LAHORE Following a landslide victory by the PML-(N) in Punjab, a major bureaucratic reshuffle is expected by the end of this month to bring back those who served in the previous government on key posts, sources confided TheNation on Monday.In a move to retrovert what the Election Commission of ...

ISLAMABAD – Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-I-Insaf on Thursday accused bureaucracy of creating hurdles in the way empowering the overseas Pakistanis with power of vote that too at the moment when Pakistan is to hold elections next month. “Unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles were being made as ...

LAHORE – JAVED IQBAL  - The Punjab government has reshuffled 139 assistant commissioners (ACs) and District Monitoring Officers (DMOs), says a Services & General Administration Department notification.According to the notification, the officers of Lahore and Mandi Bahauddin remained ...

ISLAMABAD - Taking exception to the presence of ‘partisan’ babus in Sindh including Chief Secretary Raja Abbas, the electoral body has directed the provincial government to remove 65 senior officials of the province’s administrative machinery from their present posts and report to ...

LAHORE – Chief Minister Najam Sethi has said since bureaucracy plays a fundamental role in the administrative affairs of a state and its impartiality is the key to progress and prosperity of a country.“Public servants cannot deliver just sitting in the air-conditioned offices. They must ...

LAHORE – Annoyed at former Punjab chief secretary Nasir Mehmood Khosa’s decision over promotion share, the former Punjab Secretariat Service (ex-PSS) officers have decided to move court, it has been learnt.A year ago, the ex-PSS officials made a request to the former chief secretary to ...

LAHORE – The S&GAD Services Wing has yet to provide the cadre strength to Punjab Chief Secretary Nasir Mehmood Khosa, though two weeks passed, escalating the row between officers of the Provincial Civil Service (PCS) and the Provincial Secretariat Service (PSS) over quota-sharing.The data ...

LAHORE – Secretaries of all administrative departments of Punjab have decided not to obey any illegal orders of the ministers.Chaired by Chief Secretary Nasir Mehmood Khosa on Saturday, a meeting also decided to avoid to the utmost making any official OSD (officer on special duty) and start ...

Punjab Chief Secretary Nasir Mehmood Khosa has convened a meeting of secretaries on Saturday. It learnt that the meeting will take up the Supreme Court’s directive to the officials to stand firm against illegal orders. A couple of weeks ago, the Supreme Court observed that the babus must not ...

LAHORE - Lauding the Chief Justice of Pakistan’s observation to stick by the law, the junior officers find themselves at difficulty as how to face the consequences if they get do so.During a hearing, CJP Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry remarked the civil servants must not follow illegal orders. ...

LAHORE – The tension between Punjab Chief Secretary Nasir Mehmood Khosa and Punjab Inspector General of Police Haji Habibur Rehman escalated when the later refused to relieve the police officers on the former’s orders.The services department released the officers, including District ...

ISLAMABAD - A major reshuffle at the senior level bureaucracy of the federal capital is on the cards soon after the election of new prime minister as well as the announcement of his cabinet and resultantly, a number of bureaucrats having unattractive postings have started lobbying to grab more ...

ISLAMABAD - It’s been two months since the tourists from across the country visiting Rose and Jasmine Garden having plans to visit the leafy federal capital riding a mini tourist train - launched by the Capital Development Authority back in the mid of year 2011 - are yearning to ride this ...

ISLAMABAD - The promotion cases of nearly two-dozen top bureaucrats from Secretariat and District Management Group (DMG) could not be finalised due to delay in the meeting of Central Selection Board (CSB), which is causing fear of discrimination among babus regarding allocation of secretariat ...

ISLAMABAD - Since the promotion of around 20 top bureaucrats is in limbo due to delay in meeting of Central Selection Board (CSB) for pending ACRs of senior officers and other potent reasons, yet discrimination is also being feared in the allocation of secretariat group's vacancies in the Federal ...

ISLAMABAD - Criminal connivance coupled with sheer negligence on the part Water and Power Ministry top babus let former Indus Water commissioner Syed Jamaat Ali Shah flee abroad without having been put on the Exit Control List (ECL), sources said Thursday.According to the sources, Shah’s name ...

ISLAMABAD  - A total of 18 government officials including federal secretaries, chairman Federal Board of Revenue and inspectors general of police of Sindh and Balochistan, besides Motorways, would be retiring in the current year after reaching their ages of superannuation.According to details, ...

LAHORE – Senator Abdul Ghaffar Qureshi, the convener of the Senate Standing Committee’s sub-committee on Railways, on Monday disclosed that the Pakistan Railways’ high-ups were involved in grabbing the Authority’s land, worth billions of rupees, across the country. Mr ...

LAHORE - After serving on key positions in the Police Department, Intelligence Bureau (IB), and Federal Investigations Agency (FIA), several retired officers have joined different political parties and now they are almost 'movers and shakers in the countrys chaotic politics, it has been reliably ...

LAHORE Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday sought record of the government officials and the public representatives went abroad from 1997 onwards for medical treatment on government expenses as well as detail of funds released to each by the Punjab government. The ...

LAHORE A District Management Group Commissioner Gujranwala Division Saeed Iqbal Wahla has thrashed Punjab Civil Service Assistant Commissioner Narowal Dr Safdar Hussain for a petty reason of not getting a washroom cleaned, attached to a VVIP room of a private residence. The residence was of ...

LAHORE - If Punjab government was seen groping in the dark before presentation of the annual budget in the Punjab Assembly as to who should read the budget speech in the absence of a regular Finance Minister, the Chief Ministers Secretariat made two blunders in the summary submitted to Punjab ...

LAHORE In what appears to be a new idea, Federal Finance Minister Dr Hafeez Sheikh on Friday announced a step which, if approved by parliament, will replace the conveyance policy for officials in grades 20-22. The minister said the transport policy for the officials working in these grades is ...

LAHORE Punjab can save Rs 30 billion a year by officers austerity, while it can generate over Rs 50b a year through revenue reforms, according to a proposal that awaits the nod of political bosses and babus in the All Pakistan Unified Grades (APUG). Since the proposal comes from the PCS Officers ...

ISLAMABAD - A comprehensive list of contractual officials working in government sector including corporations, ministries and other departments falling in the jurisdiction of federal government, is in the making and this move for sure will send a wave of shock to the hundreds of baboos, sources ...

ISLAMABAD - Central Selection Board (CSB) under Federal Public Service Commission Justice (R) Rana Bhagwandas, Friday, recommended promotions of over 70 civil servants in grade 21 and would convene meeting again today (Saturday) to consider another 50. Following promotions in the second highest ...

ISLAMABAD - A group of senior officers, within the promotion zone of BS-20, participating in the Senior Management course at National Management College NIPA Lahore visited Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistans Head Office as a part of the their learning programme. Sarwat Aftab, Director ...

ISLAMABAD The Federal Government in a dramatic move on Sunday initiated action against several serving as well as retired bureaucrats in connection with the assassination of former PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto by placing their names on the Exit Control List (ECL). The sources in the Interior ...