Tag: Refuses

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

KARACHI - China has refused the grant of trade concessions on almost 268 export products to Pakistan. Islamabad had proposed concessions in order to minimise the huge trade deficit. Rejecting Pakistan's demands, China explicitly said that similar concessions could only be given to the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), sources told Pakistan Today. China, last year, granted duty free access on 4,762 products to 33 LDCs, majority of which are in Africa. However, at least three are from

LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Friday refused to hear a petition challenging the acquittal and release of Raymond Davis by trial court, and sent the petition to the bench of Justice Iftikhar Hussein Chaudhry to determine if it was maintainable or not. Barrister Iqbal Jafferi, disputing Davis' release, filed the petition. Iqbal argued that the trial court had violated Sharia Law because Fahim's widow was not ready to pardon Davis. The widow

LAHORE - Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor Raymond Davis, who was charged with double murder after shooting dead two men in Lahore last month, refused to sign a charge sheet in a preliminary hearing at the Kot Lakhpat Jail on Friday and insisted that he had diplomatic immunity, lawyers said.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Yousaf began a regular hearing of the case, at the start of which the accused was told to sign a charge sheet, but Davis refused to

RAMALLAH - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on Thursday it would be "unacceptable" for planned elections to be held only in the West Bank with Gazans left out of the polls. "The presidential and legislative elections must take place in the West Bank, in the Gaza Strip and in east Jerusalem," he said at a joint news conference with visiting East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta.
"It would be unacceptable for them to be held only in the West Bank and not in Gaza. Without

Ranbir Kapoor seems to have left his past behind and is in no mood to open a closed chapter. The actor has reportedly turned down a film which has his ex-ladylove Deepika Paduokne playing the female lead. Director Ayaan Mukerji of the 'Wake Up Sid' fame was keen to cast the Kapoor lad opposite dusky hottie Deepika in his upcoming untitled flick. But Ranbir bluntly refused only to avoid animosity at work.
And Ranbir has all the reasons to refuse a film with Deepkia after the lady

KARACHI - The Sindh government has refused to issue weapons licences to private schools in the metropolis. After the twin blasts at the Islamic University in Islamabad, the Sindh home secretary had agreed with management representatives of private schools that the institutions would be allowed to keep licensed arms for ensuring safety of students and staff and take strict security measures on their own.
However, the plan of the Sindh Home Department was recently dropped due to

ISLAMABAD - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) team on Tuesday held separate meetings with the PML-N and MQM to garner support for the implementation of the reformed general sales tax (RGST) at the federal and provincial levels.
The IMF team, consisting of Middle East and Central Asia Department Director Masood Ahmed, Mission Chief for Pakistan Adnan Mazarei and Resident Representative Paul Ross, held talks with PML-N and MQM leaders. Both parties linked their support to

KARACHI - Despite Zakat and Ushr having been devolved to the provinces under the 18th Constitutional Amendment, the federal government has refused to transfer at least Rs6.5 billion to the provinces, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Sources told Pakistan Today that the funds are currently available with the Ministry of Finance, but the federal authorities have turned down all efforts by the provinces on the pretexts of economic crisis and shortage of funds. Of the funds, Sindh stands

MELBOURNE - Rafael Nadal refused to use an injury as an excuse for his bitterly disappointing early exit from the Australian Open. Nadal appeared to injure his left hamstring in a drawn-out second game of the match and sought several medical timeouts to continue.
Nadal was not looking for excuses as he faced the media following his elimination and preferred instead to laud Ferrer's performance rather than dwell on his injury misery. Nadal said had not seen a doctor but believed

LAHORE - The Defence Housing Authority (DHA) has declined to pay sewerage charges to the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) planned to be levied on all housing societies from this year, Pakistan Today has learnt. Sources told Pakistan Today that LDA, mother organisation of WASA, had approved a plan to collect sewerage charges from the DHA, Model Town and other 213 housing societies in its board of governor's meeting.
WASA MD Javed Iqbal said that the summary had been submitted to

NEW DELHI - Iran's national oil company has refused to accept payments for oil sales to India without Reserve Bank of India (RBI) guarantees, sources said, prompting a meeting of their central banks over another obstacle to trade with Iran.
The Islamic Republic is under global pressure over its nuclear programme and although United Nations sanctions do not forbid buying Iranian oil, the United States has pressed hard for governments and companies to restrict dealings with Tehran.

ISLAMABAD: The government's plan to devolve 5 ministries to the provinces is likely to come undone as the Federal Education Ministry and the National Assembly Standing Committee on Education opposed the devolution under the 18th constitutional amendment in unison at a meeting of the of the committee on Tuesday, chaired by Member of the National Assembly Abid Sher Ali.
The chairman of the education committee directed the Education Ministry to submit a detailed proposal to it in

LAHORE: Finance Minister Abdul Hafiz Shaikh and his team visited PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif on Friday seeking endorsement of the reformed GST bill in the National Assembly.
However, the minister had to return empty-handed, without even hope for a second round of talks on the issue.
An insider told Pakistan Today that the team tried for more than three hours to convince Nawaz but remained unsuccessful. He said the delegation tried to persuade Nawaz that the misunderstanding on

ISLAMABAD: The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has refused to brief the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Defence on the US' reported intention to expand drone attacks to Quetta and the latest position of the war against terrorism, a source told Pakistan Today on Wednesday.
Directing the Ministry of Defence to organise a special briefing for committee members at the ISI Headquarters, the committee in its recent meeting had asked the ISI director general (DG) to give a

ISLAMABAD: The director general of National Volunteer Movement (NVM), Nazar Hussain, has refused to follow the orders of the implementation commission of surrendering all NVM resources to the Ministry of Youth Affairs.
Sources informed Pakistan Today that in its meeting held on December 1, the Implementation Commission had decided that all five ministries being devolved to the provinces from the Centre and their subordinating organisations would be abolished.
However, the

NEW YORK: Justin Bieber has vowed never to move to the U.K. because he finds everything about the country "depressing" apart from the sexy women.
The 'Baby' hitmaker is currently on a promotional trip to Britain as the country suffers severe disruption amid widespread snowstorms and freezing temperatures.
And Bieber is adamant the unpredictable climate has put him off ever relocating to the U.K. admitting he even hates English food. He tells, "I couldn't live here. The