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The Supreme Court on Friday announced its verdict on the case related to the pricing of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and declared the pricing formula prepared by the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) as void. A two-member bench of the apex court, comprising Justice Jawad S Khawaj and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, ordered it […]
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday ordered the government to issue the notification of Justice Shaukat Siddiqui and Justice Noorul Haq’s appointment in the Islamabad High Court (IHC). A five-member larger bench of the apex court headed by Justice Khilji Arif Hussain announced the short judgment on a constitutional petition filed by Nadim […]
Despite opposition from various parties, the government on Thursday tabled Fair Trail Bill in the National Assembly. The bill which was tabled by Law Minister Farooq Naek was approved after amendments proposed by the PML-N and MQM were incorporated. Speaking on the floor of the National Assembly, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf said […]
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (Retd) Fakhruddin G Ebrahim on Thursday pledged that the task of drawing up new constituency boundaries in Karachi would be completed in the light of the Supreme Court verdict despite reservations of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). While chairing a consultative meeting of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) which […]
Although political leaders are struggling to enter into new alliances and seat adjustment ahead of the parliamentary polls, tradition electioneering and hustle and bustle have yet to pick up. The tenure of the current National Assembly four provincial assemblies will complete on March 17. A caretaker government will be installed for two months to […]
Finally, President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday signed into law ‘The Right to Free and Compulsory Education Bill 2012’ to ensure provision of free-of-cost education to children of age 5-16 years. Speaking on the occasion‚ he hoped it would go a long way in ensuring free and compulsory education to the children of the […]
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Wednesday said Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) pursues the politics of peoples’ interests and believes in serving the masses without any discrimination. Addressing a public meeting in Haripur, the premier recalled that before founding of the PPP by Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto‚ the politics was confined to drawing rooms […]
As a continuity of the orchestrated attack on polio campaigning teams, the World Health Organization (WHO) has directed its field staff to stop work in Pakistan. At least two people were killed and two others were injured when three teams involved in the nationwide polio vaccination drive were attacked in Peshawar, Nowshera and Charsadda, in […]
Terrorist attacks on volunteers of anti-polio teams in Karachi and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday and Wednesday, which claimed lives of five women and a male in only 24 hours, have raised serious concern about the success of the campaign in Pakistan. All law enforcement agencies have miserably failed to apprehend the culprits who fled […]
Strongly condemning the firing incident at anti-polio campaigners and seeking arrest of the culprits, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has reiterated the resolve of the government that it would not rest until the country is rid of polio. While chairing a meeting of Polio Task Force in Islamabad, he said seeking a polio-free life […]
The one-man Judicial Commission on Tuesday asked the general public to provide information or evidences about the 2007 military operation, which had resulted in nearly 100 deaths, mostly students of the religious school ‘Jamia Hafsa’. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry ordered a judicial commission earlier this month to probe the matter, observing that police have […]
In another setback to the country’s polio eradication efforts, at least five anti-polio campaigners, four of them women, were gunned down in Karachi in an hour in two separate incidents on Tuesday. Reports said two women campaigners were on their duty in Gulshan-e-Buner area of Landhi when they were shot at and killed. Only […]
