ISLAMABAD: The opposition Thursday submitted a no-confidence motion against Deputy Speaker National Assembly Qasim Suri accusing him of adopting a partial attitude towards them during the.
KARACHI: As the controversy over the role of an aide to the prime minister in filing of a reference against a Supreme Court judge deepened, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Accountability and Interior Mirza Shahzad Akbar on Wednesday denied he had pressured former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) director general Bashir A. Memon into filing the reference against Justice Qazi Faez Isa.
Law Minister Farogh Nasim came forward to lend support to Mr Akbar, asking why the former FIA head had not spoken out during the past several months. Also, Mr Akbar sent a legal notice to Mr Memon stating that his ‘libellous statements’ were ‘completely untrue’.
Supporters of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan disperse after police fired tear gas during a protest in Lahore on April 13. AFP
There is no NCOC for TLP. This unfortunate point was brought home repeatedly in the last three days as violent cadres of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) unleashed mayhem across the length and breadth of the country. In the absence of a National Command and Operations Centre for such situations recall the centralised control and decisive action from the NCOC for Covid-19 the government appeared adrift. In fact, it was absent. Somewhere deep within the bowels of the Red Zone, men and women of power dithered, and vacillated, and dillydallied, untethered as they were from the steel frame of a hierarchical, clearly demarcated and un-overlapping decision-making structure.