Tag: Officials

FIA arrests 189 corrupt officials, recovers Rs 5 billion

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested 189 government officials involved in corrupt practices and has submitted challans against 135. In a report submitted to...

Officials claim no Ebola case detected in Pindi yet

The district health authority of Rawalpindi Wednesday confirmed that no case of Ebola virus had been detected in the district yet although the Health...

FIA arrests 3 CDA officials

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested two officers and one assistant of CDA allegedly involved in the case of fake allotments of 20...

Four Afghans killed in Pakistani border strike, allege officials

An airstrike by Pakistani forces along the Afghan border allegedly killed four civilians on Saturday, officials said, as a Pakistani offensive against Taliban militants...

China prohibits officials from public smoking

Officials in China have been instructed not to smoke in public places in a rare, high-profile anti-smoking signal from authorities in the world's biggest...

EOBI scam: SC orders for involved officials’ names to be put...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered for the names of the officials involved in the Employees' Old Age Benefit Institution (EOBI) multi-billion scam to...

NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW: Nine police officials punished

Investigations Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Zulfiqar Hameed on Sunday awarded punishment to four inspectors, one sub-inspector (SI) and two assistant sub-inspectors (ASIs) on different...

Officials involved in violating water treaty go scot-free

The PML-N government made a startling revelation in the Senate on Friday, saying an inquiry committee – constituted to assess negligence on part of...

PM orders termination of corrupt officials

  Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has ordered his cabinet ministers to get rid of corrupt and dishonest officials and ensure transparency and rule of law...

North Korea could have US within missile range: South

North Korea’s rocket launch this month showed it has likely developed technology, long suspected in the West, to fire a warhead more than 10,000...

3.5m Pakistani children miss polio vaccine: WHO

More than 3.5 million Pakistani children missed out on polio vaccination this week in a campaign overshadowed by the deaths of nine immunisation workers,...

Immunity to ISI DGs not result of any deal: officials

Security officials on Saturday rejected media reports claiming that immunity granted to the country’s top spy chiefs by a US court was an outcome...

Torkham border sealed over Afghan officials’ torture on Pakistani labourers

Pakistani security officials on Saturday sealed the Torkham border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, in response to the torture on Pakistani labourers by Afghan security...

Two officials assassinated in Afghanistan

An Afghan women’s affairs official has been assassinated in Laghman province, just months after her predecessor was blown up by a bomb, while a...

British immigration officials misled parliament: report

Senior British border officials misled parliament by claiming they had dealt with a backlog of 147,000 asylum and immigration claims, a report published on...

NAB initiates probe against six top military officials

National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has initiated inquiry against two generals and four brigadiers on charges of corruption in DHA Islamabad. The military officers are accused...

Iranian official calls to end drug smuggling

Chief of Iran’s Anti Narcotics Force on Monday said that the menace of drug trafficking from the region cannot be eliminated until foreign troops...