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KARACHI - Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Ali Mirza ordered Karachi Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Fayyaz Laghari on Saturday to submit a detailed report to the provincial government on the targeted killing of doctors. The minister directed that the report must include details of the incidents and the registered cases, results of investigations and information about the arrested people and cases forwarded to the courts between January 2010 and February 2011.
The home minister

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan International Airline (PIA) has not signed any agreement with Turkish Airlines to sell any of its profitable air routes, Defence Secretary Lt Gen (r) Syed Athar Ali told the NA Standing Committee on Defence on Wednesday.
"PIA is not authorised to sign agreement with any country and the matter of selling routes only appeared in talks as record of discussion between the PIA and Turkish Airlines officials," Ali told the committee that met with Dr Azra Fazal

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Health Makhdoom Shahabuddin accepted in the Senate on Friday that used plastic bags of urine and blood and used syringes were being re-cycled to make plastic utensils that posed serious health risks to consumers.
"I will immediately probe the matter as it is of a serious nature. There are laws in the country that prohibit the re-cycling of such material, there is a need for deterrence," the health minister said while answering a question raised

ISLAMABAD - Petroleum Minister Naveed Qamar on Tuesday in informed the Senate that Pakistan had 1,339.25 tonnes of gold reserves. During the question answer session in the Senate, Qamar said in a written reply that the country had 1,339.25 tonnes of gold reserves of which only 7.891 tonnes had been produced in the last five years.
He Pakistan had 1,275.75 tonnes of gold in the Reko Diq area, while the Saindak area had 63.50 tonnes of gold. The minister told the House that

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) informed the Supreme Court on Tuesday that it had detected fake accounts opened by Muhammad Maalik, manager of Moonis Elahi's Al-Tahoor Company.
A four-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman was hearing a suo motu case against alleged corruption of over Rs 5 billion in the National Insurance Company (NICL) affairs. FIA

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court was told on Monday that the lease of Reko Diq gold and copper reserves in Balochistan to a foreign company was the biggest case of bad governance and irresponsibility in the country.
A four-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, was hearing a case against the lease of Reko Diq reserves, worth over $260 billion, to foreign exploration companies in

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday disposed of the murder case of former attorney general for Pakistan, Muhammad Sardar Khan after it was informed that the main accused had been taken into custody in Dubai on the request of the Islamabad police and legal process was underway for his extradition.
Appearing on notice before a four-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly was told on Friday that the overall fiscal deficit of the country during the first half of the current fiscal year (July -December 2010) has mounted to Rs 491 billion. In a written reply, the Finance Ministry also informed the house that the government from March 2008 to December 2010 had borrowed Rs 1.1 trillion from the State Bank and other scheduled banks.
"The interest paid by government on loans (borrowing from banks) during the year 2010-11

ISLAMABAD - The Finance Ministry on Friday apprised the Senate of the fact that the officials at the State Bank of Pakistan and the Federal Board of Revenue cost Rs 24 million to the national exchequer on their visits abroad.
Ironically, these visits were meant to seek remedy against the financial crunch in which the Pakistani officials held talks with representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from October 2008 to November 2010. The Finance Ministry submitted

KARACHI - Doctors working in public sector hospitals across Sindh including Karachi observed a two-hour strike on Friday in response to the call issued by the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), Karachi against increasing incidents of killings of doctors in the province.
The PMA issued the call for this strike on Thursday during a meeting held at the PMA House to condemn the brutal murder of yet another doctor, Dr Imran Wasi, who was shot dead near the Lyari General Hospital.

ISLAMABAD - The lawyer for Justice (r) Abdul Hameed Dogar told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that by taking oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO), his client had done what the judiciary had been doing for the last 50 years.
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 took oath under the

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 Supreme Court was informed on Tuesday that Techno Energy, a Sialkot-based firm, had deposited Rs 1,082.5 million in the national exchequer for its failure to import machinery for a 150MW rental power project despite keeping the amount with it for over two years. A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, was hearing a suo motu case initiated on an application by PML-Q's Parliamentary

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court was informed on Thursday that the government had disbursed $1,000 as compensation to each affected family of the children used as camel jockeys in United Arab Emirates (UAE).
A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday disposed of the suo motu case with an appreciation for the federal government as well as interior ministry for disbursing 769 cheques worth $1,000 to each

ISLAMABAD - FATA Secretariat Additional Chief Secretary Habibullah Khan on Saturday said a major revision of the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) had been completed and a final announcement in this regard had to be made by the president of Pakistan.
Talking to reporters after attending the meeting of the special committee of the Public Accounts Committee, he said the federal government was focusing on developing and equipping the Levies Force to replace the Khasadar Force.