Tag: Illegal

ISLAMABAD - The Senate was told on Wednesday that around three million illegal immigrants, excluding Afghans nationals, were living in Pakistan. "Among these three million, 50,000 are African people and 35,000 out of them are living in Karachi, Islamabad and Rawalpindi while the remaining are living in other cities of the country," State Minister for Interior Affairs Tasnim Ahamd Qureshi told the Upper House.
The state minister also said four cases were registered in 2008, two in

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a report on illegal appointments in Port Qasim Authority (PQA) and directed the Ministry of Ports and Shipping to refurnish a "complete record" of the appointments made by former minister Babar Khan Ghauri.
A four-member bench comprising Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, was hearing the petition challenging the appointment of Mehmood Zameer Farooqi,

KARACHI - Over 1700 police personnel and officers were illegally promoted during the last 15 years in violation of all rules and regulations. Sources said that a severe divide exists within the Sindh police because these illegal promotions have allowed some officers to monopolize the institution.
On the other hand, many officers despite serving 25 years in the police are working as junior officers under the officer appointed in the last decade. Many officers and personnel got

DASKA - The people of Pasrur have announced to set up a camp at Pasrur Kutchery in protest against the alleged illegal sale of more than 200 acres of land of the Pasrur Sugar Mills at throwaway price against its actual price.
Pasrur Market Committee Administrator Rana Muhammad Afzal advocate said the Pasrur Sugar Mills was the property of Punjab Industrial Development Board but the officials concerned of the provincial revenue department had allegedly sold out 200 acres of land

LAUSANNE - Illegal betting is as big a threat to the integrity of sports as doping and could one day hit the Olympics, International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said on Thursday.
Rogge, opening a symposium to discuss illegal betting in sport, announced that the IOC was calling a summit on March 1 with governments and sporting bodies to hammer out a joint approach to the problem. "Illegal and irregular betting is a major threat for sport, probably at the same level

PAKPATTAN - The district government and the Pakpattan TMA authorities have failed to take action against dozens of illegal housing schemes established in the revenue limits of the tehsil.
A majority of the scheme owners sold the plots of mosques, parks, schools and graveyards, and disappeared leaving the development schemes incomplete. The Pakpattan DCO banned the registration of these housing schemes but the organisers of these schemes managed the registration of the plots by

DASKA - The city police have arrested a married woman, Farzana alias Faiza, for contracting a second marriage without getting divorce from her first husband. According to the police, Farzana of Gujranwala was married to Humayun, a resident of Daska, 12 years back. She has four children from her marriage. Later, she developed relations with her neighbour, Muhammad Latif, and eloped with him.
"Farzana has admitted that she left her husband, ran away with Latif and contracted

ISLAMABAD - The inaugural meeting of four-member commission for probing unauthorized diversion of floodwater and alleged breaches in the embankments of barrages and canals by the influential people during the recent devastating flood, will be held at the Supreme Court today (Saturday).
According to details, members of commission Azam Khan from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, AW Kazi from Sindh, Fateh Khan Fajak from Balochistan and Khawaja Zaheer Ahmed from Punjab will hold the meeting to

KARACHI - The Sindh government had announced forming the department of Illegal Immigrants Affairs (IIA) in May 2008 and a provincial minister was also appointed to oversee the department; however, after the passage of almost three years, a secretary, a section officer or a clerk have yet to be appointed.
Sources told Pakistan Today that the IIA department seems to be a "dumped department" of the provincial government.
Sindh receives a higher number of illegal immigrants than

islamabad - The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has taken notice of unregistered futures trading at the country's commodity exchange to protect the interest of small investors. In this concern, the apex regulator said, the SECP had issued an order against Ravi Oil Cake Traders, a partnership firm, for operating an illegal commodity exchange. It said the firm had violated Section 3 (1) of the Securities and Exchange Ordinance 1969 by providing unauthorized trading

LAHORE - The year 2010 witnessed an alarming rise in illegal housing societies and credit goes to the Punjab government which allowed them to thrive and stopped execution bodies including LDA to clamp down against them.
Recently a full bench of Supreme Court (SC) headed by the Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry directed Housing secretary to draw up a survey regarding bogus housing schemes and plan crackdown. Punjab government though remains inactive.
In a joint report,

WASHINGTON - The US is voicing concern over reports from human rights groups that Pakistan's security forces are holding thousands of political separatists without charge, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
Citing a State Department report to Congress last month, the Times said the Obama administration was alarmed by reports that separatists, mostly from Pakistan's Balochistan province, had been detained over the past decade and were being held incommunicado.
Some of

LAHORE - The Punjab Football Association Secretary Agha Muhammad Latif declared DFA Lahore League illegal as it goes against the PFA Calendar. As per yearly Activity Calendar issued by PFA, the DFA league was to be held from March 15, 2011. But DFA officials announced that the league would start from December 25, 2010.
Moreover, the DFA Lahore Secretary has included several unregistered football clubs in the league. Complaints were received from various clubs of DFA Lahore

JERUSALEM - Israeli settlers have illegally begun work on at least 100 homes in the occupied West Bank since the end of a freeze on settlement construction, Israel's Peace Now movement said on Thursday.
"Since the end of the settlement freeze at the end of September, at least 100 buildings are now under construction in the West Bank," Peace Now's secretary general Yariv Oppenheimer told AFP.
In November 2009, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu implemented a freeze on

NEW DELHI: West Indian off-spinner Shane Shillingford has been suspended from bowling in international cricket for his illegal action, the sport's world governing body said on Tuesday.
His action was found to be illegal following an independent analysis performed by Bruce Elliott, a member of the International Cricket Council's (ICC) panel of Human Movement Specialists.
"A comprehensive analysis revealed that his elbow extension was 17 degrees, which is above the 15 degrees

KARACHI: Following a protest campaign by the heritage enthusiasts, the Sindh government has taken notice of the illegal construction at the centuries-old historical mosque built in the times of Arab warrior Mohammad Bin Qasim in Aror Sharif near Rohri in Sukkur district.
Sindh Culture Minister Sassui Palijo announced that she would visit the site on Tuesday and personally observe the construction work with her department officials.
Palijo had ordered to stop the construction

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday issued notice to the chairman of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to appear in court on Monday to explain the allotment of a 26.5-kanal plot in the Diplomatic Enclave to Hamid Yar Hiraj in violation of rules in December 2007.
Hiraj is a member of the parliamentary accountability committee and the chairman of the Earthquake Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Authority. Hirraj was also issued