Tag: Staff

LAHORE - Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Town Planning Wing staff on Thursday demolished a number of illegal buildings in various localities of the city.
The LDA staff demolished a hospital structure, which was illegally constructed on Plot Number 3 Block F/1 WAPDA Town.
Two structures constructed without getting approval of the building plan from LDA on Plots Number 196 and 217 of L-Block Sabzazar Scheme were also razed. Constructions on plot numbers 412,413 and 414 of

ISLAMABAD - The employees of the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) Saturday ended their strike after the authorities assured them of fulfilling their demands. The FDE employees had gone on strike on Friday to press the authorities concerned to withdraw termination orders of some high officials of the Directorate. They had also objected to the perks enjoyed by the Chairperson FDE, Dr Shaheen Khan. On Saturday, the authorities assured the FDE employees that their demands would be

KARACHI - As many as 155 lower-grade employees of the Sindh Education and Literacy Department, who were appointed by former Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim and sacked by the Qaim Ali Shah-led government, were reinstated on Friday by the Sindh High Court (SHC). In its verdict, an SHC division bench comprising Justice Shahid Anwar Bajwa and Justice Tufail H. Ibrahim declared the Sindh Education and Literacy Department's orders to terminate these employees as illegal, and ordered the

LAHORE - Lawyer for two Pakistan men shot dead by Raymond Davis on January 27, on Thursday requested Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) to register a case against the superintendent, deputy superintendent and other staff of the Central Jail Kot Lakhpat.
Asad Manzoor Butt, lawyer for the two victims, approached CCPO Muhammad Aslam Tarin and filed a written complaint in this regard for legal action. Butt demanded stern action against jail officials, alleging they had

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has taken note of the fact that a number of retired officers are using official vehicles without authorisation while a large number of employees i.e. gardeners, drivers and police constables are also serving them. Similarly, the serving officers are using vehicles and services of such employees beyond their entitlement.
Punjab CM has directed that all administrative secretaries, heads of attached departments; autonomous,

KARACHI - Serve Our Civil Hospital (SOCH), a non-political, student-run organisation, running a cleanliness and awareness campaign among the patients, non-medical staff and medical staff of the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK), organised two campaigns 'Safai Nisf Eman' and 'Pegham-e-Sehat' on Monday under the banner of 'Soch Hai Sehat Ki'. More than 100 students of the Dow Medical College participated in the campaigns for the awareness of patients at the hospital. The first campaign,

LAHORE - To help employees overcome the increasing cost of living, MCB has increased salaries for its permanent clerical staff and guards by 17 percent, in addition to an increment to various allowances. This was announced in a press release issued today. Besides the increase in salaries and allowances, various grants for marriage, funeral, children scholarship and maternity charges have also been enhanced. The threshold of entitlement for loans including advance salary, house loan

LAHORE - A selfless service, devotion towards duties and rendering of help to the road users in distress are the key factors which have added much to the honor and dignity of the department said by DIG NH&MP Syed Ibne Hussain while speaking at the affixing of promotional badges ceremony of newly promoted patrolling officers at Sector Commander Office N-5 Central I on Tuesday.
The SSP Inksar Khan, Chief Patrol Officer Jehangir Ghumman and Spokesman Syed Imran Ahmed Shah were also

LAHORE - A high level committee, constituted on the instruction of Secretary Health Punjab Fawad Hassan Fawad for investigating the incident stolen medicines from the private pharmacy of Services Hospital has submitted its report. Fawad disclosed that as per the inquiry report, connivance of staff in medicines' theft has been proved and stern action was being taken against those involved in this matter.

GUJRANWALA - Gujranwala District Coordination Officer Barrister Nabil Ahmad Awan got a corruption case registered against Adil Garh Basic Health Unit (BHU) In-charge Dr Muhammad Ashraf and Dispenser Muhammad Ansar for stealing trees, medicines, oxygen cylinders and medical equipment from the unit.
The action was initiated after a surprise visit of Health Sector Reforms Programme Project Director Farasat Iqbal to the BHU Adil Garh where he found embezzlement and an illegal medical

LAHORE - A team of Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited set up as UFG-C Special Task Force carried out a crackdown on illegal gas connections/bypasses approximately to 600 houses in village Bhagiana Kalan, Phool Nagar, District Kasur, the other day. Najeeb-ul-Hassan, General Manager (HSE/Special Task Force) was heading the drive.
The local police and electronic media had been informed about the raid. The campaign used special equipment for detecting underground bypasses. In the

LAHORE - Airport officials foiled a young boy's attempt to flee in the landing gear of a Boeing 777 aircraft parked at the Allama Iqbal International Airport late on Thursday. PIA authorities caught Muhammad Rizwan, 18, and handed him over to the Airport Security Force (ASF) for further action.
Rizwan was wearing a black shawl to mask him in the dark but was tracked down by the authorities. Sources have also revealed that during the initial inquiry, he said he tried to stowaway

LAHORE - Aitchison Staff and Doctors XI won their matches in the 1st Lahore Cricket League here on Thursday. Aitchison Staff beat Chairman Foam by 70 runs at the former's ground. Aitchison made 225 for eight in 30 overs. Hammad 69, Maqsood 44, Amir 29 and M Riaz 24 were the main scorers.
Talha got four for 51 and Asif two for 26. Chairman Form made 155 runs in 25 overs. Dawood 32, Asif Abbas 23 and Fahad 22. Maqsood, Amir Razzaq, Aneeb shared two wickets each. In the other match,

LAHORE - The elections of PIA Senior Staff Association (PIA SSA) have been delayed for three months due to the lack of necessary security cover provided by the Sindh Government; for the elections that were due to be held from 28th January till 12th February, 2011.
Earlier, PIA administration had requested Government of Sindh to provide necessary security coverage for the elections. However, the Provincial Home Department informed PIA Administration that due to the prevailing

ISLAMABAD
ASMA KUNDI
Controversy over monitoring of federal capital's environment after the devolution of Ministry of Environment is creating tension among the employees in Capital Development Authority (CDA) and Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (Pak-EPA).
Officials in both departments said that the higher authorities in Pak-EPA and CDA had been discussing transfer of powers to monitor the environment of the capital.
"The discussion turned into controversy,

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

LAHORE - The president of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Okara died here on Monday at the Doctors Hospital allegedly because of negligence by the doctors. He was under treatment at the hospital for some respiratory disorder.
The hospital is situated with the Johar Town Police precincts. The outraged relatives of the deceased thrashed the doctors and vandalised the hospital premises. The deceased Chaudhary Mehar, according to deceased's son Zahid, had been brought to