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ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed the Privatisation Commission (Amendment) Bill 2009, while another bill to amend the Rules of Procedure and Business was referred to the committee concerned.
NA Deputy Speaker Faisal Karim Kundi expressed displeasure over the absence of Law Minister Babar Awan, due to which most of the business on the private members' day could not be adopted. PML-Q's Dr Attiya Inayatullah said it was the fifth consecutive private

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and Afghanistan on Thursday agreed to set up a joint commission of diplomats and military officials to tackle militancy and support the ongoing peace and reconciliation process in the war-torn state.
"We have agreed that we will set up a two-tier joint commission at the foreign ministers and senior officials' level," Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told a joint press conference with his Afghan counterpart Zalmai Rasoul. He said that the commission

LAHORE - The Punjab government claimed on Monday that that proposed healthcare commission will be an independent and separate entity, completely free of external influence by government and other channels.
"We will appoint a chairman of the commission and separate commissioners, who would be non-controversial and professionals of the highest integrity", Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad said adding that the commission would neither recruit serving or retired officers nor

ISLAMABAD - The second meeting of the commission on unauthorised diversion of floodwater formed on Supreme Court orders will be held today (Saturday) at the office of the Cabinet Division secretary. In its previous meeting, the commission decided that all four provincial irrigation secretaries would brief the members of the commission on the issue.
It was also decided that the chairmen of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the Federal Flood Commission (FFC)

LAHORE - The Punjab government is organising a consultative workshop on the establishment of Punjab Health Commission (PHC) at the University of Health Sciences (UHS) on Monday.
The workshop is being organized by Punjab Health Department, in collaboration with Technical Assistance Management Agency (TAMA), funded by Department for International Development, UK.
The workshop's basic objective is to identify key issues and challenges involved in the establishment of the PHC.

ISLAMABAD - Implementation Commission on 18th Amendment Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani on Tuesday said that Zakat collection and distribution method would be finalised in the Council of Common Interest's upcoming meeting as the ministry of Zakat & Usher has been devolved to the provinces under the18th Constitutional Amendment.
A source told Pakistan Today that in the Implementation Commission on 18th Amendment's meeting, Social Welfare and Special Education Minister Samina Khalid

ISLAMABAD - The inaugural meeting of four-member commission for probing unauthorized diversion of floodwater and alleged breaches in the embankments of barrages and canals by the influential people during the recent devastating flood, will be held at the Supreme Court today (Saturday).
According to details, members of commission Azam Khan from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, AW Kazi from Sindh, Fateh Khan Fajak from Balochistan and Khawaja Zaheer Ahmed from Punjab will hold the meeting to

ISLAMABAD - The judicial commission for the recovery of missing persons has suggested legislation to bring the functioning of spy agencies within the ambit of law.
The commission, led by Justice (r) Kamal Mansoor Alam and consisting of Justice (r) Nasira Javed Iqbal and Justice (r) Fazlur Rehman, said this in its report submitted to the Supreme Court and the Interior Ministry on Monday, before a bench of Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani and Justice Raja

ISLAMABAD - The judicial commission formed on the Supreme Court's orders for recovery of thousands of missing persons from across the country has submitted its report with the Supreme Court as well as the Interior Ministry, sources told Pakistan Today on Sunday.
The sources said the commission had to submit its report on August 28, but could not submit it for unknown reasons. A three-member SC bench, comprising Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani and Justice

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and Afghanistan on Friday agreed on the establishment of a high powered "joint consultative commission" to pursue the peace process in Afghanistan.
It was also decided during talks between the delegations of both countries to revive the "smaller jirga" to help facilitate the dialogue for ensuring peace in Afghanistan. The Pakistan delegation was led by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani while the Afghan delegation was led by Burhanuddin Rabbani, chairman of

ISLAMABAD - Devolution of organs, attached departments, autonomous and semi-autonomous institutions in the five ministries which are to be devolved to provinces in the second phase were discussed by the implementation commission on 18th Constitutional Amendment in a review meeting on Monday.
Important Decisions on the fate of these ministries were taken, sources informed Pakistan Today.
"The Establishment Division (ED), Cabinet Division and the ministry of Inter-Provincial

LONDON - Former president Pervez Musharraf has said that he is not responsible for the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and former Balochistan governor Akbar Bugti, and cleared his position that he will not appear before any inquiry commission in this regard.
In an interview with a private TV channel, the former president said that it was not his responsibility to provide security to the late Pakistan People's Party chairperson. "I was head of the state, and

KARACHI - The federal government's taxes and the commission of the oil-marketing companies cost petrol consumers about Rs 26 per liter.
The total value of the 17 percent GST (about Rs 13 per liter), Rs 10 Petroleum Development Levy (PDL) and about three percent commission of OMC jack up fuel price by Rs 25 per litre, Kalim A Siddiqui, president of the Petroleum Marketing Business of Byco Petroleum pointed out the facts in a meeting with reporters in Karachi on Thursday.
The

ISLAMABAD: The judicial commission formed on the Supreme Court's orders for the recovery of thousands of missing persons from across the country will submit a comprehensive report with the SC and the Interior Ministry by December 31.
Sources told Pakistan Today on Tuesday that the commission earlier had to submit its report on August 28. However, it could not do so for unknown reasons. The judicial commission was formed in March 2010 with Justice (r) Kamal Mansoor Alam, a former

ISLAMABD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday constituted a four-member commission comprising former bureaucrats to probe the case of unauthorized diversion of floodwater and breaches in the embankments of barrages and canals by influential people to save their lands during the devastating floods.
The bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday was hearing a suo motu case coupled with pleas against the diversion

LAHORE: Pakistan Boxing Federation President Doda Khan Bhutto has been appointed vice chairman of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) youth commission while Secretary Pakistan Sports Board Anti-doping Commission Dr. Waqar Ahmed has been selected as member of AIBA Medical commission by AIBA.
Doda said that it would be an honour to work with AIBA and he will do his best for the promotion of the game in countries like Pakistan. Doda is currently in Muscat as a chief-de

KARACHI: The Planning Commission has decided that development projects will be approved only if disaster-risk-reduction measures are incorporated at their initial stages, Pakistan Today learnt on Monday.
According to the new guidelines, vulnerability from disasters must be kept in view while planning development projects and disaster-risk-reduction measures incorporated at the design, planning and implementation stages. The guidelines have been sent to the chief secretaries of