Tag: Sacking

PIA sacks over 50 employees for holding fake degrees

KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has sacked over 50 employees, including pilots and cabin crew, for holding fake degrees. According to a statement issued by the...

PM likely to sack entire economic squad

--Finance Minister Asad Umar, FBR chairman, SBP governor expected to be sent packing --Energy minister Omar Ayyub likely to head finance ministry --Finance minister says...

Honour sacking

Licenses of two lawyers cancelled for misbehaving with IHC judge Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of Islamabad High Court (IHC) has cancelled licenses of two lawyers...

IHC annuls NADRA chairman’s sacking

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has cancelled the notification sacking NADRA chairman Tariq Malik. The IHC was hearing a plea filed by Tariq Malik challenging...

Merely sound and fury

The times we are enduring If ever a doubt lingered with regard to us having regressed beyond redemption, it should go away with the ongoing...

No reason given for sacking: Lodhi

Former defence secretary Naeem Khalid Lodhi said on Friday that govt sacked him for not signing a government affidavit. He said, “I was asked to...

Iraq PM backs off sacking threats in political row

Iraq’s premier backed off threats to fire ministers boycotting cabinet, instead naming temporary replacements Wednesday, as the UN voiced concern over a row that...

YDA demands sacking of fnance director

The Young Doctors Association (YDA) demanded on Monday the immediate suspension of the Punjab finance director for not complying with a code of the...

Afridi’s sacking has nothing to do with me: Waqar

Coach Waqar Younis has refused to speculate on the possibility of Shahid Afridi returning as Pakistan’s limited overs captain. Afridi was stripped of captaincy...

Wasim says Afridi sought his advice before sacking

Shahid Afridi had approached Wasim Akram for advice before being sacked as skipper in the wake of his outburst against coach Waqar Younis, the...

PARC workers protest sacking ‘on political grounds’

As many as 267 sacked employees of Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) Monday staged a demonstration against what they called their ‘unjustified’ termination from...

Wasim fumes over Afridi’s sacking

Former Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram has slammed the PCB for appointing Misbah-ul-Haq as ODI skipper, saying the 36-year old has no future. In an...

Bangladesh’s Yunus loses final appeal against sacking

DHAKA - Bangladesh's Nobel-winning Muhammad Yunus lost a final appeal against his sacking from the pioneering microfinance bank he built into an empire for helping the poor. "The appeal has been dismissed by the Supreme Court," Tamin Husain Shawan said, adding that the decision, made by the full seven-member Supreme Court bench of judges, was unanimous.
The central bank, which is nominally independent from the government, removed Yunus on March 2 on the grounds that he had failed

Thousands in B’desh protest against Yunus’ sacking

DHAKA - Thousands of employees and customers of Grameen Bank protested in Bangladesh on Saturday over the sacking of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus as head of the microfinance institution he pioneered. The 70-year-old economist was dismissed as managing director of Dhaka-based Grameen Bank by Bangladesh's central bank last Wednesday in what his supporters said was the culmination of a vendetta against him. Grameen Bank workers and customers formed peaceful human chains across the

Khosa promises fair decision on UoE professors’ sacking

LAHORE - Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa has assured students of University of Education (UoE) of taking a merit based decision on the sacking of two varsity professors; he said this after meeting with the Student Action Committee representatives of UoE on Monday.
Five students of UoE tabled their demands in front of the Sardar Latif Khosa, where he also took notice of the self immolation by a UoE student in front of Governor House and appreciated the students who were

NAECHS scam – sacking of 2 officers recommended

ISLAMABAD - The special parliamentary committee probing National Assembly Employees Cooperative Housing Society (NAECHS) scam has recommended termination of two top officials of the National Assembly Secretariat from service for their involvement in NAECHS scam.
These sacked officers, Deputy Secretary Tariq Ayub Khakwani and Joint Secretary Shahid Jilani, were already under suspension, Pakistan Today learnt reliably.
The special committee gave these recommendations in its

Samaa denies sacking Meher Bukhari

LAHORE - Samaa Television authorities have denied sacking TV anchor Meher Bukhari. A Samaa TV official said Meher Bukhari has gone on leave. Meher Bukhari, known for her outspoken views, has not been hosting program "News Beat" for last three days, whereas Samaa TV employees have confirmed that Meher Bukhari is no longer attached with Samaa.