Tag: Illegal

KARACHI - As many as 155 lower-grade employees of the Sindh Education and Literacy Department, who were appointed by former Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim and sacked by the Qaim Ali Shah-led government, were reinstated on Friday by the Sindh High Court (SHC). In its verdict, an SHC division bench comprising Justice Shahid Anwar Bajwa and Justice Tufail H. Ibrahim declared the Sindh Education and Literacy Department's orders to terminate these employees as illegal, and ordered the

LAHORE - As many as 40 houses in the Zia Colony, Township are involved in gas theft and Sui Northern Gas Pipelines (SNGPL) management has turned a blind eye to the situation, Pakistan Today learnt on Thursday. The colony's survey by Pakistan Today reveals that an illegal meter is installed in the colony and the rest of the houses are getting gas from it. Sources said that SNGPL officials are accommodating those gas connections and, despite repeated complaints, are not disconnecting

ISLAMABAD - Due to the negligence of the Capital Development Authority (CDA), construction of illegal mosques continues in the city with over 40 mosques so far been illegally constructed in the various parts of the city while 82 other mosques have encroached upon CDA's land.
As many as 21 mosques in G series have been constructed illegally while 55 mosques have encroached upon CDA' land. In F series, 10 mosques have been illegally constructed while 13 other mosques have

WASHINGTON - A Pakistani national has been arrested and charged with a scheme to illegally export nuclear-related materials to Pakistan from the United States (US), the US Justice Department said on Wednesday. Nadeem Akhtar, 45, who lives in the a Washington suburb of Silver Spring, Maryland, was indicted for conspiring with others to illegally export restricted goods and technology to a Pakistani nuclear power plant and a Pakistani research commission. With an unidentified

SAHIWAL - The Revenue Department has retrieved government land worth Rs 1.88 billion from illegal possession, including commercial and residential land in Sahiwal worth Rs 1.66 billion and 3,473 canals of agriculture land in various villages in the district worth Rs 216 million.
District Officer Revenue (DOR) Sohail Ashraf said this while disclosing the details about the action taken against Qabza mafia in a meeting held at the commissioner's office.
He said the Revenue

KARACHI - Following the directives of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the officials of City District Government Karachi (CDGK) Anti-Encroachment Department on Friday razed two more illegal structures built on the city's parks. An anti-encroachment team, headed by District Officer Abdul Malik and Mansoor Ahmed Khan, demolished a football club office in Nishtar Park and a building in union council No 11 of Jamshed Town.
Though some sportsmen resisted the football club office's

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday directed immediate action against those who sponsored an illegal drag race held at Bahria Town, Rawalpindi, which killed 5 people on December 5 last year. A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani also directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to arrest and bring back Atif Sheikh, the main organizer of the drag race and also an absconding accused, through

KARACHI - Station Commander 5 Corps and Cantonment Board Clifton (CBC) President Brig Anis Ahmed said on Monday that the board has launched a campaign for demolishing illegal constructions set up by law enforcement agencies (LEAs) within its jurisdiction.
Brig Ahmed was presiding over a meeting at the CBC office. Additional CEO I Basit Saleem Shah, Additional CEO II Zaki Raider Rizvi, Lt Col Zafar Iqbal, Lt Col Abrar Hussain, board member Aziz Suharwardi, chief engineer Niaz

GENEVA - Olympic chief Jacques Rogge has urged governments around the world to clamp down on illegal betting and license boomakers, warning that the credibility of spectator sports is at stake. "We need their support, they alone have the judicial powers, they can tap telephone calls, they can issue warrants, they can search baggage -- we cannot do that," Rogge told journalists ahead of a meeting on the issue at International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters in Lausanne on

KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly's resolution on providing permanent employment to contractual workers of the Education Department will probably hog headlines today, but it was another matter that caught my attention: the "consideration" of the Sindh Public Private Partnership (Amendment) Bill-2011.
The initial rationale for a need of an amendment to the bill, as presented by Finance Minister Murad Shah, was watertight. The logic was that the finance minister and the law minister

DASKA - Daska-based lawyers, traders, human rights activists and political and religious circles have joined hands against the construction of shops by some local influential people at the main gate of Government College for Women Daska.
An important meeting was held in the office of Daska Bar Association (DBA) and Daska Bar President Muhammad Asif Bajwa presided over the meeting that was told that some influential people had started construction of several shops at an open place

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) in line with the orders of the Supreme Court has taken serious notice of the airing of ICC World Cup matches by unauthorized and some illegal channels in Pakistan. In its drive these days, PEMRA did not only serve adequate warnings to all TV channels/cable TV operators to abide by the legitimate rights conferred to telecast ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 in Pakistan but also raided number of CTV operators disobeying PEMRA

LAHORE - Nawa-e-Waqt founder and Pakistan Movement worker Hameed Nizami's legacy is under illegal occupation and people behind the coup are thrusting their own thoughts on it, Hameed Nizami's son and Pakistan Today Editor Arif Nizami said.
He was addressing participants of the Hameed Nizami Day event organised by the Hameed Nizami Memorial Society on Sunday at the Alhamra Arts Council. Punjab Governor Latif Khosa presided over the function while Daily Pakistan Chief Editor

LAHORE - National Highway and Motorway Police (NH&MP) N-5 Central on Tuesday has launched a campaign against illegal U-turns and encroachments on national highways, said NH&MP N-5 Central DIG Syed Ibne Hussain while addressing a Police Darbar in Beat 13. The DIG said that illegal U-turns and encroachments on national highways were a permanent hazard for the free flow of traffic and road safety.
He instructed the beat commander to enhance coordination with National Highway

TUNIS - Tunisia has accused Rome of infringing on its sovereignty after an Italian minister suggested sending police to the north African country to stem the tide of illegal migrants trying to reach Italy. More than 4,000 migrants have crossed the sea from Tunisia to the small Italian island of Lampedusa in the past week, underscoring the lingering instability in Tunisia since protests ousted its president a month ago.
Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief,

KARACHI - Despite the fact that the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has restricted power distributing companies from carrying out more than 80 hours of load shedding in a year, the residents of Karachi have to contend with 1,080 hours of power outages.
In violation of the 'Guaranteed Standard (GS) of Planned Long Duration Power Supply Interruption' of NEPRA, the KESC suspends power supply to its over two million consumers for over 1,080 hours a year with its

MIRPURKHAS - Thirty-six peasants including women and children were released from illegal custody of a landlord by Pithoro police on Sunday. Pithoro Police Station Station House Officer (SHO) Ghulam Haider Kaniyo reported that a police raid was carried at the agricultural land of Zamindar Shareef Shahani late at night on a Sindh High Court Circuit bench (Hyderabad) order.
He said that all released peasants were now secure and in police custody. He said the released peasants would