They are trying to put an end to days of fighting between opposition and treasury members in the Sindh Assembly

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Taimur is son of PPP’s Nawab Yusif Talpur

Seema Zia has apologised for her remarks

Everyone living in Sindh and Pakistan is our brother, said the Sindh mines minister

Nawab Muhammad Taimur Talpur said this in Sindh Assembly

He has humiliated the assembly

Jatoi’s remarks created chaos in the session, disrupting debate on budgetary proposals.

Agha Siraj Durrani has been elected as the speaker of the Sindh Assembly once again.  The PPP leader also served as speaker during the 2013 to 2018 term. He took oath on Wednesday after MPAs voted him in. PPP workers and leaders chanted party slogans after he took oath. There were 158 MPAs who voted…

The Sindh and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa assemblies will also elect their deputy speakers the same day

Four applications have been received for the post of speaker and deputy speaker of the Sindh Assembly and both the PPP and opposition are fielding women for the post of deputy speaker. Today (August 14) was the last day to submit applications. Since both the PPP and opposition are fielding women candidates, this year’s deputy…

Imran Ismail, the PTI’s pick for governor of Sindh, spoke to the media on Monday and said that the opposition leader in the Sindh Assembly will be from the PTI. We will keep a check on the government, he vowed, adding that they will also help the government. There will be cooperation between us but…

According to Khawaja Izharul Hassan, the MQM has agreed to back Sheikh as opposition leader in the Sindh Assembly

Sessions of the Sindh Assembly and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly have been summoned on Monday (August 13) at 10am. During the inaugural sessions, the MPA-elects will take oath. They will also elect the speakers and deputy speakers of the two houses. The outgoing speakers will administer the oaths to the newly elected lawmakers. The National Assembly…

TLP makes its way to Sindh Assembly, winning two seats in Karachi   Newly minted religious group, Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan, has made it to power, winning its first-ever seats in the general elections July 25. The other, more major religious parties, suffered a stunning setback in Karachi.  The Khadim Rizvi-led TLP won Sindh Assembly seats PS-107…

I curse everyone who calls for a separate Karachi province, said Sindh CM Murad Ali Shah at the Sindh Assembly session on Wednesday. “You should be able to own the motherland you live on,” he said while addressing Khawaja Izharul Hassan, the Opposition Leader in the Sindh Assembly. Hassan is an MQM lawmaker. “There was…

Sindh Minister for Local Government Jam Khan Shoro and MQM’s MPA Faisal Sabzwari unleashed a tirade against each other’s parties. Both MQM and PPP have remained allies in the past. Watch this video…

PML-F MPA Nusrat Sehar Abbasi put her foot in her mouth during a session of the Sindh Assembly, on Saturday.  Speaker of the assembly, Shehla Raza, was upset as Nusrat Sehar Abbasi put her foot up and motioned to remove her shoes from her feet and held them up in a sign of protest. “Stay…

KARACHI: Lawmakers debated in the dark when load shedding hit the Sindh Assembly, just a day after the prime minister had promised on a visit that the power crisis had been ended.  “It seems a bit cloudy,” said Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani. “Someone check out what the overall situation is.” Karachi was facing load shedding…

KARACHI: The Sindh assembly witnessed chaos on Friday when opposition members mounted protest against acute water shortage in Karachi. Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani continued presiding over the session despite outcries from the opposition benches. The MPAs raised slogans of ‘Pani Do Pani Do’ (Give water) from opposition benches, and tore up the copies of agenda;…

An MPA announced Friday that he will not leave the premises of the Sindh Assembly until Orangi Town gets water. MPA Saifuddin Khalid said he had brought along clothes and chanay [chickpeas] to keep going. “The people in Orangi Town are deprived of potable water and the Sindh government is so poor that it cannot…