ISLAMABAD: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly passed the FATA Reforms Bill 2018 by two thirds majority in Peshawar.  Law Minster Imtiaz Shahid Qureshi tabled the bill in the house. The bill was passed with eighty seven votes in favour and six against. Parliamentary leaders of PML (N) in ...

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Thursday passed “Constitution (Thirty-First Amendment) Bill, 2018” with over two- thirds majority paving the way for merger of FATA with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It was moved by Law Minister Chaudhry Mahmood Bashir Virk. Two hundred and twenty-nine members ...

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Monday unanimously asked the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for not cutting provincial assembly seats from Chitral, Charsadda, Swabi, Abbottabad and Haripur districts. The resolution moved by the PPP legislator from Chitral, Saleem Khan was actually ...

PESHAWAR: (APP) Advisor to Prime Minister Engineer Amir Muqam has said that representatives of Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) would become part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly in 2018 General Elections. He stated this, during a meeting with delegation of Khyber Agency headed by ...

ISLAMABAD (APP): A high-level launch of the three year EU-funded Subai-Pakistan project was hosted by Ambassador of European Union to Pakistan Jean-Francois Cautain.The project will focus on providing wide-ranging support services to the provincial and legislative assemblies. These will serve to ...

PESHAWAR: Compulsory education bill 2017 was presented in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led government on Monday. According to this bill, compulsion of education will be enforced for all children in the age group 5-16.This means that children will acquire primary and ...

PESHAWAR: In an unusual development the KP Assembly has raised the pay and perks of its lawmakers for the second time in the current tenure.The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Assembly on Tuesday increased monthly salaries of the chief minister, his cabinet members, as well as other MPAs by adopting three ...

Peshawar High Court, today, adjourned hearing of the petition about China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) till February 8, 2017.The division bench comprises Chief Justice Justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Ikramullah Khan.The bench asked the federation to submit its rejoinder about the petition ...

The session of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly chaired by Speaker Assad Qaisar Wednesday passed resolution demanding merger of FATA in KP province.The resolution was moved by Dr. Haider Ali of PTI.FATA reforms package implementation statusThe resolution demanded that tribal areas should be merged in KP ...

PESHAWAR: (APP) The Khyber Pakthunkwa Assembly with Speaker Assad Qaisar in the chair Tuesday unanimously passed resolution seeking voting rights to the transgender community in the province.The resolution moved by Amna Sardar of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) stated that federal government ...