Tag: Fine

Profiteers booked, fined

Islamabad Secretariat Assistant Commissioner Nauman Yousuf conducted raids at hotels and snack shops at Rawal Lake and its adjoining areas and fined shopkeepers for...

‘Offer NBP incentives or we won’t collect traffic fines’

National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) on Friday refused to collect traffic rule violation fines without incentive. City Traffic Police sources told Pakistan Today...

Fine for revenues, ruinous for cricket

If there is one man for whom most of the old-fashioned cricket lovers would gladly put up a ‘wanted dead or alive’ bounty sign,...

PCB deducts Afridi’s fine from his salary

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has recovered a fine of Rs 4.5 million from former national captain Shahid Afridi. A senior official of the...

CCP imposes Rs10m fine on Engro Vopak Terminal

The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) on Friday imposed a penalty of Rs10 million on the Engro Vopak Terminal Limited (EVTL) for violating competition...

Court adjourns Shoaib’s appeal

Court adjourned an appeal by retired international paceman Shoaib Akhtar against a record seven million rupee ($82,400) disciplinary fine imposed three years ago. The 35-year-old,...

Afridi slapped hefty fine, gets NOC

The disciplinary committee of the Pakistan Cricket Board has fined Shahid Afridi Rs 4.5 million for violating the code of conduct and restored his...

Rs4.5m fine imposed on Afridi

The Disciplinary Committee of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has imposed a fine of Rs 4.5 million on former cricket captain Shahid Afridi and...

Warne says IPL fine was for ‘telling the truth’

Australia's retiring spin legend Shane Warne on Thursday slammed the hefty fine handed to him during the IPL for a public spat with an...

CCP fines five companies for collusive bidding

The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP), on Monday, imposed a Rs 10 million penalty on five companies, which have been found engaged in collusive...

French police fine woman for wearing veil

VERSAILLES - French police fined a woman for wearing a full-face Islamic veil, the first reported enforcement of a ban on the garment on the day it came into effect, a police source said Tuesday. The young woman, born in 1983, was fined 150 euros (216 dollars) "without incident" in a shopping centre in Mureaux, northwest of Paris, early Monday evening, the source said.

French police fine woman for wearing full Islamic face veil

VERSAILLES - French police fined a woman for wearing a full-face Islamic veil, the first reported enforcement of a ban on the garment on the day it came into effect, a police source said Tuesday.
The young woman, born in 1983, was fined 150 euros (216 dollars) "without incident" in a shopping centre in Mureaux, northwest of Paris, early Monday evening, the source said, without elaborating on exactly what she was wearing.
France on Monday became the first country in Europe to

Exploring fine lines between subject matter, content

KARACHI - Sobia Ahmed, who pursued her studies at the National College of Arts in Lahore, is obsessed with the ambition to make a name for herself among miniature artists. She has blossomed into an artist whose work reflects her thoughts and emotions as she continues to explore the fine lines between the subject matter and the content in her works.
Her watercolours seem to grow out of deep metaphysical recesses while she relies on abstraction and form to compose a miniature work.

Rahat’s fine was reduced because of our govt: Malik

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Interior Rehman Malik said that Rahat
Fateh Ali Khan was originally fined Rs 20 million but the amount was reduced to Rs 1.5 million on the request of Pakistan's government. He was talking to the media outside the Parliament House on Wednesday.
"Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is our star and we had to help him. The Indian government reduced the fine amount from Rs 20 million to Rs 1.5 million on the request of Pakistan government," Malik said. He,

Yousuf slapped with fine, ban in Quaid Trophy

LAHORE - There seems to be no end to the woes of Muhammad Yousuf as after suffering the ignominy of being rejected for the World Cup and the preparatory tour to New Zealand, the former Pakistan captain has now been slapped with fine and ban in the ongoing Quaid-e-Azam tournament.
Match referee Illyas Khan imposed penalties of Rs 15,000 fine and two-match ban on Yousuf after he violated the PCB code of conduct for wearing kits on the field and showing up late for a match in

Waqt, Samaa must pay fine or face legal action

ISLAMABAD - The penalty of Rs 1 million on two private TV channels, Waqt and Samaa, was imposed after giving them ample opportunity to show cause and explain their positions, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) said in a press release on Tuesday.
These channels had projected terrorists and had aired scenes of blood while covering the incident of assassination of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer besides repeatedly airing the interview of the assassin in

Saudi Haj officials fine PIA 2.4m riyals

KARACHI: Saudi Arabia's Haj officials have fined the PIA 2.4 million riyals for not providing pilgrims with ED forms and also for the delay and cancellation of flights, Pakistan Today has learnt.
According to sources in the national carrier, PIA is now trying to settle the matter with the Saudi officials and has offered them gifts to have the fine waived off.
There was a shortage of ED forms provided by the Ministry of Religious Affairs to the pilgrims, who are supposed to