LAHORE, June 16: The Punjab government on Monday announced restarting the “Green Tractor Scheme” and allocated Rs1 billion for subsidising 100,000 tractors for farmers holding less than 12.5 acres of land. Making his proposed budget statement in the Punjab Assembly, the finance minister said the government would subsidise each tractor by Rs100,000 and distribute it […]
SUKKUR – The timely action by the Deputy Inspector General of Police Sukkur Range, Bashir Ahmed Memon, the life of a girl, Saira Jatoi, who had married on her free will, was saved. She was declared Kari by the jirga decision on late Friday night and expected to be killed in Shikarpur. According to details, […]
ISLAMABAD (June 12 2008): The government has announced allocation of Rs 19.9 billion in the budget 2008-09 for the health sector, which is Rs 2.2 billion more than 2007-08 allocation. Total outlay set aside for Health Division is Rs 18.1 billion. The targets for 2008-09 include deployment of full strength of 120,000 Lady Health Workers […]
ISLAMABAD, June 9: Lawyers launched their long march on Monday, with thousands of them proceeding in caravans from Karachi and Quetta on way to Sukkur from where they will move onwards to Multan and Islamabad. They left in vehicles, chanting slogans against President Pervez Musharraf. Deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry will arrive in Multan […]
Asmatullah says long march not aimed at destabilising govt ISLAMABAD: Leaders of the Pakistan lawyers’ movement on Monday expressed the resolve to stage a sit-in (Dharna) in front of the Parliament House on June 12 till the restoration of the deposed judges of the superior courts and implementation of the Mureee Declaration in letter and […]
KARACHI, June 6: Leaders of the lawyers’ movement for the reinstatement of the deposed judges have declared that lawyers will embark on a long march to Islamabad on June 9 to mobilize support for their cause and warned that the fate of the present assemblies will be threatened if the judiciary is not restored to […]
FAISALABAD, June 5: Different trade organisations on Thursday announced joining lawyers long march and threatened to pull their shutters down if the deposed judges were not restored. This was decided in a meeting of traders presided over by Anjuman-i-Tajran (AT) city president Shahid Razzaq Sakka. Representatives of yarn merchants association and printing association — Mehmood […]
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Wednesday decided in principle to regularise the services of all those contract employees in Grade 1-15 who have completed more than two years of service. “A four-member committee comprising the finance minister, the law minister, the minister for labour and manpower and the deputy chairman planning commission has been set […]
LAHORE, June 4: The Lahore ex-Servicemen Society decided to join the long march for reinstatement of the deposed judges and demanded trial of President Pervez Musharraf, during a consultation held at the Lahore Press Club on Wednesday. Briefing the media after the meeting, Maj-Gen (retd) Shafiq Ahmad, Maj-Gen (retd) Khurshid Ahmad, Lt-Gen (retd) Fasihuddin Bokhari […]
HYDERABAD, June 4: Lawyers of Sindh have decided to ensure their maximum participation in June 10 long march aimed at getting deposed judges of apex and high courts reinstated. A decision to this effect was taken at a joint meeting of lawyers at the Hyderabad High Court Bar here on Wednesday. Chairman of the Sindh […]
KARACHI, June 4: The Sindh High Court Bar Association dismissed on Wednesday the proposed 18th amendment to the Constitution ‘as a measure calculated to maintain the status quo and delay the reinstatement of the deposed judges’. A resolution adopted by the SHCBA managing committee said it had studied and considered in detail the constitutional package […]
ISLAMABAD, June 2: A car- bomb exploded outside the Danish embassy in one of the most high-security residential districts on Monday, killing eight people and injuring more than 25 others. The blast severely damaged several buildings, destroyed dozens of vehicles and left a big crater on the road, indicating that the bomb had been fitted […]
ISLAMABAD: An 11-member bench of the Supreme Court on Monday will hear the pending case of the clash of lawyers and media persons with the police and law enforcing agencies on September 29, 2007 in front of the Supreme Court and the Election Commission of Pakistan on the eve of scrutiny of nomination papers of […]
The legal fraternity is not expecting any abrupt change in US administration’s policy regarding the restoration of the pre-November 3 judiciary, Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan said Friday. He was speaking to journalists after receiving the 16th Mir Khalilur Rahman Qaumi Yakjehti Award at a ceremony held to remember late journalist […]
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