Tag: Officer

Top US military officer heads to China for visit

The top US military officer begins a four-day trip to China on Sunday in another sign of warming military ties between the two countries...

LHC summons home secretary, chief traffic officer

The Lahore High Court on Monday summoned Punjab home secretary and Lahore’s chief traffic officer (CTO) on July 11 on city trader’s petition against...

PMA condemns medical officer’s torture

The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) on Monday condemned the harassment of Medical Officer Dr Ijaz by Lodhran Station House Officer (SHO) Rao Luqman, who...

ACE books ex-district officer colleges for tampering record

Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) Sialkot has registered a fraud case against former district officer colleges Raja Zulfiqar Ali on the charges of tampering and stealing...

Bomb kills Yemeni officer, Gulf states mull solution

A bomb killed a military officer loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, an official said on Tuesday, as Yemen’s rich Gulf neighbours sought...

KESC denounces ‘targeted killing’ of senior officer

In another statement, the KESC strongly condemned the target killing of one of its senior officials, Col (retd) Muhammad Ali Saqi, who was an...

Obama picks Dempsey as top US military officer

US President Barack Obama on Monday nominated General Martin Dempsey, who commanded troops in the Iraq war, as the top US military officer. If...

Police officer escapes murder attempt

A senior police officer escaped a murder attempt in the outskirts of Quetta on Sunday. Balochistan Constabulary Police Superindent Manzoor Bangulzai was passing by...

BPS-16 PPC officer promoted to BPS-18

ISLAMABAD - A unique promotion case has surfaced at the Pakistan Printing Corporation (PPC) where a junior BPS-16 officer was promoted to BPS-18 in a single day and appointed as a deputy secretary. In sheer violation of Establishment Code and defined service rules of PPC, Syed Ajmal Hussain, who is said to have close links with the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP), was given double promotion with a single stroke of pen. Interestingly, Ajmal was given out of turn promotion in 2008,

World’s highest hotel opens in Hong Kong

HONG KONG - The world's highest hotel opened its doors in Hong Kong on Tuesday, housed in the city's tallest skyscraper and offering unrivalled panoramic views of the world famous Victoria Harbour.
Towering some 490 metres (1,600 feet) above the bustling, chaotic streets of the Southern Chinese city, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel is making a grand comeback after temporarily closing in 2008.
Visitors peered out of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the 118th floor of the International

The land record is with the old consolidation officer…

LAHORE - The District Officer Revenue has issued a notice to the former Consolidation Officer (Niaz Baig) Jamil Mughal who has been involved in violating the Land Record Manual as he had not consigned any of the ownership right documents to the government since he had been assigned to his post. The District Officer Revenue Zulfiqar Ghuman has issued a notice demanding explanation from the former Consolidation Officer (Niaz Baig) Jamil Mughal who has not dispatched the any of the

From the courtroom – SHC wants police, customs officer booked in...

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday ordered registration of a murder case against Thatta district police officers and a custom officer allegedly involved in torturing a person to death. The SHC division bench comprising Justice Athar Saeed and Justice Irfan Sadat Khan was hearing a petition filed by Ilyas Babar, who had submitted that a police party headed by DSP Manzoor Ahmed and Inspector Ibraheem Pitai along with customs officer Mitha Khan had entered his house in Thatta

CJP dismisses Grade-18 officer

ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Monday dismissed Ishtiaq Ahmad, Private Secretary (BPS-18), because of his willful absence from duty during his period of deputation at the Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) Secretariat. According to a press release issued by the Supreme Court, Ishtiaq remained absent from 16.1.2010 to 8.6.2010 when he was working on deputation with the FTO Secretariat Lahore. He was directed to report at Quetta, but instead of joining the duty, he

Assange case police officer ‘friend of victim’

STOCKHOLM - The Swedish police officer in charge of questioning two women who say they were raped and molested by the founder of WikiLeaks is a friend of one of the alleged victims, a report said on Thursday. According to the Expressen daily, the unnamed officer had exchanged personal messages with one of Julian Assange's alleged victims over the Internet more than a year before taking statements from her about the claims.
The woman officer, who like the alleged victim referred

Hafizabad district officer accused of embezzling Rs 2.4 million

HAFIZABAD - Educationist Professor (retd) Ejaz Butt has said that Hafizabad Colleges District Officer Ejaz Ahmad Bhaghat has embezzled more than Rs 2.4 million while misusing his powers. Addressing a press conference at the press club, he said Ejaz Bhaghat appointed lecturers in BPS-17 on contract basis in Government College Hafizabad three year ago.
He added that instead of several senior female assistant professors in the said college, Ejaz Bhagat gave the college's powers to a

Female DMG officer analyses civil services history in book

Lahore - The launching ceremony of the book "A Treatise on the Civil Service of Pakistan: The Structural-Functional History (1601-2011) by a young DMG Officer Kiran Khurshid was held at PILAC Auditorium on Wednesday. Former Punjab Chief Secretary Javed Ahmed Qureshi while addressing at the occasion said, "civil Service of Pakistan is the most distinguished national institution that has produced public service and integrity icons who served the country with absolute courage, dedication

Family claims missing GDA officer was abducted by spies

KARACHI - The family of missing Gwadar Development Authority (GDA) officer Arif Noor Baloch held a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Tuesday.
Abid Noor - the younger brother of Arif - along with his mother, sisters and other family members, addressed the press conference. Showing concern over his forced disappearance, the family accused the intelligence agencies of picking up the government officer on October 31, 2010 from the Garden area, whose whereabouts remain