Tag: Ministry

Minorities’ MPs lodge protest with PM against ministry’s devolution

A group of the parliamentarians from minorities on Friday lodged a protest with Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani against the devolution of the Ministry...

Petroleum Ministry asked to submit plan for PARCO Refinery power project

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has directed the Ministry of Petroleum to submit the proposed plan for establishment of power project in PARCO...

Iran parliament: Ahmadinejad ministry move illegal

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...

PTA defies Interior Ministry on SIMs

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has reiterated its earlier stance that up to 10 subscriber identity module (SIMs) can be issued on one Computerised...

Health, Labour Ministry to go to provinces, Rabbani clarifies

As alarm bells have already started ringing in the PML-Q following reports of the devolution of the ministries it secured in the power-sharing deal...

Interior Ministry sends ‘India’s most wanted’ list to Foreign Office

The Interior Ministry has reviewed the names of fugitives included in the most wanted list forwarded by India and the sent it back to...

Ministry of Religious Affairs allocates quota to 700 HGOs

The Ministry of Religious Affairs has allocated quota to the 700 Hajj Group Organisers (HGOs) in the country and details about the number of...

NA body says Centre should retain Food, Agriculture Ministry

The National Assembly Standing Committee on Food and Agriculture recommended Monday that decision to transfer Ministry of Food and Agriculture to the provinces should...

Information Ministry wastes Rs 84m on a ‘dead’ project

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has spent a hefty amount of Rs 84 million on paying rent for a building hired to establish...

Interior Ministry asked to send its staff back to contract posts

The Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) has asked the Ministry of Interior to revert the 40 regular employees, who were inducted in the Machine...

Foreigners in danger, warns ministry

Sindh Home Department sources said on Saturday that the Interior Ministry had written a letter (No. 701/14) to the department saying foreigners were in...

Financial irregularities in Finance Ministry?

In the midst of a great financial crunch, when a number of poverty- and unemployment-stricken Pakistanis are committing suicide and the government has set...

PAC bothered by Labour Ministry workers fund

Expressing dissatisfaction over the Ministry of Labor and Manpower’s Worker Welfare Fund, the Public Accounts Committee has asked for a detailed report within eight...

Law Ministry caught ‘red-handed’ in audit report

The federal Law Ministry, which is supposed to be responsible for protecting the sanctity of laws and rules of the land, has been caught...

Riaz Pirzada made Health Minister, Ministry of Interfaith Harmony created

The PML (Q) member of National Assembly Riaz Hussain Pirzada has been made Minister of Health. According to official sources, the change was made...

Foreign Ministry be made party to Hafiz Saeed case: LHC

Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Umar Ata Bandial on Thursday allowed petitioner Hafiz Saeed, Jamatud Dawa chief, to make the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...

IT & Telecom Ministry a headless body

KARACHI - The government's apathy towards the literacy and technology is not limited only to the dissolution of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) as the IT&Telecom Ministry has also seen repeated shuffling of ministers and secretaries in last three years. The latest minister Dr Babar Awan has also resigned for appearing in the Supreme Court in ZAB Reference and now the ministry is again without a head. Before Awan, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani used to over see the ministerial