Tag: Responsible

Recalling the Sri Lankan tour of 1994, the former chief executive of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Arif Ali Khan Abbasi has accused Intikhab...

The judicial commission has held FC personnel and police responsible in the Kharotabad incident and recommended the provincial government to take strict action against...

The incompetence and corruption of former education ministers and other high-ups of the Federal Education Ministry and National Education Foundation (NEF), who held offices...

The Federal Budget 2011-12 has started taking its toll on sugar prices. Mirroring previous trends, sugar prices have soared Rs 3 per kilogramme in...

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said Pakistan had been in a critical phase for the past 63 years and blamed politicians and the army...

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif is responsible for the destruction caused by the floods in the province last year, as the judicial commission’s findings...

Federal Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Sheikh said on Sunday that Pakistan was going through a big transition and provincial governments equally shared the responsibility...

KARACHI - Extortionists and land grabbers responsible for the prevailing unrest in Karachi that has adversely affected industrial growth in the province, provincial Commerce and Industries Minister Rauf Siddiqui said on Tuesday. "However, extortionists, land grabbers and the other criminals could be taken to task by using modern technology and developing close liaison between each institute," he said while speaking at a business community reception held at the SITE Association office.

FAISAL ABAD - The party which has been involved in the assassination of hundreds of innocent people in Karachi is now making tall claims and hollow promises to protect the people of the Punjab, said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) central executive committee member and Public Accounts Committee (PAC) former chairman Hamza Shahbaz on Tuesday. Commenting on the political campaign of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in the Punjab, he said: "It is ironical that those who openly use

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has held the top bureaucracy responsible for bad governance and resultantly tarnishing the government's image in the eyes of the public. According to a letter written by the Cabinet Division to the in-charge of the ministries and senior officials, the bureaucracy submitted the cases to the prime minister and the cabinet at the eleventh hour, in haste and with a sense of urgency, which forced the government to delay or defer decisions on

ISLAMABAD - All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC) leader, Nayeem Ahmed Khan has said that the Indian administration is responsible for the killing of over 118 innocent people during last year's upsurge in the kashmir territory.
Nayeem Ahmed Khan addressing a public gathering at Kreeri in Pattan said "The killing of unarmed youth is a black chapter in Kashmir
history,"Kashmir Media Service reported.
The APHC leader assured the people that their sacrifices would yield

KARACHI - The Founder of Muttahida Quami Movement(MQM) Altaf Hussain has said that the responsibility for releasing the American Raymond Davis rests with the Punjab Government because he killed Pakistanis in Lahore and hence the prosecution, government responsibility to the Punjab Government. He said that if Raymond Davis could be released under the Sharia law of Diyat by paying blood money by the court orders then the US Government should pay the blood money to the family members of

LAHORE - The shortage of gas supply to certain power plants is the main reason behind an increase in the power shortfall, Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) Director General (DG) Muhammad Khalid said on Tuesday. He was speaking at a weekly press conference at the WAPDA House. The PEPCO DG said that the company was facing a shortfall of 1,423MW, as production stood at 10,263MW and demand 11,686MW. Khalid said that hydel power plants were producing 3,973MW, thermal 1,577MW,

KARACHI - The crash of Airblue's Airbus 321 airplane near Islamabad on July 28 last year, which killed all 152 people onboard, could be attributed to a number of violations, Aviation Department sources told Pakistan Today on Monday. When the aircraft was asked to go and hold north of the airfield at Islamabad airport, the Air Traffic Control (ATC) had actually given take-off clearance to a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) C-130 aircraft, which took 8 minutes to line up on

LAHORE - Broken promises of the Zardari regime and poor performance of the federal government made it inevitable for the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to part ways with the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) in Punjab, PML-N Information Secretary Ahsan Iqbal said on Sunday.
"The PML-N is now free from shackles of the PPP coalition and will focus all its energies on improving its government in Punjab showing that corruption-free, merit-based and citizen-centered governance is

ISLAMABAD - Calling the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) a "cowardly party" for not standing by their leaders in difficult times, PML-Q central leaders on Wednesday put the ruling party to shame for not defending slain Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer against extremists.
A source told Pakistan Today that a five-member government committee called on PML-Q leaders at Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain's residence to inform them of the economic situation in the country, but faced severe criticism

LAHORE - Pakistan People's Party Secretary General Senator Jahangir Badr said on Wednesday that it was fact former president Pervez Musharraf was responsible for the assassination of the former PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto.
"This is not an allegation but it had been proved in UN inquiry commission report," he said, adding providing foolproof security to two-time former prime minister was responsibility of the then Musharraf administration. Earlier, Musharraf told a lie when he