Last Updated: Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 12:07
The main opposition PML-N and ruling Pakistan People`s Party have reached an understanding on dissolving the national and provincial assemblies on March 16 so that elections to the assemblies can be held simultaneously.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 13:19
After days of intense debate, the bill was passed by 329 votes to 229. It must now win final approval in the Senate.
Last Updated: Sunday, January 27, 2013, 21:13
Pakistan`s National Assembly will be dissolved before March 16 and the date for the next general election will be announced in the coming ten days.
Last Updated: Friday, December 21, 2012, 00:41
He criticised terrorists and questioned why they were targeting people like vaccinators involved in a nationwide anti-polio drive.
Last Updated: Wednesday, November 21, 2012, 13:27
Pakistan`s ISI has come under criticism from a powerful Parliamentary panel for having spent over Rs 4 billion on a fingerprint and police records project that never materialised.
Last Updated: Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 09:01
Pakistan has made education free and compulsory for children aged between five and 16.
Last Updated: Wednesday, August 1, 2012, 12:12
France`s Parliament has approved legislation that makes sexual harassment a crime, addressing problems many say have existed for decades.
Last Updated: Saturday, July 21, 2012, 13:58
MPs in France were plunged into a sexism row after newly appointed Minister of Territory Equality and Housing Cecile Duflot was leered at in the Parl.
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 13:27
A Supreme Court order that will enable married women of the Hindu community to obtain computerised national identity cards without any hitch is welcome, said a leading Pakistani daily.
Last Updated: Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 09:52
Pakistan`s Parliament Monday passed a landmark bill that makes violence against women and children a criminal offence that would carry prison terms and fines.
Last Updated: Monday, January 16, 2012, 15:43
Pakistan`s National Assembly on Monday passed the democracy resolution with vast majority.
Last Updated: Saturday, November 19, 2011, 16:19
More than 2,000 delegates attended the four-day assembly, known as a Loya Jirga, and discussed negotiations that are currently under way.
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