Tag: Law

PM Abbasi announces GB Order 2018 amid protests, shutter down strike

Premier says legislation will give equal rights to people of region like other provinces India summons Pakistani diplomat to protest against order changing...

Passage of Pakistan’s transgender persons rights law – a ‘battle half...

--'Real challenge lies in fighting for the law to be enforced in its true spirit and that may take another a decade or two' LAHORE:...

Pakistan’s new law encourages women participation in elections: report

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s recently passed Elections Act 2017 stresses for taking special measures to increase the participation of women, religious minorities, transgenders and disabled persons...

No bar on ‘absconders’ from contesting polls, Dar tells SC

--Ex-finance minister's reply says 18th Constitutional Amendment does not prohibit absconders from participating in polls   ISLAMABAD: Responding to the March 12 notice issued by the Supreme Court (SC)...

Bollywood celebs who had a run-in with law

Salman Khan has been granted bail in the 20 year old blackbuck poaching case against him. However, even with all the times, he has...

Sindh cabinet makes important decisions including amendments in law

KARACHI: Sindh Cabinet held a meeting on Thursday at the New Secretariat under the chairmanship of Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah and made...

Zafar Ali Shah calls for promulgation of rent control law in...

  ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior central leader and former senator Syed Zafar Ali Shah has called upon the government to take measures for...

PM calls for serious reforms in NAB law

Says budget to be presented by mid-May ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Thursday said the law of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) required serious...

Law and Order situation improving in Balochistan: CM Bizenjo

QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Abdul Quddus Bizenjo said on Saturday that law and order situation has improved tremendously in Balochistan, including Quetta. He expressed these...

New bill suggests increasing penalty for animal cruelty: report

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Interior on Tuesday passed a bill titled “The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Amendment) Bill, 2018”, suggesting a...

Australia considers new changes in law for preventing ‘foreign interference’

SYDNEY: Australia is considering changes to proposed new laws designed to prevent improper foreign interference in its domestic politics after a backlash from journalists...

No law to inspect child labour in Islamabad households 

  ISLAMABAD: It is shocking that the existing labour laws in the federal capital do not cover the domestic workers, therefore, Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT)...

Zafar Ali Shah urges for promulgation of new rent control law...

ISLAMABAD: The senior central leader of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) and former senator Syed Zafar Ali Shah has called upon Prime Minister Shahid...

Cambodia PM appointed his son-in-law as police chief

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen has appointed his son-in-law as deputy national police chief, in a move apparently aimed at consolidating his...

Lithuania issues 48 Russians under Magnitsky law, bars Kadyrov

VILNIUS: Lithuania has issued its first blacklist of 49 Russians banned for allegedly violating human rights or engaging in corruption and money laundering under...

‘Talk is cheap’, Law wants results from his team

CHRISTCHURCH: West Indies coach Stuart Law came down hard on his team after they listlessly crumbled to a 204-run defeat against New Zealand in...

Nigerian law graduate denied call to bar over headscarf

A Nigerian law school graduate was denied her call to the bar for refusing to take off her headscarf. Amasa Firdaus Abdulsalam was not permitted...