Tag: Ordinance

Senate body seeks details of new ordinance from PMDC

ISLAMABAD: Senate Standing Committee on National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination on Friday sought details of the new ordinance from Pakistan Medical and Dental Council...

Anti-terror law amended, noose tightened around outfits banned by UN

Ordinance signed by President Mamnoon endorses an action against UN-declared outfits that includes ban on offices, freezing assets ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain on Monday...

Amendments to CDA Ordinance to be presented before NA: report

ISLAMABAD: Amendments to the Capital Development Authority (CDA) Ordinance will be presented before the National Assembly on Monday, as reported by a local English daily. Barring...

LHC strikes down disabled, handicapped, other such words from ordinance

  LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday struck down words such as disabled, physically handicapped and mentally retarded from the Disabled Persons (Employment &...

President promulgates ordinance clearing path for direct CDA hiring: report

ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain has promulgated an ordinance which will allow government departments to hire civil servants at key positions, according to a report...

Ordinance issued to form JC for poll rigging probe

President Mamnoon Hussain Friday issued an ordinance for the constitution of a judicial commission (JC) to probe alleged rigging in General Elections 2013. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf...

Ordinance ready to stop protests in Red Zone

An ordinance to bar staging of protests inside the Red Zone has been prepared by the Interior Ministry, a news channel reported on Tuesday. According...

Police arrest five person for violation of marriage ordinance

Rawalpindi police have arrested five persons for use of firecrackers at marriage ceremonies and cases have also been registered against them on violation of...

Nawaz seeks support of politicians to improve ordinance

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday wrote a letter to the heads of all political parties and sought their proposals, if any, to improve...

PPO challenged in IHC

The Pakistan Protection Ordinance (PPO) 2013 was challenged in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday. Petitioner ex-DIG Salimullah has prayed in his application that...

Sindhi masses have rejected LG Ordinance: Nawaz

Terming the controversial Sindh Peoples Local Government Ordinance as a ‘state within state”, Mian Nawaz Sharif has said that Sindh masses had rejected it,...

NA approves 120-day extension in ordinance indemnifying Gilani’s actions

The National Assembly (NA) on Wednesday approved a resolution presented by Law Minister Farooq H Naik to indemnify the actions taken by former prime...

SPLGO 2012 not democratic for interior

Sindhi writers, poets, intellectuals, artists, journalists and political activists staged a protest against Sindh People's Local Government Ordinance (SPLGO) 2012 outside Karachi Press Club...

Sindh Assembly passes SPLGO amid protest

The Sindh Assembly on Monday approved Sindh People’s Local Government Ordinance (SPLGO) 2012 amid protest by a handful member of opposition parties in the...

PPP duped MQM on LG Ordinance?

While the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was rejoicing the prospects of forming local-level governments with the Sindh People’s Local Government Ordinance (SPLGO) 2012, insiders...

Two LG systems for Sindh

The two major stakeholders of Sindh, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) have finalized the local government system ordinance named “People’s...

Sindh Peoples Local Government Ordinance 2012

Opp leaders to get slots of deputy mayors Going with the reconciliation mantra the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is giving a chance to the...