Aitzaz upsets Zardari, once again on June 28, 2016ISLAMABAD: Serious differences have emerged between Senator Aitzaz Ahsan and top leadership of the Pakistan People’s Party over the strategy and mode of attack on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The senator’s insistence on joining Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s upcoming street agitation left former president Asif Ali Zardari and party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari deeply annoyed. Sources told […]
Govt mulls options to counter opp agitation on June 21, 2016ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is weighing up its options as it braces itself for a possible protest movement under the aegis of the joint opposition in connection with the Panama leaks. It’s the top priority of the ruling party to create a rift between the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Pakistan […]
Shahbaz-backed pressure group lining up against the Big Three on June 20, 2016ISLAMABAD: A fast growing pressure group within the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is now putting itself in order against Finance Minster Ishaq Dar, Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz. According to the sources, the pressure group consists of members of the National Assembly and has the backing […]
Scotland Yard submits application to Crown Prosecution Dept on June 18, 2016ISLAMABAD: The Scotland Yard has formally submitted an application to Britain’s Crown Prosecution Department (CPD) for extradition of the three men linked to the murder of Dr Imran Farooq, leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), in London. A Scotland Yard team in Pakistan was recently seeking to advance a separate investigation into the 2010 […]
NAB recovers Rs 385m from pharmaceutical company on June 15, 2016ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Rawalpindi has recovered Rs. 385.11 million from a private pharmaceutical company involved in an artificial price hike of drugs. According to a press release issued by the watchdog on Wednesday, NAB recovered the amount from persons identified asTariq Haider and Mian Khalid Mehmood directors of M/s RG Pharmaceutical (Pvt) […]
As Nawaz recovers, rift within top PML-N leadership widens on June 10, 2016ISLAMABAD: As Prime Minster Nawaz Sharif is recovering fast after his successful open-heart surgery in London, differences among top leaders of his party seem to be intensifying at home. Reliable sources told Daily Times that two ministers in the Sharif cabinet — Khawaja Asif and Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan — had an old enmity and […]
NAB starts probe against Kundi on June 9, 2016ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau has started investigation against former Deputy Speaker National Assembly Faisal Khan Kundi regarding the allotment of a plot for a cinema in commercial hub, G-9 Markaz, Karachi Company, of the federal capital. Reliable sources said that NAB Rawalpindi had got some important evidences against Kundi regarding the plot reserved for […]
NAB Rawalpindi distributes Rs 465.021m among 166 fraud victims on June 6, 2016ISLAMABAD: NAB Rawalpindi Bureau distributed a sum of Rs 465.021 million among 166 affected people of Baba Fareed Housing Society, Parliamentarian Enclave Housing Scheme, Islamabad, Capital Builders Pvt Ltd , RPP case Summundri Road, Faisalabad (Ref No. 12/2015), and Investigation against Imran Mohsin, Zafar Iqbal & officers/ Officials of NFC M/O Industries and others, Inquiry […]
CDA inquiry files disappearance a routine matter on June 5, 2016ISLAMABAD: Missing of inquiry files against corrupt officials of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has now become a routine matter as the third file of inquiry against the owner of the Diplomatic Shuttle Services and company officers of the Authority has also disappeared. The Chairman CDA and Member Admin have become powerless in front of […]
CDA routinely losing files against corrupt officials on June 5, 2016ISLAMABAD: Missing of inquiry files against corrupt officials of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has now become a routine matter as the third file of inquiry against the owner of the Diplomatic Shuttle Services and company officers of the Authority has also disappeared. The Chairman CDA and Member Admin have become powerless in front of […]