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The Sindh High Court on Friday issued notices to the Attorney General of Pakistan to submit comments of the federal government on a constitutional...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Sate Bank of Pakistan (SBP) governor to consult all stakeholders and issue a new circular for the...

The Sindh High Court on Monday reserved its verdict on three identical petitions filed by Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC)’s 249 officers against their...

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday ordered the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) director general (DG) to submit a statement on two missing employees of the Malir District Courts by April 28. A division bench comprising Justices Maqbool Baqar and Ghulam Sarwar Korai was hearing the disappearance case of Shafqat Brohi and Agha Yasir, who were allegedly abducted on February 22.
After Brohi and Yasir went missing, SHC Chief Justice Mushir Alam took suo motu notice of

GUJRANWALA - Gujranwala Division Commissioner Saeed Wahla has directed Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) to complete the project of Sialkot-Gujranwala-Daska road before the start of the rainy season.
He was addressing a meeting to review work on the project on Saturday. The meeting was attended by DCO Barrister Nabil Ahmad Awan, Director Development Anwar Aziz, FWO Project Manager Colonel Sibte Hassan Rana, Colonel Umar, Colonel Imran Zafar, Major Imran, XEN Provincial Highways

LAHORE - An accountability court has ordered the Punjab chapter of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to confiscate three vehicles including a BMW and Mercedes owned by Raja Riaz, owner of Raja Centre Main Market Gulberg, who had been declared a proclaimed offender (P/O) by the court.
A reference had been filed against Raja Riaz in the accountability court on charges of financial irregularities in the funds of a co-operative institution. During the hearing, the court

SAHIWAL - Sahiwal Division Commissioner Qazi Muhammad Ashfaq Qureshi has taken a strong notice of the slow pace of construction work in the projects being completed under the Rs 500 million package announced by the Punjab government for the city.
He directed the departments concerned to immediately start double shift for completion of these projects within next 2 months. He gave these directions, while reviewing the development projects at a special meeting held in his office.

SIALKOT - Gujranwala Division Anti Corruption Establishment (ACE) Director has ordered a strict departmental probe against the alleged financial bungling and irregularities in Government Girls Higher Secondary School Sialkot Cantt.
According to a charge sheet forwarded to the Gujranwala ACE directorate by the school teachers, the principal forcibly collected Rs 850 as fine from the school's 9th class each student for the registration fee of Board of Intermediate and Secondary

LAHORE - Punjab Assembly (PA) Deputy Speaker Rana Mashhood has barred all the legislators in the house from passing controversial remarks against Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. On a point of order, PML-Q backed MPA Abdullah Yousaf Warraich drew the attention of the house over the remarks of Sheikh Alla-ud-Din against Quaid-e-Azam. He said that Law Minister Rana Sanaullah also remained silent on the issue. Rana Mashhood, who was chairing the assembly's session on Monday thus passed

KARACHI - Provincial Electric Power Minister and Adviser on Oil and Gas Shazia Marri took serious notice of the shortage of potable water and other facilities in Karachi on Monday and directed the officials concerned to address the citizens' woes as soon as possible. Marri ordered the action after hearing the complaints from all over Sindh at the Chief Minister's House Complaint Cell. She directed the officials concerned to ensure uninterrupted supply of drinking water to the citizens

SOMA - High levels of radiation leaked from a crippled nuclear plant in tsunami-ravaged northeastern Japan after a third reactor was rocked by an explosion Tuesday and a fourth caught fire in a dramatic escalation of the 4-day-old catastrophe. The government warned 140,000 people nearby to stay indoors to avoid exposure.
Tokyo also reported slightly elevated radiation levels, but officials said the increase was too small to threaten the 39 million people in and around the

LAHORE: The Punjab Home Department has directed the Lahore commissioner, Punjab Inspector General of Police and the Lahore capital city police officer (CCPO) to strictly monitor Elite Police Force personnel deployed for the security of American Raymond Davis, who shot dead two Pakistanis in Lahore on January 27. The directions were passed after personnel of the Special Branch pointed out three constables serving in the Punjab police, who had been wearing badges over their name plates

SAHIWAL - Sahiwal Division Commissioner Qazi Muhammad Ashfaq has directed the administrations of all the three districts to immediately start crackdown against hoarders to provide essential commodities to the public at low rates and curb artificial price hike. Chairing a meeting to review price mechanism, he said Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had shown his grave concern over hoarding, directing provision of relief to the common man with the help price mechanism.
The meeting was

WASHINGTON - The US Army ordered the illegal use of psychological operations to influence US lawmakers on the Afghanistan war, Rolling Stone magazine reported on Thursday, forcing the US commander there to launch an inquiry.
The explosive article said the command of General William Caldwell, in charge of training Afghan troops, pressured US soldiers specializing in "psy-ops" that normally influence enemy behavior, to manipulate visiting US senators and congressmen -- as well as

ATHENS - Greek police clashed with protesters on Wednesday as around 100,000 workers, pensioners and students marched to parliament in protest at austerity policies aimed at helping Greece cope with a huge debt crisis. Riot police fired scores of rounds of teargas and flash bombs at protesters hurling petrol bombs, choking the main Syndagma square with smoke and sending crowds of striking protesters running for cover.
Public and private sector employees' 24-hour strike grounded

SAHIWAL - Commissioner Qazi Muhammad Ashfaq has expressed his dissatisfaction over cleanliness in the city and directed the Sahiwal TMA to pay special focus on providing clean environment to the citizens. He ordered immediate removal of heaps of garbage from all residential and commercial areas during his visit to check cleanliness and review progress on various projects being carried out in the city.
DCO Waqas Ali Mahmood, Director Development Habib Jillani Vance, Administrator

SAHIWAL - Sahiwal Division Commissioner Tariq Mahmood Khan, while chairing a meeting in his office, has directed the building department to ensure quality construction and early completion of development projects within the set time so that people can get benefit from these projects as early as possible. DCO Muhammad Khan Khichi, Director Development Habib Jilani and other relevant officers were also present at the meeting. As many as 11 road projects have been initiated with Rs 500