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unusual facts about Prime Minister's Department


Ali Hamsa

After a short stint at the Ministry of Transport in 1992, his relentless pursuit of knowledge led him to obtain his Ph.D. in 1997 and upon returning from the United States, he began serving at Economic Planning Unit (EPU), Prime Minister's Department.


12th Canadian Ministry

The Twelfth Canadian Ministry was the first cabinet chaired by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.

14th Canadian Ministry

The Fourteenth Canadian Ministry was the second cabinet chaired by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.

16th Canadian Ministry

The Sixteenth Canadian Ministry was the third cabinet chaired by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.

2005–06 Fijian political crisis

Fiji Labour Party President Jokapeci Koroi issued a statement on 14 January 2006 accusing Lesi Korovavala, the Chief Executive Officer of the Home Affairs Ministry, of having conspired with Home Affairs Minister Josefa Vosanibola to arrange a secret meeting between Baledrokadroka and Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, in an attempt to depose Bainimarama.

A. M. M. Naushad

Following a meeting at Temple Trees, Naushad defected from the SLMC to the governing United People's Freedom Alliance during the 2010 parliamentary election campaign and became a member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.

Afghanistan–China relations

During the visit, the Chinese Premier and Vice Premier met with King Mohammad Zahir Shah of Afghanistan, and held respective talks with Prime Minister Mohammad Daud Khan, Vice Prime Minister Ali Mohammad and Vice Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mr. Mohammad Naim.

Alice Trolle-Wachtmeister

On 23 February 2012, along with Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, the Speaker of the Parliament Per Westerberg and the Marshal of the Realm Svante Lindqvist, Countess Trolle-Wachtmeister was presented the newborn Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland.

Angelus Oaks, California

On February 12, 2013, in a rural area northeast of Angelus Oaks, the search for Christopher Dorner ended after a standoff with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.

Banner of Poland

Officially abandoned in 1955, the banner continued to be used in practice by the prime minister and, during the 1960s, by the Council of State, a collective head of state of the time.

Campaign for Democratic Socialism

Gaitskell had promised that there would be no new taxes under his administration should be become Prime Minister, not wanting to tamper with the prosperity that had emerged in Britain under the Conservative governments of Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, and Harold Macmillan.

Centre for Public Opinion Research

CBOS's work is supervised by a board established per the 1997 law, consisting of seven academic experts appointed by the council of ministers the and representatives of the Sejm, the Senate, the prime minister, and the president.

Communist Women's International

While in the USSR a numerically powerful communist women's movement emerged under the Russian Communist Party's Women's Department (Zhenotdel), organization of women workers in other parties around the world was frequently given short shrift relative to other activities of the communist parties affiliated with the Comintern.

D'Oliveira affair

In 1960 the UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan criticised apartheid in his "Wind of Change" speech to the South African parliament.

Deputy Prime Minister of Mauritius

According to the Constitution of Mauritius there shall be a Prime Minister and a Deputy Prime Minister who shall be appointed by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister.

Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice

He was also a biographer, and published works on his great-grandfather, the Prime Minister the 2nd Earl of Shelburne and of his earlier ancestor, the economist, scientist and philosopher Sir William Petty, as well as on the 2nd Earl Granville.

Elisabeth Svantesson

On 17 September 2013, she was appointed Minister for Employment by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.

Enid Bagnold

Their great-granddaughter is Samantha Cameron, wife of the United Kingdom's current Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader David Cameron.

Foreign relations of Cape Verde

Prime Minister Pedro Pires sent FARP soldiers to Angola where they served as the personal bodyguards of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos.

Hinduja Group

On 26 January 2001, Prime Minister Tony Blair was accused of prejudicing the independent inquiry into the Hinduja passport affair, after he declared that Keith Vaz not done "anything wrong".

History of Christianity in Ukraine

One of the most prominent Protestants in modern Ukraine is a practicing Baptist pastor Oleksandr Turchynov, former head of the SBU, Ukraine's successor to the KGB, and a former acting Prime Minister.

Hugo Young

Young was a strong proponent of European integration, and sharply expressed his disappointment with the British government's eurosceptic politics in his columns, including Prime Minister Tony Blair's decision to side with George W. Bush instead of his EU partners in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Kfar Blum

The kibbutz was named in honor of Léon Blum, the Jewish socialist former Prime Minister of France who was the focus of a widely publicized, and ultimately unsuccessful, show trial in 1942 mounted by the collaborationist Vichy regime.

Les Scheininger

Scheininger praised Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney for his support of the 1991 Gulf War, and described Saddam Hussein's military attacks on Israeli targets as "diabolical".

Libya–Pakistan relations

The new general elections in 1993 revived the comeback of PPP under Benazir Bhutto who was immediately sworned as Prime Minister.

Linda Colley

In 1999, Colley was one of several speakers invited to deliver a Millennium Lecture at 10 Downing Street by the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and his wife Cherie Blair.

Lisa I'Anson

Later on she was also presenting other live TV shows including the very first and subsequent MOBO awards (music of black origin), The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium and a live link from Ghana, West Africa direct to London with then British Prime Minister and U.S. President, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton.

Matthew Darby

He is the son of Adrian Darby and Lady Meriel Darby, daughter of former British Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home (also known as 14th Earl of Home, and Lord Home of the Hirsel).

