Tag: Compensation

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Punjab government, insurance company concerned and the Motorway Police to compensate the heirs of 37 people, mostly...

A citizen tried to move the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday seeking compensation for the family of Raja Khan who had committed suicide...

The Upper House of parliament would approve a piece of legislation today (Friday), aimed at enhancing the liability on account of death of a...

Various areas of Dadu are still submerged under three to four feet of water, destroying fodder which cultivators had stacked for their livestock, and...

The government is likely to release cash compensation of Rs 20,000 to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s victims of last year’s floods before Eid-ul-Fitr while the marooned...

Qatar Airways has paid Rs 1.1 million as compensation to a Pakistani family headed by Imran Ali, a handicapped person, who had filed a...

A two-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Javed Iqbal was informed on Thursday that the government was considering a plan to...

KARACHI - Flood survivors of at least seven flood-ravaged districts of Sindh are likely to be compensated by the federal government for their losses suffered during last year's devastating floods, but only after a thorough survey of actual losses has been completed.
Well-placed sources told Pakistan Today that the decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting held in the federal capital recently, so that the flood-affected families could be provided with some

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) issued notices to the interior secretary and the Sindh home secretary on Tuesday on a constitutional petition about providing compensation to the heirs of targeted killing victims in the city.
A division bench headed by the SHC chief justice was hearing a petition filed by Iqbal Kazmi seeking provision of compensation to the heirs of the people killed in the recent incidents of targeted killings equal to that which is being provided to the

PESHAWAR - Families of the tribesmen killed and injured in the deadly US drone strike on a tribal jirga on Thursday refused to accept the government's compensation and demanded a halt to US drone strikes in the region. The government had announced Rs 300,000 (about $3,530) each person killed and Rs 100,000 for each injured. Over 40 tribesmen were killed and many others injured in a drone strike on a jirga of council of tribal elders in Datta Khel area of North Waziristan on March 17.

SIALKOT - Federal Information Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Sunday visited the heirs of the five people who were killed during a windstorm in village Machchrala, Buhadarpura, Chakrala and Dera Bhattian near Head Marala, district Sialkot.
She consoled the grieved families and offered fateha for the departed souls. Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan announced Rs 500,000 and Rs 100,000 compensation for each dead and injured, respectively, on behalf of the prime minister.
Later, she

ISLAMABAD - Condemning the drone attack in Datta Khel that killed more then 40 people, Muttahida Qabaili Party (MQP) President Habib Malik on Saturday demanded the government compensate the families of victims of the drone attack.
Addressing a news conference at the National Press Club (NPC), Habib said the killing of innocent people in Datta Khel would not have taken place had the government alerted Pakistan Air Force before such drone attacks. Malik said the air force should

LAHORE - Hundreds of land owners at the Bhatta Chowk on Saturday protested against the government-proposed compensation money for land evacuation, terming it low. The protestors piled up at the chowk, held up placards and banners and chanted slogans to rationalize the land price. The protestors have tea stalls, eateries, hotels and plazas at stake as the government has decided for Bhatta Chowk widening.
They warned the government of hunger strike and sit-ins if the government

ISLAMABAD: The Standing Committee of the Senate on States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) has said that it would recommend to the government that compensation amount, being paid to the families of the Levies force's martyred soldiers, should be increased as the current compensation amount of Rs 200, 000 was not enough for them.
The committee meeting held on Friday also said that it would make recommendations for an increase in the compensation amount and recruitment of local people

LAHORE - The Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) has transferred the remaining Rs 3.0 billion to the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government for compensation of built-up property belonging to those affected by the Mangla Dam Raising Project. Therefore, total compensation for Mangla Dam Raising Project has now been made to the AJK Government. This also includes payment to the old affectees of Mangla Dam.
The AJK Government has started disbursement of the amount to the

Lahore - Punjab government has increased the compensation amount in case of injury and death to a passenger in road accidents and has amended the 'Motor Vehicle Ordinance 1965' for the purpose. The government will introduce 'Provincial Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill 2010' in the Punjab Assembly's forthcoming meeting for the new compensation schedule.
The new compensation amount will be applicable on those motorists who carry not more than six passengers and the compensation

NEW DELHI: The Indian government is seeking to more than double the compensation paid by a US chemical company for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster to 1.1 billion dollars, a government lawyer said Friday.
The lawyer from the attorney general's office said the government had filed a case in the Supreme Court demanding compensation of 50 billion rupees (1.1 billion dollars).
Last year, the government said it would look into how to retroactively increase the amount of compensation