Tag: Quota

LHC orders PIA to hire women pilots on 10% quota

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday ordered the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to continue the process of recruitment of women pilots in the...

Inclusion of Baloch people imperative for Gwadar uplift

ISLAMABAD: Senate Standing Committee on Maritime Affairs on Tuesday directed Ministry of Maritime Affairs to ensure quota for Baloch people in the Gwadar development...

Parliamentary body rejects bill seeking quota for religious minorities in universities:...

ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary body on Wednesday refused to approve a bill seeking separate quota for religious minorities in university admissions, according to a local...

Murad reassures differently-abled persons of quota jobs

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Tuesday assured the differently abled persons to provide them government jobs in April for which he...

58 visually impaired approach SHC for quota implementation

KARACHI: As many as 58 blind persons who had applied for employment in different departments of the province but could not get jobs approached...

Disabled persons protest against not getting 5% quota

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday granted further time to the provincial government to file a comprehensive reply on a petition seeking...

SHC seeks authorities’ comments in disabled persons’ quota case

  KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday sought comments from the Sindh chief secretary, social welfare department secretary, health secretary and Karachi commissioner...

Textile industry resents cut in gas supply quota

  Pakistan Textile Exporters Association has strongly criticised the ‘injudicious cut’ in gas supply quota for textile industries terming it an attempt to shatter the...

Justice Amir Muslim excuses from hearing LPG quota case

Supreme Court Justice Amir Hani Muslim dissociating himself excused from hearing the LPG quota case on Tuesday. Supreme Court five-member bench headed by Justice Nasirul...

NA body rejects job quota bill for special persons

The National Assembly’s Standing Committee for Law and Justice on Monday rejected the proposed bill for allocation of special seats for special people. A...

Pakistan’s Hajj quota cut by 20 percent, NA body told

Pakistan's quota for Hajj pilgrims has been slashed by 20 percent this year, Ministry of Religious Affairs informed the National Assembly's Standing Committee on...

Govt likely to reinstate provincial quota for CSS

The government has decided to bring a constitutional amendment bill in regard to reinstate the provincial quota system of Central Superior Services (CSS). Details said...

SC adjourns Haj quota case’s hearing till 19th

The Supreme Court Lahore Registry on Monday adjourned Hajj Quota case’s hearing till August 19. Earlier‚ a division bench comprising justice’s Tasadduq Hussain Jeelani and...

Govt, Haj organisers reach accord on pilgrims’ quota

The government and the Haj Organisers Association of Pakistan (HOAP) on Thursday agreed to a quota of 60,000 pilgrims for the year, with 12,000...

‘5% minority quota in university recruitment a must’

  Punjab Ombudsman Javed Mehmood has termed the ignoring of five percent quota allocated for minorities during the recruitments in Sargodha University as serious maladministration. Mehmood...

Food Department increases wheat quota of mills to bring down flour...

Sindh Food Department has taken measures to provide wheat flour to the citizens at the fixed rate of Rs 32 per kilogram, a spokesman...

LHC directs inquiry into Hajj quota allocation

The Lahore High Court (LHC) has directed the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) to conduct an inquiry in the allocation of Hajj quota among...