Tag: Privatisation

The head office of Pakistan International Airline (PIA) remained closed on Monday because of employees’ protest in front of the premises against the proposed...

Dar says no employee to be laid off; says government committed to the revival of PIA Finance Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar said on Sunday...

  Privatisation Commission (PC) Chairman Muhammad Zubair said on Saturday that the government was focusing on long term economic strategies for sustainable economic growth. Talking to...

  Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif directed Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Tuesday to ensure that no employee of PIA was laid off, after converting the...

  Opposition in Lower House of the Parliament staged a joint walkout from the National Assembly against the proposed privatisation of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)...

  Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Revenue Chairman and PPP Senator Saleem Mandviwallahas on Monday warned that his political party along with other opposition...

  Opposition leader in the National Assembly (NA) Syed Khurshid Shah said on Friday that the government should avoid privatisation of profit earning entities. “Privatisation process...

The paramedics of Shaikh Zayed Hospital on Saturday continued their protest in front of the administration block against the proposed privatisation of the institution...

Prominent industrialist and entrepreneur Mian Muhammad Mansha has warned that revival of probe into Muslim Commercial Bank Ltd’s (MCB) privatisation after almost a quarter...

Pakistan’s economy could not face the budget deficit of Rs 500 billion but it has to create venues to meet its expenses through generation of taxes and privatisation of the public sector entities, said former State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) governor Dr Ishrat Hussain.

State Minister for parliamentary affairs says Privatisation Commission tasked to carry forward privatisation process of core activities of national airline by divesting 26 percent...

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has started a campaign to unite provinces against the federal government’s policy of privatisation. PPP has called upon all provincial...

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday that the government upholds a very transparent policy of privatisation which is aimed at converting organisations into...

A sub-committee of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has opposed the privatization of state owned fertilizer entity by the government and directed that this entity...

ISLAMABAD A sub-committee of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has opposed the privatization of state owned fertilizer entity by the government and directed that this...

Opposition members in the Senate on Thursday opposed the privatisation programme and described it as anti-worker and against national interests. Speaking on a motion regarding...

Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of National Assembly has directed the Privatisation Commission (PC) to give priority to the privatisation of “non-beneficial state-owned enterprises”. The PAC on Tuesday met PAC Chairman Syed Khurshid Shah in the chair. Dr Afzal Pachicho, Jawad Anwar Chaudhry, Shafqat Mehmood, Chaudhry Asad ur Rehman, Syed Naveed Qamar, Syed Kazim Shah, Mian Abdul Manan, Mehmood Khan Achakzai, Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) Buland Akhtar Rana and officials of National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and PC attended the meeting.