Prime Ministers of Pakistan Current Affairs, GK & News
Asma Jahangir posthumously awarded 2018 UN Human Rights Prize
Asma Jahangir, Pakistan’s human rights activist and lawyer, has been posthumously awarded the 2018 UN Human Rights Prize along with three other winners. The other winners of the prize are Rebeca Gyumi of Tanzania, Brazil’s first indigenous lawyer Joenia Wapichana and Ireland’s human rights organisation Front Line Defenders. The United Nations Prize in the Field ..
Topics: Asma Jahangir • Benazir Bhutto • Government of Pakistan • Liaquat • Malala Yousafzai • Pakistani people • Prime Ministers of Pakistan • Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan • United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights • United Nations special rapporteurs • women • Women in Pakistan
Pak SC annuls New Law Protecting the Prime Minister
Supreme Court of Pakistan annulled the new Contempt of Court Act 2012(COCA 2012) which was brought in to protect the new prime minister from being charged with contempt and removed from his office like his predecessor Yousuf Rza Gilani. Previous PM Yousuf Raza Gilani was ousted from the office on the charges of contempt of ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2012
Topics: Asif Ali Zardari • Bhutto family • Gilani • Makhdoom Shahabuddin • Pakistan • Pakistani people • Prime Ministers of Pakistan • Punjabi people • Saraiki people • Supreme Court of Pakistan • Yousaf Raza Gillani • Zardari
Pakistan’s parliament passes bill to save top leaders from contempt of court
The upper house of Pakistan’s Parliament has passed a bill to protect top leaders from contempt of court and thwart the Supreme Court’s efforts to push the Prime Minister into reopening graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. The government has decided to delay the submission of response to the Supreme Court attributing to the ..
Month: Current Affairs - July, 2012
Topics: Asif Ali • Asif Ali Zardari • Bhutto family • In Pakistan • Pakistan • Pakistani people • Prime Ministers of Pakistan • Punjabi people • Supreme Court of India • Supreme Court of Pakistan • Zardari
Pakistan elects Raja Parvez Ashraf as its new PM
Raja Parvez Ashraf, candidate of ruling Pakistan People’s Party is the new Prime Minister of Pakistan. He was elected in a special session of the National assembly held in Islamabad after getting 211 votes out of 300 cast in the voting The special session of National Assembly was called to elect a new PM after ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2012
Topics: Government of Pakistan • Hazar Khan Bijarani • Members of the National Assembly of Pakistan • Pakistan • Pakistan Peoples Party • Politics of Pakistan • Prime Ministers of Pakistan • Punjabi people • Raja Pervaiz Ashraf • Saraiki people • Shahjahan Yousuf • Yousaf Raza Gillani
Supreme Court of Pakistan debars Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raja Gilani from Office
The Supreme Court of Pakistan debarred Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raja Gilani from his office and also disqualified Gilani as the member of the National Assembly, the lower house of the Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament). The court’s ruling came after Gilani refused to launch probe against Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari. The 3-judge Bench of the highest ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2012
Topics: Asif Ali Zardari • Bhutto family • Gilani • Government of Pakistan • Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry • Pakistan • Pakistan Peoples Party • Pakistani people • Parliament of Pakistan • Prime Ministers of Pakistan • Punjabi people • Zardari