LAHORE  : Pakistan Tax Bar Association and Lahore Tax Bar Association have demanded of the government to appoint a capable person on the important post of Federal Tax Ombudsman otherwise it would be impossible to yield desired results.  These views were expressed by President Pakistan Tax ...

lahore - The Lahore High Court on Thursday overruled an objection on the petition challenging the appointment of Pakistan Electronic Media and Regularity Authority Chairman Chaudhry Rashid Ahmad, and directed the registrar office to fix the petition before any appropriate bench for hearing.The LHC ...

ISLAMABAD -Islamabad High Court (IHC) Monday set aside the appointment of Dr Riaz Ahmed Warraich as the Executive Director (ED) of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) directing the government to adopt a competitive process while appointing a new ED of the hospital.The court issued the ...

LAHORE - Baseball Federation of Asia (BFA) has appointed Pakistan Federation Baseball secretary (PFB) Khawar Shah as the Executive Director of Baseball Development in the West Asia in recognition of his services for the cause of game. “Khawar has done a lot not only for the introduction of ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Friday annulled the appointment of Muhammad Ali Ghulam Muhammad as commissioner and chairman of Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP).The judgment authored by Justice Jawwad S Khawaja declared that the selection and appointment of Ali on these posts ...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) Friday declared the appointment of Chairman Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) illegal and invalid.A two-judge bench headed by Justice Jawwad S Khawaja issued the brief order in the case. According to the judgment, the appointment of Chairman SECP ...

ISLAMABAD - Ostensibly succumbing to the pressure of financial institutions including World Bank, Asian Development Bank, International Monetary Funds (IMF), USAID etc, the caretaker government has denotified the appointment of Wapda chairman Syed Raghib Shah as power sector coordinator. Earlier, ...

LAHORE (PR) – Abid Aziz has assumed the charge as managing director/chief executive officer of Pak-Libya Holding Company Limited, with immediate effect. Pak-Libya is a prominent joint venture financial institution, established in 1978, by the governments of Pakistan and Libya.Abid Aziz is a ...

ISLAMABAD - A petition was filed in the Supreme Court with a request to declare the appointment of the incumbent Chairman Federal Board of Revenue Arshad Hakeem as illegal and the notification of his appointment NO.31/ 4/ 2012/-E-1 dated July 10, 2012 be declared to have been issued without lawful ...

KARACHI  - Sindh local bodies department, withdrew the appointment of administrators in towns of Karachi late Thursday night. Under SPLGO Karachi has been divided into 18 towns. However despite passage of about two weeks, notification regarding restoration of town of the metropolitan has ...

KARACHI – The President and CEO of Etihad Airways, James Hogan, has been named World Tourism and Travel Council’s (WTTC) Vice Chairman for the Middle East and Africa, says a press release. The announcement was made at the 12th WTTC Global Summit being held at the Pamir Convention Centre ...

LAHORE – The Lahore High Court has been requested to set aside appointment of Haji Habibur Rehman as Inspector General of Punjab Police. The petitioner Muhammad Fakhir has submitted that the newly-appointed IGP had been declared responsible “to some extent” by an LHC judicial ...

ISLAMABAD - The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has found serious irregularities in the appointment of former chairman Ogra who contributed multi-billions additional burden to gas consumers and issuance of 47 illegal licences for setting up of CNG stations.Sources have informed that the NAB ...

ISLAMABAD - PPP Co-chairperson President Asif Ali Zardari is most happy person on the appointment of senior party colleague Sherry Rehman as Pakistans new envoy to the United States. Sources privy to these developments said that President Zardari appeared most relaxed and happy Wednesday, as Ms. ...

Appointment of Chief Justice Peshawar High Court (SHC) Justice Aijaz Afzal as a judge of Supreme Court (SC), has been challenged on Wednesday. According to a private television channel, a petition was filed at the apex court accusing the judge of partiality. The petition pleads Chief Justice of ...

Appointment of Zaka Ashraf as chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has been challenged in Lahore High Court (LHC). As per private TV channel, the plea has been taken in the application filed against induction of Zaka Ashraf that international cricket council has framed its own laws under which no ...

ISLAMABAD - The federal government decided on Saturday to appoint Additional Inspector General of Punjab Police, Aftab Sultan, as Director General of Pakistans premier civilian intelligence agency, Intelligence Bureau (IB). The decision of the federal government has surprised many, as Wajid Ali ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - The Lahore High Court chief justice on Wednesday refused to entertain a civil miscellaneous petition challenging the appointment of Admiral retired Fasih Bokhari as chairman of the National Accountability Bureau. The court observed this during hearing that appointment of ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has condemned President Zardaris insistence on appointing Fasih Bokhari as the new National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chief on the grounds of his (Bokaris) alleged 'moral corruption. PTI Vice President Policy Planning, Security and Foreign Affairs, Dr ...

LAHORE Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Patron-in-Chief President Asif Ali Zardari issued the notification of Chaudhary Zaka Ashrafs appointment as new PCB chairman, a PCB spokesman said on Thursday. PCB media manager Nadeem Sarwar confirmed that the PCB has received information from the President ...

Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) has rejected the appointment of Admiral (Retd) Faseh Bukhari as new chief of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). Leader of the opposition in the National Assembly (NA) Chaudhry Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has written a letter to Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Pakistan cricket team interim manager Col (retd) Naushad Ali said that appointment of Zaka Ashraf as new PCB chairman would not affect board as many presidents came and went but system remained the same. Talking to media here on Wednesday at Gaddafi Stadium, the interim ...

LAHORE The management, executives and staff of SNGPL have congratulated Arif Hameed on becoming 21st MD of the SNGPL and appreciated approval by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on the recommendations of Dr. Asim Hussain, Minister for Petroleum & Natural Resources in taking this decision on ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) Appointment of President National Bank of Pakistan, Qamar Hussain has been made purely on merit and all rules and regulations have been followed during his appointment. Hussain is one of the leading bankers of the country, said Vice President Public Relations Syed Ibne Hassan ...

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has approved the appointment of Hamad Ghazavi as Deputy Managing Director of PTV. PM while interviewing Mr Hamad Ghaznavi at PMs House Saturday morning for the post of Deputy MD, PTV has said that public media organizations have to adopt modern and innovative ...

ISLAMABAD - PML-N and allied parties in Senate have intensified consultations over the unlawful act of Chairman Senate Farooq Naek by notifying Mauland Ghafoor Haideri as the Leader of Opposition. Well-placed parliamentary sources informed The Nation on Tuesday that these parties led by the PML-N ...

LAKKI MARWAT Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) district chapter has demanded of the provincial government to appoint a surgeon in the city hospital and fill the vacant posts of doctors in the rural health centres of the district. In a meeting held here on Saturday, the JI leaders said that since the ...

KARACHI - President Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Asma Jahangir on Friday said instead of supremacy of a particular institution or an individual we believe in supremacy of constitution and rule of law. Addressing the general body of Malir District Bar Association, she said that the lawyer ...

ISLAMABAD - The appointment of Leader of the Opposition in the Senate will be in doldrums for some time due to Chairman Senate Farooq H Naeks scheduled visit of Poland starting from today. The slot of the Leader of the Opposition had fallen vacant soon after Senator Wasim Sajjad resigned as his ...

ISLAMABAD - The appointment of Senator Ishaq Dar as Leader of Opposition in the Upper House of Parliament would have direct impact on composition of the eight-member Parliamentary Committee to oversee the working of Judicial Commission dealing with the appointment of judges in the superior ...