Tag: Executive

PHF Executive Board meets today

LAHORE - The 19th Meeting of the PHF Executive Board will be held at the National Hockey Stadium Wednesday (today) at 1100 hours. The Board's Meeting has a comprehensive agenda that includes discussion on central contracts of the players, teams managements of senior and junior teams and issues that surfaced during the National Hockey Champianship.

Imran Butt elected to AWF Executive Board

LAHORE - Hafiz Imran Butt, General Secretary Pakistan Weightlifting Federation (PWLF) has been elected to the Executive Board of the Asian Weightlifting Federation (AWF) for a four-year term (2011-2014).
Imran received 30 votes out of 38 in the recently held elections of the federation in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Muhammad Yousef Al Mana from Qatar was elected as President, while Ali Moradi from Iran was elected as Secretary General. Six Vice Presidents and five other executive board

PHF Executive Board meeting tomorrow

LAHORE - The Pakistan Hockey Federation Executive Board will be meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) to take the final decisions on a number of issues. During the meeting, the team managements of the senior and junior teams will be finalised. The members will also review a number of complaints the federation received during the national and junior championships held at Faisalabad and Bahawalpur recently. Talking to journalists here on Monday, PHF Secretary Asif Bajwa said that apart from

Govt not to withdraw executive powers: Awan

LAHORE - Federal Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Dr Babar Awan has said that the federal government would not withdraw its executive powers conferred under the constitution to anyone.
Addressing PPP workers at the residence of Azizur Rehman Chan on Saturday, he said executive powers granted under the constitution could not be transferred to anyone else in accordance with the provisions of the constitution and those denying this were liable to the violation of the

Music executive slams Grammys in open letter

NEW YORK - A veteran music executive has lambasted the Grammy Awards as "a series of hypocrisies and contradictions," in a full-page advertisement that ran a week after last Sunday's annual ceremony. Steve Stoute's open letter to Grammy organizers ripped the organization and its 12,000-odd voters for snubbing Eminem and Justin Bieber at this year's ceremony, as well as Eminem and Kanye West at past events.
"Over the course of my 20-year history as an executive in the music

Jury finds Muslim TV executive guilty of beheading

LAHORE - After a three-week trial and one hour of deliberations, an upstate New York jury on Monday found Muzzammil Hassan guilty of second-degree murder for beheading his wife,
according to CNN.
In February 2009, Hassan, who founded a TV network aimed at countering Muslim stereotypes, went to a police station in the Buffalo, New York, suburb of Orchard Park and told officers his wife was dead, police said. Aasiya Hassan had been decapitated, with prosecutor Paul Bonanno,

Google co-founder Larry Page to replace chief executive

LOS ANGELES - Google co-founder Larry Page is to regain full-control of the internet phenomenon he created as a student in 1996, after Eric Schmidt announced he is to step down as chief executive more than a decade after he was brought in to provide "adult supervision".
The shock management shake-up, which will see Page become chief executive on April 4, came as the company reported a better-than-expected 29pc increase in full-year pre-tax profits to $10.8bn. Schmidt, who was

Faisal elected to AFC executive committee

LAHORE - Faisal Saleh Hayat has become the first ever Pakistani to have been elected to the executive committee of the Asian Football Confederation. The 24th Congress of AFC held at Doha Qatar Thursday confirmed Mohamed Bin Hammam as the AFC President for a third term after he was elected unopposed.
Bin Hammam, who became AFC President in 2002, was the only candidate in the election and his victory was confirmed by acclamation from the delegates representing the AFC's 46 Member

PHF’s executive board meets today

LAHORE - The meetings of Pakistan Hockey Federation's Executive Board and Congress will be held on December 28 at National Hockey Stadium. President PHF Qasim Zia will chair both the meetings. The 18th meeting of PHF Executive Board will take place at 10:30am.
Secretary PHF Muhammad Asif Bajwa will produce the report of the year 2010. The members of the executive board are President PHF Qasim Zia, Vice Presidents Nawab Lashkari Raisani, Saeed Khan, Women's Vice President

‘Govt won’t withdraw executive order’

ISLAMABAD: The government has no intention of withdrawing its notification of March 16, 2009, Attorney General of Pakistan Maulvi Anwarul Haq told the Supreme Court on Monday.
Appearing before a 17-member larger bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry which was hearing a suo motu case pertaining to media reports alleging the government of contemplating the withdrawal of the March 16, 2009 notification reinstating the superior judiciary, the AG informed the court

SC binds all judicial, executive authorities to obey its orders

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that all judicial and executive authorities were bound to obey its orders under Articles 189 and 190 of the constitution.
Article 189 reads, "Any decision of the Supreme Court shall, to the extent that it decides a question of law or is based upon or enunciates a principle of law, be binding on all other courts in Pakistan."
Article 190 says, "All executive and judicial authorities throughout Pakistan shall act in aid of the