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PARLIAMENT in Pakistan posted some noticeable improvements during 2015 including greater transparency in members’ attendance records. National Assembly committees also undertook a detailed preview of the federal budget for the first time in the country’s history. Despite these and other improvements, one major weakness continued to overshadow the performance of both houses of parliament; for that matter even of the ...

LAHORE: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has said that the number of those Punjabi who had left Pakistan for Syria and Iraq to join Daesh is not more than 100. Talking to media persons here, he said this does not mean the militants group exists in Pakistan, adding, Daesh will not be allowed to establish roots in Pakistan. The provincial ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari on Monday said selective accountability, sacred cow syndrome, double standards and using corruption for political re-engineering are the worst forms of corruption which must be resisted. In a statement issued on the eve of the 88th birth anniversary of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the PPP Co-chairman vowed not to allow any individual ...

PESHAWAR: The Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA), led by Gulbadin Hekmatyar, has renewed its call for a negotiated settlement of the conflict in Afghanistan. A senior leader of the party, the second largest resistance group behind the Taliban, wants the Afghan government to hold parleys with all militant outfits. In an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, Dr Ghairat Baheer suggested the ...

KABUL: Some analysts believe severed relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran could be a challenge for Afghanistan as both the regional rivals would try to weaken each other’s influence in Afghanistan. Ideological differences between Saudi and Iran are historic, but relations between them disrupted on Sunday when Saudi Arabia announced it had cut ties with Iran and fellow-Sunni Bahrain followed ...

BANNU: A special unit of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police claimed to have foiled a terror plan in an intelligence-based operation in Bannu on Monday. At least six suspected militants were arrested in the raid, security sources said. Based on prior intelligence, special police unit Bannu raided an under-construction house in Pir Dil Khel Sorani area of Bannu where the armed militants ...

LAHORE: Officials arrested 42 suspected militants with alleged links to the militant Islamic State (IS) group. “The arrests were the result of raids in four Punjab cities over the weekend,” said Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah. The minister said those arrested had been tasked with setting up sleeper cells for IS, and that those arrested include the purported IS Islamabad ...

Saudi Arabia- Chairman of UN Human Rights Council

The fifth death anniversary of former Governor Punjab Salman Taseer will be observed tomorrow. Mumtaz Qadri had assassinated former Salman Taseer in Islamabad over blasphemy issue. On October 07, 2015, Supreme Court upheld the death sentence to key suspect Mumtaz Qadri while rejecting his appeal against the judgment of Islamabad High Court in Salman Taseer murder case. Salman Taseer was a ...

ENGLAND: JEREMY CORBYN is planning to scrap the British honours systems over “cronyism” fears and its historic link to the country’s days of Empire. The embattled Labour leader has privately launched a review of the honours arrangements, with proposals to radically overhaul the system if he comes into power. The awards this summer would be the first occasion when Mr ...