Ngwane National Liberatory Congress

At the end of November 1998 the party had its congress in which Mr. Obed Mfanyana Dlamini, a former Prime Minister won the Presidency.

Norman Skelhorn

Prime Minister Edward Heath had banned sensory deprivation in light of the report by Sir Edmund Compton into internment and interrogation techniques used by the British Army and the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

Northwestel

The microwave system on the Alaska Highway was inaugurated with a phone call from Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, visiting Whitehorse, to President John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C..

Norwegian parliamentary election, 2017

The Conservative Party, led by Erna Solberg, and the right-wing Progress Party formed a two-party minority government, with Solberg as Prime Minister.

Pakistan Naval Academy

In 1990, Prime minister Benazir Bhutto signed an executive decree providing for the Bachelor of Science Degree for the Naval, Military, and Coast Guard Academies.

Pankaj Pachauri

In January 2012, Pachauri was appointed the Communications Adviser to the Prime Minister of India, in the Prime Minister's Office, replacing Harish Khare.

Paul Bhatti

He serves as the Minister of National Harmony and Minority Affairs under Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf.

PNS Qasim

In 1974, Marine Corps were disbanded from the services of Pakistan Armed Forces by President, later elected Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as the Service branch was were completely failed to achieve any minor or major objectives in the both 1971 Winter War and the Bangladesh Liberation War.

Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000

In December 2006 Prime Minister Tony Blair and politicians of other parties were questioned by police as part of their investigation into the Cash for Honours affair.

Portuguese presidential election, 2006

The result was a victory in the first round for Aníbal Cavaco Silva of the Social Democratic Party candidate, the former Prime Minister, won 50.54 percent of the vote in the first round, just over the majority required to avoid a runoff election.

Reginald Dorman-Smith

In the late 1930s, the British Government's agricultural policy came in for heavy criticism from the NFU, Parliament and the Press and in January 1939 Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain took the bold step of appointing Dorman-Smith as Minister of Agriculture.

Roger Gale

His Labour Party opponent in the 1983 election was Cherie Blair, wife of the former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Saadia Afzaal

She has worked as a reporter as well, she has covered Foreign Office, Parliament and done a number of interviews with the heads of state and government including President Asif Ali Zardari, President Pervez Musharraf, PM Yousaf Raza Gillani, PM Shaukat Aziz.

San Sevaine Flats

Henry was killed by a posse led by San Bernardino County Sheriff Benjamin Franklin Mathews on September 14, 1865, at San Jacinto Canyon in what is now Riverside County, California.

Shahlan Ismail

Datuk Shalan Ismail is the Political Secretary of Dato' Seri Najib Razak the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Specsavers

The Perkins attribute their success to their franchise model, and to the de-regulation of the UK Opticians market by the Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, allowing opticians to use previously forbidden advertising and marketing techniques to rapidly take over a market that had belonged to independent local opticians.

Stephanie von Hohenlohe

Her close friends included Lady Margot Asquith, the widow of the former prime minister Herbert Henry Asquith, Lady Ethel Snowden, the wife of a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Lady Londonderry and her husband Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry.

Tomasi Kanailagi

The former President of the Methodist Church of Fiji and Rotuma, Fiji's largest Christian denomination, served in the Senate from 2001 to 2006 as a nominee of the Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase.

Trimdon Colliery

Its most famous resident was the former Prime Minister, Tony Blair.

Tubou

One of eight villages on Lakeba, it is considered the capital of the Lau Islands, being the seat of the Vuanirewa clan, a powerful chiefly family from which Fiji's longtime Prime Minister and President, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara (1920–2004) and one of Fiji's famous cricketers I. L. Bula (1921–2002), hailed.

United Somali Parliamentarians

The United Somali Parliamentarians (USP) are a political party in Somalia founded on 25 October 2007 to support embattled Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi.

Yoel Hasson

Between 2001 and 2005 he also served as an adviser to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

Þórarinn B. Þorláksson

On December 30, 1913, he was appointed by Prime Minister Hannes Hafstein as one of the five people on the committee that designed the Flag of Iceland.


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Biro Tata Negara

Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Idris Jala arranged a briefing for the Cabinet on the effects of BTN programmes, and the meeting concluded with the Prime Minister reportedly saying, "This must end."

Gerald Hensley

From 1976 until 1980 he was New Zealand’s High Commissioner in Singapore before returning to Wellington to become Head of the Prime Minister’s Department where he served under both the Robert Muldoon and David Lange administrations.

Joseph Entulu Belaun

He is currently the Minister in Prime Minister's Department under the cabinet of Prime Minister of Malaysia, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and a Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Selangau constituency in Sarawak, representing the Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS).

Mazlan Othman

Her interest in public education was rewarded in 1990 when Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad, a strong supporter of education and science, placed her in charge of the Planetarium Division of the Prime Minister's Department, overseeing development of Planetarium Negara, Malaysia's national planetarium in Kuala Lumpur.

Nancy Shukri

She is currently the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department under the cabinet of Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dato Seri Najib Tun Razak and Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Batang Sadong constituency in Sarawak, representing the Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) in the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition.

Stephen Weir

He became a military consultant to the New Zealand government, working in the Prime Minister's Department and advising the Prime Minister, Walter Nash, on military matters affecting foreign affairs.

Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor

The six are former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, retired chief justices Tun Mohd Eusoff Chin and Tun Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim, former minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor, tycoon Tan Sri Vincent Tan and prominent lawyer Datuk V.K. Lingam.