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Ruckus in Pakistan Senate: Opposition walks out as single minister respond
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 8 (ANI): Opposition members in Pakistan walked out of the Senate session as ministers who were supposed to be present during the Question Hour did not arrive and a solitary minister was replying to all the questions.
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Lawmakers in US propose bipartisan probe of origins of coronavirus
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 7 (ANI): A proposal is being circulated by the two senior members of the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions to create a 12-member commission of private citizens with broad authority to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 and how the US
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Pakistan: Senate body approves bill to clip Islamabad officials' judicial
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 5 (ANI): Pakistan's Parliamentary committee has approved four bills, including one that seeks separation of the judiciary and the district administration in the country's capital Islamabad, local media reported on Saturday.
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Bill on missing persons has gone missing: Pak human rights minister
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 2 (ANI): The federal minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari said in the Senate that it seems that the bill on missing persons has been lost while emphasizing that the issue of missing persons in Pakistan is important.
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Top Republican vows to press Austin, Blinken at secret briefing on conduct
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 2 (ANI): Jim Inhofe, a top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday (local time) vowed to press US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a classified briefing scheduled for Wednesday on any plans to carry out ove
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Pakistan: PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari refuses to accept Gilani's r
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 1 (ANI): Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday has refused to accept PPP leader Yousaf Raza Gillani's resignation as the leader of the Opposition in the Senate terming his services as a "shining example" for democrats.
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Pakistan Peoples Party leader resigns as Senate opposition leader
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 31 (ANI): Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Yousuf Raza Gilani resigned from the post of leader of opposition in the Senate on Monday.
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Pakistan Opposition to move court against SBP amendment bill
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 30 (ANI): Pakistan opposition has decided to challenge the State Bank of Pakistan (Amendment) Bill 2022 in the court a day after the Senate approved it with a one-vote majority, local media reported.
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PPP Senate thrashes Imran Khan govt, says corruption is PTI's single point
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 26 (ANI): Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) parliamentary leader in the Senate Sherry Rehman took the government to task as the country under Imran Khan government slides to 16 places in the Corruption Perception Index in just one year.
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Pakistani leaders slam Imran Khan govt for appeasing terrorists
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 25 (ANI): Opposition leaders in Pakistan on Monday slammed the Imran Khan government in the Senate over the establishment's "policy of appeasement" towards terrorist outfits, saying that talks with such groups has emboldened and encouraged anti-peace actors in t
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Pakistan govt, opposition lock horns over SBP amendment bill
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 23 (ANI): Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) led coalition government and opposition are expected to lock horns next week over the State Bank of Pakistan (Amendment) Bill 2021 in Senate.
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US bill to block defence contractors from using Chinese rare earth mineral
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 16 (ANI): A new rare-earth bill was introduced in the US Senate on Friday, aiming to force defence contractors to end the use of rare earth minerals sourced from China by 2026.
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