Tag: Removal

Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Ahmed Raza Tahir on Saturday ordered immediate removal of beggars standing at traffic signals and cross roads throughout...

The Pakistan Coalition for Religious Minorities (PCRM) will launch a protest campaign against Sindh Minority Affairs Minister Dr Mohan Lal Kohistani for “not taking...

Lahore High Court (LHC) Acting Chief Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Wednesday issued notice to the federal irrigation secretary and Greater Thar Canal chief...

A division bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) headed by acting Chief Justice (CJ) Sh Azmat Saeed on Tuesday granted interim stay order...

Police in the Australian state of New South Wales are to be allowed to demand the removal of burqas and other face veils so...

The Young Doctors’ Association (YDA) on Tuesday said that the King Edward Medical University (KEMU) human resources director and public relations officer (PRO) should...

The City District Government Karachi, in compliance with the decision of the coordination committees of the coalition partners in the Sindh government, has started...

A Bollywood studio has dismissed a complaint from a group representing oppressed low-caste Hindus, asking for a top actor to be removed from a...

Removal of systemic inefficiencies is essential to fix the economy and resolve the chronic problems being faced by the business community, argued business and...

LAHORE - PPP's Opposition Leader in the Punjab Assembly Raja Riaz on Wednesday demanded the removal of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif for being "incapable" and letting bad governance touch new peaks. Addressing a news conference at the Punjab Assembly Secretariat, Riaz strongly criticised Shahbaz's performance as chief minister, saying he was not capable of handling affairs of a province like Punjab and should quit from office in the best interest of the people. He said the

KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Tuesday strongly opposed removal of three Deputy District Officers (DDO), three days before completion of house count.
According to a private TV, the MQM expressed its reservations regarding the issue, saying the action seems to be taken for getting favorite results of the house count.
The party stressed to restore the removed DDIOs to obtain authentic results.

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday again issued notice to the federal and Punjab governments for April 26 on a petition challenging removal of US national Raymond Davis' name from the Exit Control List (ECL) without obtaining consent of the LHC.
Barrister Javed Iqbal Jaffrey filed the petition requesting the court to seek explanation from former federal law minister Senator Dr Babar Awan, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Additional District and Sessions Judge

KARACHI - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was playing innocent now, said former Sindh home minister Zulfiqar Mirza, but his removal had much to do with the party as MQM chief Altaf Hussain and Coordination Committee Deputy Convener Farooq Sattar had repeatedly demanded that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leadership remove him.
"Altaf Hussain asked President Asif Ali Zardari six times to remove me," Mirza told reporters at a reception for the Pakistan Cricket Team at Chief

DHAKA - US Senator John Kerry says he is "deeply concerned" by efforts to remove Muhammad Yunus from the Grameen Bank he founded and urged the Bangladesh government and Nobel laureate to reach a compromise. The 70-year-old economist was abruptly sacked as managing director of Dhaka-based Grameen Bank by Bangladesh's central bank on Wednesday in what his supporters say was the culmination of a year-long vendetta against him.
Kerry, who heads the powerful US Senate foreign

LAHORE - The City District Government Lahore (CDGL) and the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) have stopped action against removal of more than 50 unauthorised road cuts traced out on various roads, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Both departments had planned to close all illegal road cuts considered as big hurdles in smooth flow of traffic after Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ordered in July 2010 that no road cuts would be allowed after completion of new roads and departments

ISLAMABAD - Senator Zafar Ali Shah challenged appointments of governors of all provinces in the Supreme Court, a private TV channel reported on Wednesday.
The petitioner contended that the president was bound to take advice from the prime minister while appointing governors in the light of Article 101 of the constitution. All the governors were appointed in former president Pervez Musharraf's tenure so all the appointments have now become unconstitutional.
Senator Shah who

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday directed the provincial government to dismiss Kambar Shahdadkot District Coordination Officer (DCO) Ghulam Qadir along with all the DCOs in the province without the required qualification.
District Management Group Officer Gul Hassan Channa had filed a constitutional petition under Article No 199 of the Constitution through his counsel, Advocate Abrar Hassan, challenging the direction of the Sindh government on the appointment of