Waste Management Committee in-charge of PIMS suspended on December 4, 2016ISLAMABAD: The administration of Pakistan Institute of Medical Science (PIMS) has suspended the Waste Management Committee in-charge and other members over the corruption charges and failed to burn the waste content of hospital into insulator. It further revealed that hospital administration has formed a new investigation committee in order to inquire the whole matter. According […]
PIMS tells patient to spend 3 years on waiting list on November 25, 2016ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) administration has exposed the much touted claims of the Nawaz Sharif led federal government for providing medical facilities to the poor on a priority basis, as on Thursday, by directing a patient suffering from serious ailment to come after three years (in 2019) for the surgery, it […]
Audit report unearths irrefutable evidence of corruption of ex-VCs of AIOU, QAU on October 30, 2016ISLAMABAD: An audit has pointed out widespread financial irregularities, running into millions of rupees, in the accounts of AllamaIqbal Open University (AIOU) and Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) Islamabad. Despite the irrefutable evidence of corruption and corrupt practices, the vice chancellors of both the august universities have launched no action so far against the persons found responsible. […]
PTI leaders condition worsens due to police torture on October 30, 2016ISLAMABAD: Police and Adiala Jail authorities on Saturday kept the arrested PTI leader Haibatullah rather than shifting him to a hospital timely during heart pain. Haibatullah who was elected vice chairman from Bhara Kahu union council on PTI ticket was arrested from PTI Youth Convention at E-11 on Thursday. Haibatullah told police soon after his […]
PIMS promotes two corrupt officials to lucrative posts on October 28, 2016ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) administration has promoted two corrupt officials to executive posts, violating all the prescribed norms of justice and this has been revealed in a classified document available with Daily Times. The incumbent Accounts Officer, Khalid and Superintendent General Store, Boota, were found guilty of corrupt practices in an […]
HSA DGs incompetency puts future of students in jeopardy on October 20, 2016ISLAMABAD: The incompetency of the Director General Health Services Academy (HSA) has put in peril the future of thousands of students as he did not get the institution affiliated with the Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University(SZABMU). The Quaid-e-Azam University(QAU) had finished the affiliation of Health Services Academy on January 7, 2014, due to which […]
165 inquiries of mega corruption still pending in CDA on October 18, 2016ISLAMABAD: As many as 165 inquiries of mega corruption and malpractices worth billions of rupees are pending in the Capital Development Authority (CDA). Fifty officers and low ranked employees of the department, who are allegedly involved in these mega corruption scandals are “retired”, with the inquiries which were still pending against them having failed to […]
Over Rs 50 million worth of tax evaded through illegal tobacco sales on October 4, 2016 ISLAMABAD: Sales tax evasion amounting to Rs 52 billion per annum through tobacco sales is being carried out. This was told to the Senate’s Committee on Health, which met at the parliament house on Monday with its convenor Senator Nauman Wazir on the chair. The officials of FBR, commerce ministry, Pakistan Tobacco Board and […]
Process of induction of nurses into Polyclinic hits controversy on September 22, 2016ISLAMABAD: The scam of inducting favourite nurses in the Nursing School of Poly Clinic Islamabad has deepened amid reports that the inquiry committee has been changed for the third time to achieve a result of its choice. The Acting Joint Executive Director, Dr Shahid Hanif, has constituted a new inquiry committee to save Dr Sartaj […]
Govt to install CCTVs to look for Daesh at varsities on September 5, 2016ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to install closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras at universities across the country in the wake of information that elements having close relations with the Islamic State (IS) were present there. Authorities are also pushing for scrutinising and grilling university students and staff members following the recent arrest of ‘Daesh’ supporters from […]