ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has taken suo moto notice over an application sent by Syed Adil Gilani, Adviser Transparency International-Pakistan, against the appointment of Salman Farooqui as federal ombudsman.A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice ...

LAHORETaking notice of the complaints regarding posting of junior officers on senior’s slots, the Punjab Ombudsman has sought report from the chief secretary, TheNation has learnt. Punjab Ombudsman Javed Mehmood on a complaint filed by Shahdara Welfare Council General Secretary Malik Khuda ...

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 - Lahore Tax Bar Association (LTBA) has rejected the caretaker government’s decision of appointing a bureaucrat Khwaja Siddique Akbar as Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) as reported in a section of press on Wednesday.The incumbent Ombudsman Shuaib Suddle, a retired PSP officer, is scheduled ...

LAHORE - Since the day first of Punjab Ombudsman’ s foundation, surprisingly, no proper planning and coordination had been made yet on the part of concerned authorities to speedup provincial departments for timely justice and well-timed action on orders against all sorts of discrimination, ...

LAHORE - Punjab Ombudsman Javed Mehmood has taken notice of the sale of refrigerator and vaccine boxes purchased for preserving anti-polio medicines in Sheikhupura. Seeking report in a week, the ombudsman ordered the authorities to mention in the report about the process of check and balance.  ...

LAHORE – Ombudsman Punjab Javed Mahmood on Thursday directed Finance Department to review and obtain Chief Minister’s approval to increase the meagre amount of Rs3000 per month minimum pension in order to fulfil the promise made to the elderly and hapless retired government employees ...

LAHORE – On the directives of Punjab Ombudsman Javed Mahmood Thursday, an online complaint registration cell was made operational. Mahmood will also hold open courts at his office on 2-Bank Road from 9am to 11am daily. The ombudsman will receive the complaints about mismanagement in ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Ombudsman of Pakistan, M Salman Faruqui Wednesday constituted a high-powered committee to probe into the alleged maladministration causing outbreak of measles across the country. The committee comprises Justice Muhammad Raza Khan, Advisor to Ombudsman and former Chief Justice of ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) Dr Muhammad Shoaib Suddle has taken notice on a report stating that 67pc of parliamentarians and 62pc of ministers in the Federal Cabinet did not file their income tax returns, it was learnt on Tuesday.Sources informed The Nation that FTO has directed the ...

LAHORE – Punjab Ombudsman Khalid Mehmood has directed the Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) to withdraw the unreasonable decision of fixing minimum age limit for enrolment in Matriculation examination which is also the violation of children rights warranted by the UN ...

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Saturday temporarily assigned additional responsibilities of the Federal Ombudsman to Salman Farooqui, Secretary General to the President. The responsibility has been given to Salman Farooqui to clear the backlog of 75,000 complaints of people aggrieved of ...

LAHORE – The Punjab Ombudsman disposed of 9,640 complaints out of a total of 12,525 processed during 2011, the annual report available with TheNation shows.The report of the Punjab Ombudsman also critically evaluates rules, regulations and policies made while dealing with the complaints for ...

LAHORE - Punjab Ombudsman Khalid Mehmood on Friday called on Governor Latif Khosa and complained that some departments were not paying heed to his orders.  While presenting him the annual report for 2011, Mehmood told the governor that these departments were also illegally taking the matters ...

ISLAMABAD - In order to address the complaints of poor government employees affected as result of devolution of dozens of key federal ministries and other departments to the provinces, President Asif Ali Zardari is looking for a person with sound legal background to fill the vacant slot of Federal ...

In the contemporary world, the office of Ombudsman has been closely associated with democracy, democratization of the institutions, governance and public administration. It is considered as an inexpensive, expeditious and easy mechanism for the redressal of the grievances of common man against the ...

ISLAMABAD Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) Dr Muha-mmad Shoaib Suddle has directed the FBR to pay Rs 532m to the Bank of Khyber, Peshawar, which were arbitrarily withheld by the Income Tax (IT) department since 2007. According to details, the Bank of Khyber lodged a complaint before the FTO that excess ...

KARACHI - Federal Tax Ombudsman Dr Muhammad Shoaib Suddle said that one of the great innovations in human evolution has been the development of justice sector institutions. The modern state with its complex infrastructure in a fast moving technological age owes its very existence and survival to ...