ISLAMABAD - The caretaker federal government seems in a haste regarding removal and appointment of a number of key government functionaries even after the general elections, and has sacked two members of the Ministry of Information Technology (IT) without following the due process, TheNation has ...

QUETTA - The dismissed chief minister of Balochistan Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani dispatched his resignation to Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) provincial chief and Islamic Ideological CouncilChairman Maulana Muhammad Khan Sherani.According to sources,Raisani had couriered his resignation to Sherani, ...

COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka’s sacked chief justice Shirani Bandaranayake said on Tuesday she feared for her life as a defiant President Mahinda Rajapakse hurried her successor into office.Speaking to reporters from her car as she sped away from her official residence in Colombo, Bandaranayake ...

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday sacked the country's first woman Chief Justice Shirani Bandarnayake after ratifying her impeachment by Parliament which held her guilty of corruption, notwithstanding widespread protests by lawyers and others.54-year-old Bandaranayake was served a ...

ABBOTTABAD  - A sacked health worker recalled Wednesday how she knocked on Osama bin Laden’s door just days before he was shot dead by American soldiers, an unwitting pawn in a controversial vaccination programme set up by the CIA to ensnare the Al-Qaeda leader.Amna Bibi spoke to AFP ...

Punjab Health Department has removed over 5,000 employees working at hospitals and health centres in the province on daily wages, TheNation has learnt. On the direction of the Health Department, hospitals and health centres have stopped daily wagers from marking their attendance on registers.

MIAN DAWOOD   LAHORE – The government has terminated once again the services of Deputy Attorney General of Lahore High Court Yasmin Saigol, the ex-wife of slain Punjab Governor Sal-maan Taseer. The Law Ministry has issued the termination notification of senior woman lawyer, stating that ...

ISLAMABAD - Project Director of National Response Center for Cyber Crime of FIA, Shahid Nadeem Baloch, in a sheer violation of rules and regulations, has fired three senior forensic experts along with an office superintendent without issuing any show cause notice to all of them.According to a ...

A bus driver has been sacked after being caught on camera doing a Sudoku puzzle while driving children to school. He was captured balancing a puzzle book on his steering wheel in a picture taken by a pupil on a mobile phone, reports Metro. The employee was also seen filling in the answers with a ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The Lahore High Court on Monday dismissed from service two lower-rank court employees on charges of corruption. Earlier, an inquiry was conducted under instructions from Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry. It found Qasid Akhlaq Ahmad and Naib Qasid Salamat Bhatti guilty of ...

KARACHI - The management of Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) finally reinstated all the sacked workers Sunday after successful negotiations between the utilitys senior officials and the government. After the meeting at the Governors House, Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz ...

BRUSSELS (AFP) Aime Anthuenis has been sacked as coach of Lierse following their 2-0 defeat against Westerlo in the Belgian first division, the club announced on Sunday. Lierse were promoted to the Belgian top flight at the end of last season but are currently joint-bottom of the standings with ...

KARACHI (PPI) - The sacked employees of National Development Finance Corporation (NDFC) have demanded of the present government to restore their jobs and adjust them in National Bank of Pakistan (NBP). In dictatorial rule of former President Pervez Musharraf, the NDFC was merged into NBP about ...

ISLAMABAD (PPI) - The sacked employees of Nishaat Textile Mills (NTM) Saturday warned to observe thirst strike as to stop drinking water from today (Sunday), if their demands were not fulfilled. Talking to this news agency, Rabnawaz Qamar representative of sacked employees of Nishaat Textile ...

NEW DELHI (Agencies) - Jarnail Singh, the Sikh journalist who created a stir by flinging a shoe at Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram, was on Thursday sacked by his employers. Singh, who was a defence correspondent with a Hindi daily for nearly a decade, said his services with the newspaper were ...

ISLAMABAD-The apex court on Wednesday directed the Sui Southern Gas Pipelines Limited (SSGPL) to reinstate its 478 employees from the date of their termination. A three-member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and comprising Justice Chaudhry Ijaz Ahmad ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Federal Minister for Labour and Manpower, Syed Khursheed Ahmad Shah said up to 70 per cent sacked employees have been reinstated, who were removed from their jobs between 1996 to 1998. The minister was talking to the media after the meeting of Federal Cabinet Committee for ...

ISLAMABAD Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday remarked that no judge could be barred from performing his duty under the Provisional Constitutional Order. No judge can be sacked unconstitutionally and restraining any judge from performing his duties under ...

MIRPUR (AJK) - Soon after the removal of Prime Minister Sardar Attique-led Muslim Conference government of Azad Jammu Kashmir, the new set-up Tuesday night removed, with immediate effect, all the political heads including chairmen of the development organisations and administrators of the civic ...

ISLAMABAD - The sacked officials of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) are putting in their best efforts to fit into the newly formed administrative set-up of FBR, credible sources told 'The Nation' wishing anonymity. Some prominent post-holders of Regional Tax Office (RTO) mentioned that former top ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Sports Najamuddin Khan Monday sacked Pakistan Hockey Federation secretary Khalid Mehmood and appointed Asif Bajwa on ad-hoc basis till further orders. The federal minister, in his capacity as President Pakistan Sports Board, exercised his powers (PSB Rules, ...