pressure from PM, cabinet
GVS Analysis | Geo News, along with multiple prominent TV anchors, has reported that Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has still not resigned. Instead, Prime Minister...
Will Lebanon pay the price of Saudi Intervention?
James M Dorsey | The proof will be in the pudding when Prime Minister Saad Hariri returns home in the coming days to a country...
Faizabad Dharna: A view of both sides
News Analysis | Several strong supporters of the newly launched religiopolitical party Tehreek-e-Labbaik-Ya-Rasulallah (TLYR), many armed with sticks and iron rods, have blocked the main...
Twitter roasts Farooq Sattar
Farooq Sattar's Thursday evening press conference has caused quite a stir. The melodramatic show which was reminiscent of Altaf Hussain's antics, albeit not as...
Lebanon asks western powers to help with PM Hariri’s release from...
Reuters | Lebanon believes Saad al-Hariri, who resigned as prime minister on Saturday while in Saudi Arabia, is being held by Riyadh, and Beirut plans to work...
Why British minister Priti Patel had to resign?
News Analysis | The UK's international development secretary, Priti Patel, has resigned after it was revealed she held secret meetings with Israeli officials during what...
Will Saudi Princes accept MBS crackdown on corrupt officials?
M K Bhadrakumar | Within hours of a decree by the Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz on Sunday announcing the constitution of a new committee...
The Middle East: It will only get worse
James M. Dorsey | As Saudi Arabia reels from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s frontal assault on the kingdom’s elite, indications are that the Saudi-Iranian proxy...
Dar faces NAB for the 7th time; will he resign now?
News Analysis | Finance Minister, Ishaq Dar is undergoing a trial in an accountability court after appearing for the seventh hearing of the graft reference...
Panama papers: A long road to Indictment..?
News Desk | Pakistan's National Accountability Court (NAB) finally indicted former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Captain Safdar over corruption...
“Darism”: Pakistan’s new moral code?
Muhammad Azam | Ishaq Dar, Pakistan's Finance Minister, indicted by a court for corruption, finds himself increasingly alienated on national and international stage. He can...
Ishaq Dar: Difficult times ahead..?
News Analysis | On Wednesday, The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) moved to freeze all moveable and immovable properties of federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in...
PML-N’s House on Fire
Khawaja Dawood Tariq | Accountability court Islamabad on Tuesday issued bailable arrest warrants for Finance Minister, Ishaq Dar. A day earlier on Monday court had...
