Prime Ministers of Pakistan Current Affairs, GK & News

Asma Jahangir posthumously awarded 2018 UN Human Rights Prize

October 27, 2018

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 ..

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Pak SC annuls New Law Protecting the Prime Minister

August 8, 2012

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 ..

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Pakistan’s parliament passes bill to save top leaders from contempt of court

July 12, 2012

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 ..

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Pakistan elects Raja Parvez Ashraf as its new PM

June 25, 2012

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 ..

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Supreme Court of Pakistan debars Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raja Gilani from Office

June 24, 2012

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 ..

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Current Affairs: October 21-24, 2011

October 24, 2011

Suo-motto action by Government in opposition to deceptive advertisements A self-governing authority being established to take suo motu action against deceptive advertisements. The agency will comprise of experts from a variety of fields to verify the overstated claims about their products and services in their advertisements. I&B Ministry in talk with other stakeholders to sketch ..

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