Tag: System

KARACHI - The Sindh government is likely to have municipal and metropolitan corporations-like institutions in order to create a balance of power between nazims and the provincial authorities. The MQM, a coalition partner of the Pakistan People's Party-led Sindh government, has agreed with this proposal, which was presented by the ruling party in a recent meeting, sources told Pakistan Today.
Under the local government system introduced by the PML-Q government in 2002, there were

LAHORE - The federal government should introduce an effective protection system for children and the Punjab government should give priority to children's issues, speakers of a workshop organised by Sahil in collaboration with Action Aid on effects of the 18th Constitutional Amendment on children said on Tuesday.
Punjab Assembly (PA) Deputy Speaker Rana Mashood was the chief guest while Punjab CM's Advisor Zakia Shahnawaz presided over the workshop. Pakistan People's Party (PPP)

KARACHI - Asian Development Bank (ADB) Director Maikito Ojhero met Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister on Planning and Development Department Dr Kaiser Bengali at the latter's office on Monday. Additional Chief Secretary (Development) Ishaq Lashari and Irrigation Department officers including Junaid Memon, Khalid Haider Memon and others were also present during the meeting.
Ojhero discussed the proposed Water Resources Development and Management Investment Programme with Bengali. The

LAHORE - The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Punjab on Monday arrested Danish Shamshad involved in the Lahore Mass Transit System Project reference from the accountability courts' premises. Danish is son and bona fide beneficiary of key accused Shamshad Gulzar who embezzled Rs 401.155 million from funds allocated for the Lahore Mass Transit System Project. NAB arrested him with permission of the accountability court.
Earlier, Advocate Saadia tried to take the accused out of

KARACHI - Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has launched an "online complaint management system" which enables consumers of all telecom services, including internet and broadband users, to lodge their complaints against their service providers online and to have prompt response on them. This system is integrated with operators and the telecom regulator.
The primary objective of this new system is the management and resolution of telecommunication subscriber's complaints.

ISLAMABAD - Food and Agriculture Minister Nazar Gondal has said that a high efficiency Irrigation System would be introduced next month. He said that the government maintains its commitment to establishing badly needed modern irrigation infrastructure to enhance agricultural productivity and save water as water resources deplete.
He was presiding over a meeting on the project entitled "Water Conservation and Productivity Enhancement through High Efficiency Irrigation System" at

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board, in a series of experimental steps to improve its domestic structure, has enforced a new policy of grading the performance of umpires. Following complaints of sub-standard umpiring in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final, a senior official of the board confirmed that they were already experimenting with a new grading system for umpires. "Yes, the umpiring was not up to the mark, but we have already enforced a system where the umpires getting bad reports

ISLAMABAD - The lawyer for Justice (r) Abdul Hameed Dogar on Tuesday pleaded before the Supreme Court that his client had taken oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) of November 3, 2007 to save the judicial system in the country.
A four-member larger bench of Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez was hearing contempt of court cases against the superior court judges who tool oath under

ISLAMABAD - The fire erupted at a shopping centre in Islamabad's Blue Area on Sunday was broke out due to short circuit but it could have been averted, if the building had proper inbuilt fire safety system. "Fire broke out due to short circuit at the control room of a private office and it could easily be controlled if Co2 cylinder and Dry chemical Powder (DCP) were poured over the fire, which did not exist in the building",
Additional Director Fire brigade Zafar Iqbal told

WASHINGTON - Chinese President Hu Jintao urged an end to a 'zero sum' Cold War relationship with the United States and proposed new cooperation, but resisted US arguments about why China should let its currency strengthen. Indeed, in a sign that the future of the US currency continues to concern the most senior levels of the Chinese government, he said the dollar-based international currency system is a "product of the past". Overall though, the president, who will visit Washington

KARACHI - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) would provide a loan of at least $ 400 million for improvement in Sindh's irrigation system, Pakistan Today has reliably learnt.
The ADB Mission and the Sindh authorities had reached a consensus on the heavy interest loan, while the first installment of $130 million of the loan would be provided very shortly. The bank's loan would be utilised for reforms in the decades-old irrigation system of the province under Sindh Water Resources

ISLAMABAD - Corruption, mismanagement and unauthorised practices turn out to be the prime features of the whole mechanism for the assessment, collection and disbursement of central zakat fund to the poor and needy of the country.
According to a report available with Pakistan Today, the lack of internal control is leading to the leakage of funds and improper utilisation of Zakat money. The report said the Central Zakat Administration (CZA) is not carrying out reconciliation of

LAHORE - Former Punjab chief minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid's (PML-Q) senior leader Parvez Elahi has said that his party will not let the present system derail and continue to strive for the national solidarity, good governance, strong democratic values and elimination of poverty.
He said this in a meeting held at his residence in Islamabad with the party leaders from Rawalpindi, Jehlum and Attock on thursday.
He added that the party had always upheld national

NEW DELHI - The Indian cricket board has ruled out using the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) and also rejected an offer to travel to Australia and watch its Ashes application.
The clamour to use the technology aimed at reducing umpiring errors has been growing but India have opposed UDRS as they are adamant the ball-tracking tool is not accurate enough.
"We don't accept this technology. We are not going to use it in any bilateral series," Srinivasan told Reuters over

LAHORE - A handful of failed PU Law College students held a protest on Thursday demanding that aggregate passing marks be decreased from existing 45 percent to 40 percent in addition to introduction of carry-on system in the LLB examinations.
PU Law College Incharge Samee Uzair Khan said that protester's demands fall within ambit of the Board of Studies in Law and the board had rejected both demands in its previous meeting terming them detrimental to standards of legal

ISLAMABAD - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked the government to introduce an equitable tax system in the country to overcome the chronic low tax to GDP ratio, which is at the same level since the last 20 years.
Addressing a conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists on Wednesday, IMF Mission Chief Paul Ross said, "The tax to GDP ratio has not changed during the last 20 years." Observing that the prevalent tax system was inequitable, he suggested

ISLAMABAD: National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has launched a complaints redressal system to facilitate all those registered people in flood-affected areas that could not become part of Flood Relief System due to some problem.
NADRA Deputy Chairman Tariq Malik said in a statement issued on Tuesday that the system is mainly to identify the registered beneficiaries left over in flood affected areas and to make an effective mechanism that would yield transparent