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Pak Senate passes KP-FATA merger bill
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 25 (ANI): The Federally Administered Tribal Areas Reforms Bill that calls for the merger of the ederally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was passed by the Pakistan Senate on Friday by 71 to 5 vote.
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Pak poll body to hold Senate elections on March 3
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Feb.19 (ANI): Senate elections in Pakistan's four provinces -- Punjab, Sindh, North West Frontier Province and Balochistan, and Islamabad and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), will be held on March 3, as 52 out of 104 senators will retire on March 11.
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PTI, PML-Q to fight Pak Senate elections together
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], Feb 5 (ANI): The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) have announced that they will join hands and contest the upcoming Senate elections together.
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Pak Army chief, DGMO to brief Senate on national security
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec.18 (ANI): A committee of the Pakistan Senate will receive a briefing on national security from Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa and Director General of Military Operations (DGMO), Major General Sahir Shamshad Mirza on Tuesday.
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Pak Senate to invite PM, chief justice, military leaders to discuss post-P
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan],August 11 (ANI): Pakistan Senate has invited Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the military bureaucracy and the chief justice for an inter-institutional dialogue to strengthen the Parliament and to debate the situation after the Panamagate verdict.
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Shehbaz Sharif will be PML-N new President :Zafarul Haq
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], August 9 (ANI):Raja Zafarul Haq, leader of the House in the Pakistan Senate, has said Shehbaz Sharif would be the new president of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
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Pak Senate to probe forced land 'takeover' by armed forces in Qu
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 20 (ANI): The Pakistan Senate's Defense Committee has constituted a sub-committee to investigate allegations that the armed forces have forcibly occupied lands in Quetta, Balochistan for their projects.
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Pakistan Senate to debate government performance on Kulbhushan Jadhav case
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 6 (ANI); The Pakistan Senate has said that it will hold a discussion on the stay granted by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the execution of alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav.
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Pak Senate panel demand death penalty for ex-TTP spokesperson
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 23 (ANI) A Pakistan Senate panel has strongly criticized the government's 'special treatment'for former Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan, and demanded that he treated as a terrorist, and be given the death penalty as per
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Pak Senate wants Chaman border firing to be raised at UN
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 8 (ANI): Pakistan Senate's Standing Committee on Interior on Monday demanded that the government raise the alleged unprovoked firing incident by Afghan security forces at Chaman border at the United Nations, reports Samaa TV.
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Military court should hear Marshal lynching case: Pak Senate
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 19 (ANI): The Pakistan Senate Standing Committee on Interior wants the lynching case of Mashal Khan to be sent to military courts instead of holding a judicial inquiry.
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Agitated by low attendance, Pak Senate chairman suspends official duties
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Apr 14 (ANI): Pakistan Senate chairman Raza Rabbani today protested by suspending his official duties over the irresponsible behavior and low attendance of members of the Upper House.
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