Tag: Officials

LAHORE - Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad has directed the officers of the Health Department to take effective measures to make the routine immunization and anti-polio campaign a success and achieving hundred percent results.
He directed to post sanitary inspectors, vaccinators and sanitary patrols in out reach areas and after that ban be imposed on transfer/posting of these officials.
In the light of these directions, Health Punjab Director General Dr Muhammad

LAHORE - Lahore's well-known Raiders Football Club has announced the Local Organising Committee (LOC) to run All Punjab Raiders Football Cup at the Raiders Football Club Ground, Faisal Town, from Sunday, 16 January 2011. Model Town FC's President Mian Rizwan Ali, former Pakistan football team manager and Pakistan Premier Football League Match Commissioner, will act as Chairman while Kabir Ahmed Chaudhry has been designated as Organising Secretary.
The LOC will be comprised of

PESHAWAR - Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa police inspector general announced postings and transfers of six high ranking police officers on Wednesday.
According to an official notification, Mubarak Zeb was posted as district police officer (DPO) replacing Dilawar Bangash while Bangash was transferred and posted as DPO in Dera Ismael Khan.
Dera Ismael Khan DPO Gul Afzal Khan was transferred and posted as senior superintendent coordination in Peshawar while Nowshehra DPO Nisar Tanoli was

WASHINGTON - Police on Tuesday were investigating the death of a prominent retired US Army colonel whose body turned up over the weekend at a landfill in the nearby state of Delaware.
Authorities said the remains of John Parsons Wheeler, who held top jobs in the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations were found on New Year's Eve a few miles from his home in New Castle, Delaware.
Wheeler, 66, reportedly had returned from a consulting job in at the Mitre

Lahore - Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Shahid Saeed on Monday issued notices to the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) managing director, general manager and director billing on a petition filed by a citizen who received a Rs 0.95 million gas bill for December.
Petitioner Muhammad Amjad submitted that he ran a drycleaner shop in Sherakot area and his average gas bill for the whole last year was Rs 50,000 but he received a Rs 37,000 gas bill for November, which he duly

LAHORE - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested two senior officers of Pakistan Public Works Department (PWD), red handed, while taking bribe from a contractor on Thursday. FIA sources said Karamat Sheikh, a government contractor, submitted an application to the FIA Multan Circle Additional Director Rana Irfan and alleged that the two PWD officers; Executive Engineer Khizar Hayat and Sub Divisional Officer (SDO) of Bahawalpur office Javed Majoka, were demanding Rs 0.15

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has decided to expand the scope of the inquiry into Benazir Bhutto's murder by including officials of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Military Intelligence (MI) and Intelligence Bureau (IB).
FIA Prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfikar said on Thursday that during the investigations, senior police officials had named some ISI, MI and IB officials. "We will also interrogate these officials," he told reporters after court proceedings

ISLAMABAD: Police on Wednesday arrested two senior police officers in court on orders of an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) judge for their alleged involvement in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
ATC Judge Rana Nisar Ahmed, who was conducting the trial in Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi, rejected the bail applications of former city police officer (CPO) Saud Aziz and former superintendent of police Khurram Shahzad, ordering their immediate arrest.
The two officials are accused of

RAWALPINDI - Former Central Police Officer of Rawalpindi Saud Aziz and former Superintendent of Police Khurram Shahzad have been arrested from the courtroom after the court denied their bails in Benazir Bhutto murder case, a private TV channel reported on Wednesday.
Both the former police officials were present in the court. Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) No-III judge Rana Nisar Ahmed on December 19, 2010 had extended date of interim bail of former CPO and former SP allegedly

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board has issued stern directives to the national team and team management to refrain from making comments on the scandalous issue of match-fixing.
It has been learnt the PCB clearly directed team manager Intikhab ALam, coach Waqar Younis and captain Shahid Afridi not to talk on the issue and if there was a question posed before them they should avoid commenting on the subject. Pakistan has been at the centre of attention in the cricketing world

LAHORE: Despite the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited's (SNGPL) ban on installation of new gas metres for tackling gas load shedding, the activity was continuing unchecked with SNGPL officials' secret help, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Analysing the ever-increasing gas shortfall, the company had banned allocation of new gas connections including domestic, commercial, industrial and CNG stations and inspiring customers were informed that new connections could only be attained

SYDNEY: Warne is confronted by media as he returns to his Brighton home, amid allegations of an affair with Elizabeth Hurley.
Shane Warne's nocturnal activities have landed him in hot water in the past, but this time his off-field exploits are yet to bowl him over. Cricket Australia yesterday said it had no interest in his private life, and his dalliance with Liz Hurley would not threaten his standing as the organisation's spin ambassador.
''Our only interest in Shane is in

TEHRAN - Stars including Sting, Robert Redford and Robert De Niro have signed an open letter to Iran's government calling for the release of a woman sentenced to death by stoning.
Iranian woman Sakineh Ashtiani, a mum-of-two, made headlines around the world earlier this year when she was ordered to be stoned to death over alleged adultery. The execution was suspended following an international outcry.
Now stars and politicians have called for her release, signing a letter to

LAHORE: The Sri Lankan cricket officials are in a fix whether to tour Pakistan according to ICC's Futures Tours Programmes (FTP) or request the series to be held at a neutral venue. Sources in the PCB confirmed on Sunday that in 2011, Pakistan are scheduled to host Sri Lanka for a full series.
"The tour is important for us but obviously keeping in mind the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team last year, we have serious doubts that they will agree to play in Pakistan," one

LAHORE: The Director General Sports Punjab is holding a meeting today to discuss preparations of the Punjab teams participating in the forthcoming National Games, to be held at Peshawar.
According to an official of the Punjab sports department, the meeting has been scheduled on December 11 with Sports Board Punjab Director General in the chair at National Hockey Stadium. The main issue to be discussed would be the camps of 21 different disciplines for males and seven different

LAHORE: Provincial and federal government departments observed International Anti-Corruption Day on Thursday and organised different events like walks, seminars and exhibitions on different platforms to create awareness against corruption among the general public.
Ob these occasions, government departments like Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and Anti-Corruption Establishment also issued their performance reports till Thursday. FIA

LAHORE: Punjab athletes are likely to finish rock bottom in the forthcoming National Games that commence at Peshawar on December 25, as their training camps have not yet started.
Punjab Olympics Association secretary Khwaja Idris Haider said that the training camps of Punjab teams have not yet been started by the Sports department due to their non-cooperative attitude. "It is surprising that the secretary (Punjab Sports department) has issued letters to the presidents and