Tag: Officials

KARACHI - Influential persons in the private sectors have started trying to get important posts in various government institutions, which are run by mostly retired officials, after the Supreme Court's (SC) ruling on re-employment of retired persons.
The SC has recently made the ruling against the retired officials, who, after being re-employed on contract against cadre posts were blocking promotions of eligible officials in various departments of the government. The ruling was

ISLAMABAD - The government's financial team, headed by Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, will on Tuesday present to the PML-N a list of corrupt officials that have been sacked by the government, Pakistan Today learnt on Sunday. A source in the PML-N said apart from the list of sacked corrupt government officials, the ministerial committee would also hand over a list of persons and companies whose loans were written-off since 1985.
"After receiving the two lists, the PML-N

PESHAWAR - A decision has been made to fire government employees of Grade-15 to 22 who have dual nationality, including four from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Ministry of Defence directed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief secretary, IG and Home Secretary as well as officials from FIA, NADRA and other organisations to obtain affidavits from those who have dual nationality and details of their unofficial foreign visits.

LAHORE - Newly-elected president of the Defence Housing Society (DHA) Residents Association Rohail Akram on Sunday expressed his will to improve relations with other authorities. Akram made these remarks after the oath-taking ceremony of DHA Residents Association. He said that regular meetings would be called at every sector to develop an effective relationship with residents.
He urged executive members to find out problems of residents by visiting their respective sectors and

LAHORE - Meteorological Department officials on Thursday denied that floods could have been averted by using the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) eight to ten days before prediction of the disaster.
According to Met officials, only huge water reservoirs could have minimised the damage caused by floods. Few days ago, Georgia Institute of Technology Earth and Atmospheric Science Professor Peter Webster claimed, "This disaster and flooding could have been

ISLAMABAD - While the killing of two Pakistanis by an American diplomat has already angered the nation, chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Interior Senator Talha Mahmood on Sunday dropped a bombshell saying US officials were present at sensitive installations and other places across the country under the cover of being diplomats.
As questions are already being raised about the assignment and identity of Raymond Davis, who killed two Pakistanis in Lahore, Senator Talha's

ISLAMABAD - The Finance Ministry on Friday apprised the Senate of the fact that the officials at the State Bank of Pakistan and the Federal Board of Revenue cost Rs 24 million to the national exchequer on their visits abroad.
Ironically, these visits were meant to seek remedy against the financial crunch in which the Pakistani officials held talks with representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from October 2008 to November 2010. The Finance Ministry submitted

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the federal and provincial governments not to reemploy officers on contract after their retirement. The court observed that prima facie their reemployment is in violation of Section 14 of Civil Servant Act 1873 as well as instruction contained in Estacode.
The court also said that their reemployment will be in violation of SC orders. The court asked the attorney general to take up this matter with the competent authorities before

LAHORE - Former Pakistan captain and wicketkeeper Rashid Latif believes that the 'disagreements' within the Pakistan Cricket Board have led it to withhold the name of the captain for the next month's World Cup.
"Other boards have named their skippers with the squad, yet the Pakistan Cricket Board has chosen not to select a captain which is extremely strange. However I think the reason for this is down to the disagreements within the Board and the fact that the team management and

ISLAMABAD - A single bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) comprising Justice Muhammad Anwar Kasi on Friday issued notices to the officials of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for not recognizing special people's cricket association.
The court was hearing a petition filed by Pakistan Cricket Association for Physically Handicapped. Abdul Latif Kohkar, counsel for the petitioner, contended before the court that despite fulfilling all legal requirements, the association of handicapped

KARACHI - The Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) has approached the ministry of finance and chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) against the perceived inappropriate behaviour of a FBR official towards the chamber.
Through a letter, KCCI/MSS (P)/1-8/57/2010-2011/3857-60 dated January 20, 2011, communicated to the ministry and the FBR chairman, KCCI has strongly protested the conduct of a FBR official in Karachi and his treatment of one of the KCCI's managing

ISLAMABAD - The SC on Thursday directed the Establishment Division secretary to furnish a list of all police officers, including the FIA director general, appointed on a contractual basis by today (Friday).
A six-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed, Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, was hearing a suo motu case against the alleged corruption in Haj

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Thursday issued notice to SECP, owners of UBL and others respondents in a petition challenging the sale of UBL with unlawful clarification of Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan that caused huge financial loss to 29,000 small shareholders of the bank across the country.
The court in its order further directed that that purchase/ acquisition of UBL shares by Bestways Group from Abu Dhabi Group, if conducted, will be subject to final

ISLAMABAD - A grilling but ambiguous questionnaire, seeking personal views on sensitive national issues such as drone attacks, terrorism and the influence of West on the country's foreign policy, has been prepared by the police department to screen police officials after the assassination of Salman Taseer by one of his own guards.
The questionnaire, a copy of which is available with Pakistan Today, has been prepared for all police officials and will be given out to them by DPOs.

LAHORE - Shaukat Javed and Khawar Shah were elected as president and secretary general of the SAARC Baseball Federation on Saturday.
Their election came in a meeting of the representatives of South Asia Baseball playing countries on Saturday at the National Hockey Stadium, Lahore.
The representatives of Afghanistan Sri Lanka, India, Nepal and Pakistan attended the election meeting of the South Asia Baseball Federation.
The newly-elected officials promised to hold the

KARACHI - Criminal elements have gained inside access to the National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) and use it to make fake national identity cards, it has been learnt.
Sources in NADRA told Pakistan Today that a few staff members were in contact with agents involved in the business of forged identity cards, who charge huge amounts for making fake computerised national identity cards (CNICs).
Dozens of applications have been submitted at NADRA for inquiry against

LAHORE - The Punjab Football Association (PFA) called a meeting Thursday with Muhammad Arshad Khan Lodhi in the chair for the promotion and uplift of football in all districts of Punjab.
PFA officials Siddiq Qadri, Rizwan Ali, Imdad Awan, Khalid Mehmood, Agha Latif, Anis Lodhi were present on this occasion and all of them congratulated Pakistan Football Federation (PFF)'s President Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat for becoming the first Pakistani ever to have been elected to the