IHC orders verification of degrees of all employees on January 19, 2019Chief Justice of Islamabad High Court Athar Minallah on Friday ordered verification of academic degrees of all the employees including senior officers. According to details, a notification in this regard has also been sent to the concerned authorities. It is pertinent to mention that former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Saqib Nisar had ordered verification […]
KCCI representatives meet State Minister for Revenue on January 19, 2019Acting President Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry Khurram Shahzad, while referring to a meeting of KCCI’s delegation with Minister of State for Revenue Hammad Azhar held in Islamabad. KCCI’s recommendations for the forthcoming Finance Bill to be announced on Jan 23 were extensively discussed during the said meeting in which the Minister, while assuring […]
PM decides to attend parliamentary sessions, answer questions on January 18, 2019Prime Minister Imran Khan has decided to attend the parliamentary sessions regularly from the upcoming week, and party leadership has been informed of this decision. Opposition members, earlier during the national assembly session, had criticised Prime Minister Khan for his absence from the assembly. The matter was also raised in the national assembly session on […]
JCSC chairman attends 180th NATO military committee meeting on January 18, 2019Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Chairman General Zubair Mahmood Hayat attended the 180th North Atlantic Treaty Organisation military committee meeting at Brussels, Belgium. The meeting focused on peace and security matters with special focus on Middle East and Afghanistan. During the meeting, General Zubair Mahmood Hayat shared Pakistan’s contributions and efforts for regional peace and […]
Pfizer Limited, Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal sign MoU on January 18, 2019Pfizer Limited and Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support patient diagnosed with Cancer and are under critical care which are beyond conventional therapies. The signing ceremony was held in Islamabad. This collaboration is part of Pfizer’s patient access program’MASEEHA’, an initiative to broaden access to Pfizer critical care and cancer […]
ICCI for focusing on marble industry to promote exports on January 16, 2019Acting President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Rafat Farid has called upon the government to focus on marble industry, which has great potential to promote exports and transform Pakistan into a fast growing economy. He said this while talking to a delegation of local marble industry that called on him led by Muhammad Shakeel […]
Daniel Pearl case: SHC seeks records of suspects on January 15, 2019The Sindh High Court on Monday heard appeals of detained suspects in the Daniel Pearl case, a US journalist who was kidnapped and later beheaded in Karachi in 2002 allegedly by Al-Qaeda affiliates. The court has sought the detention record of suspects from jail officials. The lawyer representing the suspects stated that he believed the […]
Full court reference to pay homage to CJP on 17th on January 12, 2019A full court reference is to be held at the Supreme Court of Pakistan on January 17 to pay homage to Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Saqib Nisar. CJP-designate Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, vice chairman Pakistan Bar Council, president Supreme Court Bar Association and Attorney General of Pakistan will attend the event. Justice Khosa will […]
Murad pledges to issue driving license to persons with hearing impairment on January 9, 2019Many countries are issuing licenses to persons with hearing-impairment; why aren’t we, CM Sindh wondered. He directed Chief Secretary Sindh Mumtaz Shaikh to seek opinion from concerned branch and traffic police and then make necessary amendments in the law so that issuance of licenses to the persons with hearing-impairment could be streamlined. The chief minister, […]
IHC defers hearing of Nawaz’s plea against Al-Azizia verdict on January 8, 2019The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday delayed hearing of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s writ petition with regard to suspension of his jail term. A two-member bench comprising IHC Chief Justice Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Aamer Farooq heard the case. The PML-N supremo represented by Khawaja Harris sought his release in the Al-Azizia […]