Tag: Commission

People of tribal areas caught between military and terrorists, says AHRC...

The whole of FATA is under either the direct control of law enforcement agencies or the terrorists, with official check posts and the hideouts...

Commission demanded to probe written-off loans in Pakistan

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) requested the apex court to set up a commission to primarily probe into the loans written off by...

PM hints all’s not well with the military

Nawaz Sharif refuses to answer when asked if govt and military leadership are on the same page on national issues Says CJP Anwar Zaheer Jamali...

Commission to investigate all Pakistanis named in Panama Papers: Dar

Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar Wednesday said the judicial commission announced by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would investigate all the persons whose names had...

Siraj wants PM to step down until a commission under SC...

Says those involved in financial irregularities should be tried under the Anti-terrorism Act   Jamaat-e-Islami Chief Senator Sirajul Haq has said that after the allegations of...

Fazl is happy with PM’s judicial commission

Announcing its support for the judicial commission announced by Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Central Amir of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), Maulana Fazlur Rehman on...

SC announces commission to probe alleged poll rigging

Commission headed by CJP Nasirulk Mulk comprises Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan and Justice Amir Hani Muslim; first meeting today Imran Khan welcomes formation of commission,...

Punjab sets up higher education commission

Governor signs PHEC Act, Gujrat University former VC appointed first chairman of PHEC Eminent educationist and former vice chancellor of University of Gujrat Professor Dr...

‘Why protest when you can have a commission?’

Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafiq Tuesday said after constitution of a judicial commission by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif there was no justification of long...

Qadri’s TMQ, other political outfits demand three-member SC enquiry commission

An informal consultative meeting attended by the representatives of seven political and religious parties at the International Secretariat of Minhajul Quran on Friday demanded...

Indian Election Commission says exit polls can be issued on Monday

News organisations will be allowed to release their exit polls for general elections after 1830 India time (1300 GMT) on Monday, the last day...

Pasha’s Abbottabad briefing: the ISI chief found faults with everyone

Former Inter-Services Intelligence director general, Lt Gen (r) Ahmed Shuja Pasha, launched a salvo of allegations against anyone he could when he appeared before...

OBL fiasco: security apparatus ‘grossly incompetent’

More than two years after a raid by US forces on Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Abbottabad, Arab TV channel Al Jazeera on Monday...

Missing persons’ commission wants spy agencies, FC and police booked

    The National Commission on Missing Persons has recommended registering criminal cases against serving authorities of police, intelligence institutions and Frontier Constabulary (FC). Media reports said...

Lal masjid Commission summons Musharraf, Aziz duo

A Commission probing the Lal Masjid Operation of 2007 on Monday resummoned former president, General (retd) Pervez Musharraf and former prime minister, Shaukat Aziz...

Threats to democracy have soared after SC order: HRCP

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said on Tuesday that following the Supreme Court’s (SC) order for the arrest of the prime minister,...

ECP registers 216 political parties for upcoming polls

As many as 216 political parties have been registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to contest upcoming general elections against 342 seats...