Tag: Grants

In a move ‘initiated to discourage private transporters’ from operating within the University of Karachi (KU), the varsity’s security department started collecting charges from...

The Punjab government on Friday requested the Lahore High Court (LHC) to give time to file reply on a petition filed by former member...

Afghanistan's Ministry of Finance and the World Bank (WB) signed a $22 million grant from the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) for the...

The National Assembly Standing Committee on Petroleum directed Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) to fix responsibility on officials responsible for granting 476 licenses...

The National Assembly approved with a majority vote on Thursday supplementary grants amounting to Rs 664.399 billion against 131 demands for excessive grants by...

The National Assembly on Friday approved 77 demands for grants of over Rs 2 trillion as opposition members demanded the government put all the...

Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources has decided to grant production bonus to those districts where oil and gas reserves have been discovered, the...

Sindh’s bureaucracy, particularly the heads of various administrative departments, have been warned not to directly approach Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah for allocation of...

Atif Aziz Polani, allegedly involved in money laundering, was granted bail against a surety of Rs 10 million by the Sindh High Court (SHC)...

LAHORE - A division bench of the Lahore High Court Tuesday granted bail to Saud Aziz, former City Police Officer (CPO) Rawalpindi, and then SP Rawalpindi City Khurram Shehzad in the murder case of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
The bench comprising LHC Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry and Justice Ijazul Ahsan allowed bail to Saud Aziz and Khurram Shahzad on surety bonds of Rs 1 million each. The court also directed the accused to surrender their passports to stop them

KARACHI - The Provincial Anti-Corruption Court on Thursday granted acquittal plea moved by lecturer Abdul Sattar Soomro charged with fake appointments in the Sindh Education Department.
The special court's Judge Rashida Asad passed the judgment after hearing arguments from both sides and examining the evidences and records produced by the prosecution.
Advocate Wazir Khoso appeared before the court on behalf of accused Abdul Sattar Soomro, a lecturer of Sindhi at Larkana's

LAHORE - Judicial Magistrate Rizwan Shah granted bail to 73 Provincial Management Services (PMS) officers, who had been arrested for protesting in Punjab Civil Secretariat, against personal surety bonds of Rs 500 each on Friday. The PMS Officers were brought in the district courts in five police prison buses like other criminals. A large number of their colleagues and other government servants received them. The counsels for the PMS Officers, Lahore Bar Association President Shahzad

MUSCAT - Oman's Sultan Qaboos on Sunday granted legislative power to the previously toothless Oman Council after weeks of anti-government protests in the strategic Gulf state.
"We grant the Oman Council legislative and regulatory powers," said a royal decree carried by ONA state news agency, referring to the elected Majlis Ash-Shura consultative council and the all-appointed Council of State. "A technical committee of specialists is to be formed to propose amendments to the state

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday granted pre-arrest protective bail to former federal religious affairs minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi until February 17 in the Haj corruption scam. LHC CJ Ijaz Chaudhry asked Kazmi to move the IHC for the bail's confirmation with a fresh petition, as the matter fell in the territorial jurisdiction of Islamabad where the Haj scam case was lodged against him by the FIA. Khurram Latif Khosa represented Kazmi in the court. The court directed the

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday granted three more days to the National Logistics Cell (NLC) director general, two former directors general and 30 other senior officials to submit their replies over the issue of containers meant for supplies to ISAF and NATO in Afghanistan, which entered the Pakistani territory over the past four years in the name of the Afghan Transit Trade (ATT) and pilfered, causing a whopping loss of Rs 19 billion to Rs 37 billion to the national

LONDON - British students prepared to take to the streets once again Wednesday over cuts to the education budget, this time over plans to scrap grants given to high-school pupils from low-income families. A march and rally were planned in London to coincide with a parliamentary debate on the coalition government's moves to scrap the education maintenance allowance as part of its efforts to slash the budget deficit.
The protest comes after a series of violent student

Quetta - The Balochistan High Court granted bail to Shahzain Bugti, the provincial president of the Jamhoori Watan Party, and his 26 guards on Monday.
Shahzain, the grandson of slain Baloch leader Akbar Bugti was arrested by the Frontier Corps and local police at Baleli checkpost on December 22 along with his 26 bodyguards for carrying a large cache of weapons when they were travelling from Chaman to Quetta.
Mukesh Nath Kohli, lawyer for Bugti and his 26 men, moved a bail