Tag: Commission

Memo commission completes probe

A session of the commission probing the memo scandal concluded at the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday. The commission is being headed by Balochistan...

Haqqani refuses to face Memo Commission

Pakistan’s former Ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani has said that his life is threatened in Pakistan and his return is likely only...

SECP asks women to register businesses as companies

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) on Thursday asked the women entrepreneurs to register their businesses as companies to ensure permanence, credibility,...

SECP hobnobs with the royalty

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) and Capital Market Authority (CMA) Sultanate of Oman, recognizing the increasing international activity in the financial...

Planning Commission says Thar Coal project unfeasible

As the government is finding ways to cope with prevailing energy crisis in the country, the Planning Commission has termed the Thar Coal project...

Abbottabad Commission summons Gilani for testimony

The Abbottabad Commission has summoned Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani for testimony, sources said on Friday. The sources said the prime minister would be bound...

314 missing persons traced by commission, says state minister

Minister of State for Interior Imtiaz Safdar Warraich on Friday informed the Senate that the PPP-led coalition government was vigorously pursuing the case of...

315 missing persons traced

The Senate was informed on Friday that 315 missing persons have been traced and 471 such cases have been disposed of by the two...

Memo commission gets four-week lifeline

A hurriedly constituted 10-member larger bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, granted four more weeks to the memo...

Memo commission for forensic evidence of Ijaz’s Blackberry set

The judicial commission probing into the memo scandal on Saturday issued orders for conducting forensic tests on Mansoor Ijaz’s Blackberry phone in London. Secretary for...

Memo commission rejects application seeking Pasha as witness

The Judicial Commission probing into the memo case on Thursday rejected an application seeking former ISI chief Lt Gen (r) Ahmad Shuja Pasha’s appearance...

Election Commission has become useless: CJP

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has become useless and defunct, Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said on Tuesday while heading a...

Planning Commission refuses to accept decisions of Cabinet Committee

The Planning Commission has rejected the recommendations of Special Cabinet Committee headed by Minister for Religious Affairs Syed Khursheed Shah regularizing the services of...

FO part of ‘cover up team’ in memo scandal: commission

The memo commission on Thursday held the Foreign Office (FO) part of the “cover up team” in the memo scandal, as FO Director General...

Flaws found in ECP’S electoral rolls

Despite claims by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), flaws are still present in preliminary electoral rolls displayed in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa. As many as 22...

Haqqani declines to appear before memo commission

Former ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani on Saturday declined to appear before the “memogate” commission mandated by the Supreme Court to probe the...

Haqqani unlikely to appear before memo commission

As the memo commission is gradually heading towards the conclusion of its proceedings after Mansoor Ijaz got done with his cross-examination and Husain Haqqani...