Wednesday, 27th January, 2021
GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN TO COMMITTED TO FOIL ANY ATTEMPT TO DISRUPT ECONOMIC ACTIVITY UNDER CPEC: NA SPEAKER
Islamabad January 27, 2021: Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser and Chairman National Peoples Congress of China have agreed for formation of a joint Parliamentary Committee comprising of members from Pakistani Parliament and National People’s Congress for effective oversight of CPEC. They were of the opinion that enhanced economic cooperation would give impetus to the existing bilateral relations through parliamentary and economic cooperation. The Speaker Asad Qaiser was talking to Li Zhanshu in a Virtual meeting held today. Both the Presiding Officers directed their respective Secretariats to take necessary steps for constitution of Joint a parliamentary Committee.
Decline and Fall of Pakistan’s Parliament
Decline and Fall of Pakistan’s Parliament
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Lawmakers more suited to confrontation and blame-games have consistently lacked commitment to strengthen the basic functions of the state
For the past several years, a common lament from Pakistan’s political class has been one of Parliament being sidelined, with its all-important legislative mandate being all-but subsumed by presidential ordinances, rendering as nonexistent any debate on matters of great importance. This is not a new complaint but the governance style of the incumbent Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has brought it into much sharper view than at any earlier point in the country’s checkered democratic past.
‘Naya Pakistan’ is around the corner
The issue of effective governance has become crucial at a time when we expect an acceleration of economic development
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The calls for creating more provinces in Pakistan are intensifying. The country has only four, raising the age-old question: how is it possible to govern 220 million through just four provinces?
The issue of effective governance has become crucial at a time when the country expects an acceleration of economic development taking place through the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects costing over $8 trillion, which aims to boost trade and economic growth across a notably underdeveloped area of the globe.
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Activists, politicians condemn arrest of Pashtun leader Ali Wazir ANI | Updated: Dec 18, 2020 15:48 IST
Paris [France] December 18 (ANI): Activists and opposition political parties have condemned the arrest of Pashtun leader Ali Wazir, who is also a Member of National Assembly of Pakistan over charges of passing derogatory remarks against state institutions.
Members of the Pashtun ethnic minority have long blamed that they have been targets of military operations and ethnic stereotyping by the Pakistani state and its security forces.
Police arrested Ali Wazir on Wednesday (December 16) in connection with a case registered against him and several leaders of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement for charges including hatching a criminal conspiracy and passing derogatory remarks against security forces, police, Rangers and other state institutions.