KARACHI - Dissolving MQM coordination committees, Altaf Hussain on Thursday constituted a 12-member body to look into organisational affairs as a clean-up in the party goes on. Hussain dissolved both the coordination committees in Karachi and London, and announced a seven-member interim body which ...

LAHORE - Chief Minister Najam Sethi has constituted an inquiry committee headed by Communication and Works Secretary Abid Javed to probe the LDA Plaza fire. The committee will submit its report to the Chief Minister within three days. Nayyar Ali Dada, Akbar Ali, Haroon Rafique, Ghulam Sarwar, Prof ...

BAHAWALPUR DCO Syed Wajid Ali Shah stressed the need for rationalising the schedule of electricity loadshedding to provide relief to the general public.Addressing a meeting of the District Load Management Committee, the DCO emphasised that a comprehensive plan for loadshedding should be formulated ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has directed the Ministry of Finance to work with the Ministry of Production and the management of Pakistan Steel Mills and work out a financial package so that this strategic financial asset can be made a feasible entity.These directions were given ...

LAHORE – District Coordination Officer Lahore, Rizwan Mehboob on Sunday suspended Sub Inspector Market Committee Shadman Ijaz Bhatti and officials Gulberg Town Shahzad and Waheed Gulzar on their absent from Model Town Sunday Bazaar. He also issued showcause notice to District Officer ...

LAHORE - The interim committee of Pakistan Olympic Committee will meet on April 16 at Islamabad to take important decisions. “The most important item on the agenda is to fix the dates of the national games which will be held at Islamabad in due course of time ‘, said secretary of the ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has constituted a three members committee comprising secretaries Ministries of Finance, Production and Chief Executive Officer of the Pakistan Steel Mills to give concrete and practical recommendations to overcome Pakistan Steel Mills present ...

ISLAMABAD - AHMAD AHMADANI - A Steering Committee on Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project is likely to give its formal approval on March 11th to award Engineering Procurement, and Commissioning (EPC) contract to Iranian Tadbir Energy for laying Pakistan's portion of the pipeline.Pakistan and ...

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Information Technology on Wednesday showed concern about the closure of youtube in the country, and recommended to the Information Technology Ministry sit together with the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and take concrete steps ...

ISLAMABAD – The ruling coalition decided on Tuesday to constitute a three-member committee to finalise the date for dissolution of the National Assembly after consultation with all stakeholders within a week.During the meeting at Awan-i-Sadr, the coalition partners resolved that elections ...

Federal Minister for Law Farooq H Naek on Monday said that the cabinet committee on policy guidelines for Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) is deliberating on the different points of policy guidelines to submit its report to the cabinet soon.He said this after chairing a meeting of the ...

LAHORE – The Punjab Austerity Committee on Saturday gave approval for 13 vehicles for the Governor House Secretariat, Punjab Protocol and Registrar, Treasurer and Controller Examination of Lahore College for Women University. The approval was given at the 34th meeting of the Punjab Austerity ...

ISALAMABAD - AHMAD AHMADANI - National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Petroleum Wednesday issued arrest warrant of Pakistan State Oil and Pak Arab Refinery (Parco) managing directors in a multibillion rupees scam and asked the police to arrest them. PPP MNA Jamshed Dasti chaired the ...

ISLAMABAD  - The National Assembly Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting Thursday recommended the government to ban airing all foreign contents in any language during the prime time and take strict action against the violators.Beelum Hasnain chaired the committee meeting in ...

RAWALPINDI  - The City District Government Rawalpindi (CDGR) has formed a six members committee under the supervision of the Additional District Collector, Saif Anwar Jappa to seal and expunge unregistered and dangerous industrial units situated in the garrison city.District Coordination ...

LAHORE – Samanabad Town Emergency Response Committee Chairman MNA Mian Marghoob Ahmad on Sunday constituted a special committee comprising town officer (revenue), deputy district officer (health) and chief entomologist for carrying out a survey of the graveyards in the town, and identifying ...

ISLAMABAD – A legislative panel of the National Assembly, working as a watchdog on the affairs of petroleum and natural resources, on Wednesday rejected the decision of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet to determine petroleum prices on weekly basis and recommended the ...

LAHORE - The Inspector General Punjab has constituted a high level committee headed by Additional IG (Investigation) to probe into the allegations leveled against the Punjab Police regarding kidnapping of Baloch nationals from Balochistan. The Committee comprising of Addl IG (Investigation) Aslam ...

LAHORE – The provincial government has constituted an auction committee to outsource distribution of market committee’s daily rate list. Secretary Market Committee Lahore Rao Nadim Asghar said that committee will held an auction to award contract to a private party for the distribution ...

LAHORE – Shahbaz Sharif has set up a committee to review the affairs of Sheikh Zayed Hospital, whose administrative control has recently been handed over to the Punjab Government under 18th Constitutional amendment.The CM passed an order to this effect while presiding over a meeting held to ...

ISLAMABAD - The 72nd meeting of the executive committee of Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) would be held on March 1 at Committee Room, Pakistan Sports Complex, this was informed by Azam Dar Director Media in a talk with TheNation on Thursday.The meeting will be presided over by the Inter Provincial ...

LAHORE - Danish Kaneria has said that he is prepared to appear before an integrity committee of the Pakistan board to try to save his cricket career in the wake of the Mervyn Westfield spot-fixing trial."Whenever the PCB integrity committee calls me, I will present myself, as I always have," ...

ISLAMABAD - Senate’s Standing Committee on Defence convened special meeting to review the performance of Joint Staff Headquarters here on February 27th. According to Senate Secretariat sources, in the aegis of Chairman Committee Senator Lieutenant General (Retd) Javed Ashraf Qazi, the ...

QUETTA - The Chairman of Senate’s Functional Committee on Human Rights Senator Afrasiab Khattak has said that recommendations regarding installation of jammers in all prisons of Balochistan and provision of proper food and health facilities to prisoners would be presented in the Parliament.He ...

ISLAMABAD - The Foreign Relations Committee of Senate has condemned the occupation of Azerbaijan territories by Armenia and the genocide committed by Armenian armed forces in the Azerbaijan town of Khojaly on February 26, 1992 against civilian population.The Committee, which met with Chairman ...

KARACHI :Zaheer Abbas, a member of the PCB coaches’ committee, admitted that they have recommended Whatmore’s name for the post of chief coach. The PCB and the coaches’ committee until now had declined to confirm that only the name of Whatmore was recommended for the job insisting ...

LASHORE The Punjab government has decided to launch a vigorous campaign for rooting out quackery from the province and a high level committee has been constituted for evolving a strategy in this regard. It was decided at a meeting of emergency committee presided over by Chief Minister Punjab ...

FAISALABAD - First Institutional effort has been made to provide conducive environment to industrialists and prospective investors intending to invest in Faisalabad Region, said Commissioner Tahir Hussain. Inaugurating the Industrial-Police Liaison Committee here the other night, the Commissioner ...

ISLAMABAD - The imminent joining of coalition government by Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid) would make it mandatory to bring changes in the composition of the eight-member Parliamentary Committee for appointment of superior courts judges, legal and constitutional experts said. With the change in ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) - National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on Environment has taken notice of matter of allotment of land to State Minister for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar and Political Secretary to President Rukhsana Bangash in Daman-e-Koh for construction of restaurants. The committee ...