Tag: Rules

KARACHI - A meeting chaired by Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad at the Sindh Governor's House on Monday decided that all universities of the province would follow the same rules and regulations. The vice chancellors of all universities in Sindh, Principal Secretary to Governor Mumtaz Rehman, Special Secretary Aftab Lodhi, Deputy Secretary Fazilat Mehdi and other officials concerned attended the meeting.
A charter inspection and evaluation team including the pro-vice chancellors of Tando

LAHORE - The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has submitted a summary to Chief Minister's Secretariat for the regularisation of the services of LDA Project Director (IT) Mansoor Butt working on contractual basis in grade BS-18, mocking the regularisation policy for contractual employees, LDA sources told Pakistan Today.
RULES: Sources in LDA said, according to rules, the government could regularise provincial staff from grade 1 to 16 and above. Employees appointed through

KARACHI - The International Multimodal Transport Association (IMMTA) is going to hold a conference on "The Impact of the Rotterdam Rules on International Trade of Pakistan" on March 29, 2011.
The new UN Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly be Sea, known as the 'Rotterdam Rules' which had been prepared under the auspices of United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), after several years of deliberations, was adopted

MADRID - Three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador, who is facing a one-year ban for taking performance enhancing drugs, blasted anti-doping regulations on Friday which he said "remain stuck in the 60s."
"Today, advances in science are able to detect minute amounts of some banned substances which neither further athletic performance nor can possibly be taken voluntarily, except if they enter our bodies through ingested food. This is my case with clenbuterol," the

WASHINGTON - A revitalized President Barack Obama bluntly told America to reinvent itself and unite to survive in a fast-changing global economy powered by rising giants like India and China.
Obama's confident State of the Union address Tuesday mixed straight talk with a patriotic call to action, as he rode a tide of improbable political momentum less than three months after a Republican mid-term election rout. The president spoke to a television audience of millions from the

LAHORE - Amicus Curie Abid Hassan Manto informed a Lahore High Court (LHC) full bench on Thursday that rules applying to a government servant do not apply to the president and the constitution does not bar the head of state from being a member of a political party. He told the bench that the president, being a symbol of the federation, should not indulge in political activities.
After hearing arguments, the full bench headed by LHC Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry and

LONDON - Asian football chief Mohamed Bin Hammam on Friday ruled out shifting the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to winter or staging tournament matches around the Gulf region. Bin Hammam told Sky News in an interview that he was "unimpressed" by suggestions from FIFA President Sepp Blatter that the tournament could be moved to a winter time slot to avoid sweltering summer temperatures in Qatar.
He also took aim at remarks by UEFA President Michel Platini earlier this week that the 2022

ISLAMABAD - Ruling out a military operation in North Waziristan, ISPR Director General (DG) Athar Abbas on Monday said the Pakistan Army could not currently open another front as the security forces were in the process of consolidating their current gains.
"Whenever any operation is launched, a state devises a strategy after assessing the dangers involved. Now we are in the phase of consolidating the control in the troubled areas after successful operations there and cannot

MADRID - Real Madrid chairman Florentino Perez has told coach Jose Mourinho he cannot sign a new striker in the winter transfer window to cover for the injured Gonzalo Higuain, a sports newspaper said Saturday.
The Portuguese coach is concerned that with Higuain ruled out for at least another two months he has only Cristiano Ronaldo and the out-of-form French striker Karim Benzema to rely on up front.
But Perez believes that "with Benzema, Cristiano, Higuain from March and

COBHAM - Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti insisted on Tuesday that his club will not make a bid to sign David Beckham in the January transfer window.
Beckham is keen to return to the Premier League on a three-month loan from the LA Galaxy during the MLS off-season as he tries to show England coach Fabio Capello he is still worthy of a place in his squad.
Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp has already gone public on his interest in Beckham, but a deal has yet to be concluded for

PARIS - President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday said French troops had no reason to get involved in "the internal affairs of Ivory Coast," where strongman Laurent Gbagbo is refusing to step down as president.
Sarkozy also repeated his support for Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognised winner of November's Ivorian presidential elections.
French Defence Minister Alain Juppe said earlier Tuesday that France's troops in Ivory Coast would not "take the initiative" to

ISLAMABAD - Administrators at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) are recruiting staff for Federal Medical College without fulfilling legal requirements, Pakistan Today has learnt.
PIMS is going to start the Federal Medical College within a few weeks and the process of getting recognition from the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has also been initiated, while the dean and joint executive director have already been appointed.
A source in PIMS said

LISBON - Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho on Sunday ruled out the prospect of becoming a national team manager after being refused permission to take temporary charge of his native Portugal in the autumn.
Mourinho had been approached to replace Carlos Queiroz, but Real blocked the approach and Paulo Bento eventually took full-time charge of the national side. It was a development which the former Inter Milan and Chelsea boss described as his "greatest frustration of 2010".