Tag: Ombudsman

In order to clear the backlog of over 70,000 complaints pending for disposal by the federal ombudsman (wafaqi mohtasib) on fast track, a panel...

Two years on, the Pakistan People’s Party-led coalition government has miserably failed in naming a new federal ombudsman, depriving over 46,000 applicants of justice...

On the directives of Provincial Ombudsman Sindh Asad Asharf Malik, a complainant got a refund of Rs 386,000 with mark-up, deposited for booking a...

The Office of Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) in the year 2011 made a sum of Rs 7.89 billion refunds to the taxpayers as compared...

The Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) Shoaib Suddle, who has been appointed as one-man commission by the Supreme Court to investigate Malik Riaz Hussain’s allegations...

With no federal ombudsman appointed for the past 21 months, the fate of 42,139 completed inquiries against various departments hangs in the balance and...

The newly appointed Ombudsman for protection of women against harassment at work place, Syed Pir Ali Shah called-on Provincial Ombudsman Sindh, Asad Ashraf Malik,...

Regrettably, the position of Wafaqi Mohtasib (Federal Ombudsman) has been lying vacant for a while. The position had become vacant when Mr Javed Sadiq...

Sindh Ombudsman Asad Ashraf Malik has taken suo motu notice of reported drowning of a three years old child in a sewerage hole in...

All roads, it seems, lead to the apex court After a torrid discussion with someone whose analytical excellence and intellect I hold in high esteem,...

The Federal Ombudsman has initiated an investigation against the Capital Development Authority (CDA) over an inordinate delay in the execution of its plan regarding...

A petition was filed in the Supreme Court Lahore Registry on Wednesday seeking appointment of the federal ombudsman, which was vacant since one and...

A two-member Supreme Court bench on Monday took up a petition against the government’s failure to appoint a federal ombudsman and asked the federal...

“Pakistan’s tax to GDP ratio that was 13.8 per cent in 1987-88 has declined to 8.5 per cent during 2010-11. This has led to...

ISLAMABAD - In a dramatic development, former chief justice Abdul Hameed Dogar has turned down the government's offer to become federal ombudsman and has decided to jump into the political arena instead as his two-year mandatory ban ends on March 21.
A close aide of the retired top judge told Pakistan Today that Dogar was all set to make his political ambitions public at a press conference to be held in the federal capital soon after his mandatory ban on entering politics ended

LAHORE - Punjab Ombudsman Khalid Mahmood concluded the hearing of an application filed by a complainant Zahid Nasim for the seat of Government Polytechnic Institute Kamalia lecturer on Friday. The Ombudsman observed that experience could not be compartmentalized in the categories of visiting, regular or part time and merit should be followed at any cost. Punjab Ombudsman during the hearing ordered Punjab TEVTA Chairman to appoint the rightful candidate as Lecturer (Math) on

ISLAMABAD - The Wafaqi Mohtasib Secretariat has decided to write letters to Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), WAPDA and Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL), stressing speedy redress of people's complaints. Wafaqi Mohtasib Secretary Mansoor Sohail told Pakistan Today that complaints against the said organisations had been increasing for the last few months.
"We are going to write letters to them to mend their ways as a large number of people have identical complaints