PA to meet on 27th

Published August 23, 2019

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor has summoned the provincial assembly session on August 27, an official said.

The session was requisitioned by the joint opposition to hold debate on numerous issues, including Kashmir issue and province’s financial rights.

The official said that the session would start at 3pm on Aug 27.

An important segment of the session will be the oath-taking of MPAs-elect from merged tribal districts. The people of defunct Fata would get representation in the provincial assembly for the first time.

Published in Dawn, August 23rd, 2019

Opinion

Editorial

Ties with Tehran
Updated 24 Apr, 2024

Ties with Tehran

Tomorrow, if ties between Washington and Beijing nosedive, and the US asks Pakistan to reconsider CPEC, will we comply?
Working together
24 Apr, 2024

Working together

PAKISTAN’S democracy seems adrift, and no one understands this better than our politicians. The system has gone...
Farmers’ anxiety
24 Apr, 2024

Farmers’ anxiety

WHEAT prices in Punjab have plummeted far below the minimum support price owing to a bumper harvest, reckless...
By-election trends
Updated 23 Apr, 2024

By-election trends

Unless the culture of violence and rigging is rooted out, the credibility of the electoral process in Pakistan will continue to remain under a cloud.
Privatising PIA
23 Apr, 2024

Privatising PIA

FINANCE Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb’s reaffirmation that the process of disinvestment of the loss-making national...
Suffering in captivity
23 Apr, 2024

Suffering in captivity

YET another animal — a lioness — is critically ill at the Karachi Zoo. The feline, emaciated and barely able to...