Tag: Violation

The report by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) released last month pointed towards massive human rights violations by the Indian state, Indian army deployed...

The current monologue coming on the Balochistan issue need to be converted very urgently into an all encompassing dialogue between all stakeholders including representatives...

This is with reference to the attack by the NATO helicopters on our border post that resulted in the death of officers and soldiers...

Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf, Islamabad chapter, held a protest demonstration on Monday against the NATO firing at the Pakistani border check-post, Salala. The protesters expressed anger at...

Demanding of the federation to take notice, the Balochistan Assembly on Monday echoed with protests against the violation of Pakistani airspace by low-flying jets...

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Monday expressed concerns over the violation of the right to life across Pakistan. The HRCP demanded...

Former law minister Babar Awan said the verdict of the Lahore High Court ordering President Asif Ali Zardari to stop political activities in Presidency...

LAHORE - The charge sheet against former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer's assassin Mumtaz Qadri is a negation of Pakistan's creation, Tehreek-e-Namoos-e-Risalat Mahaz (TNRM) President Raza-e-Mustafa said on Monday.
He was addressing a rally outside the Lahore Press Club. Mustafa said that people, who are giving a "royal protocol" to US national Raymond Davis, should think about their attitude towards Qadri. TNRM secretary Ali Naqshbandi said that if Taseer's assassin had done

LAHORE - Violation of the kite flying ban will not be tolerated and action has been taken against policemen for the ban's violation in Faisalabad, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Sunday. He was speaking at the residence of Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah where he had gone to congratulate him on his daughter's wedding.
Addressing parliamentarians present on the occasion, he said that the Punjab government is implementing a development agenda for raising living

ISLAMABAD - The PPP core committee's decision of replacing Fauzia Wahab with Qamar Zaman Kaira as the PPP information secretary has raised questions about the legality of the body which is not part of the ruling party's organisational structure as envisaged in its constitution.
The core committee was neither notified nor was it approved by the party's top decision-making body - the central executive committee. This body was created by PPP co-chairman and that too without

ISLAMABAD - Expressing concern over the violation of Insurance Ordinance 2000, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly on Human Rights Friday directed the insurance companies, including the State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan, to keep their clients updated on their annual profits and reduce procedural issues for quick disbursement of the amounts against clients' claims.
Taking notice of the complaints that insurance companies were violating the Insurance

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: Hearing of a petition challenging the pardon granted by President Asif Ali Zardari to Interior Minister Rehman Malik was adjourned to December 24 by a full bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday. Earlier, Deputy Attorney General Naveed Inayat Malik had requested adjournment on behalf of the federation, citing Rehman's pending adjudication in Supreme Court as an excuse.
Barrister Farooq Hassan, representing the petitioner, opposed the request saying the government was

ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui on Wednesday observed that the violation of a court order by a judge could not be considered just only misconduct, but something beyond it. The bench, headed by Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui and consisting of Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez, was hearing contempt charges against superior courts' judges who took oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) in