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ISLAMABAD - Senior PML-N leader and deputy chairman of 18th Amendment Implementation Commission Senator Ishaq Dar on Wednesday resigned from the commission over differences between the government and the PML-N over the devolution of the Higher Education Commission and transfer of devolved ministries' employees to the provinces.
In a five-page resignation letter to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, Senator Dar said that the government was not implementing the decisions of the

KARACHI - With Islamabad devolving responsibility of educating the people to provincial governments, Sindh is finalising arrangements to establish its Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan Today has learnt. With the devolution of five more ministries - including Education - to the provinces under the 18th Constitutional Amendment, all four provincial governments were supposed to chalk out a comprehensive strategy to ensure continuation in matters that were dealt with by the HEC.

LAHORE The government should create space and incentives for the private sector to play the dominant role in the growth process and economic activity. The main argument in the new growth framework is that growth should be market-led and not state-led, private sector should be the main driver of growth, and if allowed to, the market will generate innovations, entrepreneurship, and transformation of cities and youth employment, the authors of a report recently prepared by the Planning

ISLAMABAD - The meeting of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) has been postponed until April 23 without taking up the agenda. The commission, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, met Saturday for considering confirmation or appointments of additional judges to the Lahore and Balochistan high courts, but the agenda was not completed due the non-availability of the law minister.
The law minister-designate, Maula Bux Chandio, attended the meeting without taking oath,

KABUL - A joint Afghan-Pakistan commission would be established to promote peace and stability in the region, Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced on Saturday.
A brainchild of Islamabad, the commission would include the Pakistani prime minister, army chief and the Inter-Services Intelligence director-general, Karzai said.
Addressing a joint news conference with Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, he said High Peace Council head Prof. Burhanuddin Rabbani would be part

NEW DELHI - A Pakistani judicial commission will visit India by May 15 to interview key witnesses in connection with the trial of seven Pakistani suspects in 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case.
During the visit, the judicial commission would take statements of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate R V Sawant Waghule, Investigating Officer Ramesh Mahale, who recorded Mumbai attack convict Ajmal Kasab's statement, and the doctor who carried out the post-mortem of the alleged

ISLAMABAD - The Planning Commission will hold a Youth Idea Challenge to hear the voice of youth about inclusiveness of economic growth through a video competition.
The competition invites all academic institutions in all provinces as well as AJK and Gilgit Baltistan to participate and express their ideas at the National forum, said a press release issued here on Tuesday.
The documentaries are expected to reflect the vision of the Pakistani Youth on distributing the benefits

ISLAMABAD - The implementation commission on 18th Constitutional Amendment on Saturday gave approval to the transfer of five more ministries to the provinces in the second phase of the devolution plan.
However, the federal cabinet would give a final approval to the devolution of the ministries in its upcoming meeting, following which the ministries along with their subsidiary departments would be transferred to the provinces by March 30.
Members of the commission and the

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Saturday reconstituted the Privatisation Commission (PC) Board with majority of new members inducted from the private sector. According to an official announcement, the PC Board has been reconstituted with Minister for Privatisation Syed Naveed Qamar as chairman while Iftikhar ul Haq, Laeeq Ahmed, Mahmood Nawaz Shah, Tanvir Ahmad Sheikh, Nawabzada Saifullah Magsi, Farid Malik, Shahab Anwar Khawaja and Secretary Privatisation Commission

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Friday directed the governor of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to request Justice (r) Jamshed Ali to head the commission for recovery of Rs 256 billion loans written off by various banks from 1971 to 2009.
A two-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and Justice Ghulam Rabbani gave the direction after Additional Attorney General KK Agha informed the court that Justice (r) Saleem Akhtar, who was nominated to head the

ISLAMABAD - The Flood Commission constituted by the Supreme Court on Friday submitted its interim report with the apex court on the damages caused by floods last summer, saying irrigation infrastructure in Balochistan suffered serious damage during the catastrophic floods.
After receiving the interim report, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry issued notices to concerned parties and fixed the case for hearing on March 28 before a bench already hearing the matter.
The

ISLAMABAD - The Implementation Commission for the 18th Amendment suffered another blow on Tuesday when the lack of cooperation from the four provinces made the commission, led by Inter-provincial Coordination Minister Raza Rabbani, miss the March 15 deadline set for the second phase of devolution of another five ministries.
The commission, which met here with Rabbani in the chair, was told by the provincial chief secretaries that the provincial governments would not be able to

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday ordered the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to establish a commission to probe into the case of written off loans. A two-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by the chief justice was conducting hearing on cases of written off loans. SBP lawyer Syed Iqbal Haider submitted that according to the bank's circular No 29, loans could be written off in certain conditions. The CJP, however, said that the misuse of the circular would be

LAHORE - The federal government has made Punjab Additional Chief Secretary Sami Saeed chairman of the National Tariff Commission, however, Saeed has not complied with the orders of the authority yet, Pakistan Today learnt on Monday. The Establishment Division notified the transfer on February 25.
A senior government officer, seeking anonymity, said, "The federal government is the lending authority in this case and now the government has called its officer back and the Punjab

ISLAMABAD - The Privatisation Commission (PC) has planned to launch convertible bonds worth $1.384 billion of Oil and Gas Development Authority and Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) in 2011. Deadline for the launch of convertible bonds of Oil and Gas Development Authority worth $1.08 billion and convertible bonds of Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) worth $304 million at the London Stock Exchange, as proposed by PC, is end of March.
A meeting of the sub-committee of Cabinet

KARACHI - An anti-corruption court sentenced a Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) member and two others to four years in prison on Saturday on corruption charges. Judge Rashida Asad of the special anti-corruption court sentenced SPSC member Ramesh Udeshi as well as Rehana Minaj and Shahid Ahmed Khan to two years imprisonment in two separate offences.
The court also directed all the accused to pay Rs 50,000 each as fine, and failing to pay the same would result in additional