Tag: Delays

ISLAMABAD - Giving priority to the government's review petition against the NRO verdict, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry delayed the hearings of petitions against the 18th Amendment, originally scheduled to be held on April 18, till the third week of May subject to availability of the bench.
The CJP said in a brief order that the hearings had been adjourned because of the hearing of the review plea against the NRO verdict scheduled to be

LAHORE - The members of the Pakistan Cricket Board selection committee and other officials have started deliberations on the composition of the team for the upcoming West Indies tour, and the likely chance is that wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal, Younus Khan and Abdul Razzak would not be considered for selection.
The PCB is also considering hiring an English language expert for the team. The officials sat in a closed-door meeting and remained locked in deliberations as to who should

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday delayed operation of its verdict until April 11 in which it had overturned the Parliamentary Committee's (PC) decision of rejecting one-year extension to six additional judges of the Lahore and Sindh High Courts recommended by the Judicial Commission of Pakistan, directing the federal government to issue a notification to give them one-year extension. A four-member bench of Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja,

ISLAMABAD - In the wake of refusal by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement to rejoin the cabinet, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has decided to delay the second phase of cabinet induction and has handed over the charge of surplus ministries to eight important cabinet ministers.
The decision was made after the government failed in persuading the MQM and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F to join the cabinet, a source privy to the development confided to Pakistan Today on Saturday. "The

ISLAMABAD - With the Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam (JUI-F) in search of its status in the Parliament - either to join the treasury or the opposition - Speaker National Assembly (NA) Dr Fehmida Mirza finds herself in a difficult position about announcing the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) for the constitution of an independent Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
The proposed committee, under Article 213 of the Constitution after the passage of 18th Amendment, shall comprise equal

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.

KARACHI - The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is arbitrarily delaying starting construction of an airstrip in Islamkot, Tharparkar district, aimed at facilitating foreign investors to reach Thar coalfields by air. Despite the fact that the Sindh government had released Rs 315 million to the CAA last year, the authority has not spent even a single paisa for the airstrip's construction.
The provincial government had approved the location of the airstrip with a total cost of Rs

KARACHI - Amid several delays in both the awarding of dredging contracts and the physical dredging in the Deep Water Container Port (PDWCP) due to a lack of requisite equipment; the Karachi Port Trust (KPT) is still waiting for the delivery of two new dredgers to resume work on the project.
This lack of planning on the part of the KPT has resulted in the relegation of the project as it is behind schedule by roughly three to four years. This has caused not only consternation on

TORONTO - Canada's 15-man squad for the World Cup has included three Pakistan-born players who are still awaiting visa clearance to enter India where the team plays four of their six games.
The visa wrangle concerns vice-captain Rizwan Cheema, Khurram Chohan and back-up wicketkeeper Hamza Tariq.
"(We have been) waiting to have visas processed for several months now," Ranjit Saini, the Cricket Canada president, told Pakistan media recently. "Canada took a pre-World Cup

LAHORE - The Pakistan cricket Board has deferred the announcement of the team for the World Cup assuming they have time on their side for the final decision on certain players.
The PCB's integrity committee headed by Ijaz Butt spent the entire day grilling Kamran Akmal, Shoaib Malik, Danish Kaneria, Yasir Hameed and Khalid Latif on Thursday and mailed the details of the meeting to the ICC for clearance while on Friday the selection committee assembled at the PCB headquarters but

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board has put on hold the announcement of the team because of the delay in clearance of the two players from the International Cricket Council. The PCB has asked the ICC to clear Shoaib Malik and Kamran Akmal for selection in the New Zealand ODI series and the World Cup but till late, no reply was received and the board officials are further discussing the list.
An official of the board said: "A meeting of the selection committee was held on

LAHORE: Fresh claims made by runaway wicket-keeper Zulqarnain Haider's have led the Pakistan Cricket Board to delay the naming of the provisional team for the 2011 World Cup and the New Zealand series. Zulqarnain had stated that he has knowledge regarding the match-fixers in the team which led the PCB to stop the team announcement for the New Zealand tour and the World Cup.
He claimed on his Facebook page that he will reveal the names of those who have received money to fix