14+ hour, 41+ min ago   (531+ words) Pakistan Observer When Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal proposed dividing Pakistan into 12 to 15 smaller administrative units—or, alternatively, setting up 160 empowered district governments—he reignited a vital debate on how power should actually work across the federation. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (182+ words) ISLAMABAD – The federal government has assigned additional charge of health secretary to Dr Muhammad Fakhre Alam Irfan. Alam, a BS-22 officer of Pakistan Administrative Services who is currently serving as Power Division secretary, has replaced Capt. (Retd.) Muhammad Mahmood as…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (380+ words) THE Government has brought sanity to the ongoing public debate on the issue of new provinces by declaring in unequivocal terms that the issue will be placed before Parliament for discussion in its October session In a video statement, Minister…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (480+ words) Advocate Bassam Ahmed Siddiqi IN a country, where GDP growth has remained largely constrained between 3% and 4% for nearly a decade, the standing of trade...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (529+ words) FOR more than a fortnight now, Pakistan has been witnessing an unprecedented and increasingly consequential political debate over the prospect of creating new provinces—or, at the very least, smaller and more manageable administrative units What initially appeared to be…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (799+ words) Sindh’s resistance to new provinces pakobserver.net Sindh’s resistance to new provinces THE question of creating new provinces in Pakistan is becoming increasingly controversial over time. In Sindh, in particular, there is strong political resistance to the creation of new…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (159+ words) Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Tariq Fazal Chaudhry said Thursday that Parliament would debate the creation of new provinces in October. He said the National Assembly and Senate sessions scheduled for October would provide the forum for the discussion, while…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (577+ words) PAKISTAN’S debate on the formation of new provinces continues to surface with renewed vigour, driven by the practical difficulties of governing a...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (111+ words) Acting President Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani held separate meetings with former federal ministers Senator Noor-ul-Haq Qadri and Senator Azam Khan Swati at Aiwan-e-Sadr today. During the meetings, matters relating to the overall law and order and political situation in the…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (422+ words) ISLAMABAD — With Pakistan’s food demand projected to rise by at least 50 percent by 2050, the Government of Pakistan and FAO have launched a National Technical Working Group (TWG) to protect agricultural land and ensure the country’s precious land and water resources…...