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RAWALPINDI: Haji Abdur Razzaq Yaqoob, Abdur Rauf and Jan Muhammad, the accused in the ARY gold corruption reference, have prayed to the court to cancel their summons. Amjad Iqbal Qureshi, the legal counsel for the appellants, filed an application before the Accountability Court-II here on Monday, pleading that his clients were already acquitted on merit [...]
ISLAMABAD: The government has filed in Supreme Court (SC) an amended petition to review verdict against National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) on Monday. The PPP
ISLAMABAD: The interior ministry has cancelled thousands of prohibited bore arms licences fraudulently issued in violation of the rules, and ordered the arrest of officials involved in the scam. Sources told our correspondent that the orders were passed by Interior Minister Rehman Malik in line with directions of the Supreme Court at a meeting chaired [...]
KARACHI: A senate committee has ordered the details of the 2007 Shershah bridge collapse inquiry. The inquiry comes after ‘The Statesmen’ report that the people held responsible for the bridge’s collapse had been re-hired and even promoted. Members of the committee are demanding that strict action be taken against officials including those of the National [...]
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau is sending its team to the United Kingdom to bring back 12 boxes containing records of President Asif Ali Zardari’s Swiss cases, sources told The Statesmen. The NAB team headed by its Chief of Staff, Islamabad, Muhammad Ashfaq will soon leave for London to take into custody the record lying [...]
WASHINGTON: The former president of one of Pakistan’s major banks has given up his fight against extradition, clearing the way for his return home to face accusations that he stole $10.8 million from his bank. Hamesh Khan’s extradition is now in US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s hands after a federal judge in Alexandria concluded [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court asked the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday to “stop playing hide and seek” about immunity status of President Asif Ali Zardari and take into custody documents relating to the $60 million money laundering case which the government had withdrawn from Swiss courts. “For how long will this hide and seek [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Syrian lady teacher of the Pakistan International School of Damascus (PISOD), who went public against the Pakistani ambassador to Syria, has been shown the door, on the pretext that she had jeopardised Syria-Pakistan relations by damaging the reputation of the school. Ms Manal Suleman, the only teacher in Syria who conducts biology practicals [...]
ISLAMABAD: While the Supreme Court has taken note of how the convicted FIA officer Ahmed Riaz Sheikh got a top job, the NAB is treating him with velvet gloves and has not yet reopened his case although he enjoys no immunity like his friend President Asif Zardari. As cases of all other NRO beneficiaries have [...]
ISLAMABAD: The government has given eight days to the Federal Investigation Agency to submit a first report on alleged corruption in Pakistan Steel Mills and asked it to identify the people who had caused immense losses to the country’s largest industrial unit. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting held on Tuesday in pursuance [...]
KARACHI: District government has been unable to start construction work of a flyover on Shahra-e-Faisal for more than three months now. The delay in construction is not due to lack of funds, but because of a house belonging to president Zardari. Officials at the district government say that the chief minister of Sindh has ordered [...]
ISLAMABAD: The top guns of the PPP government have made a confession before the National Assembly Secretariat about their failure to recover a mind boggling Rs 7 billion in fines and penalties from eight powerful cartels after 50 sugar barons, 20 cement tycoons, eight banks, five cellular phone companies, energy tycoons and stock exchanges of [...]
LAHORE: The Supreme Court has been informed by the Ministry of Defence following a high-level inquiry that former President Pervez Musharraf was responsible for causing millions of rupees loss to the national exchequer by compelling senior government officials to purchase land for the New Islamabad International Airport (NIIA) at inflated rates. Having conducted a lengthy [...]
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court’s Justice Javed Iqbal termed the corruption in Pakistan Steel Mills as the massive dacoity in the national history. Also, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has been exempted from appearing before the court. A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Javed Iqbal heard the case relating corruption in the PSM. [...]
ISLAMABAD: The ambassador to Syria, after appointing his kith and kin at the Pakistan International School in Damascus (PISD), has turned rough on the teacher who went vocal against him in the media and has issued a show-cause notice to her. But Ms Manal Suleman, the only teacher in Syria who conducts biology practical for [...]
ISLAMABAD: The state-run National Engineering Services Pakistan (Nespak), a prestigious professional organisation, has also been hit by controversial appointments, tales of corruption in so many other national institutions notwithstanding. The Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) chairperson former Senator Rukhsana Zuberi confirmed to The Statesmen that she recently wrote a letter to the prime minister questioning the [...]
ISLAMABAD: Federal Law Minister Babar Awan has nominated himself for an international assignment worth millions of dollars. A former Supreme Court judge and a former attorney general, who had backed the proclamation of emergency of Nov 3, 2007, have also been nominated for the assignment, according to sources. The law ministry had put the minister’s [...]
ISLAMABAD: Urban and suburban Punjab is in the grip of a new fear caused by land-grabbing gangs operating with the help of land-registration authorities in more than 25 major towns. Recent raids at the Ferozwala and Jhelum registration offices resulted in arrests and naming of the gang members within the government channels, exposing the tip [...]
LONDON: The Pakistan High Commissioner in London on Friday bitterly attacked, using extra strong language, over ‘The Statesmen’ report that the 12 Swiss boxes had been moved to his residence but still did not deny that the boxes were not at his home. Wajid Shamsul Hasan, rebutting the report, called it baseless, malicious and unfounded. [...]
Why must I continue to dwell on the VIPs? Only because they are a social evil number one. We need an antidote to the virus they suffer from, found only in the Third World. It’s been largely eradicated from the developed world. Anyone inventing a cure deserves the Nobel Prize. The disease is as fatal [...]
Misbah-ul-Haq appointed Pak Test team captain
Swiss ‘Return of Illicit Assets Act’: Pakistan can get billions back!
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What’s going on between Pak cricket legend Wasim Akram & Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen?
Potential to generate 50,000mw electricity from Thar coal field for 800 years
