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LAHORE: President Asif Ali Zardari discussed ‘legal implications’ of the detailed judgment of the Supreme Court on the National Reconciliation Ordinance with his party loyalists here on Wednesday. Federal Law Minister Babar Awan, adviser to the prime minister Latif Khosa and Federal Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira also attended the meeting at the Governor’s House. [...]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday said he was holding consultations with the attorney-general and legal experts on ways of implementing the Supreme Court’s detailed judgment in the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) case in accordance with law and the Constitution. Talking to reporters, Mr Gilani said action would be taken soon after receiving [...]
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly unanimously urged the government on Tuesday “to take steps against sellers of spurious medicines” after Interior Minister Rehman Malik declared that 40 to 50 per cent of drugs being manufactured in the country were fake. The resolution moved by Pakistan Muslim League-N’s Shireen Arshad Khan was adopted after a brief debate [...]
ISLAMABAD: Swiss investigating Magistrate Vincent Fournier, while closing the corruption case against Asif Ali Zardari and Jens Schlegelmilch on Pakistan’s request, had done away with the freeze on accounts of the president that he had earlier served on, at least, five banks. The banks included UBS SA, Bank Julius Bafr & Co Ltd, Barclays Bank [...]
PESHAWAR: After the SC declared the NRO as void ab initio, decision on a pending case has been announced. Peshawar High
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is preparing to bring to book 60 defaulters of bank loans and recover Rs2 billion. According to sources, the bureau has prepared a plan to recover the amount which is likely to be approved by NAB’s executive board next week. “It will be the first action by NAB against [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court released on Tuesday its detailed judgment on petitions against the controversial National
ISLAMABAD: Despite spending Rs 2 billion from the public exchequer as per the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) figures given to the Supreme Court on pursuing cases against President Asif Zardari and others in Switzerland, Pakistan formally apologised to the Swiss authorities for the inconvenience caused to them, shows an official document. In a letter written [...]
LAHORE: A petition has been filed in Lahore Registry of Supreme Court requesting constitutional indemnity to the presidential office. Petitioner Barrister Zafarullah of Watan Party in his petition stated that the judiciary could not act against the president due to the constitutional protection to the office. The petitioner argues that under Article 242 of the [...]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ruled out on Monday an opposition-perceived row with the country’s superior judiciary with which, he told the National Assembly, his government had “excellent relations”. Opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali, who has lashed the PPP-led coalition almost daily on one count or another since the start of the present lower [...]
ISLAMABAD: The country’s banks wrote off Rs 8.3 billion in 2009, outstanding against their borrowers, with the state-run National Bank of Pakistan alone writing off Rs 185 million within a year. It was disclosed here in the National Assembly on Friday during the Question-Hour. The Industrial Development Bank of Pakistan also wrote off Rs 255 [...]
ISLAMABAD: Housing Minister Rehmatullah Khan Kakar has submitted a new list in the Senate containing the names of 53 former judges, including ex-chief justices of the Supreme Court and high courts, 65 former bureaucrats, 59 journalists and 36 politicians who were given plots during 1985-2001. The names were forwarded to the Upper House in reply [...]
KARACHI: When Makhdoom Shahabuddin suddenly replaced Ejaz Hussain Jhakrani as the federal health minister last month and terminated the services of Dr Suresh Kumar, the drugs controller, Ministry of Health, on the very first day in office, no official explanation was provided for this tumult in the ministry whose actions affect the life of every [...]
ISLAMABAD: The federal government filed a plea at Supreme Court (SC) for review of its verdict on National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) here on Saturday. Barrister Kamal Azfar filed the appeal on part of the government, pleading the court to review the verdict regarding Swiss accounts and re-opening of cases under the NRO. It is pertinent [...]
کراچی … سندھ ورکرز ویلفیئر بورڈ کراچی کے ایک نواحی علاقے میں مستقبل میں لیبر کالونی کی تعمیر کرنے کیلئے تیزی سے 120 ایکڑ ایسی زمین کی متنازع خریداری کو حتمی شکل دینے کیلئے کوشاں ہے جو سڑک کی سطح سے 8 فٹ نیچے ہے۔ اس نمائندے کے پاس دستیاب دستاویزات سے انکشاف ہوتا ہے [...]
ISLAMABAD: Former Attorney General Malik Qayyum has filed a review petition to challenge the decision against NRO in Supreme Court on Friday. In the petition, Malik Qayyum stated that remarks about his authorities as attorney general and action ordered against him for abolishing Swiss cases to be excluded from court’s decision. Malik Qayyum has also [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Housing Minister, Rehmatullah Khan Kakar, has informed the Senate that 14 judges of the Supreme Court, including 11 serving judges and 56 federal secretaries, got allotted two residential plots each in Islamabad in recent years. The official documents submitted before the Senate revealed that three SC judges were allotted plots after the court [...]
Former chairman of the Pakistan Steel Mills Moin Aftab, one of the main accused in the corruption case that caused a loss of Rs 22 billion to Pakistan Steel was produced in the local court on Wednesday where he was remanded to FIA custody for ten days. FIA officials, after getting cue about his presence [...]
ISLAMABAD: The FIA secretly helped the main accused in Pakistan Steel Mills case, now being heard by the Supreme Court, to run away from Pakistan although she was on an FIA watchlist and had to seek prior permission from the SC to leave the country. The FIA’s watch list was abolished a day before Sabin [...]
RAWALPINDI: Pakistani Consul General at Huston, USA, consulate, Aqil Nadeem, on Monday told Accountability Court No 2 Judge Wamiq Javed here that as per information provided by the American FBI, Aziz Moosa and three other Indian citizens were issued Pakistani passports. Aqil Nadeem, the present consul general, appeared before the court as a witness in [...]
Misbah-ul-Haq appointed Pak Test team captain
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Potential to generate 50,000mw electricity from Thar coal field for 800 years
