Tag: Sacks

IG sacks cops on kidnap, rape charges

QUETTA - Balochistan Police Inspector General Malik Muhammad Iqbal has put two constables under termination for being guilty of kidnapping and raping a girl in Quetta. Police has taken constable Jahanzaib and Shahzaib into custody.
According to details, accused constables abducted a girl and later raped her. They also took nude photos of the victim besides threatening her of dire consequences if she told anybody about the incident. After being informed of the incident, the IG

PSC’s 31,250 sacks of wheat seeds to be sold

LAHORE - Punjab Agriculture Minister Malik Ahmad Ali Olakh has given the approval to International Islamic Help Centre for the sale of Punjab Seed Corporation's 31,250 sacks of wheat seeds for which the PSC has been given Rs 5816, 7200.
PSC Managing Director Muzaffar Mehmood said this when a delegation, led by help centre's Country Director Abdul Salam Alshareef, visited the PSC headquarters. Malik Ahmad also appreciated the role of PSC and said the corporation crushed the

MediaWatch – Samaa sacks Meher Bukhari

LAHORE - Television anchor Meher Bukhari has been sacked by the management of Samaa TV and she did not host her programme "News Beat" on Monday and Tuesday, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Though it has not been confirmed as to why she was sacked, but some claim that she has been charged with provoking the slain Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer to term the blasphemy laws as "black laws".
An internet blog claims, "Meher Bokhari may soon be leaving Samaa for Express, where she has

Media Times sacks more than 200 employees

LAHORE - Media Times, a media group, on Friday fired more than 200 employees from its two organisations; Urdu newspaper Daily Aaj Kal and its satellite TV channel Business Plus. The group had been facing extreme financial constrains; employees were not getting salaries; there was at least a four months lag.
Aaj Kal Editor Khalid Chaudhry was also shown the door, Pakistan Today has learnt. More than 150 employees of Aaj Kal and Business Plus were sacked from their Karachi office,

Troops deployed in capital as Tunisia sacks minister

TUNIS - Troops were deployed in the Tunisian capital on Wednesday as the government sacked the interior minister and announced it would free protesters after weeks of demonstrations that unions said left scores dead.
In a sign of increasing government concern, armoured vehicles rumbled through Tunis and troops took up positions at major intersections and the entrance to the Cite Ettadhamen quarter where rioters burnt vehicles and attacked government offices late Tuesday.
It

Gilani sacks Kazmi, Swati

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday sacked Religious Affairs Minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi and Science and Technology Minister Azam Swati from their portfolios following a dispute over hajj scandal, a private TV channel reported.
Labour and Manpower Minister Khurshid Shah and Education Minister Asseff Ahmed Ali were given the charge of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Ministry of Information Technology respectively, the channel reported.
The prime

Internal divide widens as PPP sacks Naheed

ISLAMABAD: Serious internal divisions widened in the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) on Monday as the party leadership suspended the basic membership of Naheed Khan - political secretary and a close confidante of slain PPP leader Benazir Bhutto - for accusing the party leadership of "nepotism and cronyism".
In an emergency meeting held under the chairmanship of PPP Rawalpindi District President Amir Fida Paracha, the PPP leaders suspended Naheed's basic party membership for

Factory sacks 16 workers, 200 labourers without notice

LAHORE
Workers of STHAL Co. engineering factory staged a protest against the illegal dismissal of 16 of their colleagues, on the allegation of being involved in the formation of a union.
The protestors gathered at Assembly hall and blocked Mall road for half an hour. They chanted slogans against the administration of the factory and Provincial Minister of Labor Ashraf Sohna.
Leader of the protest Gulzar Ahmad Chaudary told Pakistan Today that the administration of the