Tag: Govt

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has said that the development of Balochistan is the priority of the Government.
The Prime Minister expressed these views while talking to Mr Changez Jamali, Minister for Science & Technology who called on him at PM's House on Saturday.
The introduction of Aghaz-e-Haqooe-e-Balochistan, he added, is the manifestation of the stern resolve of the Government.
The representation of Balochistan in the Federal Cabinet shows that

KARACHI - The Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) led by former Sindh chief minister Liaquat Ali Jatoi on Friday decided to file a constitutional petition in the Supreme Court requesting that the court stops the government from working, forms a caretaker government under Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudry's guidance, and conducts general elections.
The decision was made during a meeting of the AIP Central Executive Council (CEC) held in a local hotel on Friday. Briefing the media,

LAHORE - Through the proposed 'New Entrant Policy', the government has planned to end the stranglehold that existing players enjoy in the automobile and auto-vending industry. Earlier, the government relaxed conditions on the imports of second hand cars, now it has proposed tax discounts for new entrants, which would ultimately eliminate the local manufacturing.
Official documents made available to Pakistan Today suggests that the proposed policy under the Auto Industry

LAHORE - The Punjab government has given a 24-hour ultimatum to young doctors to call off their strike or face action under the Compulsory Service Act, a cabinet meeting decided late on Friday.
Terming the services of doctors attached to the Health Department "essential", the government decided further that police be deployed at hospitals to ensure their smooth operation. "It has been decided to ensure that those who want to work should keep working and no one should be allowed

ISLAMABAD - With the objective of resolving the load-shedding issue, the government decided on Friday to completely revamp the power sector with in order to get rid of load-shedding and address other issues of sustainability in the power sector. The meeting was chaired by President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani. Both took serious notice of the continued load-shedding of power and gas in the country and ordered that no bureaucratic delays and bottlenecks be

KARACHI - The State Bank of Pakistan said it would buy government paper from commercial banks on Friday in 7-day reverse repo to inject funds into the money market.
The State Bank of Pakistan did not say how much money it would inject through the open market operation.
The result of the auction will be announced at 10:30 a.m. (0530 GMT) and settlement will be later in the day.

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI - As the Supreme Court takes up the contempt of court proceedings against Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leaders Taj Haider and Sharjeel Inam Memon today (Friday), the ruling party launched Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza against the judiciary on Thursday and he hurled threats at the judges upon his arrival in Islamabad, saying that anyone talking in terms of power would have to face an even stronger response. Speaking to PPP workers at Benazir International

KARACHI - Twenty-three-year-old Zain*, a Catholic Christian, was admitted to the emergency ward of the Civil Hospital Karachi after he was shot and wounded as a passer-by in a crossfire. While his worried parents and sister stood around waiting for the doctor's verdict, men in green turbans and high shalwars swooped down on Zain. "Brother, you must denounce your infidel ways. Kalma parhein (recite the Kalma)," they told the young man who was barely conscious and obviously in immense

KARACHI - The Sindh government has issued strict orders for security of all political parties' offices and political and religious gatherings across the province after the Swabi and Charsadda incidents. Issuing orders to Sindh inspector general of police (IGP), Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Ali Mirza said that extraordinary security should be provided to all mosques, imambargahs and other places of worship. Mirza directed the IGP to maintain tight security and vigilance on April 4 on the

LAHORE - The Punjab Health Department has decided to provide free diagnostic facilities at all government hospitals, Punjab Health Director General Dr Aslam Chaudhry said on Thursday. He was addressing an awareness seminar on dengue fever at the Institute of Public Health (IPH). IPH Dean Dr Yaqoob Qazi, Punjab Chief Bacteriologist Dr Zarfishan Tahir and Professor Kokab Aslam also spoke on the occasion. Aslam said that the IPH is also providing diagnostic facility for this purpose.

KARACHI - The federal government would borrow Rs 1.19 trillion from the banking system to meet its heavy budgetary expenditures during fourth and last quarter of the current fiscal year.
Terming the government's borrowing-prone tendency as detrimental for the economy, analysts believe that economic managers of the country should recover the "stolen" money, amounting to around Rs 700 billion instead of greater loans or slapping taxpayers with new levies.
The federal

ISLAMABAD - The Senate was informed on Wednesday that various government departments owed Rs 83,522.47 million to WAPDA and its total recoverable amount across the country was Rs 210,784.64 million.
This was stated in written reply to a question. No supplementary question was raised in the House as the question-answer session was deferred because no minister or anyone who could speak on behalf of the government was present in the House.
Giving the province-wise breakup, the

DAMASCUS - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accepted his government's resignation on Tuesday after nearly two weeks of pro-democracy unrest that has posed the gravest challenge to his 11-year rule.
But the move was unlikely to satisfy protester demands since the cabinet has little authority in Syria, where power is concentrated in the hands of Assad, his family and the security apparatus. Tens of thousands of Syrians held pro-government rallies on Tuesday, awaiting a speech in

LAHORE - The Punjab government on Tuesday transferred various officers.
Captain (r) Saqib Zafar, officer on special duty (OSD), Services & General Administration Department has been posted as district coordination officer, Rawalpindi, against a vacant post, relieving Muhammad Zubair, executive district officer (Revenue), Rawalpindi, of additional charge of the post.
Ayesha Mumtaz, district monitoring officer, PESRP, Lahore, has been transferred and posted as deputy district

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari said on Monday the government did not want a clash of the institutions and that "democracy is the best revenge". "We strengthened the institutions by giving more powers to parliament and we are willing to work and fight for a better democracy," Zardari said at the 21st All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) award distribution ceremony at Aiwan-e-Sadr. The president said that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) did not take the path of aggression

LAHORE - The Punjab home secretary told the court in a written reply on Monday in connection with the hearing of a habeas corpus petition for the recovery of the families of Faizan and Faheem, the two men killed by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor Raymond Davis, that the Punjab government was completely unaware of the families' whereabouts and suggested that the Lahore High Court ask the government about the allegedly missing families.The reply surprised many in the

ISLAMABAD - The government filed a review petition on Monday against the Supreme Court (SC)'s decision overturning the Parliamentary Committee (PC)'s rejection to grant one-year extensions to six additional judges of the Lahore High Court (LHC) and Sindh High Court (SHC), which were recommended by the Judicial Commission. In the review petition filed through Deputy Attorney General KK Agha, the government contended that an incorrect and flawed assumption was made in the apex court's