A day after the Supreme Court ordered the names of all those connected to the accounts to be placed on the Exit Control List (ECL), the FIA constituted a Joint Investigation Team (JIT), headed by FIA Sindh chief Munir Ahmed Shaikh, to investigate the matter. The FIA had directed the duo to appear before the […]
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Asif Zardari, Faryal Talpur skip FIA hearing in fake accounts case
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‘Students should be prepared for environmental challenges’
ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission Chairman Prof Dr Tariq Banuri on Tuesday urged that universities to prepare their students for challenges like climate change, water and energy scarcity, food insecurity, and waste accumulation. While addressing at National Workshop on GreenMetric Ranking he said that universities must ensure that sustainability was fully incorporated in their teaching […]
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‘ECP, CJP should take notice of unjustified action against PML-N workers’
4 RAWALPINDI: The Election Commission of Pakistan and the chief justice should take notice of the “unjustified” action against PML-N workers and supporters by the police, the party’s metropolitan president Sardar Naseem said on Tuesday. He said this was a tactic to stop the party from electioneering. Three separate FIRs were registered at three stations […]
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Union councils not empowered to render special laws redundant: IHC
ISLAMABAD: The recent Islamabad High Court (IHC) verdict that prohibited construction in the protected Banigala area requires owners of residential and commercial units to have their structures regularised by the Capital Development Authority (CDA). A list submitted by the CDA to the Supreme Court last year details 122 illegal or unauthorised buildings in Banigala, including […]
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ECP takes unprecedented step, suspends local govts till polling day
ISLAMABAD: In an unprecedented move, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has suspended all the local government functionaries across the country till the July 25 elections. “The provincial governments shall ensure that the normal functions of sanitation and cleanliness may not affect during the period of suspension,” reads a notification issued on Tuesday. It points […]
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SC employees to donate two days’ salary to dams fund
Employees of the Supreme Court (SC) that are at Basic Pay Scale (BPS)-16 or above will donate two days’ salary to the Diamer-Bhasha and Mohmand Dams Fund 2018 — an account created by the Finance Ministry in compliance with the top court’s orders — a press release by the SC public relations officer said on […]