Tag: sugar mills

NAB makes three more arrests in fake accounts case

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday took three more persons into custody in connection with the fake accounts case. Those detained by the anti-graft...

SC orders sugar mill owners to pay dues by Friday

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered sugar mill owners to pay all existing dues to sugarcane growers by Friday. A three-member bench headed...

Taxi driver gets FBR notice over Rs20m transaction

During an ongoing investigation into fake bank accounts being conducted under the supervision of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), a benami account was...

Growers hold PPP responsible of farmers’ exploitation

HYDERABAD: The Sindh Abadgar Ittehad, a farmers' lobbying group, has alleged that Pakistan Peoples Party's (PPP) Sindh Government has been creating harsh economic conditions...

SC to take up plea against transfer of sugar mills on...

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Saturday fixed February 25 as the date for the hearing of a review petition on the issue pertaining to the...

Sugarcane growers stopped from marching towards Sindh Assembly

-Govt agreed to implement official sugarcane rate: SARC leader KARACHI: The sugarcane growers march, taken out from Hyderabad to Karachi against the non-implementation of sugarcane rate...

EPD asks sugar industry to comply with environmental standards

LAHORE: Punjab Environmental Protection Department (EPD) on Friday asked sugar mills to submit their commitment to comply with the environmental standards before November 10. This decision...

SC orders Sharif family to relocate sugar mills back to central...

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday ordered the relocation of sugar mills owned by the Sharif family back to central Punjab, after declaring...

SC summons all sugar mill owners on April 26

ISLAMABAD: A three-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday directed the owners of all the sugar mills in the country to personally...

CJP hints at holding Sharifs in contempt in sugar mills case

  --SC restores Sharif family plea challenging LHC decision of declaring relocation of sugar mills illegal   ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Wednesday...

Sugarcane growers threaten to go on hunger strike

FAISALABAD: Sugarcane growers on Tuesday threatened to go on a hunger strike if earliest payments for their production were not made at the government-fixed price. Kissan...

CJP Nisar says relocated sugar mills of Sharifs will not open ‘come...

--Justice Nisar says court will not allow mills to operate 'even if we have to organise a fund to compensate farmers'   ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP)...

CM Shehbaz felicitates team assigned to find out Zainab’s killer

LAHORE: Members of the team assigned to find out the brazen killer of Zainab, met Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday. The chief minister...

IHC wants SECP officials named as co-defendants in Zafar Hijazi case

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday, while hearing a case against former Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) chairman Zafar Hijazi,...

Punjab CM’s son accuses Jahangir Tareen of being ‘sugar don’

Son of Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Suleman Sharif lashed out at Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Tareen, calling him ‘a known sugar don who has...

Sugarcane cane cultivators continue to protest against local sugar mills

DI KHAN: Sugarcane growers from various parts of the district held protests and blocked Chasma-Dera road here on Friday. A number of sugarcane growers continue demonstrations...

Sharif brothers blamed for farmers’ protest at Thokar Niaz Baig

Disgruntled farmers block Multan Road, Motorway demanding release of funds LAHORE: Three sugar mills owned by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his relatives have...