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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday instructed that an amendment submitted by some PML-N senators, which proposed immunity for the prime minister, be withdrawn immediately. The move comes a day after the federal government presented the 27th Constitutional Amendment in the Senate, introducing major reforms to the judicial system and the military command structure. The bill was introduced in the upper house and then referred to the Standing Committee on Law and Justice after the cabinet, chaired by PM Shehbaz, virtually from Azerbaijan, approved the 27th Constitutional Amendment draft. “On…

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ISLAMABAD: The complete draft of the proposed 27th Constitutional Amendment has gotten approval of the joint committee comprising lawmakers from the Senate and National Assembly’s standing committees on law, Geo News reported citing sources on Sunday. The joint committee began its session earlier today, chaired by Senator Farooq H Naek and MNA Chaudhry Mahmood Bashir Virk. However, Opposition parties, including Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP), and Majlis-e-Wahdatul-Muslimeen (MWM), boycotted the session as their members did not turn up for the meeting. In fresh development, the committee…

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ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in their separate messages on the occasion of Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s birth anniversary on November 9, urged the nation to seek guidance from the Poet of the East’s vision to build a united and progressive Pakistan. President Zardari called upon the people to reaffirm their commitment to Iqbal’s ideals and principles for a brighter national future. “As we honour his remarkable legacy, let us draw strength from his life and philosophy to work collectively for a prosperous, peaceful, and cohesive…

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The First Committee of the UN General Assembly’s 80th session has approved four Pakistan-backed resolutions on arms control, confidence-building and nuclear security guarantees for non-nuclear states, the Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the UN said on Saturday. The vote comes only months after Pakistan and India engaged in a short but intense war in May that left about 70 people dead on both sides and revived fears about how quickly a crisis between two nuclear neighbours can spin out of control. In its statement, Pakistan’s mission said the committee adopted…

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ISLAMABAD: Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar said on Saturday that the proposed 27th Constitutional Amendment would be tabled in the Senate today. Talking to the media in Islamabad shortly after the cabinet meeting on Saturday, Tarar said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chaired federal cabinet meeting from Baku to discuss key reforms under the proposed 27th Amendment. “[The] government will present the 27th Amendment bill in the Senate today,” he said. “Prime minister consulted with allies to ensure broad support for the legislation,” he said, adding that a consensus was reached…

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Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US, Rizwan Saeed Sheikh, met US Assistant Secretary of State Paul Kapur this week in what officials called an early round of talks aimed at turning recent goodwill between the two governments into more defined diplomatic engagement. The envoy congratulated Kapur on taking charge of the South and Central Asia bureau and used the meeting to push the idea that Islamabad and Washington should now move beyond polite statements and start building what he called an economically grounded strategic cooperation. In an X post, Ambassador Sheikh…

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KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has drawn clear red lines around the proposed 27th Constitutional Amendment, rejecting clauses it says would weaken provincial rights, undermine judicial autonomy or erode key democratic safeguards, according to sources. Party insiders say these objections track closely with Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s stance a day earlier, signalling widening friction with the PML-N over how far the amendment should go. As per sources, the PPP refused to agree to removing Article 160’s Clause 3A, which protects provincial shares in the National Finance Commission (NFC) Award. It…

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