Tag: Govt

KARACHI - The Sindh government will stop bureaucrats' allowances and incentive packages so that money could be saved for plugging and repairing flood protective bunds, sources in the Finance Department informed Pakistan Today.
Government officers working on various projects are drawing funds worth billions of rupees in the form of special allowances, project allowances and incentive packages. Sindh is dealing with one of the worst financial constraints following the floods that

KARACHI - The Sindh government has issued a termination warning to a Chinese company over the firm's non-tangible progress and non-performance for the development of coal mine-mouth power generation project of 250MW in District Thatta.
According to a letter written to China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CMC) Project Manager Wang Xuequn by the Coal and Energy Development Department Sindh, the current state of affairs of the firm' project is not in line with

KARACHI - The government has kept issuing show cause notice to the mutual funds for the sub judice matter of not making contributions to the Workers' Welfare Fund (WWF). "There have been instances whereby show cause notices under Section 221 of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 have been issued to a number of mutual funds for the recovery of WWF," Arif Habib Investments told its shareholders at Karachi Stock Exchange.
The government and Mutual Funds Association of Pakistan (MUFAP)

RAMALLAH - Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad has proposed forming a unity government with Hamas, under which the Islamist group would have responsibility for security in Gaza. Speaking to Palestinian journalists late on Monday, Fayyad said the "security concept" applied by Hamas in Gaza, where the group has sought to enforce a ceasefire with Israel, could provide common ground.
"The security concept practised by Hamas in the Gaza Strip should be brought under an official

LAHORE - The acting president of Awami national Party (ANP) Haji Adeel has said that Punjab's rulers must not have a 'soft corner' for the militant groups and that they should rather work seriously to eradicate terrorism from the province.
Senator Haji Adeel was speaking at a peace conference arranged by
the ANP at Lahore Press Club on Tuesday. The moot was held in connection with the 23rd death anniversary of Bacha Khan. "Over 500 workers and office-bearers of the ANP had

ISLAMABAD - Hundreds of poor patients visiting the government run hospitals in the capital city suffer immensely because of faulty x-rays and test machines and the doctors remain oblivious to their condition. A large number of patients are forced to visit government hospitals daily because of abject poverty as they cannot afford private hospitals or clinics.
During a survey of two major government run hospitals in Islamabad, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) and

KARACHI - The federal government has forfeited the $1.125 million guarantee of Hub Power Company (Hubco) after the latter's failure to complete the 214 megawatt power project in Narowal district of Punjab, the power company said in its directors' report to shareholders at Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad stock exchanges.
The government took the punitive measure in December last year after the contractor failed to complete the 214MW Narowal plant per agreed schedule. "Due to the

ISLAMABAD - Warning the government of another long march in case PML-N's all options failed to bring government on the right track, party central leader Ahasan Iqbal on Monday said the country was facing a "failed regime", as the government had totally failed to overcome crises created by former military dictator Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf.
Addressing a news conference at the PML-N secretariat, he said it was the PML-N which had pressed the government to oust Musharraf from the

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik informed the National Assembly on Monday that the government, in collaboration with madaris organisations, would launch a de-radicalisation programme for jails, as they were harbouring militants. He was responding to a question regarding the achievement of the targets in the light of recommendations made by Jail Reforms 1997.
The National Assembly was told that the Punjab government had not fully achieved the objectives and targets set

ISLAMABAD - Extending their protest from the schools premises to roads, hundreds of teachers affiliated with Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) on Monday staged a sit-in at the D Chowk near the Parliament House, demanding regularisation and revision of their service structure.
Carrying placards in their hands, more than 3,000 teachers marched from the Press Club to the culmination point as they expressed their anger against the government for not fulfilling their demands.

ISLAMABAD - As many as 40 percent government boys' schools are being run without libraries, playgrounds and proper security arrangements. According to FAFEN monitoring report issued here on Monday, 38 percent of high schools run by the government do not have a library, 40 percent lack playgrounds and 42 percent do not have security guards for the protection of students.
The report said that FAFEN governance monitors visited 50 government boys' high schools in 41 districts of the

ISLAMABAD - The government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will hold talks for the release of at least one tranche of $1.7 billion during the current financial year on February 28. An official source said that the government was hopeful of obtaining one tranche during the current financial year, as despite difficulties improvements were made on the economic front.
The release of one tranche from IMF was crucial as it would help in getting the release of committed funds

ISLAMABAD - The government is likely to seek more time from the PML-N for the implementation of its 10-point reforms agenda during the stock taking exercise on Tuesday. PML-N had announced on February 15 that it would hold no more parleys with the government on reforms agenda and would hold stock taking on the implementation of reforms on February 22 to decide its future course of action.
It had categorically linked support to the government's plans for additional revenue

LAHORE - Former senior vice president of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) and former Pakistan Poultry Association (PPA) chairman Abdul Basit has urged the government to review its agricultural policies as the sector has the capacity to wear off the impact of ongoing economic meltdown.
In a press statement issued here on Saturday, Abdul Basit said that potential of Pakistan's agriculture sector had not been fully exploited due to a number of reasons including

ISLAMABAD - Abdul Latif, a 50 year old employee of the Economic Afairs Division (EAD), was shot dead on Saturday by in-laws of his daughter, who married a young man through a local court. According to police, Adalat Khan and Attique, brother and brother-in-law of the girl, shot Abdul Latif outside his house in sector G-6-1/3 in the precincts of Aabpara Police Sation.
The girl's husband, Asad, informed police that his father was shot dead by Adalat and Attique. Body of the

ISLAMABAD - The government would opt for international listings of a few state owned enterprises (SOEs), while some entities would be listed before privatisation on public private partnership. The Privatisation Commission (PC), on Saturday, issued policy guidelines for privatisation through capital market transaction, approved by the Cabinet Committee on Privatisation (CCOP) on February 3.
The statement said that CCOP approved the privatisation policy of supporting capital market

LAHORE - Punjab's physically challenged children are being deprived of facilities they were granted during the previous government, former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi said on Saturday. The Punjab government has denied zakat to orphans since 2008 and now has refused to help support the disabled which was condemnable, said Elahi, senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q.
He said that these decisions come in contempt of the Punjab governments trumpeting of the