Tag: Sought

LAHORE - A Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench on Monday again sought reply from the attorney general, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman and Punjab Police inspector general on a petition challenging appointment of NAB Punjab Director General Rana Zahid Mehmood. On Monday, nobody appeared on behalf of the respondents on which the petitioner's counsel alleged that the Punjab government was deliberately delaying submission of replies.
He pointed out that Zahid's

FAISALABAD - Faisalabad police needed public cooperation to wipe out drug barons, land mafia, touts and god fathers of criminals from the region, said Regional Police Officer (RPO) Aftab Ahmed Cheema while addressing a meeting of lawyers, journalists and local politicians. The meeting was also attended by the superintendent of police (SP), deputy superintendents of police (DSPs) and station house officers (SHOs) of Tandlianwala and Samundary who were there to answer the public

GUJRANWALA - Gujranwala Divisional Commissioner Saeed Iqbal Wahla has asked Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) to submit a comprehensive report on the construction of 4.75-kilometer-long Garjakh Road and directed Gujranwala Development Authority (GDA) to clear the bills of FWO for the projects completed by it. He was presiding over a meeting at the circuit house to review the development schemes of the city. MNA Khurram Dastgir Khan, DCO Nabil Awan, Director Development Anwar Aziz,

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday directed official provincial and federal lawyers to assist the court in a petition seeking the disqualification of MPA and former Sindh chief minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim due to his unauthorised absence from assembly sessions. An SHC division bench comprising Chief Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Hasan Azhar Rizvi directed Deputy Attorney General Rizwan Ahmed Dodani and Assistant Advocate General Sarwar Khan to assist the court in

ISLAMABAD - The central government has sought assistance from Balochistan in mustering local tribal chieftains' support in providing adequate security to the state-owned Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) and the Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) to help them continue unhindered exploration and production activities in the province.
A source said a delegation, led by Petroleum Secretary Imtiaz Kazi and including managing directors of the OGDCL, PPL and the Sui

LAHORE - A Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench on Monday sought a reply from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) within three weeks on a petition challenging closure of 60 references against politicians and bigwigs on directions of the NAB chairman.
The bench consisting of Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry and Justice Ahmad Farooq Sheikh issued the orders on a petition filed by Rana Ilmddin submitting that according to media reports, criminal references against various

ISLAMABAD - Speaking on the issue of immunity to Raymond Davis, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir on Saturday said he would not have sought immunity if he had done something criminal. Interacting with the Diplomatic Correspondents' Association, basher said, "If I had done something criminal, I would not have sought immunity."
In its first formal but calculatedly guarded reaction to the issue of the American citizen, Davis, who had killed two Pakistanis in Lahore, he hoped

ISLAMABAD: The Standing Committee of the Senate on States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) has said that it would recommend to the government that compensation amount, being paid to the families of the Levies force's martyred soldiers, should be increased as the current compensation amount of Rs 200, 000 was not enough for them.
The committee meeting held on Friday also said that it would make recommendations for an increase in the compensation amount and recruitment of local people

KARACHI - Foreign funding is sought for the establishment of a transmission line to the Thar coalfields for the distribution of between 2,500 and 3,000 megawatts electricity from the coal projects to the national grid.
Ministry of Water and Power will hold a meeting shortly with all concerned stakeholders to resolve the issue related to the approval of the project from Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) in order to ensure that work on the transmission

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday sought reply from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) director general (DG) on a petition filed by Pir Syed Sibtul Hassan Gilani alias Double Shah seeking directions to NAB to decide his application for reduction of surety bonds from Rs 3 billion to 100 million to finalise his plea bargain. A division bench consisting of Justice Sheikh Ahmad Farooq and Justice Yawar Ali issued the order on a petition filed by Double Shah submitting