Tag: Pbc

PBC opposes formation of judicial commission

Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) Executive Committee Chairman Ahsan Bhoon has expressed concern over the formation of a judicial commission to investigate alleged rigging in...

Bar councils protest undue privileges to ex-CJP Chaudhry

The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) and Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) on Saturday unanimously demanded that the government should immediately withdraw all additional privileges...

All Pakistan Annual Naat competition held at PBC

The All Pakistan Annual Naat Competition was held at Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) Headquarters on Thursday. The event was jointly organised by Radio Pakistan...

IHC summons PBC in LHCRBB president’s disqualification case

Islamabad High Court (IHC) has summoned Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) secretary on December 23 while hearing the petition seeking disqualification of Lahore High Court...

PBC board supports early privatisation

The Pakistan Business Council (PBC) on Tuesday strongly supported the early privatisation of State Owned Enterprises (SOE). A statement issued by the PBC said that...

PBC observes strike against Rehman’s killing

The lawyer bodies throughout Pakistan are observing three-day mourning against the target killing of southern Punjab Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) coordinator Rashid...

Govt, PBC on same page for economic revival

The government and the Pakistan Business Council (PBC) are on the same page over the issue of economic revival through a comprehensive future roadmap...

Industry urges govt to enhance tax base, not tax

The Pakistan Business Council (PBC) and Overseas Investors’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI), the country's two premier business organisations, have asked the government...

Technocratic govt unacceptable: PBC VC

Pakistan Bar Council Vice Chairman Qalb-e-Hassan on Thursday said lawyers wanted the general elections to be held on time. He said they would not...

PBC condemns life threats to Asma Jehangir

Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has expressed its utmost concern and has strongly condemned the life threats to Ms Asma Jehangir, former President of Supreme...

PBC upgrades 812 clerical cadre employees

The Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) has upgraded 812 clerical cadre employees in the light of federal government decision. The government had upgraded the scales...

Radio Pakistan enters digital era: PBC DG

Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) Director General Murtaza Solangi has said that Radio Pakistan has entered into a digital era and now its programmes are...

PBC, PRGMEA welcome WTO waiver for EU concession

Pakistan Business Council in a statement welcomed the WTO waiver for EU concessions granted to certain textile exports from Pakistan post the 2010 floods....

PBC concerned over assistance delay

Pak-US Business Council (PBC) has expressed its grave concern on adopting delaying tactics in timely release of assistance to Pakistan by US lawmakers without...

PBC demands taxation overhaul

Pakistan Business Council (PBC) has said that government could generate an additional Rs300-400 billion in revenues within the present tax regime through better coverage...

PBC hosts Pakistan Economic Forum

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Business Council (PBC), a group comprising of leading Pakistani companies, hosted the Pakistan Economic Forum (PEF) earlier in the week. The economic forum aimed to highlight and identify solutions of five key socio-economic areas - energy, regional trade, social protection, macroeconomic stability and education - said a press release issued here on Monday.
Panelists comprised of intellectuals, former senior civil servants, military officers, economists

PBC refuses to do justice to widow without fee

LAHORE - Punjab Bar Council (PBC) has returned a widow's application against a lawyer, who had beaten her in the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) premises a few days ago, asking her to submit the process fee.
Bushra Sayeda, 60, the complainant, said that she repeatedly approached PBC against Nasir Khan Banuzai who beat her in the bar's compound. She said that she also made a special request to the PBC's senior member and its representative in Judicial Commission, Rai