Tag: Privatisation

And again PIA requests bailout assistance, and again the cabinet committee on restructuring cites failure to incorporate appropriate management changes for dismissal, with a...

A petition was filed in the LHC on Tuesday challenging the expected privatisation of PTV to Indian TV giant Star Group of Companies. The...

WAPDA employees Wednesday staged a protest demonstration against the proposed privatisation of the thermal power stations and warned of a protest movement if the...

The Privatisation Commission (PC), on Friday, extended the deadline for submission of Expression of Interest (EOI) for National Power Construction Corporation (NPCC) ending today...

In order to offer a unique opportunity to the private sector to acquire minimum 96 per cent GoP shares in Heavy Electric Complex (HEC)...

The Cabinet Committee on Privatisation (CCOP) has approved the privatisation of “Transaction Structure of National Power Construction Corporation and Heavy Electrical Complex”. CCOP met...

After an analytic study of the under implementation Rs 4 billion Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP), the Planning Commission has sought either their privatization...

Minister for Privatisation, Ghous Bakhsh Mahar, has said that the government’s plan to move forward on privatisation of state-owned entities would start with the...

The Maseeha Millat Party (MMP) staged a protest in front of the Lahore Press Club on Wednesday against the privatisation of Solid Waste Management...

The Sindh High Court (SHC) issued notices on Wednesday to federal and provincial governments, the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) managing director (MD), National...

A constitutional petition has been filed in the Sindh High Court against privatisation of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) and unannounced load shedding...

A post-privatisation decline in financial performance and service delivery of PTCL has been witnessed. Auditor General of Pakistan’s special audit report reveals Pakistan Telecommunication...

The privatisation of public departments since 1980 was challenged in the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday through a constitutional petition, seeking accountability of...

President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday advised the government to set up a committee of federal ministers for privatisation, finance, petroleum and water and...

Privatisation of public sector enterprises is the only resolve to all economic ills, and the country should not be afraid of privatising non-productive state...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Saturday reconstituted the Privatisation Commission (PC) Board with majority of new members inducted from the private sector. According to an official announcement, the PC Board has been reconstituted with Minister for Privatisation Syed Naveed Qamar as chairman while Iftikhar ul Haq, Laeeq Ahmed, Mahmood Nawaz Shah, Tanvir Ahmad Sheikh, Nawabzada Saifullah Magsi, Farid Malik, Shahab Anwar Khawaja and Secretary Privatisation Commission

LAHORE - The Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign (PTUDC) held a protest rally against privatisation, price hikes, unemployment and the Balochistan operation on The Mall on Sunday.
The protestors holding red banners hindered the traffic flow by blocking the main road. They chanted slogans against the Balochistan operation and kidnapping cases and demanded the government save the labourers from capitalism by stopping privatisation. They appealed the labourers all over the world