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Devolution: Budget allocations made federal entities
Jun 5th
ISLAMABAD: Chairman 18th Amendment Implementation Committee, Senator Raza Rabbani Saturday said allocations have also been made in the budget for those federal government organizations which were connected with ministries being devolved to the province…
Grading Our Leaders: Analyzing Our Polls
May 31st
Adil Najam Over the last two years we have asked ATP readers to grade and rate Pakistan’s power centers – the President, the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice, the Chief of Army Staff, the Leader of the Opposition, and the Media – on five occasions: first in June 2009 (~800+ respondents) and September 2009 for [...]
Divide and censor
May 22nd
Filmmakers may have to go through different boards to get their movies screened in each province.
Post-calamity situation: ‘Swat children need help, now’
May 21st
Floods and militancy blamed for disrupting children’s education, health.
Attention: Sindh is up for grabs
May 21st
Ever since the party was first launched in the late 1960s, Sindh has firmly stayed loyal to the Bhutto clan and one of the fundamental assumptions in Pakistani politics is that rural Sindh will always vote, by and large, for the PPP. In the 1980s,
‘Illegally’ elected lawmakers: Supreme Court asks govt to resolve dilemma
May 20th
‘Bye-elections in the absence of a duly constituted Election Commission are illegal’.
Qamar rules out privatisation of power firms
May 20th
Govt to hire competent people to improve efficiency.
‘4,000 MW to be imported from Iran’
May 20th
The PPP-led federal government was doing its best to overcome the energy crisis and end load shedding.
Punjab’s ‘no’ to foreign aid
May 20th
As a government -in-waiting, the PML-N must have alternative economic models ready, of which it has demonstrated none.
Paying heed to the LHC verdict
May 18th
Despite the transfer of authority to the prime minister, real power continues to reside in President Zardari’s hands.
