karachiThe caretaker government of Sindh has set up Sindh Human Rights Commission, said Mrs Anis Haroon, minister for women development and human rights.She said that a law was passed by the Sindh Assembly in 2011 which came into force since May 1, 2013 after the approval of caretaker Chief ...

ISLAMABAD - The poll rigging complainants have started directly moving the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) as the returning officers concerned mostly continue to reject recounting applications in a surprising development that appears to have further cast the shadows on the elections ...

A group of officials from the Pakistani High Commission to India on Saturday visited Sanaullah Haq who had been injured in a brawl with an Indian inmate in a Jammu jail at PGI Chandigarh, the Times of India reported.Pakistan was granted consular access to Sanaullah by India on Friday night, as well ...

LAHORE - The Punjab caretaker cabinet on Tuesday approved the Punjab Commission on the Status of Women Ordinance 2013, after a few amendments, under which a Punjab Commission, having at least 50 percent women representation, would be formulated, and at least one women member would be taken from ...

KARACHI : KCCI and International Chamber of Commerce Pakistan, to uplift the economy and promote further international interaction between the business and industrial community in Pakistan and its counterparts internationally, have agreed to make a special joint ICC Pakistan-KCCI World ...

LAHORE - The fake degree holders and utility bills defaulters are in the dock but the election scrutinisers have apparently shut their eyes to a comprehensive report about the politicians who had got their loans written-off during the past four decades.A Judicial Commission headed by Justice (r) ...

LAHORE - Blaming the PPP-led government for committing unprecedented corruption and flouting the court orders, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that the commission formed by President Asif Ali Zardari for new provinces is also based on malafide intentions. Talking to MPAs belonging to ...

The commission on new province finalised its recommendations signed by majority of members. The recommendations would soon be presented to the President and Speaker National Assembly.The meeting of the parliamentary commission was held in Parliament House under the headship of its Chairman Senator ...

ISLAMABAD - The parliamentary commission set up for the creation of new provinces formed consensus on the name, capital and territory of the new province in southern Punjab on Thursday and draft of the bill in this regard would be finalised in today’s meeting of the ...

ISLAMABAD - The Parliamentary Commission on new provinces is expeditiously completing its recommendations for creation of new province comprising southern Punjab districts and would likely table its report before the National Assembly on Monday.Sources in the commission informed TheNation that ...

ISLAMABAD - Parliamentary commission for establishment of new provinces in Punjab has sought proposals and suggestions from politicians and intellectuals on the subject.The commission meeting held under the chair of Senator Farhatullah Babar when some three politicians hailing from south Punjab and ...

ISLAMABAD - After failing to land on same page, the Parliamentary Commission on formation of new provinces in Punjab adjourned the meeting of the commission till next week to have input from more technical experts on this ticklish issue.Sources aware of the deliberations of the commission’s ...

ISLAMABAD - The commission investigating the killing of Osama bin Laden during a raid in Abbottabad last year will present its investigative report to PM Raja Pervez Ashraf, according to a TV channel.The report stated that Dr Shakeel Afridi had been paid $10,000 to provide United States ...

On December 4, 2012, the Supreme Court constituted a one-man judicial commission to probe into the Lal Masjid operation launched in July 2007 by former dictator Pervez Musharraf against the mosque’s administration for challenging the writ of the state. A three-member bench, headed by Chief ...

ISLAMABAD – A meeting of the Parliamentary Commission on New Provinces is being held today (Monday) under the chairmanship of Senator Farhatullah Babar to consider establishment of Seraiki province.The PML-N has decided to continue the boycott of the Commission meeting till its reservations ...

Lahore  – Government should make National and Provincial Commissions on boned labour in the Country and temporary shelter should be provided to the released bonded labourers. It was demanded by the speakers at the policy seminar on law reforms on bonded labour held at a local Hotel ...

ISLAMABAD – Judicial Commission probing Arsalan-Riaz graft scandal has issued notice to Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Thursday to produce record of Bahria Town before the commission by Friday (today).Supreme Court-appointed judicial commission, commonly known as ‘Suddle ...

MULTAN/BAHAWALNAGAR  - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Monday called for formation of an independent commission for further investigation into the Asghar Khan case, saying he had accepted the verdict but had no trust in the Federal Investigation Agency’s findings.“If a ...

BAHAWALPUR - The restoration of Bahawalpur province is more important for people of the region than all political affiliations and if the national political parties want the people to maintain their association with them, they should not become a hurdle in legal and constitutional process for the ...

KARACHI - The owners of the garment factory, in which over 250 people lost their lives, have expressed dissatisfaction over the probe into fire by police, FIA and other government institutions and alleged that instead of probing the incident, the police forced them to stand before the investigation ...

PESHAWAR - Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leader Arbab Khizer Hayat on Friday said a judicial commission must be constituted to ascertain the cause of the fire in a Karachi factory, which caused deaths of more than 280 people.Talking to the media, he hinted that the identical incidents on the same ...

LAHORE – The Lahore High Court Chief Justice on Wednesday formed a judicial commission to determine the intruders involved in damaging public property and government installations during protest demonstrations against electricity loadshedding.Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial formed the ...

Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, whose claims stirred the Memogate controversy, said Tuesday that the Supreme Court’s unveiling of the judicial Commission’s report had brought forth the “truth he had been speaking from the day the case started.” Talking to media ...

ISLAMABAD - The Judicial Commission is going to hold it’s crucial meeting here under with Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in the chair, wherein names of two ad hoc and one acting judges will be proposed to serve the apex court in the coming days.The need to ...

ISLAMABAD - Out-going Senate Deputy Chairman Mir Jan Mohammad Jamali Thursday stressed the need for the constitution of ‘Truth and Reconciliation Commission’ on the pattern of South Africa to expose all the wrongdoings of the politicians, generals and bureaucrats and end the grievances ...

The Senate Friday unanimously passed 'The National Commission for Human Rights Bill-2012'.The last session of the present Senate was held on Friday under Chairman Senate Farooq H. Naek, during the session, Leader of the House Senator Syed Nayyar Hussain Bukhari moved the bill.According to the bill, ...

Mansoor Ijaz, the main character of memogate scandal, on Friday continued recording his testimony for the third consecutive day before memo commission through video link. Mansoor Ijaz along with his wife, as she was granted permission by the commission, arrived at the Pakistan High Commission in ...

ISLAMABAD - The Abbottabad Commission has started the process of finalising its report regarding US incursion into Abbottabad on May 2 that killed Osama Bin Laden, the chief of al Qaeda. Sources informed that the investigations of the Abbottabad Commission were in its final stages.  The ...

The judicial commission to probe memogate scandal decided to record Mansoor Ijaz’s statement via video link.According to the media reports, the commission will record the statement on February 22. The commission was led by the Chief Justice Balochistan High Court Qazi Faiz ...

The Judicial Commission, probing the secret memo scandal, Thursday heard Mansoor Ijaz’s counsel Akram Sheikh who contended on recording of Ijaz’s statement abroad.Akram Sheikh said the Pakistani commission had no authority to summon and record statement of a US citizen in Pakistan, ...