Tag: Committees

JAP demands Parliamentary Committee’s apology

LAHORE - The Judicial Activism Panel (JAP) called for a Parliamentary Committee's apology on Friday for not accepting the Judicial Commission's recommendations and four Lahore High Court (LHC) judges' dropped extension. JAP also disapproved of the resolutions presented to the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) against Geo Group and demanded an investigation into matter. The panel meeting, presided over by Muhammad Azhar Siddique, said it was not morally appropriate that group

DHA residents form committees to resolve issues

LAHORE - The DHA Resident Association constituted five standing committees on Wednesday to address all sorts of issues faced by residents and to improve working relationship with DHA administration on cordial grounds The step was taken in an Executive Council meeting held under DHA Residence Association (DHA RA) President Rohail Ikram's headship at his office. DHA RA Secretary General Azam Nasir Chaudhry presented one month progress report at the meeting that thrashed out various

SHCBA to move SC against parliamentary committee’s decision

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA) announced on Wednesday that it would move the Supreme Court of Pakistan against a parliamentary committee's decision whereby the proposal for extension of two Sindh High Court (SHC) judges was rejected.
The SHCBA took the decision at a meeting chaired by SHCBA President Anwar Mansoor Khan and attended by SHCBA office-bearers and senior lawyers. The participants of the meeting condemned the parliamentary committee's decision

Qureshi’s departure delays parliament committee’s meeting

ISLAMABAD - The meeting of the parliament's National Security Affairs Committee, scheduled to take place on February 15, was cancelled due to resignation of former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Raza Rabbani, chairman of the committee said on Sunday. Shah Mehmood Qureshi, was to brief the National Security Affairs Committee about important security issues. The chairman of the committee Raza Rabbani also said that the meeting would be called soon.

CDGL constitutes committees to eliminate encroachments

LAHORE - The City District Government Lahore (CDGL) on Tuesday constituted two committees to eliminate encroachments and announced to prepare a list of town officials patronising encroachers. The district-level committee would work under supervision of the Lahore district coordination officer (DCO), members of national and provincial assemblies while TMOs and local policemen would observe the committees' working at the town-level.
The decision to constitute the committees was

PML-N’s reforms agenda – PPP, ‘N’ committees to meet next week

ISLAMABAD - The committees formed by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif to implement the PML-N's reforms agenda will have their first formal meeting in the
next few days.
In response to the PML-N's four-member committee, Gilani had also formed a committee last Thursday comprising federal ministers Babar Awan, Naveed Qamar, Pervez Ashraf, Abdul Hafeez Shaikh and Raza Rabbani which in collaboration with the PML-N team

Liaison committees to be set up in FATA

PESHAWAR
The government wants to establish more Civil-Military Liaison Committees in all parts of Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) to ensure development activities.
Officials in the FATA Secretariat told Pakistan Today that they had successfully implemented the plan as pilot projects in two FATA agencies, which were giving positive results.
"This is not only a check on the development work but also a support to those tribal people who are fighting the militants