Tag: Illegal

A three-member Supreme Court bench on Thursday directed Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul to submit within two weeks government’s stance over 686 illegal appointments in...

The Punjab National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has submitted a reference to an accountability court against former AC/DSC Rafique Ahmad Awan, Malik Masood Ahmad, former...

Iran’s parliament said on Wednesday President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad acted illegally by declaring himself caretaker oil minister and referred the case to the judiciary, increasing...

The Sindh Industrial and Trading Estates (SITE) Limited decided on Tuesday to take action against the illegal water hydrants being operated in the areas...

The French Open is considered by many to be the most difficult of the four major events on the tennis calendar. The slow red...

After the shocking revelation that around 37 million voters registered in the electoral rolls compiled in 2007 were dubious, the federal audit authorities have...

A PEMRA enforcement team in Peshawar, on Wednesday raided an illegal FM Radio station being run by NHA (National Highways Authority) in violation of...

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Punjab on Thursday filed a reference in an accountability court against the Rahim Yar Khan DHDC Training Institute Executive...

KARACHI - Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) teams embarked on a campaign on Tuesday to remove illegal electricity connection (kundas) in Abdullah Shah Ghazi Goth near Al-Azhar Garden in KDA Scheme No 33, but were attacked by the violent residents of the unauthorised settlement, the power utility claimed in a press release issued on Wednesday.
The teams also seized one complete span of BC wire and around 800 metres long PVC and telephone wire used for stealing electricity

RAWALPINDI - On the directives of Punjab Government, the Rawalpindi administration has decided to take action against 66 hotels and inns for their involvement in illegal activities.
The intelligence agencies in their report to high-ups of Punjab Government recommended action against 66 hotels and inns in Rawalpindi because they are posing security threats, sources said.
The agencies in their report also mentioned the activities, being carried out in these hostels and inns.

LAHORE - On the instructions of Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL), Lahore General Manager Abdul Haseeb, the company's gas theft unit closed 40 illegal connections in Zia Colony, Township. Haseeb took action on news of Pakistan Today and ordered the team to check the area.
He said that the SNGPL always wants to serve the public in a better way and is committed to take action against gas thieves.

LAHORE - Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Town Planning Wing staff on Thursday demolished a number of illegal buildings in various localities of the city.
The LDA staff demolished a hospital structure, which was illegally constructed on Plot Number 3 Block F/1 WAPDA Town.
Two structures constructed without getting approval of the building plan from LDA on Plots Number 196 and 217 of L-Block Sabzazar Scheme were also razed. Constructions on plot numbers 412,413 and 414 of

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court was requested on Monday to take suo motu notice of the illegal gratification in allotment of residential plots to the then chief justice of Pakistan Sheikh Riaz Ahmed and others by National Police Foundation (NPF), Islamabad in their Housing Scheme in E-11 Sector of the federal capital.
The application for suo motu notice was filed by Dr Muhammad Aslam Khaki, an Islamic jurist and Supreme Court advocate, under article 184 (3) of the constitution,

KARACHI - The federal and Sindh governments have yet to develop a policy to exclude illegal immigrants living in the province from the first phase of the census that is starting on Tuesday, sources have said. Through several reports, the federal government has admitted that over 2 million illegal immigrants are living in Sindh, including the provincial capital, Karachi. Chief Secretary Abdul Subhan Memon recently conducted a meeting at his office to discuss the census that is to be

LAHORE - The Lahore Development Authority's Town Planning Wing demolished on Saturday as many as nine buildings being illegally constructed in PIA Housing Scheme and sealed another four on the main boulevard of the same scheme. Four buildings were being constructed as commercial structures in violation of the residential plans approved for plots 9-G, 16-F, 410-E and 40-B/1. Similarly no building plan had been got approved for under-construction buildings on plots 97-G, 422-E, 249-C

KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution demanding the enumeration of people living on water bodies and far-flung areas of the province and the exclusion of illegal immigrants during the census to be started on April 5.
The resolution was jointly moved by PML-F member Nusrat Saher Abbasi and some PPP and MQM members. "This assembly resolves and recommends to the Sindh government to approach the federal government for issuing directives to the

ISLAMABAD - Illegal madrassas continue to mushroom in the federal capital right under the administration's nose with the bosses blaming each other for not taking an initiative to stop the growth which might threaten the civic life on the pattern of Lal Masjid if not checked in time.
The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and the Auqaf Department have not put their heads together to make a law to regulate the construction of