• PPP says it will not become part of any committee under speaker
• Information minister challenges opposition to resign from parliament
ISLAMABAD: Following the opposition’s decision to boycott, National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Sunday cancelled the parliamentary leaders’ meeting he had convened on Monday (today) on coming Gilgit-Baltistan elections as the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) announced that it would not become part of any parliamentary committee under him for his alleged biased conduct during the last joint sitting of parliament.
The country’s major opposition parties had announced on Saturday that they would stay away from the parliamentary leaders’ meeting in line with Sept 20 multiparty conference (MPC)’s declaration through which they had said they would not cooperate with the government inside and outside the parliament.
January 31, 2021
The Biden administration has announced a review of the peace pact with the Taliban, but asked Zalmay Khalilzad to continue his work
With the new US administration under President Joe Biden finally in office, apprehensions about the Afghan peace process and Pakistan’s role in it are rife at the moment. However, early statements by new US officials have sought to dispel the impression and indicate that the Biden-led government will continue with Trump’s Afghan policy for peace. The quest for Afghan peace might finally turn the traditionally unstable ties between Democrat administrations and Pakistani governments into a strong relationship.
• Bajwa meets premier for a second time in two weeks
• Performance framework developed for ambassadors
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said the opposition would get nothing out of the foreign funding case against the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), as the ruling party had a clean background.
“The opposition has fallen into the ditch it dug for us,” the PM said in a meeting with his spokespersons.
A participant of the meeting told
Dawn that the prime minister was quite confident that his party would win the foreign funding case as the PTI did not hide anything related to receiving funds from its supporters and members outside the country.
By News DeskISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday challenged all those sceptical of his party’s activities by saying the proceedings of the foreign funding case should be aired.
PESHAWAR: Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Friday said Pakistan will continue supporting the ongoing intra-Afghan dialogue as peace in Afghanistan means peace in Pakistan, according to.