Tag: Demands

Former Sri Lanka cricket captain Hashan Tillakaratne on Friday demanded police protection before he shares information on alleged match-fixing with authorities. “As an eyewitness...

LAHORE - PPP's Opposition Leader in the Punjab Assembly Raja Riaz on Wednesday demanded the removal of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif for being "incapable" and letting bad governance touch new peaks. Addressing a news conference at the Punjab Assembly Secretariat, Riaz strongly criticised Shahbaz's performance as chief minister, saying he was not capable of handling affairs of a province like Punjab and should quit from office in the best interest of the people. He said the

LAHORE - Chief selector Mohsin Khan has demanded monetary reward for selectors after the team's performance in the recently-concluded ICC World Cup 2011. Mohsin's demand follows a similar statement by national team coach Waqar Younis.
Mohsin stated the example of India, where he claimed the national selectors were given bonuses of 2.5 million each for the Indian team's World Cup title victory. Mohsin said Pakistani selectors also deserved a similar treatment. "When you consider

ISLAMABAD - The government filed an application in the Pakistan Bar Council's (PBC) Disciplinary Committee on Friday requesting it to initiate proceedings against senior lawyer Kamal Azfar for professional misconduct, as he appeared in the Supreme Court (SC) on behalf of the government in a review petition against the SC's verdict on the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO).
The application said that Latif Khosa had replaced Kamal Azfar in the NRO review petition on October 6

LAHORE - A couple was murdered in Kamahan Village in the Nishtar Colony police precincts on Monday evening. The deceased were identified as Nawaz and his wife Irshad, residents of Kamahan Village. Nawaz was a gardener by profession. A police investigator said that the accused, identified as Murtaza, was Irshad's cousin. Irshad had reportedly eloped with Murtaza, and they had a son, SHO Nishtar Colony Police Station claimed. Later, Irshad had returned home and had started living with

MOSCOW - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday set the country's sports ministry and Russian Football Union (RFU) the task of preparing a strong team for the 2018 World Cup.
"We should prepare a strong national team for the 2018 World Cup," Putin said at a meeting of 2018 World Cup organising board.
"We all understand that this task could not be solved in one or just two years. We still have seven years ahead and we need to carry out an everyday, laborious,

KARACHI - Expressing deep concern over the growing incidents of extortion and kidnappings for ransom in the city, the MQM on Saturday demanded that the government should take solid steps for protecting the life and property of the citizens and initiate firm action against those involved in these crimes.
In a statement issued by the MQM Coordination Committee, it was stated that despite the claims of the government administration, the criminals are moving in the streets freely and

KARACHI - Expressing deep concern over the growing incidents of extortion and kidnappings for ransom in the city, the MQM on Saturday demanded that the government should take solid steps for protecting the life and property of the citizens and initiate firm action against those involved in these crimes. In a statement issued by the MQM Rabita Committee, it was stated that despite the claims of the government administration, the criminals are roaming freely on the streets of the city

LAHORE - The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern at registration of cases in Khanewal against hundreds of tenants under the Anti-Terrorism Act. The tenants had participated in a march to Lahore on Monday to press their demand for ownership rights of the land that they had been cultivating for decades.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the commission said that while the administration had largely refrained from using force to prevent the tenants'

AMMAN - Jordan's Islamist opposition, leftists and trade unions on Saturday demanded the ouster of Prime Minister Maaruf Bakhit, who they blame for violence that has killed one person and injured 130.
"The Islamist movement demands the resignation, or the sacking, of the government and the formation a national unity and reformist government that would win the people's trust and protect their lives,"
Hamzah Mansur, chief of the powerful Islamic Action Front (IAF), said. "Any

ISLAMABAD - The Young Doctors Association (YDA) urged the government on Thursday to regularise the services of doctors who were working on contractual basis and induct young doctors in BPS-18 to raise young doctors' pay according to the reservations of National Health Commission (NHC) and Pay and Pension Committee (PPC). Briefing journalists at the National Press Club, (YDA) President Dr Muhammad Ajmal said the doctors were struggling for their rights for last many decades.
The

ISLAMABAD - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on Thursday asked the government to convene emergency meetings of the UN and foreign ministers of the entire Muslim world to record protest at the international level against the desecration of the Holy Quran by an American pastor. Speaking at a news conference here, JI Secretary General Liaqat Baloch termed the desecration of the Holy Quran by the pastor as 'ideological terrorism' of the US and the West which, he said, was condemnable in the strongest

LAHORE - With a whooping slogan to nurture a new social contact to convert the state into a genuine welfare state, a provincial convention (Punjab) in
connection with Pakistan Day under the aegis of Peace Alliance was held at Ali Institute, Ferozepur road here on Wednesday.
The convention was participated by hundreds of people hailing from far fetched areas of Punjab. In his address, Provincial Convention Irfan Mufti said that the purpose behind the gathering was to initiate

PESHAWAR - The participants of People's Assembly and Amn Ittehad convention, held here at Archive Hall on Tuesday, agreed to work for a new social contract. KP SAFMA President Shamim Shahid was the chief guest and Rakhshinda Naz of Women Action Fourrm was its moderator while Maryam Bibi inaugurated the convention.
Ali Asghar Khan of OAKF, Sikandar Zaman and Allah Noor Afridi of SAP-PK, Gul Rehman Khan of MLF, Nazeef Khan and Idrees Kamal of Amn Tehrik, Ghani Gul Mahsud of PPP,

LAHORE - Members of the Punjab Assembly have demanded the government declare the income from liquor manufacture and sale 'haram' (prohibited); and take measures to ban the making, sale and use of liquor. Deputy Speaker Rana Mashhood said it lay with the federal government to deal with the matter and the provincial government could not do anything on this. He, however, asked Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Rana Sanaullah to discuss the issue with both Muslim and non-Muslims

MANAMA - Bahrain's main opposition groups have eased conditions for talks to end a crisis that has drawn in neighbouring Gulf armies and raised tensions in the oil-exporting region.
Led by the largest Shi'ite opposition party Wefaq, they called late on Saturday on security forces to free all those detained in the wake of a month of protests, end their crackdown and ask Gulf Arab troops to leave so talks could begin.
"Prepare a healthy atmosphere for the start of political

KARACHI - Rice exporters have urged the government to collect all taxes and levies under withholding tax as full and final liability, instead of imposing different levies on them.
"Rice exporters do not want to interact with various tax collection departments and instead wanted to pay all taxes in withholding which is deductible, at source, from the export proceeds by the collecting banks", said the acting chairman Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP) Abdul Ahad Tareen,